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Back to the Office, Arthur Ashe Legacy, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton

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Back to the Office, Arthur Ashe Legacy, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton

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Hosted by Jane Pauley. In our cover story, David Pogue looks at how some companies are transitioning their employees back to the office, not always successfully. Plus: Norah O'Donnell talks with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton about their docuseries celebrating "Gutsy" women"; Nancy Cordes interviews NPR's Nina Totenberg, author of a book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg; David Martin looks at how one weapons system is shifting the battle in Ukraine; Susan Spencer examines a new documentary series, "The U.S. and the Holocaust"; and Jim Brown explores the legacy of tennis legend Arthur Ashe with his widow, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.

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Some have embraced the commute free idea. Others have rejected it and some just don't know what to do. As David Pogue will tell us, is it time for America's employees to return to the workplace. Every CEO is a different answer. We believe the time is now to bring folks back into the office. We are fully remote is your posture going for these days.

It may not matter what the CEO thinks I don't think you're running out of workers running out of workers interested in for head on Sunday morning. The new meaning of back to the office. Do you know about America's response to the Holocaust what documentarian Ken Burns is learned may surprise you will be talking with Susan Spencer. It's been more than seven decades since the end of World War II. Yet some questions are as raw as ever. Starting right here at home. I would you characterize America's response we feel you know we let in more human beings than any other sovereign nation.

But if we done 10 times that many I think we would've failed a new Ken Burns documentary and a closer look at the US response to a humanitarian catastrophe coming up on Sunday morning and much more besides Nora O'Donnell catches up with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton launching their new look at extraordinary women tackling exceptional challenges James Brown considers the legacy of late tennis great Arthur Ashe with his wife Jeannie plus a look at two larger-than-life figures who made headlines this past week. Mikhail Gorbachev and Princess Diana. It's the first Sunday morning of the new month. September 4, 2022 and will be back in a moment when covert restrictions first Office workers home more than two years ago working in pajamas were something of a novelty no longer. We asked David Pogue to help us decide where do we go from here is size going back to flying back to viewers to restaurants but back to the office. Well yes and no. We believe the time is now to bring folks back into the office to bring them together. Ryan Williams is the founder and CEO of cadre real estate investment firm in New York City is employees are back in the office three days a week. I do think that there is no replacement for in-person mentor ship training guidance for younger employees. In particular, I don't think you can replace that virtually you don't get that serendipitous sort of a brainstorming talking about an idea and then whiteboarding it virtually on the other hand, we are fully remote and have decided that this is your posture going forward. We feel very strongly that it is simply the future work for a lot of knowledge workers out there. Jeremy stop woman is the CEO of the business review service as the pandemic ebbed. He gave his 4400 workers the option of coming into the office, but they didn't show up with something like 1% utilization in all these beautiful offices that we had set up and nobody given which makes sense since they save on commute there more flexibility you could spend more time with her family have more time for activities like a number of other big businesses. Yelp gave up most of its office space around the country and that wasn't the only benefit the bottom line we've seen from our employees is productivity sustained at least as good if not better. In fact, our revenue is now higher than it was prepared. Here's where I get stuck there are other companies. As you know, who looked at the same data and run exactly the opposite conclusion.

Everybody's got a come in the office. It's very confusing to me was only able to tap into the higher employees in all 50 states. For example, if we do now how the employees in all 50 states. That wasn't possible in environments where we are trying to get people into offices in my mind if you're not going remote or seriously think about it, you're missing out on one of the greatest free lunches in business. While it's true remote workers get to live anywhere they can adopt a more flexible schedule and they get to avoid the commute, the office politics and some of the childcare headaches but it's also true meeting of the office can be better for spontaneous collaboration and mentoring in building a corporate culture and cultivating a social life. Maybe that's why some companies have gone virtually all some companies require your full-time presence in person and others requester presents a few days a week. I think were going through a phase where I would call an experimental phase.

There is no major in any MBA school that I move.

I'm aware of that has a how do you have to change your culture, your recruiting strategy.

