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Here are the podcast show notes with all the chapters included:A Note from James:"Sometimes, if you just read the news, it doesn't always seem like it, but being President of the United States is the highest calling. You have responsibility over the entire economy, the lives of millions, and the direction of the country in war and peace. I'm excited to talk to David Rubenstein today—he's the head of the Carlyle Group, a $500 billion private equity firm. He also worked for Jimmy Carter, has had presidents work for him, and just published a book called The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency, where he talks to historians about U.S. Presidents, from George Washington to Nixon and beyond. It's filled with fascinating insights. Let's get started."Episode Description:In this episode, James interviews David Rubenstein about his latest book, The Highest Calling, which dives into the complexities of American presidents through interviews with historians and Rubenstein's own reflections. Rubenstein shares what he's learned from years of interacting with former presidents, how public opinions on U.S. presidents change over time, and what makes the presidency such a unique role. They also touch on the challenges and achievements of figures like Jimmy Carter, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight Eisenhower, offering listeners new ways to think about the men who have led the country.What You'll Learn:The evolving reputations of U.S. Presidents and how history changes its mind on who was successful.Insights into Jimmy Carter's presidency and why he is gaining new respect over time.The unique challenges that presidents face in foreign policy, with examples from Carter and Eisenhower.How third-party candidates can impact U.S. presidential elections, and what history tells us about that.Surprising facts about lesser-known presidents and the personal relationships that shaped their leadership.Chapters:01:30 – The Weight of the Presidency: Why it's the highest calling in America.02:09 – Introduction of David Rubenstein and his work with U.S. Presidents.03:01 – Rubenstein's New Book: The Highest Calling and why it stands out.03:19 – Changing Opinions: How history re-evaluates past presidents.05:12 – Jimmy Carter's Presidency: Achievements and controversies.08:37 – Foreign Policy and Perception: How leaders are judged at home and abroad.10:21 – Carter's Unique Strategy in 1976: His rise to the presidency.12:38 – Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the Iran Hostage Crisis.14:03 – Stories Left Out: Surprising anecdotes from U.S. history, like Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon expedition.21:54 – Coolidge's Forgotten Legacy: Why he is an underrated president.23:02 – Hoover's Response to the Great Depression: Was it Coolidge's fault?25:21 – Eisenhower's Quiet Success: How peace and prosperity defined his presidency.29:01 – Military Presidents and Their Reluctance to Use Force: Why they preferred diplomacy.32:17 – The President's Club: Why it no longer exists and the political divide today.33:50 – The Role of Fundraising in Political Polarization.36:46 – The Costs of Running a Presidential Campaign: Why it's so expensive.38:13 – Lincoln's Path to the Presidency: How he stood out in a crowded race.39:49 – The Electoral College Debate: Should it still exist?42:18 – Third-Party Candidates and Their Impact on Elections.44:06 – Overrated and Underrated Presidents: How Kennedy and Eisenhower are viewed today.49:09 – Nixon's Fall from Grace: How his tapes ruined his presidency.50:12 – Nixon's Post-Presidency and Redemption.54:45 – Presidential Debates: How one-liners and debate prep can make or break a candidate.57:40 – The Influence of Speechwriters: Ted Sorensen's role in Kennedy's speeches.01:00:04 – Entering Politics: David Rubenstein's inspiration from Ted Sorensen.01:01:21 – What Presidents Should Know About the Economy.01:03:16 – Unrealized Gains and Tax Proposals: Do candidates really understand the economy?Additional Resources:David Rubenstein's book: The Highest Calling. ------------What do YOU think of the show? 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Here are the podcast show notes with all the chapters included:A Note from James:"Sometimes, if you just read the news, it doesn't always seem like it, but being President of the United States is the highest calling. You have responsibility over the entire economy, the lives of millions, and the direction of the country in war and peace. I'm excited to talk to David Rubenstein today-he's the head of the Carlyle Group, a $500 billion private equity firm. He also worked for Jimmy Carter, has had presidents work for him, and just published a book called The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency, where he talks to historians about U.S. Presidents, from George Washington to Nixon and beyond. It's filled with fascinating insights. Let's get started."Episode Description:In this episode, James interviews David Rubenstein about his latest book, The Highest Calling, which dives into the complexities of American presidents through interviews with historians and Rubenstein's own reflections. Rubenstein shares what he's learned from years of interacting with former presidents, how public opinions on U.S. presidents change over time, and what makes the presidency such a unique role. They also touch on the challenges and achievements of figures like Jimmy Carter, Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight Eisenhower, offering listeners new ways to think about the men who have led the country.What You'll Learn:The evolving reputations of U.S. Presidents and how history changes its mind on who was successful.Insights into Jimmy Carter's presidency and why he is gaining new respect over time.The unique challenges that presidents face in foreign policy, with examples from Carter and Eisenhower.How third-party candidates can impact U.S. presidential elections, and what history tells us about that.Surprising facts about lesser-known presidents and the personal relationships that shaped their leadership.Chapters:01:30 - The Weight of the Presidency: Why it's the highest calling in America.02:09 - Introduction of David Rubenstein and his work with U.S. Presidents.03:01 - Rubenstein's New Book: The Highest Calling and why it stands out.03:19 - Changing Opinions: How history re-evaluates past presidents.05:12 - Jimmy Carter's Presidency: Achievements and controversies.08:37 - Foreign Policy and Perception: How leaders are judged at home and abroad.10:21 - Carter's Unique Strategy in 1976: His rise to the presidency.12:38 - Foreign Policy in the Middle East and the Iran Hostage Crisis.14:03 - Stories Left Out: Surprising anecdotes from U.S. history, like Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon expedition.21:54 - Coolidge's Forgotten Legacy: Why he is an underrated president.23:02 - Hoover's Response to the Great Depression: Was it Coolidge's fault?25:21 - Eisenhower's Quiet Success: How peace and prosperity defined his presidency.29:01 - Military Presidents and Their Reluctance to Use Force: Why they preferred diplomacy.32:17 - The President's Club: Why it no longer exists and the political divide today.33:50 - The Role of Fundraising in Political Polarization.36:46 - The Costs of Running a Presidential Campaign: Why it's so expensive.38:13 - Lincoln's Path to the Presidency: How he stood out in a crowded race.39:49 - The Electoral College Debate: Should it still exist?42:18 - Third-Party Candidates and Their Impact on Elections.44:06 - Overrated and Underrated Presidents: How Kennedy and Eisenhower are viewed today.49:09 - Nixon's Fall from Grace: How his tapes ruined his presidency.50:12 - Nixon's Post-Presidency and Redemption.54:45 - Presidential Debates: How one-liners and debate prep can make or break a candidate.57:40 - The Influence of Speechwriters: Ted Sorensen's role in Kennedy's speeches.01:00:04 - Entering Politics: David Rubenstein's inspiration from Ted Sorensen.01:01:21 - What Presidents Should Know About the Economy.01:03:16 - Unrealized Gains and...
