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Robert Flower and his book "Your Exceptional Mind,” and his thoughts on how “enhancing one’s intelligence promotes the expanding of understanding.”Download | Duration: 00:51:15
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Our show today is about the book, White Houst Ghosts: Presidents and their Speechwriters, with the distinguished author and journalist Robert Schlesinger.
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Mr. Bob Schlesinger will talk about his book, his renowned fathe, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and the presidency. Schlesinger reveals, in intimate detail, how presidents from FDR through the present day got their most important messages across through their speechwriters.
Bob Sherwood, Raymond Moley, Harry Hopkins, Emmet Hughes, Peggy Noonan, Sam Rosenman. Clark Clifford, Ted Sorenson, Bryce Harlow, Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, Richard Goodwin, Ray Price, Pat Buchanon, and William Safire, are some of the big-name writers that graced the White House from 1933 until today.
Mr. Robert Schlesinger, a U.S.News and World Report deputy editor, oversees all opinion editorial content. Spearheading the opinion section of www.usnews.com, Schlesinger solicits op-eds from writers and bloggers nationwide. Schlesinger came to U.S.News & World Report as a freelancer and blogger for a variety of publications, including Salon.com, Economist.com, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times Magazine. His work has also appeared in The Washington Monthly, the Weekly Standard, People, Campaigns & Elections, Washington DC Style, DC Magazine, the Washington Examiner, the Boston Globe Magazine, George, and the AARP Bulletin.
Prior to joining U.S. News, Schlesinger covered national security and public policy issues for the Boston Globe’s Washington bureau. He previously served as chief congressional correspondent at Voter.com, political editor at The Hill newspaper, and researched advisers to presidential candidates at the Center for Public Integrity, co-writing “Under the Influence,” a 1996 report on presidential campaign advisers. He is also co-founder and co-contributor of the blog, RobertEmmet, which covers topics from national security to entertainment and culture. He teaches political journalism at the Boston University Washington Journalism Center. He lives with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia. A New York City native, he graduated from Middlebury College in 1994.
Our show will attempt to explore these questions:
• How important are speechwriters to a president?
• Who was the first presidential speechwriter
• Who were the best writers among the presidents?
• What was it like being the son of Arthur Schlesinger Jr as a father?
• What made FDR’s team of writers special?
Our show is about “The Unionization of the Taxi Cabs in White Plains, What are the Implications?”
Our special guests are Mr. Michael Carriere of District Council 9, Mr. Mario Alfonso, a taxi operator from White Plains, NY and Mr. Glen Hockley, a Member of the White Plains City Council.
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Mr. Carriere, who has been a Union member for 20 years, came from a Union family. He started a glazier for Local Union 1087 and held many elected positions, before and after, the merger with District Council 9 and the consolidation of Local Unions 206 and 1087. He is also a strong advocate of apprentice programs, and has contributed his time, and the efforts his union in many charitable projects that include the YMCA rehabilitation in White Plains, food pantries, toys for tots, The Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, various projects in Yonkers and church rehabilitations in Port Chester and Brewster.
Mr. Alfonso is a resident of White Plains, and is an owner operator of his own taxi. He has been actively involved in this effort to not only unionize his drivers, but to make sure that the standards regarding drivers, their conduct and dress are improved.
The some of the issues that will be discussed:
• How did this effort to organize cabdrivers begin?
• What role did Councilman Glen Hockley play?
• How is the price of gasoline impacting on taxi service?
• What role will unionization play in the upcoming years?
• How has this rich and poor society of the last decade affected the average working man?
Our guest today is Mr. Doug Garr, an author, writer, editorial consultant, speechwriter and former Editorial Director of the New York State Urban Development Corporation. Doug, a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications has written for magazines, newspapers, and CEOs of companies like, JP Morgan, Hewlett-Packard, and Network Appliances. He has written books on Lou Gerstner of IBM, investing, and Silicon Valley. He wrote economic speeches for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and he is currently working on two new books. He has a life-long interest in politics.
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The Advocates will focus on “Presidential Politics in the Post FDR Era.”
Mr. Garr and I will discuss some of the pivotal elections, which include the following:
• Truman- Dewey-Wallace-Thurmond, 1948
• Eisenhower –Stevenson, 1952
• Kennedy-Nixon, 1960
• Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace, 1968
• Carter-Ford, 1976
• Reagan-Carter-Anderson, 1980
• Clinton-Bush-Perot , 1992
• Bush-Gore, 2000
Our special guest is Mr. Nick Taylor, the author of American-Made, The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR put the Nation to Work.
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Our special guest is Mr. Richard Blassberg, the author of “The Jeanine Machine,” an expose of former Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro. He is also the Editor-In-Chief of the hard-hitting local newspaper the, The Westchester Guardian. He was born and raised in the 41st Precinct, "Fort Apache" the Bronx, Richard holds a degree in psychology from Adelphi College, and a law degree from Pace University School of law. A former Youth Board Worker for the City of New York, and Probation Officer for the County of Westchester, he has worked for nearly three decades with formerly homeless, and disadvantaged individuals.
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1) Corruption in the courts and the justice system
2) Justice for the oppressed and forgotten
3) The growth of layered, duplicative government, and is it out of hand
4) The game of incestuous politics: elected officials, the courts and law enforcement
Our special guest is Mr. Richard Jackson, the author of The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century. Our program will explore what Richard Jackson has written, “The world is entering a demographic transformation of unprecedented dimensions… therefore the coming transformation is both certain and lasting. There is almost no chance that it will not happen --- or that it will be reversed in our lifetime.” In fact, Mr. Jackson warns, “In the developing world, the transformation will give rise to dangerous new security threats!”
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Our special guests are the honorable Paul Feiner, The Town Supervisor of Greenburgh, NY and Ms. Joan Gronowski, a Member of the City Council of Yonkers, NY. Our subject today is, “Is the Size and Scope of County Government Out of Control, and What Can Be Done?”
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Mr. Feiner was a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude at Fordham University and a 1981 graduate of St. John's Law School, Mr. Feiner immediately put his academic skills to good use. He led the campaign to open committee meetings of the Westchester County Board of Legislators to the public. This successful effort prompted Common Cause to name Mr. Feiner one of six national recipients of the Common Cause Public Service Achievement Award in 1982. His award cited Mr. Feiner's "force of imagination, initiative and perseverance that have made an outstanding contribution to the public interest in the areas of government performance and integrity."
Joan Gronowski is a lifelong Yonkers resident, born and raised on Hawthorne Avenue. She has lived in the Yonkers 3rd district for most of her life. Joan attended St. Mary’s Parochial School and Blessed Sacrament Academy High School, beginning her employment with the City of Yonkers shortly thereafter.
Joan is a retired City of Yonkers employee and former member of the Service Employees’ International Union Local 704, having served as the Union’s Recording Secretary for ten years. Joan worked for many years in the city’s Office of Consumer Protection, corresponding with the private sector as a liaison to resolve constituent complaints and inquiries. During the latter years of her employment, Joan became actively involved in the political process, hoping to bring about more accountability in our public officials. She became a first-time candidate herself, and in November 2007, was elected to the Yonkers City Council representing the Third District.