Your supply chain all at the same time Steve Cadigan is a workplace consultant and author. My advice right now is to really not make a decision for now and ever after. We are this we are remote we are going to be hybrid. I don't think you can because you don't know how this is going to play out in six months if US any executive search room right now. When we call the candidate. The first question they ask is is the job remote. The virus presented us for the first time in history a Mona timer. Everything was hit hit pause and everyone stood back and looked at their reality from a different perspective customer. I love shopping on Tuesday and not having to tell the people at the grocery store every Saturday and Sunday.

How do we keep people productive and how do we keep them from leaving great attrition.

A great nation seeing a lot of talent, leave the workforce in record numbers.

Brooke Weddle is a partner at McKinsey.

The consultancy she says that since the pandemic started the balance of power between management and workers has changed 40% of employees are considering leaving their work in the next 3 to 6 months.

That is hard figure cannot take seriously the CEO and that's not just service jobs like when traveling this conversation. Ultimately is about.

Are your workers happy and what happiness I mean they want that belonging they want to feel valued by their organization and their manager.

I think employees are saying we want something different and we want something more meaningful. Don't see that going away anytime soon we're having this conversation about jobs that can be done at home or had been a nurse, a pilot started. They're not going to have any of these options. However, still create ability for this role, you can still talk to the bus driver about her connection back to what an organization's purpose says those efforts are underway already. 58% of American workers say they have the option to work from home for at least part of the week AT&T network center technician Val Wilson is among them.

In April, after she been working at home for two years. AT&T ordered her department back to the office five days a week. My heart sunk. It's almost a slap in the face due to the reason we've been doing the job.

It's been proven for those two years you've padded us on the back for productivity. Worse, Wilson says that AT&T consolidated three departments onto a single crowded or of a new building with all own age. So to say. And then all it takes is for one person to call for sneeze and that anxiety kicks in again because you're like when it come from office morale right now is none difficult lose some good talent with that approach. We've already lost the tail when we were forced back in. We've already lost some are they in any danger of losing you if the situation doesn't get better. I'm sorry I get emotional when that comes up because I feel like I've done so much in putting in so much to get to 30 years of service and to make that decision to leave early.

It's painful as a union steward Wilson has proposed a hybrid plan to her bosses. She's hopeful but they'll allow working at home two days a week, AT&T told us we have been very clear that employees would not work from home indefinitely.

In the meantime, yelp CEO Jeremy stopped him and concedes that the great ship to remote work might strike some traditionalists as radical, but the crazy idea.

I totally get it. If you transition it's disruptive to the way that that we thought about the office 400+ years. You have a lot of employees that are doing their job simply had a computer every day. You could probably go remote and it's good to be a win for everybody and spend six months and counting of war in Ukraine and an American-made weapon is helping Ukrainian forces turn the tide.

David Martin reports it's been a standard largely unnoticed part of the American arsenal for when a high moral acronym which stands for high mobility rockets showed up in Ukraine change the face of battle. This capability is given Ukrainians the potential to completely change the momentum and the direction of this war retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, former commander of the US Army in Europe says hi Mars, which requires 100 pounds for 50 miles and hits within 10 feet of its intended target is virtually a limited numerical have to have hundreds of artillery rounds to achieve the same effect as one rocket fired his Ukraine still outgoing and numbers that say yes, but what really matters is effect in the affected Ukraine is achieving seems to me of this book to be superior to what the Russians are able to deliver since June USO ship Ukraine 16 hi Mars launchers and thousands of rockets which defense officials save Ukrainians are used to attack more than 350 Russian command post. Ammo dumps supply demos and other high-value targets far back from the front lawn and other long-range capabilities have given Ukrainians the ability to reach out and hit targets that the Russians would of thought were safe.

