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Coming up, the education funding debate. Will a constitutional amendment pass the Legislature? Plus, political analyst Cokie Roberts talks about her latest book and the race for the White House. Next. |
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An update on education funding and calls for a constitutional amendment. Plus, a conversation with political analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts. Up next. |
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Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. With only a month to go in their current session, legislators in Concord are still at odds over how to pay for education funding. Among the issues is a school funding bill that some are calling too expensive. And lawmakers are debating a constitutional amendment that would limit the Supreme Court’s role in overseeing public education. Outlook’s Richard Ager sat down with two lawmakers at the New Hampshire Political Library housed in the State Library in Concord to get an update on whether any resolution will be reached this session. |
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The full House is expected to vote on the constitutional amendment as early as this week. |
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Honoring those who support the New Hampshire primary. Plus, my conversation with ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts. |
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The state's first-in-the nation primary status was back in the spotlight April 30th when the NH Political Library held its 2008 Primary Awards dinner in Manchester. The annual fundraiser celebrates New Hampshire's primary tradition and pays tribute to those who champion it. Among those receiving an award this year was CNN Correspondent Candy Crowley for her coverage of the past 6 New Hampshire primaries. Crowley MC'd a discussion with fellow honorees and past presidential primary candidates-- former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Also honored at the event, former New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson who helped protect the state's first-in-the-nation status in the late 60's. That's when he convinced Nevada's Governor to stall legislation that would have allowed Nevada to prevent New Hampshire from holding the first primary in the country. |
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Cokie Roberts is certainly no stranger to the New Hampshire primary. As a political analyst for ABC News and senior news analyst for N-P-R, Roberts has covered many elections. She's also a best selling author. Her latest book "Ladies of Liberty" delves into the political lives of the early women who shaped the nation. It's a companion volume to her "Founding Mothers" book. Roberts was in Portsmouth at the end of April to take part in the "Writers on a New England Stage" program at the Music Hall. I caught up with her before the event to talk with her about her latest book and her take on the '08 presidential race. |
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COKIE ROBERTS EDIT SHEET 00:01:09 WELL THE TOPIC OF WOMEN AND POLITICS VERY TIMELY THIS ELECTION SEASON, WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN EARLY POLITICS? 00:01:15 Well, the thing that was remarkable to me was how politically engaged they were. When I wrote Founding Mothers I found out how deeply deeply political they were and how ardently patriotic they were making all these sacrifices and suffering all these hardships for the American cause but in ladies in liberty what surprised was no because they were political because I have come to expect that but the men credited them with being good politicians the men understood the political roles that they were playing and accepted it and asked them to do more. 00:01:57 WELL THIS BOOK DETIALS FROM PRESIDENT ADAMS TO… 00:02:02 Yes Adams to Adams 00:02:03 WHY SO FASCINATED WITH THAT PERIOD OF HISTORY? 00:02:05 Because I deal with the founding fathers all the time when you cover congress and politics as long as I have you have them evoked constantly on the floors of congress, in the courts of course, on the campaign trail and so I was always going back and reading what they had written about the right to bear arms or religion in the public square whatever and I got curious about what the women were doing while they were doing what they were doing because I've grown up with influential political women and I covered women in politics and I realized I knew nothing about the women of this crucial part of our history. 00:02:46 LADIES OF LIBERTY YOU DESCRIBE AS HISTORY TOLD THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN. HOW IS THAT HISTORY DIFFERENT THEN WHAT WE KNOW FROM THE FOUNDING FATHERS? 00:02:55 First of all it is a much more complete history it's the other half of the human race but it is also more lively I think and human history because these women's letter are wonderfully funny and frank and filled with news that goes in one sentence, it can go from what the dreadful things the French are doing on to the fashions of the day and how not to get pregnant. The whole picture is much more there in the women's letters and they also give a much more human view of the men. The men are not some bronze bust in the eyes of their wives you can be sure so we get much fuller picture the men that we call the founding fathers. 00:03:54 HOW DIFFICULT WAS IT TO RESEARCH THIS PROJECT BECAUSE AS WE KNOW THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF WORK DONE ON THE FOUDING FATHERS NOT SO MUCH THE WOMEN. 