In this episode of Big Shot, we're thrilled to welcome the incredible David Rubenstein! As a co-founder of The Carlyle Group, one of the globe's top private equity firms, David's journey from a Baltimore kid with big dreams to a presidential advisor and business mogul is truly inspiring. Join us, as David reveals how he overcame rejection after President Carter lost his re-election and pivoted into private equity. Learn why he's dedicated to giving back through initiatives like the Giving Pledge, and get ready for some thought-provoking insights, including why hiring geniuses might not be the best idea and tips on avoiding spoiling your kids. In This Episode We Cover: (03:40) Welcome David Rubenstein (04:50) Why David and Harley both maintain their bar memberships (05:37) Why education is important to the Jewish people (07:30) David's upbringing in Baltimore (10:00) The difficulties that come with raising children when you're wealthy (11:30) David's relatively laid-back parents (13:34) The Jewish youth group that fueled David's drive for more (14:15) David's first job out of law school (15:25) How David became an advisor to President Jimmy Carter (16:42) The years of struggle after Jimmy Carter failed to get re-elected (20:41) How the Carlyle Group got their start (24:36) Carlyle's “bear hug” on Chichi's (27:22) David's growth strategy for Carlyle focusing on diversification and globalization (31:30) David's mom's philanthropy (34:14) What the Giving Pledge is (36:43) David's philosophy on philanthropy (39:33) An explanation of the Magna Carta, its failure, and the anti-semitism of the day (42:22) David's focus on patriotic philanthropy (46:47) How David became the fundraiser for Carlyle (47:56) How Carlyle was able to build a lasting company (49:27) Why reasonably intelligent people make better employees than geniuses (50:04) The cultural values that make Jewish people successful and want to give back (54:10) Antisemitism in the US and Europe (54:28) Why David still doesn't think he's made it (55:33) Tips on raising kids and the three ways to influence people as a leader — Referenced: David Rubenstein on Patriotic Philanthropy: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-white-house-1600-sessions/david-rubenstein-on-patriotic-philanthropy Shelley v. Kraemer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer Virtual Jewish World: Baltimore, Maryland: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/baltimore-jewish-history-tour#google_vignette Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP: https://www.paulweiss.com/ Ted Sorensen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Sorensen William Simon: https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/hall-of-fame/william-simon/ G. William Miller: https://home.treasury.gov/about/history/prior-secretaries/g-william-miller-1979-1981 Edward J. Mathias: https://www.carlyle.com/corporate-overview/operating-executives-advisors/edward-j-mathias T. Rowe Price: https://www.troweprice.com/ The Mellon family: https://www.forbes.com/profile/mellon/?sh=21c04b3f6c8b Greenmailing: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greenmail. Mike Milken: https://milkeninstitute.org/staff/mike-milken Frank Carlucci: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Carlucci John Major: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Major Why are there so many Jewish Nobel winners?: https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/why-are-there-so-many-jewish-nobel-winners-ctycke48# — Where to find David Rubenstein X: https://twitter.com/DM_Rubenstein Website: https://davidrubenstein.com/ Where To Find Big Shot: Website: https://www.bigshot.show/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bigshotpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bigshotshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigshotshow/ Harley Finkelstein: https://twitter.com/harleyf David Segal: https://twitter.com/tea_maverick Production and Marketing: https://penname.co
On 22 November 1963, United States President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lucy Williamson looks back to 8 November 1960, when Richard Nixon and JFK went toe to toe at the polls in a battle to become the next president. The narrow success made Kennedy the youngest man ever elected to the role. Close aide and speechwriter Ted Sorensen was with the politician on the night of the election. This programme was first broadcast in 2010. (Photo: US President-elect John F Kennedy shortly after his election in 1960. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
Richard Norton Smith is a renowned historian, a former director of five presidential libraries, & author whose latest work - Ordinary Man - chronicles the life and career of Gerald Ford. In this conversation, we talk the insurgent rise of Ford as he takes on the local GOP machine, his ascent through the House GOP of the 50s and 60s, the fortuitous events that led him to become Vice President and then President upon Nixon's resignation, his very narrow loss in 1976, & why the Ford Presidency and his enduring impact on America is much more consequential than often realized.(To donate to support The Pro Politics Podcast, you may use this venmo link or inquire by email at mccrary.zachary@gmail.com)IN THIS EPISODEWhat made Ford the “first post-New Deal President”...One of the rare times Ford lost his temper in politics...Ford's “political father figure”, Senator Arthur Vandenberg…The story behind Ford's first insurgent bid for Congress…The secret society within the House that helped propel Ford's career…The story behind Ford's attempt to become Richard Nixon's running mate in 1960…The never before disclosed “deal” that nearly gave House Republicans the majority in the early 1970s…The one politician who could've disrupted Ford's path to become Nixon's VP in 1974…The proposed “constitutional coup” that could have replaced Richard Nixon with a Democratic President…Two meetings with the same influential senator only days apart demonstrate Ford's quick growth in office…The political damage done to Ford by his pardon of Richard Nixon…Two late factors that might have cost Ford in his narrow loss to Jimmy Carter…The political impact of First Lady Betty Ford in the 1976 campaign…Ford's leftward drift after he left the White House…Richard reads a bit of what he feels is Ford's best speech as President…Two of Richard's favorite recommendations for off-the-beaten-path historical sites around DC… AND Bella Abzug, Sprio Agnew, Carl Albert, apartheid, asterisks, Doug Bailey, bar stools, the Bicentennial, Phil Buchen, butcher knives, the CIA, Chevy Chase, Dick Cheney, concealed resentments, John Connally, docile acceptance, Bob Dole, Tom Dewey, English muffins, Barry Goldwater, grizzly bears, Jesse Helms, the Helsinki Accords, Leon Jaworski, Billy Kidd, Leslie King, Henry Kissinger, Tom Korologos, Mel Laird, Henry Cabot Lodge, Russell Long, The Marshall Plan, Sara Jane Moore, non-descript committee rooms, OSHA, Old Bulls, John Rankin, Ronald Reagan, the road to Damascus, Nelson Rockefeller, John Rhodes, Rhodesia, the Rules Committee, Bob Schieffer, Phyllis Schlafly, Hugh Scott, scoundrels, George Shultz, ski chalets, Oliver Sipple, Ted Sorensen, Robert Taft, transitional figures, Harry Truman, the UAW, the Warren Commission & more!
Who's lived a more varied, interesting political life over the last 6 decades than Jeff Greenfield? Aide and speechwriter to Senator Robert Kennedy...staffer for NYC Mayor John Lindsay...successful political consultant with the famed David Garth...and then as an omnipresent political commentator at CBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN...5 time Emmy Award Winner...author of several books. This is a great, wide-ranging conversation with one of the most respected, enduring, and distinctive voices in American politics.IN THIS EPISODEHow the New York Yankees are responsible for Jeff's political obsession…The serendipitous path that led Jeff to become an aide to Senator Robert Kennedy…Jeff's memories of the U.S. Senate of the 1960s…Jeff on the political savvy of RFK…The stories behind two of RFK's most memorable speeches in the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr's Assassination…Jeff talks how the 1968 election might have played out had Senator Kennedy lived…What it was like writing a speech for Robert Kennedy…Jeff's theory on the right match of speechwriter and speaker…Jeff's time working with famed political consultant David Garth…The ad Jeff wrote as a media consultant of which he's most proud…Jeff talks his connection with longtime friend William F. Buckley…The story of Margaret Thatcher insulting Jeff on national TV…Jeff's move from political consulting to working in television…The media job Jeff held that was the most fun…Jeff's approach to interesting television commentary…Four of Jeff's pet peeves about contemporary political punditry…The “single most powerful event” Jeff ever attended…Recommendations from one of Jeff's favorite restaurants and favorite band…AND Aeschylus, Muhammad Ali, Barney Greengrass, the Beatles, Tom Bettag, Beyonce, Big Pink, Tom Bradley, the Bronx High School of Science, Ron Brown, Buggs Bunny, bullshit measurements, Hugh Carey, William Sloane Coffin, communist cigars, computer manuals, Daffy Duck, Richard Daley, doo wop, Fred Dutton, Peter Edelman, Dwight Eisenhower, elephants, Firing Line, Joe Frazier, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Glenn, the Grateful Dead, Averell Harriman, Lester Holt, Hubert Humphrey, Inspector Javert, Irving Ives, Jacob Javits, journalistic utopias, jut jaws, Murray Kempton, Henry Kissinger, Ted Koppel, John Lindsay, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Lil Nas, losing altitude, Russell Long, the longest slogans in the world, Al Lowenstein, the Making of the President, Eugene McCarthy, Joe McCarthy, George McGovern, Stephen Miller, mock primaries, Bill Moyers, the National Review, The New York Times, Richard Nixon, Lee Harvey Oswald, particle physics, personal antipathy, Ronald Reagan, Robbie Robertson, Howard Samuels, Ted Sorensen, Aaron Sorkin, Adlai Stevenson, Norman Thomas, Donald Trump, two doses of herpes, Unconventional Wisdom, the unit rule, V-E Day, the violence of institutions, Adam Walinsky, wartime correspondents, Watergate, Billy Wilder, wretched ironies, Sam Yorty & more!