Why can't they just move all these command posts and ammo dumps further back from the front line and get them out of range. You still gotta get that ammunition to the good reason for existence that the trucks have to move carrying very heavy ammunition and they lost well over a thousand of their trucks in this campaign so far. And of course the result is significant reduction in the amount of Russian artillery and rocket fire impacting on Ukrainian forces from a weapon made at this Lockheed Martin plant in Arkansas. Seemingly minor outpost in America's vast military industrial complex, which is now racing to catch up with the sudden demand for hi Mars overview of the chassis line we accompanied the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer Dr. William LaPlante as he made plans to dramatically increase production we have to plan for at least double production here probably will be home for new people to solve. The demand is production lines open for 30 years so you heard the man from the Pentagon.

He said the new double production absolutely chief operating officer Frank St. John says the plant is currently turning out about 7500 rockets a year. We have capacity to reduce 10,000 rockets. That's a rocket every 10 minutes math on that. Also doing some more analysis to potentially take that up to 12 I would say on the order of 18 to 24 months to make any significant changes in in the production quantities.

The nosecone carries a sound like God system which gives the rocketed sniper like accuracy when impressions will plant most about.

Hi Mars is not the sophistication of which technology with the simplicity of which you three operators probably 1820 years old and they can use this in the actively with a week. That is, to me is important as its accuracy liable done by 18-year-old see how hi Mars operates in the field. We went to the U.S. Army training range and Yakima, Washington use the same tactics talk to the Ukraine. This is the hard site where the hi Mars tries to conceal itself from enemies for braille once it leaves here for expiring point hi Mars is liable to be detected and targeted so the clock starts ticking hi Mars launcher has a top speed of 55 miles now but off-road in the high desert. It's more like 35 once it's out in the open. It has about 5 to 7 minutes to find its firing position.

Drainage rockets on the target when rocket every few seconds. Chief of this hi Mars is Staff Sergeant Kami. What Mars fires the rocket exhaust gives away its position so it has to get out of there fast before the enemy can strike back as quickly as possible. I will roughly it's called shoot and scoot in the Ukrainians are doing it now in their counteroffensive against Russian forces occupying herself, making the most of the 16 hi Mars provided 16 just doesn't sound like a lot is what I think Ukraine could use 16. Imagine if they had three or four times that this past week. The world took note of a sad anniversary Princess Diana gone 25 years, historian and author Amanda Foreman reflects on the enduring legacy of the People's Princess true national morning is a thing I saw it 25 years ago after the death of Princess Diana in fact I just went to sit. I was a postevent along with tens of thousands about this. I went to Buckingham Palace today file is in honor of Dina's memory seen sidewalk.

It was just was everywhere playing tennis is strange to have such strong feelings to someone in Avenue understand why the wells of grace, then why she still has meaning today after Van Nuys missionary. She was dying.

Transformed how we talk about donations until she started being open about and struggles included thing, depression, and an eating disorder. The whole subject of mental health is completely tempered from nice people.

She wasn't afraid to discuss her problems and someone was safe, famous and privileged waiting to talk to such study helped minions to do the same. Diana avoided causes that were popular or photogenic to focus on helping some of the most marginalized people in society at the height of the AIDS epidemic to challenge the fair and stigma attached to the disease on the licensed site Diana not function being unapologetically glamorous.

She enabled women to show that femininity can still be taken seriously despite the sadness surrounding her divorce. She helped the monarchy to modernize itself. Looking back, I think that the tears for Diana came from a sense of real loss. She was the People's Princess because she's become a selfless advocate for the lease privileged among us.

The greatest lesson that we can take from her life with courage and honesty vulnerabilities and weaknesses commit times and talk greatest strength. She's been reporting on the Supreme Court for nearly 5 decades, breaking some of the biggest stories of the era.

Nina Totenberg is in conversation with correspondent Nancy Cortes when the lively hour of argument was over all the justices except Clarence Thomas had asked many questions Totenberg's lifelong search for facts began with fiction and admiration for an intrepid teenage amateur detective. I wanted to be like Nancy Drew and that meant I wanted to be something of a sleuth. Nina has been on the case ever since first as a print reporter now for nearly 50 years as legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio where she's known for her scoops publicly some Republican senators are standing by the nominee. It was her reporting that caused the 1987 Supreme Court nomination of Douglas Ginsberg to go up in smoke. What I found was that he was a regular smoker. He was sunk was sunk in her new memoir published by Simon & Schuster part of CBS parent company Paramount global, Nina Totenberg writes that growing up in the 1950s. This kind of sleuth thing was not necessarily in the cards.

