
- Sabrina Schaeffer, Senior Fellow - Independent Women's Forum. Have 30 years of Reaganomics impoverished us so much that we can't afford benefits for working moms?
- Marjorie Cohn, Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and past President of the National Lawyers Guild. Rule of law...The Targeted Assassination of Osama Bin Laden
- Former Minnesota Governor and Navy Seal Jesse Ventura. What are the "63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read?
- Bumper Music:
- Women Around The World At Work Martha and The Muffins.
- She Works Hard For The Money, Donna Summer.
- Smooth Criminal, Alien Ant Farm.
- Tightrope, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.
- Warning, Green Day.
- The Battle Cry of Freedom, Columbia Masterworks.
- Do You Want To Know a Secret?, The Beatles.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- Quote: "We could execute or otherwise punish [the Nazi leaders] without a hearing. But undiscriminating executions or punishments without definite findings of guilt, fairly arrived at, would... not set easily on the American conscience or be remembered by children with pride. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson to President Truman.
- Quote: Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. - Clip:
President Johnson: "Some of our folks, including some of the old China lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying please notify the president that if he'll hold out 'til November the second they could get a better deal. Now, I'm reading their hand, Everett. I don't want to get this in the campaign."
Sen. Dirksen: "That's right".
President Johnson: "And they oughtn't to be doin' this. This is treason".
Sen. Dirksen: "I know".
...
President Johnson: "And my judgment is that Nixon ought to play it just like he has all along, that I want to see peace come the first day we can, that it's not going to affect the election one way or the other. The conference is not even going to be held until after the election. They have stopped shelling the cities. They have stopped going across the DMZ. We've had 24 hours of relative peace. Now, if Nixon keeps the South Vietnamese away from the conference, well, that's going to be his responsibility. Up to this point, that's why they're not there. I had them signed on board until this happened".
Sen. Dirksen: "Yeah, OK".
President Johnson: "Well, now, what do you think we ought to do about it?".
Sen. Dirksen: "Well, I better get in touch with him, I think, and tell him about it.".
President Johnson: "I think you better tell him that his people are saying to these folks that they oughtn't to go through with this meeting. Now if they don't go through with the meeting, it's not going to be me that's hurt. I think it's going to be whoever is elected, and may be--my guess--him. And I think they're making a very serious mistake, and I don't want to say this, and you're the only one I'm going to say it to.".
...
President Johnson: "I know this--that they're contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war".
Sen. Dirksen: "That's a mistake.".
President Johnson: "And it's a damn bad mistake. Now I don't want to say so, and you're the only man that I have confidence in to tell them. But you better tell them they better quit playing with it. And the day after the election I'll sit down with all of you and try to work it out and be helpful. But they oughtn't to knock out this conference.".
...
President Johnson: "You just tell them their people are messing around in this thing, and if they don't want it on the front pages, they better quit it".
Phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Everett Dirksen (R) Illinois, November 2, 1968.
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