Paul Abbott is a researcher from Perth, Australia How Paul got interested in the JFK case Nothing seems right about the official narrative FREE Borrowable Ebook: On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison Jim Garrison's office was bugged by the federal government Paul is now preparing an index for the Jim Garrison papers Garrison never stopped looking into the JFK case Please email Len at osanic@prouty.org if you would like to access the Garrison files David Ferrie features prominently in the Garrison files Stream/buy Oliver Stone's JFK: Prime, iTunes, Vudu, Microsoft ACTION ALERT: PLEASE ACT ON THIS TODAY! This is an opportunity to free Sirhan Write to the Parole Board supporting Sirhan's parole Address: State of California, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Board of Parole, P. O. Box 4036, Sacramento CA 95812-4936 Part B: Jim DiEugenio; beginning at 47:02 At Kennedys and King Article: JFK Medical Betrayal: Where The Evidence Lies by Russell Kent by Jim DiEugenio ACTION ALERT: PLEASE ACT ON THIS TODAY! This is an opportunity to free Sirhan Write to the Parole Board supporting Sirhan's parole Address: State of California, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Board of Parole, P. O. Box 4036, Sacramento CA 95812-4936 Article: A Narrative is Debunked by Gerry Simone Article: David Lifton Has Passed On by Jim DiEugenio This is probably the only obituary on David Lifton FREE Borrowable Ebook: Best Evidence by David Lifton FREE Borrowable Ebook: Presumed Guilty: Oswald in the Assassination of President Kennedy by Howard Roffman Listener questions answered Video: Tucker Carlson on JFK Assassination, Dec 15, 2022 Robert Kennedy Jr. said this Tucker Carlson show is the most courageous broadcast in sixty years "The CIA's murder of my uncle was a successful coup d'etat from which our democracy has never recovered" Check RFK Jr.'s tweet here Video: Hillary Clinton on Qaddafi: We came, we saw, he died Video: Jon Stewart Gives Tongue Bath To War Criminals Hillary & Condi Rice (The Jimmy Dore Show) Article: Gus Russo: There is Nothing in those Damn Files! by Jim DiEugenio Book: JFK Assassination Paradoxes: Essays, Reviews & JFK's Head Wounds by Dr. David Mantik: Hardcover, Kindle Jim Garrison's Playboy interview: Part 1, Part 2, Download PDF Walter Sheridan was the chief of counterintelligence at the NSA Book: America's Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy by Monika Wiesak Get the book here: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook, Scribd, Barnes & Noble FREE Borrowable Ebook: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass FREE Borrowable Ebook: A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur Schlesinger (1965) FREE Borrowable Ebook: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye by Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers FREE Borrowable Ebook: Kennedy by Ted Sorensen (1965) Book: JFK Medical Betrayal: Where The Evidence Lies by Russell Kent: Kindle Book: The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today by Jim DiEugenio: Paperback, Kindle FREE Borrowable Ebook: The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin 44 files on George Joannides are being withheld by the CIA Mary Ferrell Foundation Files Lawsuit Over JFK Records Read the actual complaint here (PDF) Video: Bill Hicks Puppet Show - The Elite Video: Bill Hicks on the JFK Assassination
Join us on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Hummmm" Technology news of the week for September 11th - September 17th, 2022.Today on TechTime with Nathan Mumm, Facebook is trying to copy another company with "CHAT," Holiday Inn hotels hit by cyber-attack, and Elon Musk appears to be a Popcorn Emoji today. We explain why. Comcast Xfinity will bring 2 Gbps Internet to a few States, and Apple will release another urgent iOS security patch. We have the Founder of EveryKey, Chris Wentz, who will join the show, and we have Gwen Way back with our "Gadgets and Gear" segment. In addition, we have our standard features, including "Mike's Mesmerizing Moment”; "This Week in Technology"; and a possible "Nathan Nugget," and, of course, our "Pick of the Day" whiskey tasting. So, sit back, raise a glass, and welcome to TechTime with Nathan Mumm.Episode 118: Starts at 1:43--- [Now on Today's Show]: Starts at 4:21--- [Technology Fail of the Week]: Starts at 6:46Holiday Inn hotels are hit by cyber-attack. IHG, which has some of the world's largest hotel chains, issued a statement saying it was investigating unauthorized access" to a number of its technology systems.--- [Top Stories in The First Five Minutes]: Starts at 11:02Elon Musk appears to have tuned into the Twitter whistleblower Senate hearing on Tuesday - https://tinyurl.com/yp3ykcfn Facebook is trying to be Discord with 'Community Chats' - https://tinyurl.com/2p86tykw Comcast Xfinity Will Bring 2 Gbps Internet to These States - https://tinyurl.com/2p95ce3c Apple releases another urgent iOS security patch, This is URGENT. - https://tinyurl.com/ycxwaxwv --- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Review]: Starts at 22:58Ellington Reserve 8 Year Canadian Whisky| $19.00 | 80 Proof--- [Technology Insider Interview Chris Wentz from EveryKey]: Starts at 25:23EveryKey is the world's first universal smart key that wirelessly unlocks your phone, computer, or tablet, and automatically logs you into your online accounts when you're nearby, then locks everything down when you walk away.--- [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 38:45September 12, 1962 - President John F. Kennedy gave a speech in Houston, Texas, at Rice Stadium. This 18-minute-long speech was to convince the United States why we should go to the moon. The "We choose to go to the Moon" address was written by both John F. Kennedy and his speech writer, Ted Sorensen.--- [Marc's Mumbles Whiskey Details]: Starts at 43:07--- Gadgets and Gear with Gwen]: Starts at 44:59Ovomote:The Infinitely Customizable Universal Remote. A powerful and intuitive way to control all the digital devices in your life from KickStarter--- [Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 50:55--- [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 53:41Ellington Reserve 8 Year Canadian Whisky| $19.00 | 80 ProofMike: Thumbs UpNathan: Thumbs UpSelzy - The easiest way to start selling Launch your first email campaign in 15 minutes & Boost your sales with Selzy's marketing platform.StoriCofee with TechTimeRadio StoriCoffee is a proud sponsor of Mike's Mesmerizing moments and of the TTR weekly giveaways.
“That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.” "We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a September 12, 1962, speech by United States President John F. Kennedy to further inform the public about his plan to land a man on the Moon before 1970. Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. (wikipedia) #nasa #universe #astronomy #science #cosmos #exo #chen #chanyeol #lay #sehun #urdesa #guayaquil #alborada #ceibos #samborondon #moon #art #physics #galaxy #stars #weareone #kyungsoo #memeexo #exo_sc #fyikorea #mars #astrophysics #astrophotography #kokobop #planets
"Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, 'Because it is there.' Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked."We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.-John F. Kennedy, Rice University, Sept. 12, 1962"We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a September 12, 1962, speech by United States President John F. Kennedy to further inform the public about his plan to land a man on the Moon before 1970. Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas.In his speech, Kennedy characterized space as a new frontier, invoking the pioneer spirit that dominated American folklore. He infused the speech with a sense of urgency and destiny, and emphasized the freedom enjoyed by Americans to choose their destiny rather than have it chosen for them. Although he called for competition with the Soviet Union, Kennedy also proposed making the Moon landing a joint project. The speech resonated widely and is still remembered, although at the time there was disquiet about the cost and value of the Moon-landing effort.Kennedy's goal was realized posthumously, in July 1969, with the Apollo program's successful Apollo 11 mission.September 12, 1962Global Admissions Apply to universities online ____________________________________________________________Check out more episodes and subscribe on 2030school.com You can also email us at rich@2030school.com
In this episode of Partnering Leadership, David Rubenstein, co-founder & co-chairman of Carlyle Group & President of the Economic Club of Washington DC, shares his journey from working at the White House to starting one of the largest private equity investment firms globally. He also talks about his leadership lessons, philanthropy, Peer-to-Peer interviewing for the Economic Club of Washington DC and Bloomberg TV, and the legacy he plans to leave behind. Some highlights:- David Rubenstein's childhood and how he became an avid reader- David's experience at the White House working for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter- The story behind David Rubenstein helping co-found the Carlyle Group- On becoming Carlyle Group's fundraiser and how David increased its visibility - David Rubenstein's leadership practices and values- ‘Patriotic Philanthropy' and David Rubenstein's signing of the giving pledge- David Rubenstein on the value of family and the importance of raising successful children- Why David Rubenstein accepted to become the President of The Economic Club of Washington DC and then decided to change the format. - Becoming a Peer-to-Peer interviewer: on self-deprecating humor, being a good listener, and more- Leadership lessons from David Rubenstein's book, How to Lead- On his passion for capturing the ‘American experiment' and his opinion on America today- David Rubenstein's desire for impact as he ‘sprints' to leave a legacy - Why David Rubenstein reads over 100 books a year and encourages others to read more- On moving forward post-COVID with ongoing transformation and change Mentioned in this episode:-Ted Sorensen, lawyer, and advisor to former President John F. Kennedy-Birch Bayh, former senator-Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President-Alfred E. Kahn, economic advisor-William E. Simon, businessman, philanthropist, and 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury-James Baker III, former United States Secretary of State-George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President-Frank Carlucci, former U.S. Secretary of Defense-John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady of the United States-Vernon Jordan, business executive, and civil rights activist-Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist-Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States-Indra Nooyi, CEO of of Pepsico-Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft-Tim Cook, CEO of Apple-Marc Andreessen, entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer-Andrew Grove, businessman, engineer, and former CEO of Intel CorporationBook Recommendations:-Patriots of Two Nations by Spencer Critchley -How to Lead by David Rubenstein Connect with David Rubenstein:David Rubenstein WebsiteThe Carlyle Group WebsiteThe David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-PeerThe Economic Club of Washington D.C. Website Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:MahanTavakoli.com More information and resources are available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: PartneringLeadership.com
In this episode of Partnering Leadership, David Rubenstein, co-founder & co-chairman of Carlyle Group & President of the Economic Club of Washington DC, shares his journey from working at the White House to starting one of the largest private equity investment firms globally. He also talks about his leadership lessons, philanthropy, Peer-to-Peer interviewing for the Economic Club of Washington DC and Bloomberg TV, and the legacy he plans to leave behind. Some highlights:- David Rubenstein's childhood and how he became an avid reader- David's experience at the White House working for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter- The story behind David Rubenstein helping co-found the Carlyle Group- On becoming Carlyle Group's fundraiser and how David increased its visibility - David Rubenstein's leadership practices and values- ‘Patriotic Philanthropy' and David Rubenstein's signing of the giving pledge- David Rubenstein on the value of family and the importance of raising successful children- Why David Rubenstein accepted to become the President of The Economic Club of Washington DC and then decided to change the format. - Becoming a Peer-to-Peer interviewer: on self-deprecating humor, being a good listener, and more- Leadership lessons from David Rubenstein's book, How to Lead- On his passion for capturing the ‘American experiment' and his opinion on America today- David Rubenstein's desire for impact as he ‘sprints' to leave a legacy - Why David Rubenstein reads over 100 books a year and encourages others to read more- On moving forward post-COVID with ongoing transformation and change Mentioned in this episode:-Ted Sorensen, lawyer, and advisor to former President John F. Kennedy-Birch Bayh, former senator-Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President-Alfred E. Kahn, economic advisor-William E. Simon, businessman, philanthropist, and 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury-James Baker III, former United States Secretary of State-George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President-Frank Carlucci, former U.S. Secretary of Defense-John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady of the United States-Vernon Jordan, business executive, and civil rights activist-Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist-Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States-Indra Nooyi, CEO of of Pepsico-Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft-Tim Cook, CEO of Apple-Marc Andreessen, entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer-Andrew Grove, businessman, engineer, and former CEO of Intel CorporationBook Recommendations:-Patriots of Two Nations by Spencer Critchley -How to Lead by David Rubenstein Connect with David Rubenstein:David Rubenstein WebsiteThe Carlyle Group WebsiteThe David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-PeerThe Economic Club of Washington D.C. Website Connect with Mahan Tavakoli:MahanTavakoli.com More information and resources are available at the Partnering Leadership Podcast website: PartneringLeadership.com
“This book is about learning from history, from life, sometimes the hard way, as it takes place around you,” writes New York Times bestselling author and former MSNBC host Chris Matthews in THIS COUNTRY: My Life in Politics and History (June 1st, 2021/$28.99 hardcover). “These pages are a celebration of this country and of the rich role I've enjoyed in sharing its politics and history. I got a lot of it right, but not always.” In THIS COUNTRY, Chris Matthews offers a panoramic portrait of modern America through the story of his remarkable life and career. It is a story of risk and adventure, of self-reliance and service, of loyalty and friendship. It is a story driven by an abiding faith in our country. Raised in a large Irish-Catholic family in Philadelphia at a time when kids hid under their desks in atomic war drills, Chris's life etched a pattern: take a leap, live an adventure, then learn what it means. As a young Peace Corps graduate, Chris moved to DC and began knocking on doors on Capitol Hill. With dreams of becoming what Ted Sorensen had been for Jack Kennedy, Chris landed as a staffer to Utah Senator Frank Moss, where his eyes were opened to the game of big-league politics. In the 1970s, Matthews mounted a campaign for Congress as a Democratic maverick running against Philadelphia's old political machine. He didn't win the most votes, but his grit put him on the path to a top job in the White House. As a speechwriter for President Carter, Matthews witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of that administration; from the diplomatic brilliance of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to the disaster of the Iran hostage crisis. After Carter's defeat, Chris became chief of staff to legendary Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, a perch that gave him an on-the-job PhD in American politics during the Reagan years. Chris then leapt to the other side of the political matrix as a columnist and reporter. For the San Francisco Examiner, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and every American presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush. Chris would go on to pioneer cable news with a fast-paced, no-nonsense television program. His show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, would become a political institution for twenty years. As Chris charts his political odyssey, he paints an energetic picture of a nation searching for its soul. He reflects with grace and wisdom, showcasing the grand arc of the American story through one life dedicated to its politics.
