"There are moments, rare and powerful, in which a writer long vanished from the face of the earth seems to stand in your presence and speak to you directly, as if he bore a message meant for you above all others."
Former President Clinton: Obama ‘Deserves to Be Re-Elected’
“He’s got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids, which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids,” Clinton said at a campaign event this weekend.
Students recite Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and share what the speech means to them.
Watch, we don’t blame you if the room starts to get a little dusty.
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"Each time [Britain] must choose between Europe and the open sea, we shall always choose the open sea."
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Winston Churchill to Charles de Gaulle in one of their most famous clashes during World War II.
PBS NewsHour foreign affairs editor Mike Mosettig writes:
On Thursday night, British Prime Minister David Cameron seemed to assume a Churchillian mantle as he delivered a resounding no to the European Union accord aimed at salvaging the embattled common currency.
"Computers have rendered us all gods of type, a privilege we could never have anticipated in the age of the typewriter."
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Simon Garfield, author of “Just My Type.”
NewsHour Art Beat interviewed him about passion and fonts here.
Memorial Day Reads
If you need something to read or watch you’re in luck: Reporter Molly Finnegan whipped up a list of some of our great Memorial Day related stories.
- ‘The Returning Dead’: “Each night I make a drink and wait for them/ They have become the day’s concluding news” -Wyatt Prunty wrote the “The Returning Dead” as a response to the NewsHour’s Honor Roll [May 31, 2010]
- “War is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.” Between the battles, photographers captured scenes of the Civil War [April 12, 2011]
- “A Memorial Day at a time of war is a unique and freighted thing…” Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming reflects [May 31, 2004]
- “Modern memorials, like modern art, are unassertive, deliberately vague.” -Roger Rosenblatt has some thoughts on our Memorial Days. [May 29, 2000]
- A book about war that has stood the test of time: last year we talked to ‘The Things They Carried’ author Tim O’Brien for the book’s 20th anniversary [April 28, 2010]
- Five scholars discuss the origins and implications of Memorial Day [May 24, 1996]
- Everyone loves dogs,” says Olszak. “All of our dogs remind the guys of their pups at home, so it’s a good morale boost.” A profile of military dogs in Quantico. [May 26, 2011]
- Extended interviews with Maya Lin on the Vietnam War Memorial [May 12, 2009]
- A program that provides horseback therapy for vets [May 25, 2009]
- A conversation about the elite WWII force that saved Europe’s monuments from Nazi forces [November 11, 2009]
- RIP Tim Hetherington. Jeffrey Brown spoke to him about his experience covering wars. [November 16, 2010]
(Source: newshour.pbs.org)