00:04:00 Nothing's been done on the women with the exception of a couple very good biographies of Abigail Adams and recent of Dolly Madison and so it was very difficult to the do the research, the places that house the letters and journals of these women in many cases have not honored and so they don't even know what they have in many cases and they have not kept them in any kind of great condition and they certainly have not transcribed and made them easily accessible so getting to information is very difficult. ***EDIT here 00:07:33 YOU TALK ABOUT THESE WOMEN SHAPING THE NATION BUT THEY ALSO HAD TO HAVE DINNER ON THE TABLE. 00:07:39 And a baby every year! 00:07:40 YEAH SO YOU HAVE RECIPES IN THE BOOK TOO 00:07:42 I always like to put recipes in books because I think they are points of connection that when you look at recipe and can go and make it and you think that a women you have heard of made recipe 200 years ago that you feel connected to her but I also put in recipes that you wouldn't make in a million years. I just put them in because I think they are funny. 00:08:07 DID YOU HAVE A TARGET AUDIENCE WHEN YOU WERE WRITING THE BOOK? 00:08:09 Yes, you know I mainly write, well obviously I want everybody to read it and I want everybody to meet these women but the people who I want to read these books are girls I think it is very import for girls to understand the crucial role that women played in creating this country and in keeping this country alive and making a better country and I think that with any luck when they learn that and have some sense of the great tradition out of which they flow that they will become more committed to civil engagements them selves and that's what I would like to see. *** EDIT HERE 00:12:05 YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING POLITICS FOR… 00:12:06 Forever! 00:12:07 YEAH, 30 YEARS ABC. 00:12:09 4O haha! 00:12:10 40! ABC, PBS, NPR. I HEARD YOU SAY THAT JOURNALISM LEAD YOU TO HISTORY, WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY THAT? 00:12:20 Well because if you cover congress and politics as I have you spend a lot time going back to the history to understand why things are the way they are. That's particularly true of the founding period because the founding fathers are evoked all the time and so I went back to start reading what they actually said instead of senator so and so said that they said. So that got me into this period very deeply. 00:09:58 WELL IF WE FAST FORWARD TO POLITICS TODAY HOW WOULD YOU WRITE A CHAPTER ON HILLARY CLINTON? 00:10:01 Hillary Clinton is very much someone out of this tradition. She is some one who had many more advantages then these women in terms of education and opportunities open to her bur she did what they did which is when went to Arkansas, she worked in Washington and then tried in her way to make the society by her likes and then she wet to Arkansas and worked as the wife of and did some very significant things as the wife of just like these women did and like them came into the Whitehouse and pursued projects there and the notion of that has not been something that has been going on since the first administration is really the lie is pout to that notion the minute you read these books. ** EDIT HERE 00:12:53 AS AN ANALYST WHAT WILL HISTORY SAY ABOUT THIS 2O08 PRESIDENTAL RACE? 00:13:00 You know history as George W Bush would say is long way off. He keeps saying that people are still writing books about George Washington addressing his presidency and he says this with some hope about his presidency but I think that the opinion that this is nasty campaign is absurd; this is one of the most mild mannered political campaigns I have ever seen but I think its certainly will go down in history because it is the first time we have women and African American in a position that they have the possibility of being elected president and so that will certainly at least be a footnote in the history books. ** EDIT HERE 00:14:22 COKIE ROBERTS THNK VERY MUCH 00:14:24 Thank you, its lovely to be with you. Thanks. |
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"Ladies of Liberty" was Cokie Roberts 4th book. It's now number six on the New York Times Best Sellers' list. |
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That's all the time we have for this New Hampshire Outlook. Thanks for watching. I'm Beth Carroll. I'll see you next time. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/11/2008 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 12:15 An update on education funding and calls for a constitutional amendment. Plus, a conversation with political analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. With only a month to go in their current session, legislators in Concord are still at odds over how to pay for education funding. Among the issues is a school funding bill that some are calling too expensive. And lawmakers are debating a constitutional amendment that would limit the Supreme Court’s role in overseeing public education. Outlook’s Richard Ager sat down with two lawmakers at the New Hampshire Political Library housed in the State Library in Concord to get an update on whether any resolution will be reached this session. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:Rep. Marjorie Smith Durham\Chair, House Finance Committee, Rep. Neal Kurk Weare \Member, House Finance Committee |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/11/2008 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 12:15 An update on education funding and calls for a constitutional amendment. Plus, a conversation with political analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. With only a month to go in their current session, legislators in Concord are still at odds over how to pay for education funding. Among the issues is a school funding bill that some are calling too expensive. And lawmakers are debating a constitutional amendment that would limit the Supreme Court’s role in overseeing public education. Outlook’s Richard Ager sat down with two lawmakers at the New Hampshire Political Library housed in the State Library in Concord to get an update on whether any resolution will be reached this session. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:Rep. Marjorie Smith Durham\Chair, House Finance Committee, Rep. Neal Kurk Weare \Member, House Finance Committee |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/11/2008 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 3:00 An update on education funding and calls for a constitutional amendment. Plus, a conversation with political analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. The state's first-in-the nation primary status was back in the spotlight April 30th when the NH Political Library held its 2008 Primary Awards dinner in Manchester. The annual fundraiser celebrates New Hampshire's primary tradition and pays tribute to those who champion it. Among those receiving an award this year was CNN Correspondent Candy Crowley for her coverage of the past 6 New Hampshire primaries. Crowley MC'd a discussion with fellow honorees and past presidential primary candidates-- former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Adam Donovan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:Candy Crowley\CNN Senior Political Correspondent, Sen. Bill Bradley\2000 Presidential Candidate, Gov. Mitt Romney\2008 Presidential Primary Candidate |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/11/2008 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 3:00 An update on education funding and calls for a constitutional amendment. Plus, a conversation with political analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll. The state's first-in-the nation primary status was back in the spotlight April 30th when the NH Political Library held its 2008 Primary Awards dinner in Manchester. The annual fundraiser celebrates New Hampshire's primary tradition and pays tribute to those who champion it. Among those receiving an award this year was CNN Correspondent Candy Crowley for her coverage of the past 6 New Hampshire primaries. Crowley MC'd a discussion with fellow honorees and past presidential primary candidates-- former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Adam Donovan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:Candy Crowley\CNN Senior Political Correspondent, Sen. Bill Bradley\2000 Presidential Candidate, Gov. Mitt Romney\2008 Presidential Primary Candidate |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/11/2008 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 9:00 An update on education funding and calls for a constitutional amendment. Plus, a conversation with political analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll, welcome to NH Outlook. Cokie Roberts is certainly no stranger to the New Hampshire primary. As a political analyst for ABC News and senior news analyst for N-P-R, Roberts has covered many elections. She's also a best selling author. Her latest book "Ladies of Liberty" delves into the political lives of the early women who shaped the nation. It's a companion volume to her "Founding Mothers" book. Roberts was in Portsmouth at the end of April to take part in the "Writers on a New England Stage" program at the Music Hall. I caught up with her before the event to talk with her about her latest book and her take on the '08 presidential race. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Caroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Cokie Roberts\Political Analyst/Author, New Book: "Ladies of Liberty" |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/11/2008 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 9:00 An update on education funding and calls for a constitutional amendment. Plus, a conversation with political analyst and best-selling author Cokie Roberts. Hello, I'm Beth Carroll, welcome to NH Outlook. Cokie Roberts is certainly no stranger to the New Hampshire primary. As a political analyst for ABC News and senior news analyst for N-P-R, Roberts has covered many elections. She's also a best selling author. Her latest book "Ladies of Liberty" delves into the political lives of the early women who shaped the nation. It's a companion volume to her "Founding Mothers" book. Roberts was in Portsmouth at the end of April to take part in the "Writers on a New England Stage" program at the Music Hall. I caught up with her before the event to talk with her about her latest book and her take on the '08 presidential race. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Caroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Cokie Roberts\Political Analyst/Author, New Book: "Ladies of Liberty" |
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Cokie Roberts is certainly no stranger to the NH primary. As a political analyst for ABC News and senior news analyst for N-P-R.Roberts has covered many an election. She's also a best selling author. Her latest book "Ladies of Liberty" delves into the political lives of the early women who shaped our nation Roberts was in Portsmouth recently to take part in the "Writers on a New England Stage" program at the Music Hall. I caught up with her before ngland Stage event to discuss her new book, "Ladies of Liberty," her second work chronicling women in American history. As part of the Writers series she was interviewed by the host of New Hampshire Public Radio's "The Exchange" program. I had a chance to talk to Roberts before the event. |