“This book is about learning from history, from life, sometimes the hard way, as it takes place around you,” writes New York Times bestselling author and former MSNBC host Chris Matthews in THIS COUNTRY: My Life in Politics and History (June 1st, 2021/$28.99 hardcover). “These pages are a celebration of this country and of the rich role I've enjoyed in sharing its politics and history. I got a lot of it right, but not always.” In THIS COUNTRY, Chris Matthews offers a panoramic portrait of modern America through the story of his remarkable life and career. It is a story of risk and adventure, of self-reliance and service, of loyalty and friendship. It is a story driven by an abiding faith in our country. Raised in a large Irish-Catholic family in Philadelphia at a time when kids hid under their desks in atomic war drills, Chris's life etched a pattern: take a leap, live an adventure, then learn what it means. As a young Peace Corps graduate, Chris moved to DC and began knocking on doors on Capitol Hill. With dreams of becoming what Ted Sorensen had been for Jack Kennedy, Chris landed as a staffer to Utah Senator Frank Moss, where his eyes were opened to the game of big-league politics. In the 1970s, Matthews mounted a campaign for Congress as a Democratic maverick running against Philadelphia's old political machine. He didn't win the most votes, but his grit put him on the path to a top job in the White House. As a speechwriter for President Carter, Matthews witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of that administration; from the diplomatic brilliance of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to the disaster of the Iran hostage crisis. After Carter's defeat, Chris became chief of staff to legendary Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, a perch that gave him an on-the-job PhD in American politics during the Reagan years. Chris then leapt to the other side of the political matrix as a columnist and reporter. For the San Francisco Examiner, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and every American presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush. Chris would go on to pioneer cable news with a fast-paced, no-nonsense television program. His show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, would become a political institution for twenty years. As Chris charts his political odyssey, he paints an energetic picture of a nation searching for its soul. He reflects with grace and wisdom, showcasing the grand arc of the American story through one life dedicated to its politics.
"I'd rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States," said John F. Kennedy in 1953. In 1957 he was awarded the prize for "Profiles in Courage." In "JFK's Ghost," author and retired pastor David Stokes tells the story behind the publishing of "Profiles in Courage" (written mostly by speechwriter Ted Sorensen), Kennedy's all out pursuit of the Pulitzer Prize, and the impact that the book had on his political career. David Stokes talked with Brian Lamb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This Country: My Life in Politics and History by Chris Matthews A sweeping memoir of American politics and history from Chris Matthews, New York Times bestselling author and former host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. In This Country, Chris Matthews offers a panoramic portrait of post–World War II America through the story of his remarkable life and career. It is a story of risk and adventure, of self-reliance and service, of loyalty and friendship. It is a story driven by an abiding faith in our country. Raised in a large Irish-Catholic family in Philadelphia at a time when kids hid under their desks in atomic war drills, Chris's life etched a pattern: take a leap, live an adventure, then learn what it means. As a young Peace Corps graduate, Chris moved to DC and began knocking on doors on Capitol Hill. With dreams of becoming what Ted Sorensen had been for Jack Kennedy, Chris landed as a staffer to Utah Senator Frank Moss, where his eyes were opened to the game of big-league politics. In the 1970s, Matthews mounted a campaign for Congress as a Democratic maverick running against Philadelphia's old political machine. He didn't win the most votes, but his grit put him on the path to a top job in the White House. As a speechwriter for President Carter, Matthews witnessed the triumphs and tragedies of that administration; from the diplomatic brilliance of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to the disaster of the Iran hostage crisis. After Carter's defeat, Chris became chief of staff to legendary Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, a perch that gave him an on-the-job PhD in American politics during the Reagan years. Chris then leapt to the other side of the political matrix as a columnist and reporter. For the San Francisco Examiner, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and every American presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush. Chris would go on to pioneer cable news with a fast-paced, no-nonsense television program. His show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, would become a political institution for twenty years. As Chris charts his political odyssey, he paints an energetic picture of a nation searching for its soul. He reflects with grace and wisdom, showcasing the grand arc of the American story through one life dedicated to its politics. About the author Chris Matthews is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, Jack Kennedy—Elusive Hero, Tip and the Gipper—When Politics Worked, Kennedy and Nixon, and Hardball. He is the former host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.
JFK's Ghost: Kennedy, Sorensen and the Making of Profiles in Courage by David R. Stokes "I'd rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States," John F. Kennedy confided to author Margaret Coit shortly after his election to the Senate in 1953. Kennedy got his wish four years later, when his book Profiles in Courage was awarded the Pulitzer for biography--even though it wasn't among the finalists for the prize. The role of Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorensen in drafting and crafting the main chapters in the book was never acknowledged by Kennedy's inner circle. And Kennedy was hyper-sensitive until his dying day about rumors that cast doubt on his authorship of Profiles. Sorensen was in many ways Kennedy's "alter ego," a man described as Kennedy's "intellectual blood-bank." But Jackie Kennedy found the relationship between her husband and his speechwriter to be "creepy." Still, Jack Kennedy the writer is an often overlooked part of the Kennedy narrative that helped propel his political career. And when Kennedy's authorship of Profiles and the legitimacy of his Pulitzer Prize were challenged on Mike Wallace's national television show by the popular columnist Drew Pearson, JFK's political future was imperiled. If the rumors surrounding the authorship of Profiles in Courage had been confirmed as true prior to his ascendance to the Presidency, there might have been no brief and shining moment in America now remembered as Camelot. About David R. Stokes David R. Stokes is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His book, THE SHOOTING SALVATIONIST, appeared twice on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list in 2011. This story has been republished (2019) titled, APPARENT DANGER. Screenplays based on two of his novels, CAMELOT'S COUSIN and JACK & DICK, are currently being represented for production in Hollywood. Retired FBI Agent and Bestselling author, Bob Hamer, says, "David Stokes combines his meticulous research with a writing style which makes you feel as though you are that fly-on-the-wall witnessing history as it unfolds." David grew up in the Detroit, Michigan area and has been an ordained minister for more than 40 years. Now retired from pastoral ministry, he writes full-time. David has been married to his wife, Karen, since 1976, and they have been blessed with three daughters--all now grown and with wonderful children of their own. There are, in fact, seven grandchildren, a fact verified by hundreds--maybe thousands--of pictures, as well as an ever-growing collection of toys and gadgets joyously cluttering their home. Visit David's website: http://www.davidrstokes.com
I fjerde episode af vores nye podcastserie KENNEDYLAND har Anders Agner og Peter Keldorff besøg af forfatteren Peter Christensen til en samtale om JFK's legendariske taleskriver Ted Sorensen.
