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January 23 2009 show notes


Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.


January 21 2009 show notes


  • Show live from Washington, DC.

  • Thom went to the Eastern ball last night, Obama gave a short barnburner speech.

  • Guest: Richard Greene, author, "Words That Shook The World", host, "Clout" on Air America. The inaugural.

  • Guest: David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project.

  • Guest: Kandy Stroud who has been booking the guests for Thom and others at the radio row.

  • Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey.

  • Guest: "Everything You Know is Wrong": Ken Davis, "Don't Know Much About" series. Presidential inauguration history & little known facts.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.


January 20 2009 show notes


  • Today Barack Obama became president of the United States. His swearing in and speech.

  • Thom was broadcasting live from the platform at the Capitol and Ron Reagan from a studio in Seattle (for the first 2 hours).

  • Reactions.

  • Other news of the day.

On the Program - Jan 23 2009

Quote: "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." -- George Washington

"ANYTHING GOES FRIDAY"
Hour One "Brunch With Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

The Thom Hartmann Program - Jan 22 2009


Quote: "All of this will not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin." -- John F. Kennedy

Hour One - Joe Madison - "The Black Eagle" www.joemadison.com Topic: Why the The "hold" on Eric Holder...by Arlen Specter?

** Thom leaves for airport after first hour - Peter B. Collins subs for hours two and three **

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Thom 30 paces from Obama/Bush at President Obama's inauguration, January 20 2009. Photo taken by Jay Tamboli, Talk Radio News.

January 19 2009 show notes


  • Show live from radio row, Washington DC.

  • Guest: Bob Nash, Hillary Clinton's Deputy Campaign Manager.

On the Program - Jan 21th 2009

Quote: "I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time." -- Barack Obama, Lincoln Memorial concert, National Mall, Washington DC, January 18, 2009

Hour One - Thom's take on news of the day (and stories about the ball!)

Hour Two - Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic: Thom and Terry "shake it up" on the economy, stimulus plan, tax cuts, inauguration...Obama's first 100 days ahead

Hour Three "Everything You Know is Wrong" Ken Davis www.dontknowmuch.com Topic: Presidential inauguration history & little known facts; MLK too

January 16 2009 show notes


  • "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.

  • Guest: Ravi Batra, professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

  • 'Anything Goes' Friday.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.


On the Program - Jan 20th 2009 - Inauguration Day - President Barack Obama


Quote: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

"Live" coverage of the inauguration of President Barack Obama w/Thom who will be broadcasting from the platform where President Barack Obama is giving his inaugural address - plus Ron Reagan is in the studio and joining Thom.

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