I think my mother thought that I would be someone's administrative assistant like she and the best I would be able to do other great concert violinist Roman Totenberg differently playing with women is actions never suggested to me how you can't do that because you're a woman, she found she was the only woman in most newsrooms until she arrived at NPR in 1975, women were everywhere at NPR doing all kinds of things and even in administrative positions because we paid so little no man would take the she became fast friends with all things considered, cohosts Susan Samberg reporters Linda Wertheimer and Cokie Roberts today known as NPR's founding mothers back then their cluster of cubicles was dubbed the fallopian jungle. I took it with a grain of salt at a kind of a compliment because the jungle you wouldn't dare go there right right I be afraid thought that's fine. Don't screw with me one of her biggest scoops came in 1991 when she uncovered something extra elusive during confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. I found out that there was a woman named Anita Hill who had accused then judge Thomas of sexual harassment when she worked for him. Anita Hill agreed to speak to her. The relationship she said became even more strained when Thomas in work situations again to discuss sex then Hill spoke to Congress. He talked about pornographic material.

Republicans were furious and took aim. Totenberg on this one.

Almost every day since it started my job. Listeners got to know her voice and her face, which ended up plastered all over the ultimate NPR status symbol. We talk about the Nina Totenberg Toback, the totebag was initially very suspicious about it but I I love this makes me look great also had a knack for befriending Supreme Court justices long before they were named to the court. I first escalated when he was in an accident, ministration, and the same was true for Chief Justice Rehnquist. Her most famous friendship with the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began 21 years before Ginsberg was nominated when she was still a law professor at Rutgers University. I was reading a brief of hers. There's a whole bunch of brace that I didn't understand.

Her telephone number was there and I called and I got an hour-long lecture that led to more calls dinners where they talked about music and theater and fashion they gossiped and they leaned on each other as they both cared for dying husbands.

Ruth was married to Marty Ginsberg for 56 years Nina to Sen. Floyd Haskell for 19 years. She knew you weren't looking at her as sore. She knew you were looking at her as a friend.

If you have a Supreme Court justice friend you don't ask about their work.

Otherwise they won't be your friend. After Haskell's death. Nina met a widower, Dr. David Rines and Ruth Bader Ginsburg married them in 2000 I wasn't too worried about who told my mother and I said, not a rabbi we go to Judge. She said I judge I said, but she sure I don't care if truth is okay by Rines could cook. Which meant even more dinners with our BG always requested the bouillabaisse. She would eat chicken but her favorite seafood and in her last years of life. Last year we cook for 23 consecutive Saturdays. Nina's book is titled dinners with Ruth in it, she describes how Ruth and Dr. Rines would sneak away to discuss Ruth's medical challenges including lung cancer, leaving Nina in the dark and I couldn't say anything over six weeks or lighter basically, why do you feel like you had to block a was a HIPAA violation and be didn't want to name any week you have any regrets, and think that I was born under very bright stone interviewed our BG in public dozens of times last private conversation was by phone a few days before Ruth died two years ago this month, I said to my darling friend and I just it's been one of the great parts of my life that you've been my friend.

It turns out that the hard-hitting Nina Totenberg may not be as tough as she would have her sources believe. I think I learned a lot from my friends to be a more generous person how to be a better friend. I think they taught me to be a better person now streaming progress and start doing crazy time once final point is we need people in the best way to protect good people is to convict final season Millstream exclusively on his takeout with Maj. Garrett this week Stephen Law ally of Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to set races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the takeout with Maj. Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, filmmaker Ken Burns has said of his latest documentary. He doesn't expect to work on a more important film with Susan Spencer. We take a closer look. This wing of the family all died in the Holocaust, all of them, all of that dark chapter in history. Left an indelible mark on filmmaker Sarah Bob Stein's family.