Paul Keating's speech delivered to a mainly indigenous audience at Redfern Park on 10 December 1992 is regarded as one of the great Australian speeches. In an ABC radio listener poll in 2007, it was voted the third greatest speech ofr all time, behind 'I Have a Dream' and 'The Sermon on the Mount'. Here is the video and transcript. In this episode,Keating's speechwriter Don Watson discusses the speech, its construction, its impact. He also talks about language, Keating's gifts for language, as well as the souring of his relationship with Australia's 24th Prime Minister, after the publication of his best selling and award winning memoir, 'Recollections of a Bleeding Heart'. in 2001. Watson's most recent books are 'There it is Again' (Collected Writings) and The Bush. Tony's books are available online and at his website. Send an email to swap details for signed copies. He mentions Harry Highpants in this episode, a picture book about protest and pants freedom! Episode supported by GreenSkin™ and PurpleSkin™ avocados at https://greenskinavocados.com.au/ Please subscribe to the podcast, visit Speakola, and share any great speeches that are special to you, famous or otherwise. I just need transcript & photo /video embed. Speakola also has Twitter and Facebook feeds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ted Sorensen was a close aide and speechwriter for John F Kennedy. In an interview with Lucy Williamson he remembered the night that Kennedy won the US presidential election in 1960. It was a close race against the Republican contender Richard Nixon. Photo: US President John F. Kennedy giving his first State of the Union address to Congress in January 1961. (Credit: NASA/SSPL/Getty Images)
You know Brent as the Shell Gas spokesperson, but I know him as a friend and an actor. We met a few years ago on the set of a vampire film in Montana called CRIMSON WINTER. He is a cool guy and I wanted to sit with him and catch up on what he is up to these days. BIO Born in Tucson, Arizona, Brent Bailey spent his childhood in Texas and Arizona, graduating from high school in Scottsdale. After attending college and earning his Master's in Business, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Brent has been on your TV constantly whether you realized it or not. He has done roughly 100 commercials and currently is the Shell Spokesperson. Brent starred as famed JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen opposite Oscar® nominees Woody Harrelson and Richard Jenkins, in Rob Reiners 'LBJ.' Brent has four feature films in post production and additional feature film credits include 'Think Like A Man', 'Fatal Beauty', 'Girlfriends of Christmas Past' and 'The Republic Of Two.' Television audiences will recognize Brent from numerous diverse and compelling roles on hit shows like 'N.C.I.S', 'Lucifer', 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D', 'Criminal Minds', 'Rizzoli & Isles', 'Young & Hungry' and many others. Notably, he also starred in the wildly popular web series 'Emma Approved' winner of the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award® for "Outstanding Interactive Program." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mimosaswithmichael/support
This is a complete recording of of the Inaugural Address by JFK. It is sourced from the JFK Library and is unedited. You can get an ebook version for free here: https://librecron.com/product/inaugural-address-by-john-f-kennedy/ On January 20th, 1961, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. On that day, he gave his only inaugural address; he was assassinated November 22nd, 1963. During his speech, Kennedy addressed several things – what it meant to be American, the problems facing the world (namely, the power to destroy civilization several times over), and the long road that Humanity, as a species, faced. Kennedy wrote his inaugural address with the help of Ted Sorensen, his special counsel, adviser, and primary speechwriter. According to Sorensen, the most famous line in the speech – “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” – was written by Kennedy (although he later claimed that he didn’t remember who had come up with it). As Kennedy came into power during the height of the Cold War, he had to strike a balance with his speech. He had to present the United States as a power that wouldn’t back down in the face of adversity or tense relations, but also as one that wouldn’t do anything to provoke another country. He stressed the importance of peaceful relations between America and other countries, and lending a helping hand to the parts of the world that were overrun with poverty. The speech spoke to the importance of striking a balance. War couldn’t be used to solve every problem and with the advent of nuclear weapons, it was all the more imperative to ensure that rival nations (such as the United States and the U.S.S.R) not act in such a way to devolve relations. Ideally, they would come together in some way to bring the devastating power under control and use the power at their fingers to do what was right & just. Kennedy wanted separate sides to be able to reach across the table and meet the other on decisions that would be not only mutually beneficial, but beneficial to the world. To learn more about JFK, The Classic Biography and Profiles in Courage are good starts. Five Days in November focuses on the assassination, while Let the Word go Forth focuses on his speeches and texts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/librecron/support
Part 3 of 3 Inside Camelot: Ted Sorensen JFK’s aid in his own words. The Bay of Pigs, The Cuban Missile Crisis, CIA lied to Kennedy, The Potential for a Military Coup, The Assassination, more You will never get closer inside the Kennedy White House than this. I am honored to have had 3 interviews with Ted, which includes a filmed interview which took place September 18, 2010 in his Manhattan living room. Ted passed away only several weeks later on October 31, 2010, only two weeks after taking a fatal stroke just after receiving and hanging up from a phone call with The White House. It is essential in all research to get as close to the original source as humanly possible. There was no one closer or more knowledgeable about President John F Kennedy and his administration than Ted Sorensen. More importantly for all of us right now and future generations, Ted Sorensen was: The man who saved the world...really!
You will never get closer inside the Kennedy White House than this. I am honored to have had 3 interviews with Ted, which includes a filmed interview which took place September 18, 2010 in his Manhattan living room. Ted passed away only several weeks later on October 31, 2010, only two weeks after taking a fatal stroke just after receiving and hanging up from a phone call with The White House. It is essential in all research to get as close to the original source as humanly possible. There was no one closer or more knowledgeable about President John F Kennedy and his administration than Ted Sorensen. More importantly for all of us right now and future generations, Ted Sorensen was: The man who saved the world...really!
Part 1 of 3 Inside Camelot: Ted Sorensen JFK’s aid in his own words. The Bay of Pigs, The Cuban Missile Crisis, CIA lied to Kennedy, The Potential for a Military Coup, The Assassination, more You will never get closer inside the Kennedy White House than this. I am honored to have had 3 interviews with Ted, which includes a filmed interview which took place September 18, 2010 in his Manhattan living room. Ted passed away only several weeks later on October 31, 2010, only two weeks after taking a fatal stroke just after receiving and hanging up from a phone call with The White House. It is essential in all research to get as close to the original source as humanly possible. There was no one closer or more knowledgeable about President John F Kennedy and his administration than Ted Sorensen. More importantly for all of us right now and future generations, Ted Sorensen was: The man who saved the world...really!
I'm Brent Holland and welcome to night fright. November 22, 1963 Dealey Plaza, Dallas Texas. JFK is assassinated and the world changed in that instant. To sit in the seat “Jack” sat, takes a person with idealism. Idealism for humanity. November 22, 1963 saw that idealism betrayed. Through my many personal conversations with JFK aid and speech writer Ted Sorensen he told me that the United Sates nor any other country could suffer the loss of a JFK, Bbby or DR. King and expect business as usual. In my view, we are suffering the consequences of those assassinations today. I have interviewed over one hundred people who are connected with the JFK assassination and in every case they all mention a single book in their libraries that they constantly refer back to, a single book that has inspired them to continue their own research on the Kennedy assassination That book is called Best Evidence Its author and our guest tonight is the legendary David Lifton.
AFTERBUZZ TV - AfterBuzz TV's Spotlight On edition, is a long form interview series featuring actors and TV personalities discussing their roles and shows as well as their thoughts, passions and journeys. In this episode host James Lott Jr. interviews Brent Bailey. Tall, handsome, amiable, Brent Bailey has steadily built an impressive list of credits and in so doing, emerged as one of Hollywood's most promising new talents. This fall, the actor was delighted to join the all-star cast of Oscar® nominated director Rob Reiner's hotly anticipated presidential biopic LBJ. Brent stars as famed JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen opposite Oscar® nominees Woody Harrelson and Richard Jenkins, as well as Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bill Pullman. LBJ is currently in production and is set for a 2016 release. Additional feature film credits include 'Think Like A Man', 'Going Down In La-La-Land' and 'The Republic Of Two.' Television audiences will recognize Brent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
AFTERBUZZ TV - AfterBuzz TV's Spotlight On edition, is a long form interview series featuring actors and TV personalities discussing their roles and shows as well as their thoughts, passions and journeys. In this episode host James Lott Jr. interviews Brent Bailey. Tall, handsome, amiable, Brent Bailey has steadily built an impressive list of credits and in so doing, emerged as one of Hollywood's most promising new talents. This fall, the actor was delighted to join the all-star cast of Oscar® nominated director Rob Reiner's hotly anticipated presidential biopic LBJ. Brent stars as famed JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen opposite Oscar® nominees Woody Harrelson and Richard Jenkins, as well as Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bill Pullman. LBJ is currently in production and is set for a 2016 release. Additional feature film credits include 'Think Like A Man', 'Going Down In La-La-Land' and 'The Republic Of Two.' Television audiences will recognize Brent
Host Brent Holland reads from his book JFK Assassination from the Oval Office to Dealey Plaza - Interviews with witnesses and specialists including the LAST INTERVIEW with TED SORENSEN, JFK's friend and speechwriter. What makes this book different than all other books of this genre is the word for word interview with Ted Sorensen, in which he unloads about the Kennedy assassination and confirms conspiracy. No other book of this genre has this revelation. Holland reads from Sorensen's interview directly from the book.