They died in the ghetto of typhus. They were killed and killing center. They died in all the different ways that the Jews not part of the world died so it was a deeply personal experience for Bob Stein to work on a documentary about the Holocaust with Ken Burns so much as been written about second world war, Holocaust, why did you even want to take another look. Seeing it through the lens of the United States helps us.

I believe understand the Holocaust itself, and in a much different and perhaps fresher perspective, we tell ourselves stories as a nation. One of the stories we tell ourselves that were land of immigrants, but in moments of crisis, it becomes very hard for us to live up to those stories, there fell 7 years in the making, and airing on PBS later this month is entitled the US and the Holocaust in painstaking detail, Burns bought Stein and their partner Lynn Novick unravel how America reacted to this humanitarian catastrophe, we failed, you know, we let in more human beings than any other sovereign nation. But if we done 10 times that many I think we would've failed in its failure at every level. It's a failure in the executive failure in the legislative branches of failure in media to failure in the general population. Many white Protestant Americans came to fear.

There were about to be outnumbered and outbred the newcomers and their offspring that they were being replaced. The documentary site. Shocking national polls to make the point in 1938, just two weeks after Kristallnacht, a night of terror when Nazis attacked and murdered Jews across Germany. Only one in five Americans said the US should admit more Jewish exiles. The following year, that number was one in 10. Was this because of a lack of information we cannot blame America as lack of action. I'm not knowing there was a great deal of coverage in the newspapers of what I was feeling as the situation got worse and worse and worse. Deportations mass killings thousands of refugees trying to get out lines at conflicts. All this was now, but instead of opening our doors. We shut them ever more tightly, says Lynn Novick partly blames widespread American Xena phobia celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh was the face of it. He was an icon. He was a hero at songs about him and he really believed I kinda ugly anti-somatic white supremacist ideology that the Nordic race should prevail.

He said these things Americans clapped one thing that has been cited. This discussion has to do with the context when this all happened. Depressions going on at the time, among other things, there was a lot of leftover isolationism from World War I as any of that in your mind, give America pass. I can't get America pass on what happened lately failed to do, but I can definitely appreciate the challenges and difficulties that are leaders based.

We did not play a role in the murder of the Jews. We just did not do enough as a good people to get the people on the edge of this cataclysm out and that is on us on us and will forever be on us sharp limits on immigration had been in effect since the mid-20s when quotas were set for each country during the war a State Department official name to Breckenridge long enforce those restrictions with gusto. He also assiduously work to sort of suppressed information about the true nature of the Nazi threat to the Jewish people of Europe. So reports came across this task that he should've passed on to other people that he is buried.

Reports such as extermination as a policy yes exactly we need it hard technically to get here paperwork, visas, affidavits, sponsors mean you can appreciate now how hard it is just to renew your passport and your now stateless year in a country that's been taken over needed very onerous and hard to get here so all of this. Most of this is just paperwork and just imagine for anyone you can hear all this had to happen in Lynn Novick's office case files tell the story of World War II refugees desperate to get to America.

Among them a household name when we started to make the found it came to our attention that Anne Frank's family had tried to get to America fact that I did not know thing most people know that I don't think most Americans know that we all know Anne Frank. Everybody knows and Frank and to think that she could hear talking to you right now if America had migration policy. I believe that I happily believe that after my 1945, two out of every three European Jews had been murdered.

Yet even then only 5% of Americans wanted to let more refugees in while more than 1/3 said we should admit even fewer that actually seen the horrific images of the liberation of the camps is piled up and they may save people. That is a tough pill to swallow, buried you worry that people will interpret this as sort of indicting our nation if you will II don't see this at all. An indictment I really doubt were really truly trying to just tell the story of what happened. It's not shaming America it's thinking about how to do better… At the very end montage, no narration, Charlottesville, build a wall rally report of attacking the synagogue. What did you intend to convey with that montage. There is right now.