The Stuph File Program Featuring Jason Hanson, author of Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques to Keep You and Your Family Protected; Brent Bailey, actor from LBJ; & Domenick Dicce, author of You're A Vampire Download Former CIA officer, Jason Hanson, is the author of Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life, a book that shares techniques on what you need to know to keep your family protected. He was also one of the successful entrepreneurs who got a deal on ABC's Shark Tank.(You can see his Shark Tank appearance here on YouTube. An all star cast has been assembled for director Rob Reiner's biopic, LBJ, that looks at the presidency of America's 36th Commander in Chief. Woody Harrelson stars as Lyndon Johnson, along with Richard Jenkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bill Pullman. We talk to actor Brent Bailey who plays JFK's political advisor and speechwriter, Ted Sorensen. Domenick Dicce is the author of You're a Vampire - That Sucks!: A Survival Guide. It's a very important book that gives you tips to help you cope with your new nocturnal life. This week's opening slate is presented by Alicia Welch a freelance writer in Vermont.
Tonight, more JFK Conspiracy. 1st half: Jim Lazar (lawyer for James Earl Ray) on JFK, RFK and MLK. 2nd half: JFK Assassination revelations from the Oval Office and Ted Sorensen.
There’s only 24 hours in a day, which is why President Obama, despite being an accomplished writer and orator, needs help with his speeches. During his first term in office, much of this help came from a young man who is arguably the most famous living speechwriter—Jon Favreau—who began working for then Senator Barack Obama as only his second writing job out of college. Favreau gave the opening keynote—Words matter: Storytelling with President Obama in an age of sound bites—at the 2014 Ragan Speechwriters Conference. His talk in many ways book-ended the 2009 address by Ted Sorensen, who also wrote speeches for a young Senator who was elected as the first Catholic President of the United States: JFK. Sorensen spoke near the end of a very full life, yet the all-to-few years he wrote for Kennedy defined him. It is quite likely that 33-year-old Favreau will likewise be talking about his time as Obama’s speechwriter for the rest of his days. His talk was perfect for the Ragan audience—a mix of solid speechwriting advice and unique insight into the creation of some of the major speeches of Obama’s Presidency. It was inside baseball talk from a major league player for the guys and gals in the minor league dug-outs. Surprisingly, despite attempts to analyze the rhetoric, Favreau claimed neither he nor Obama consciously deployed overt tricks of the trade. Rather, these are the speechwriting secrets he shared: Develop a strong relationship Obama reassured Favreau (or “Favs” as he called him) on the eve of sending him home to write his first speech: “I know you’re nervous, but I’m a writer too. And I know that sometimes the muse strikes and sometimes it doesn’t. If you get stuck, just come in tomorrow, and the two of us will work though it together.” Obama exhibited the same level of support and involvement in the writing process throughout the eight years Favreau worked with him. As Favreau described, the speechwriting process usually began with research and fact checking, then sending Obama a draft which would be returned with extensive mark-ups. If it just had the note “Let’s talk”, Favreau knew he had missed the mark. Favreau shared three lessons from his time working with Obama. 1. The story is more important than the words Obama always started with the question: “What story am I trying to tell?” He demanded an outline with a beginning, middle and end and required this sum the speech up in a few sentences before the detailed writing started. He did not, needless to say, design his speeches by juggling PowerPoint slide templates. Absent the simple summary, there is nothing to hang the development of the speech on. The payoff of this story-centered approach was illustrated in the November 2007 Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner primary debate when the opposing Clinton campaign delivered the forgettable tagline Turn up the heat, turn America around. Obama resisted the advice from some on his team that he coin a tagline, instead speaking from the heart about why he was the right person at that moment in history to be elected President: I am not in this race to fulfill some long-held ambitions or because I believe it's somehow owed to me. I never expected to be here. I always knew this journey was improbable. I've never been on a journey that wasn't. I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called "the fierce urgency of now." Because I believe that there's such a thing as being too late. And that hour is almost upon us. 2. The importance of honesty and authenticity Decisions on speech topics are too often based on fear (the fear of losing power, of public embarrassment) Obama ignored advice to “play it safe”. For example, when deciding on a response to the Rev. Wright controversy he took the early outline Faverau drafted and made it his own with heartfelt, authentic, honest statements such as: I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman w...
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Brave New Films' takes you behind the scenes to see the making of the Stop Kennedy Smears campaign. For more information, please visit: http://stopkennedysmears.com/
http://goo.gl/eH7A7 ;Historians labeled "The Kennedys" miniseries as fiction yet actor Greg Kinnear, who plays JFK in the production, defended its accuracy. Contact Greg Kinnear's Publicist Liz Mahoney at lmahoney@id-pr.com and tell her that political smears are not something to be proud of. Be polite in your correspondence but make your concerns known.
Episode Description: “For human evolution to continue, the conversation must deepen.” – Margaret MeadThe 6th Annual AREDAY – American Renewable Energy Day – produced by long-time environmental activist and filmmaker Chip Comins -- is a uniquely innovative and interactive annual gathering of co-creative change in this time of Yes We Can, and Yes We Must. It will take place Aug. 20-22, 2009 in the beauty of summertime in the Rocky Mountains in Aspen, Colorado. This year’s focus is “The Problem IS the Solution: Wall Street Meets Green Street – Creating the New Energy Economy”, bringing together a truly amazing array of people.This gathering will present all of us in attendance with an extraordinary opportunity not just to share information on visionary perspectives and practical tools for change, but to directly experience and co-create one of most important global transformations of our times. Participants will include a number of the people I have dialogued with on this site, such as Lester Brown, Bracken Hendricks, Van Jones, Bob Gough of Intertribal COUP, and many more. See Living Dialogues Episodes 68 and 70.Details, list of other key participants you will appreciate, and registration information available at www.areday.net. At last year’s AREDAY, Ted Turner was asked what he told the Board after he resigned from Time Warner in the wake of the AOL fiasco. He replied: “I just told them to stop doing the dumb things, and start doing the smart things.”To get a sense of how profound this simple message is if our public and private powers would only apply this advice, why they don’t, and why it really is true that the ball is in our court as citizens to show the way, that only “if the people will lead, the leaders will follow”, consider the following statements from one of this year’s AREDAY keynote speakers, Amory Lovins (then a 29 year old physicist), made thirty-three years ago, in his seminal article in Foreign Affairs magazine entitled “Energy Strategy – The Road Not Taken?”:At a time before Al Gore was even in Congress, Lovins noted: “The commitment (of U.S. policy) to a long-term coal economy many times the scale of today’s makes the doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration early in the next century virtually unavoidable, with the prospect then or soon thereafter of substantial and perhaps irreversible changes in global climate.” He dubbed this “the hard path.”The alternative, which Lovins called “the soft path,” favored “benign” sources of renewable power like wind and the sun, along with a heightened commitment to meeting energy demands through conservation and efficiency. Such a heterodox blend of clean technologies, Lovins argued, would bring a host of salutary effects: a healthier environment, an end to our dependence on Middle East oil, a diminished likelihood of future wars over energy, and the foundation of a vibrant new economy.”[The preceding two paragraphs are from the summary by Joshua Green in his article “Better Luck This Time”, reviewing the history of U.S. policy persisting in “doing the dumb things” all this time, in the July-August issue of The Atlantic magazine.]In my view, the U.S. is weighted down with the collective albatross in this Second Gilded Age of greed by highly centralized corporate systems beyond the control of our public government, including the U.S. financial system, fossil fuel energy and utility system, and health care system, among others – disconnected from any meaningful innovation and the public good. We will be exploring these aspects – and how they relate to the evolutionary imperative of consciousness transformation -- in future dialogues, including the upcoming next dialogues with Jeffrey Hopkins, the translator the Dalai Lama’s new book “Becoming Enlightened” (No. 100), Gillian Tett of the Financial Times of London on “Fool’s Gold” the creation by ambitious, self-centered Wall Street “high fliers” of the global economic catastrophe (Nos. 101 and 102), and David Korten on an “Agenda for a New Economy” (Nos. 103 and 104), followed by Judith Orloff on “Emotional Freedom”, and more to come.In the meantime, we invite you and look forward to seeing you at AREDAY on Aug. 20-22, 2009 in the natural beauty of Aspen, Colorado. As a listener to Living Dialogues, you can still receive an early bird discount by emailing Chip Comins directly at ccomins@rof.net. And if you cannot physically put yourself in Aspen Colorado for AREDAY, you’re very much invited to continue participating through your deep listening to not only this dialogue (and those related Living Dialogues listed above and below), but to our continuing Living Dialogues after that. And also to honor the fact that really it is true -- and we’re experiencing it with great gratitude for our listenership and their Website Contact emails from around the world -- that as the world becomes smaller, “yes, we can” and do experience in greater depth and greater celebration our own common humanity and our personal ability to shape our collective destiny in very real ways. “We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…. and we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself....For the world has changed, and we must change with it…why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration…" -- Barack Obama Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 As we say on Living Dialogues: “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”™.Contact me if you like at www.livingdialogues.com. Visit my blog at Duncan.personallifemedia.com. ”. (For more, including information on the Engaged Elder Wisdom Dialogue Series on my website www.livihngdialogues.com, click on Episode Detail to the left above and go to Transcript section.) Among other heartful visionary conversations you will find of particular interest on these themes are my Dialogues on this site with Lester Brown, David Boren, Jav Inslee, Bracken Hendricks, Bob Gough, Van Jones, Ted Sorensen, Frances Moore Lappe, Angeles Arrien, David Mendell, Michael Dowd, and Barbara Marx Hubbard among others [click on their name(s) in green on right hand column of the Living Dialogues Home Page on this site]. After you listen to this Dialogue, I invite you to both explore and make possible further interesting material on Living Dialogues by taking less than 5 minutes to click on and fill out the Listener Survey. My thanks and appreciation for your participation.
Episode Description: “For human evolution to continue, the conversation must deepen.” – Margaret Mead This is the seventh and last in a seven-part series of “Pilgrimage Dialogues” forming part of and leading up to a Conference Gathering in Fort Collins, Colorado on May 29-30, 2009, entitled “2012 NOW – Empowering the Transformation”, for which I am serving as the Master of Ceremonies and opening presenter. Past Living Dialogues in this series have included dialogues with myself and Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas (parts 1 and 2), and with Sobonfu Some’. Details and registration information available at www.unveiling2012.org. Duncan Campbell: 2012 Now: Empowering The Transformation, a uniquely innovative, interactive and affordable gathering in this time of global uncertainty, will take place Friday night and all day Saturday May 29 and 30 at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in Fort Collins, Colorado. Beyond just information, to practical tools for change and direct experience of participating in the ongoing transformation of our times. Now is the time and the opportunity to synchronize consciousness with the evolutionary pulse of the cosmos. Join participants bringing stories from around the planet as we explore, co-create, and experience together the transformative dynamics necessary for a successful transit from now through the year 2012 and beyond. More information available on the Conference website, www.unveiling2012.org. See you there.The meaning of the Greek word “Apocalypse” is “lifting the veil” or “revelation”. These seven “pilgrimage dialogues” in advance of the Gathering – contemporary 21st century versions of the medieval Canterbury Tales – are examples of such revelatory “shared stories” on this Road of 2012 NOW.Here is a summary dialogue excerpt describing the Conference between myself and Sobonfu Some’, who will conduct the concluding ritual of celebration:Sobonfu Some’: Well I really believe that initiation is a necessity, you know, much like, you know, 2012 is saying “here is a big initiation”. It, initiation, is a necessity because we have to initiate in order to be able to move forward, to be able to tap into our essence, into our gift and so on. And, you know, in my African tradition the first initiation that we all go through is that of being born, because we are coming from being full of spirit to taking on this human tool that we call the body. And, you know, also, we’ll go through many, many initiations. And I think what we’re talking about in the Conference is that we’re going to get to the place where we are basically going to celebrate being able to give birth to our self and to whatever new vision is going to come out of this Conference Gathering -- so that we can together welcome each other and celebrate together. And I think that is the icing on the cake, you know, that is awaiting us.Duncan Campbell: I think absolutely that’s the case, and myself as Master of Ceremonies and yourself as the person who will be leading us in the concluding celebratory ritual are both involved in helping the entire gathering to activate, all of us together, a kind of transformational space -- including not only the presenters who will be articulating on the stage, but all of the participants with their deep listening who are evoking the insights that are articulated coming out of the group energy field. And this opportunity for expression will also be something we can all look forward to at the extended lunch time on Saturday, when there’s going to be a large and deliberate space for people in very small groups to share stories, deep stories, with each other and evoke and integrate their experience. This is very essential to a true initiation -- that is not just a one way transmission of information, but is actually a transformative initiation -- where together we can evoke an experience that is both intimate and personal in our sense of shift, as well as a kind of collective amplification that allows all of us to celebrate, as Barack Obama suggested in his Inaugural Address, “our common humanity”. And that experience has a great carry over effect into our everyday lives and relationships.Sobonfu Some’: Now how amazing is that, because, you know, a lot of people go into conferences and never really get to put in their voice; and, you know, in my Dagara people’s African tradition, when you go anywhere we are always trying to get our voice in, you know, to express yourself with and to others, because it’s like we are all making this huge cauldron and the stories that we bring, everything we share of our self, is part of what is going to make whatever we’re cooking really delicious. And for people to be able to have this opportunity as a gift, not only to themselves but a gift to the community, I really believe is amazing.Duncan Campbell: That’s beautifully put. I love the image that you give here of together we’re collectively creating a crucible or a great cauldron, not only a crucible for the water of life, but a great cauldron in which to cook and use the fire of life to transform our experience, because these are transformative elements, all of the elements are: Earth is nurturing, Wind is empowering, a Fire literally is transforming, and Water is liquid and fluid and moves between the solid state of ice to the evaporated state of the clouds. And so every one of the elements will be involved here. We will be having time outdoors; we will be celebrating the natural world in a beautiful natural environment in Fort Collins, Colorado. And I think that these “pilgrimage dialogues” are pointing to that transformation as they are evolving here. In my first dialogue, with Robert Sitler, he emphasized the joy and the wisdom that is accessible in everyday life that he himself has experienced in the Mayan culture and which he shares so beautifully. Next has been John Major Jenkins, whose great research into the galactic alignment and embedding it and situating it in connection to the primordial tradition, sometimes called the perennial philosophy, has shown how we can bring all of this that 2012 is pointing to into the Now; that this “2012 phenomenon” is not an event that we’re waiting for, that we’re going to have to be acted upon at some time in the future, but it is an atmosphere of opportunity that is present right here, right now…And that energy field is present right now in helping germinate and evoke from you and I what we’re saying and inviting people to; so that in a sense you and I are acting here as inviters and embodiments of the kind of dialogue and transformation that we can anticipate will be happening among us all and amplified at that particular moment on May 29 and May 30 of the Gathering. But that’s only a moment in a continuum of many moments before and after, that we’re all already uncovering and witnessing being unveiled in people all over the world.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and, you know, as you speak and you share that it makes me think about today being this energy that renews itself time and again, which gets stronger every time, as the energy is being shared every time. So as people today listen to this dialogue, and share it with other people, it is renewed and it gets stronger and so on. That’s the image that came to me.Duncan Campbell: Well, I have to say, Sobonfu, it’s been just a wonderful opportunity here for myself and our other deep listeners, and yourself for that matter, for us to have this chance and opportunity to engage in this dialogue together, and I have always so appreciated the great joy and cheerfulness that you embody and bring to any time that I’ve ever had the pleasure and privilege to encounter you. And so I’m very much looking forward to this conference, even as I’m deeply appreciating the present moment here, because the gift I think of this very dialogue is not only to inspire that more such moments can happen between us, but in one’s own life everyday, today for instance, and the moments that follow.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and I’m very grateful for you, for the gift of yourself to the world really and for having such a strong and powerful vision that you can not only share with the world, but that you can get other people be a part of the dance of that vision as well. And I think that is, that is a gift that not everybody has, and I thank you for holding that for all of us.Duncan Campbell: Well thank you very much Sobonfu, and I want to thank our co-producers Larraine Tennison and John Major Jenkins and everyone involved with this project, all the presenters that are part of this pilgrimage series that is now leading us, as it were, like milestones toward the Conference Gathering on May 29 and 30. If people are wanting further information, they can go to www.unveiling2012.org. And we really extend an extraordinarily warm and intimate invitation for your continued participation. If you cannot physically put yourself in that Fort Collins environment, you’re very much invited to participate through your deep listening to not only these dialogues, but to the continuation of Living Dialogues after that, and also to honor the fact that really it is true -- and we’re experiencing it with great gratitude for our listenership and their Website Contact emails from around the world -- that as the world becomes smaller, “yes, we can” and do experience in greater depth and greater joy our own common humanity. We invite you and look forward to seeing you at the conference on May 29 and 30, 2009 in the natural beauty of Fort Collins, Colorado, entitled “2012 NOW - Empowering the Transformation”. For further information and registration you can go to www.unveiling2012.org.“We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…. and we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself....For the world has changed, and we must change with it…why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration…" -- Barack Obama Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 And as we say on Living Dialogues: “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”™.Contact me if you like at www.livingdialogues.com. Visit my blog at Duncan.personallifemedia.com. ”. (For more, including information on the Engaged Elder Wisdom Dialogue Series on my website www.livingdialogues.com, click on Episode Detail to the left above and go to Transcript section.) Among other heartful visionary conversations you will find of particular interest on these themes are my Dialogues on this site with Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Sobonfu Some, Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas, John O’Donohue, Michael Meade, Eckhart Tolle, Ted Sorensen, Frances Moore Lappe, Angeles Arrien, Matthew Fox, David Mendell, Deborah Tannen, Gangaji, Michael Dowd, Duane Elgin, and Joseph Ellis, among others [click on their name(s) in green on right hand column of the Living Dialogues Home Page on this site]. After you listen to this Dialogue, I invite you to both explore and make possible further interesting material on Living Dialogues by taking less than 5 minutes to click on and fill out the Listener Survey. My thanks and appreciation for your participation.