All of the elements coalescing for something bad to happen again. You felt a sense of urgent site. I feel a sense of urgency when trying to equate anything with the Holocaust that would be a horrible horrible thing to do were just saying get there again is up as as human beings. Please let's not get there again just might be the most famous mother-daughter team on the planet Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and this morning there talking over a little lunch with Nora O'Donnell. How would you describe a woman.

I think a gutsy woman is determined to make the most of her own life, but also to try to use whatever skills, talents, persistence that she has, to bring others along you can do it in any field earning area.

Whether that sports were or the are really important that there be a wide spectrum of women who have been for themselves and hitting the road to light on women who inspire us to be bolder and braver. Hillary Clinton has a new campaign with her daughter Chelsea telling the stories of women ducky series become one with yourself.

People like I think some people like the women I think some people are afraid and threatened by gutsy women. I think some put off by The women. Women like comedian Amy Schumer whom they met for tea or 10 years of being like majorly troll you will be able to relate now not only travel one another version of what we want you to be ready and quiet and effusive and supporting cast member absolutely series shows the former first lady and first daughter who is mostly shielded from public view.

In light of the generation that grew up with rappers, male or female and Chelsea has been for years been trying to educate both Bill and me as an ongoing going effort, which is how the former presidential candidate found herself painting Grammy-winning artist Megan the stallion about how to please everybody make everybody is happy. I was losing myself. I felt like so I just have to remember who I was and I had to start been a little bit more time by myself to just get back into me you really listen to her music. She really listen to it before that there is no but you did, I did.

My mother did all her work did you like about her I thought she was unapologetic in the way that she claimed her sexual being is a stage persona.

She just put it out there and opened yourself up and deal with her normally don't minimize me and Jones patronize me. This series confronts difficult topics. One episode is fully dedicated to rejecting heat. They wanted to intimidate us. They wanted to silence us we could back down or we could double down instantly double down is also struck Chelsea when you said you can't remember a time where hate" the whisper of violence didn't surround your family and I remember being a little girl in Arkansas yelling hateful things my parents. I remember in 92 when my father was running for president in someone through filled with probably read coloring light of an important baby like you like really writer and an action that just permeated like when I personal experiences Dillards punctuate almost every episode.

You also reveal why you wear pants. I didn't story by far and away the greatest revelation I state visit to Brazil led to some compromising photographs.

I sitting on the couch and the press was lead and there were a bunch of them shooting some of those photos were then used to sell lingerie and all of a sudden the White House gets alerted to these billboards that show me sitting down with I thought my legs but the way it's shot. It's sort of suggestive and then I also began to have the experience of having photographers all the time. I stage. I believe climbing stairs below me.

I just couldn't deal with it so you think there is an effort underway to silence women into intimidate them. Yes, I do hope you may be synonymous with Hillary Clinton is another decision. She's well known for that. She considers gutsy, gutsy thing I ever did privately with stay in my marriage. It was not easy and it was something that only I could decide that in my public life running for president mean it was hard. It was really hard and it was trying to be on that tight rope with out Annette and nobody in front of me because it hadn't been done before was surprised that you said that staying in your marriage was gutsy or than running for president. Well, it was in terms of my private life. It was really hard and as you know, everybody had an opinion about it. People who I never met had very strong opinions about it and it took a lot of honestly prayer and thoughtfulness and talking to people. I totally trusted to really think through because it was all being done in public so it made it even more painful and difficult, but I have no regrets having no regrets for both Hillary and Chelsea Clinton is another expression of gutsy nest which they help heal. There seems to be an undercurrent of a message throughout this whole series that you're trying to show women tell women to be gutsy stand up for yourself and also Nora with the hope that those women examples can be inspiring to anyone you might be watching. But I think so so that people can see part of their own life, whether their own struggles their own opportunities in the women's stories that were sharing so that they hopefully can then be a little bit closer to feeling like you, against all odds Mikhail Gorbachev whose funeral was held yesterday left of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War and transformed global politics while the current leader of Russia Vladimir Putin laid flowers on Gorbachev's casket Thursday. Putin did not attend the funeral gremlin says he was too busy to couple takes us back to a moment in time when he witnessed Gorbachev's final hours as president of the Soviet Union Christmas day 19 the wall so the president McLeod Gorbachev arrives at the Kremlin forward will mark the end of the show is closed is present but still a baby sleep for reasons of his own.