Episode Description:“For human evolution to continue, the conversation must deepen.” – Margaret Mead This is the sixth in a seven-part series of “Pilgrimage Dialogues” forming part of and leading up to a Conference Gathering in Fort Collins, Colorado on May 29-30, 2009, entitled “2012 NOW – Empowering the Transformation”, for which I am serving as the Master of Ceremonies and opening presenter. Past Living Dialogues in this series have included dialogues with myself and Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas, and with Sobonfu Some’. The final Living Dialogue in the series will be with Christine Page. Details and registration information available at www.unveiling2012.org. Duncan Campbell: 2012 Now: Empowering The Transformation, a uniquely innovative, interactive and affordable gathering in this time of global uncertainty, will take place Friday night and all day Saturday May 29 and 30 at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in Fort Collins, Colorado. Beyond just information, to practical tools for change and direct experience of participating in the ongoing transformation of our times. Now is the time and the opportunity to synchronize consciousness with the evolutionary pulse of the cosmos. Join participants bringing stories from around the planet as we explore, co-create, and experience together the tranformative dynamics necessary for a successful transit from now through the year 2012 and beyond. More information available on the Conference website, www.unveiling2012.org. See you there.The meaning of the Greek word “Apocalypse” is “lifting the veil” or “revelation”. These seven “pilgrimage dialogues” in advance of the Gathering – contemporary 21st century versions of the medieval Canterbury Tales – are examples of such revelatory “shared stories” on this Road of 2012 NOW.Here is a summary dialogue excerpt describing the Conference between myself and Sobonfu Some’, who will conduct the concluding ritual of celebration:Sobonfu Some’: Well I really believe that initiation is a necessity, you know, much like, you know, 2012 is saying “here is a big initiation”. It, initiation, is a necessity because we have to initiate in order to be able to move forward, to be able to tap into our essence, into our gift and so on. And, you know, in my African tradition the first initiation that we all go through is that of being born, because we are coming from being full of spirit to taking on this human tool that we call the body. And, you know, also, we’ll go through many, many initiations. And I think what we’re talking about in the Conference is that we’re going to get to the place where we are basically going to celebrate being able to give birth to our self and to whatever new vision is going to come out of this Conference Gathering -- so that we can together welcome each other and celebrate together. And I think that is the icing on the cake, you know, that is awaiting us.Duncan Campbell: I think absolutely that’s the case, and myself as Master of Ceremonies and yourself as the person who will be leading us in the concluding celebratory ritual are both involved in helping the entire gathering to activate, all of us together, a kind of transformational space -- including not only the presenters who will be articulating on the stage, but all of the participants with their deep listening who are evoking the insights that are articulated coming out of the group energy field. And this opportunity for expression will also be something we can all look forward to at the extended lunch time on Saturday, when there’s going to be a large and deliberate space for people in very small groups to share stories, deep stories, with each other and evoke and integrate their experience. This is very essential to a true initiation -- that is not just a one way transmission of information, but is actually a transformative initiation -- where together we can evoke an experience that is both intimate and personal in our sense of shift, as well as a kind of collective amplification that allows all of us to celebrate, as Barack Obama suggested in his Inaugural Address, “our common humanity”. And that experience has a great carry over effect into our everyday lives and relationships.Sobonfu Some’: Now how amazing is that, because, you know, a lot of people go into conferences and never really get to put in their voice; and, you know, in my Dagara people’s African tradition, when you go anywhere we are always trying to get our voice in, you know, to express yourself with and to others, because it’s like we are all making this huge cauldron and the stories that we bring, everything we share of our self, is part of what is going to make whatever we’re cooking really delicious. And for people to be able to have this opportunity as a gift, not only to themselves but a gift to the community, I really believe is amazing.Duncan Campbell: That’s beautifully put. I love the image that you give here of together we’re collectively creating a crucible or a great cauldron, not only a crucible for the water of life, but a great cauldron in which to cook and use the fire of life to transform our experience, because these are transformative elements, all of the elements are: Eaarth is nurturing, Wind is empowering, a Fire literally is transforming, and Water is liquid and fluid and moves between the solid state of ice to the evaporated state of the clouds. And so every one of the elements will be involved here. We will be having time outdoors; we will be celebrating the natural world in a beautiful natural environment in Fort Collins, Colorado. And I think that these “pilgrimage dialogues” are pointing to that transformation as they are evolving here. In my first dialogue, with Robert Sitler, he emphasized the joy and the wisdom that is accessible in everyday life that he himself has experienced in the Mayan culture and which he shares so beautifully. Next has been John Major Jenkins, whose great research into the galactic alignment and embedding it and situating it in connection to the primordial tradition, sometimes called the perennial philosophy, has shown how we can bring all of this that 2012 is pointing to into the Now; that this “2012 phenomenon” is not an event that we’re waiting for, that we’re going to have to be acted upon at some time in the future, but it is an atmosphere of opportunity that is present right here, right now…And that energy field is present right now in helping germinate and evoke from you and I what we’re saying and inviting people to; so that in a sense you and I are acting here as inviters and embodiments of the kind of dialogue and transformation that we can anticipate will be happening among us all and amplified at that particular moment on May 29 and May 30 of the Gathering. But that’s only a moment in a continuum of many moments before and after, that we’re all already uncovering and witnessing being unveiled in people all over the world.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and, you know, as you speak and you share that it makes me think about today being this energy that renews itself time and again, which gets stronger every time, as the energy is being shared every time. So as people today listen to this dialogue, and share it with other people, it is renewed and it gets stronger and so on. That’s the image that came to me.Duncan Campbell: Well, I have to say, Sobonfu, it’s been just a wonderful opportunity here for myself and our other deep listeners, and yourself for that matter, for us to have this chance and opportunity to engage in this dialogue together, and I have always so appreciated the great joy and cheerfulness that you embody and bring to any time that I’ve ever had the pleasure and privilege to encounter you. And so I’m very much looking forward to this conference, even as I’m deeply appreciating the present moment here, because the gift I think of this very dialogue is not only to inspire that more such moments can happen between us, but in one’s own life everyday, today for instance, and the moments that follow.Sobonfu Some’: Yes, and I’m very grateful for you, for the gift of yourself to the world really and for having such a strong and powerful vision that you can not only share with the world, but that you can get other people be a part of the dance of that vision as well. And I think that is, that is a gift that not everybody has, and I thank you for holding that for all of us.Duncan Campbell: Well thank you very much Sobonfu, and I want to thank our co-producers Larraine Tennison and John Major Jenkins and everyone involved with this project, all the presenters that are part of this pilgrimage series that is now leading us, as it were, like milestones toward the Conference Gathering on May 29 and 30. If people are wanting further information, they can go to www.unveiling2012.org. And we really extend an extraordinarily warm and intimate invitation for your continued participation. If you cannot physically put yourself in that Fort Collins environment, you’re very much invited to participate through your deep listening to not only these dialogues, but to the continuation of Living Dialogues after that, and also to honor the fact that really it is true -- and we’re experiencing it with great gratitude for our listenership and their Website Contact emails from around the world -- that as the world becomes smaller, “yes, we can” and do experience in greater depth and greater joy our own common humanity. We invite you and look forward to seeing you at the conference on May 29 and 30, 2009 in the natural beauty of Fort Collins, Colorado, entitled “2012 NOW - Empowering the Transformation”. For further information and registration you can go to www.unveiling2012.org.“We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth…. and we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself....For the world has changed, and we must change with it…why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration…" -- Barack Obama Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009 And as we say on Living Dialogues: “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”™.Contact me if you like at www.livingdialogues.com. Visit my blog at Duncan.personallifemedia.com. ”. (For more, including information on the Engaged Elder Wisdom Dialogue Series on my website www.livingdialogues.com, click on Episode Detail to the left above and go to Transcript section.) Among other heartful visionary conversations you will find of particular interest on these themes are my Dialogues on this site with Robert Sitler, John Major Jenkins, Sobonfu Some, Stanislav Grof, John O’Donohue, Michael Meade, Eckhart Tolle, Ted Sorensen, Frances Moore Lappe, Angeles Arrien, Matthew Fox, David Mendell, Deborah Tannen, Gangaji, Michael Dowd, Duane Elgin, and Joseph Ellis, among others [click on their name(s) in green on right hand column of the Living Dialogues Home Page on this site]. After you listen to this Dialogue, I invite you to both explore and make possible further interesting material on Living Dialogues by taking less than 5 minutes to click on and fill out the Listener Survey. My thanks and appreciation for your participation.
After videotaping the Sorensen keynote I took the opportunity to engage in some good old-fashioned audio interviewing. There was a line of well over 150 people - half the audience - waiting patiently for Mr. Sorensen to autograph copies of his latest book, Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History I asked some of these speechwriters from around the country what they thought of the keynote speech they had just heard. To hear what they had to say, click on the podcast icon below.
Theodore (Ted) Sorensen was President John F. Kennedy's speech writer and special assistant. In this video podcast, Sorensen talks about Kennedy's farm programs -- he may not have understood them, but JFK was able to relate to farmers in the same way he related to other voters.
In this video podcast, Ted Sorensen says the future might have been very different if John F. Kennedy had lived -- different for young people and minorities, different for the economy, and different for the Vietnam War and prospects for peace.
Ted Sorensen remembers that early in the Cold War governments and families built fallout shelters and practiced "Duck and Cover" drills to try and survive a nuclear attack. Sorensen wonders if they would have been effective.
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