Gorbachev was granted to ABC news production team exclusive access will join him in his Kremlin office is an innocuous looking briefcase holding told the nuclear launch codes to successor Boris Yeltsin will have one of his people short, the American version of George W. Bush is celebrating the Christmas holiday at Camp David Gorbachev calls to show the good book is all the thing something pleasant would like to say Merry Christmas to you Barbara. It's how the final hours go series of good bars, culminating with the sure will broadcast of the Russian people such as dear fellow citizens, an hour after the resignation Scrooge I'm invited back into the office. I'm not saying farewell.

Gorbachev's answer to an innocuous question is, strangely, no more than 30 years later, here in the United States should still be here, so you know there's the issue so will be sending some country city apartment so and holding true to your question was there for people might explain to an American child trough so popular in our country was being forced out of office in his century was a young ruler are you and he wanted to rule in a different way and his kingdom and she passed to the views of the wisemen and it took her 10 years to bring 20 cards with volumes of the place is one of my going to read all that I have to govern. 10 years later, they pulled him just then Williams buys is that there is too much that she the reason was I years later he was brutal just one small but will more than 25 years had passed and he was on his deathbed.

It's and would you will still be the wisemen looked at the book. You didn't even give a book said, well, although all can be summarized in a simple formula, people are born, people suffer and people die, people are born suffer and people become Gorbachev would live another 30 years widely throughout much of the world for bringing an end to a communist Soviet Union. Gorbachev was mostly ignored and sometimes even refiled for the very things that so popular in the worst Serena Williams had a magical run at this year's U.S. Open and the site of many of her. I am bears the name of another tennis legend change lives on and off the court. James Brown caught up with Jeannie – to remember her husband with its white silhouetted by the city's gone for 25 years. Arthur Ashe Stadium, a cathedral of tennis and home of the US open greatest moments while on one of America's greatest athletes Arthur Ayers could have been put on the stadium but they used the name who was about inclusion. Jeannie was too silly – was Arthur's wife at the open name for her late husband 25 years ago. What could be a more wonderful memorial than a tennis date for Arthur Ashe globe that night.

That name in the event provided for everyone. And that's so spoke to an author as was much more than a tennis player born in segregated Richmond, Virginia. He was the first black man to win the U.S. Open in 1968, followed by historic triumphs of the Australian open and Wimbledon was married to Jeannie from 1977 until his death in 1993 from complications of AIDS, which is believed to have contracted from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. Jeannie says she wasn't just married to a world-famous athlete, but one activist who used his racket and his voice are there still country club in this country were there. Sometimes I can't play in Alabama with his fame. He spoke out on race relations and inequality in these times 1968 is really mandated to do something you must.

Arthur's activism mimicked his tennis play methodical strategic nuanced yet impactful. I think what may have gotten under his skin was that didn't feel he was doing enough doing more meaning there were African-Americans marching were getting their heads getting hosed down. Arthur wasn't doing but he still felt that what he was doing was opening doors opening his way meant getting arrested for protesting apartheid in South Africa being a voice for AIDS awareness and creating the national Junior tennis league in 1969 which continues to bring the game to underserved communities but for Jeannie who was an award-winning photographer and Arthur all came down to one thing we often talked about how the public perceives the African-American image. The only image we see would be the way other people saw us, not images of how we saw ourselves one of the reasons why I make photographs is to photograph my community to photograph the love, dignity that Arthur sought very early date. Mitch was a profound way of showing our activism together couple with his name and image adorned on the stadium walls. The legacy of arthritis continues to serve what I want you to know is who Arthur was and why Arthur Ash name is on this magnificent structure.

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