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CONTOUR THREE
The Bill Dixon Orchestra
17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur
AUM Fidelity : 2008
Bill Dixon, trumpet/composer; Graham Haynes, cornet/flugelhorn; Stephen Haynes, cornet/flugelhorn; Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet/flugelhorn; Dick Griffin, tenor trombone; Steve Swell, tenor trombone; Joseph Daley, tuba; Karen Borca, bassoon; Will Connell, bass clarinet; Michel Côté, Bb contrabass clarinet; Andrew Raffo Dewar, soprano saxophone; John Hagen, tenor & baritone saxophones; JD Parran, bass saxophone, bamboo flute; Andrew Lafkas, bass; Glynis Loman, cello; Jackson Krall, drums & percussion; Warren Smith, vibraphone, tympani & drums.
INTERVIEW [edit; 12 min.]
Bill Dixon interviewed by Phil Freeman, 27 April 2008
Everything’s coming up Dixon. This week AUM Fidelity releases Dixon’s 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur, recorded at last year’s VisionFestival. Dixon was honored on that evening a year ago for lifetime achievement, but given his output this year — including an earlier large group work with the Exploding Star Orchestra— and planned work for next year, the award was perhaps given prematurely.
He is also the subject of a major article in the current issue of the Wire, by Phil Freeman. (Freeman shared his interview tapes with us; we’ve included one of the more fascinating chunks above. The entire conversation can be heard here.) There also appears to be a big Signal to Noise story in the works from Clifford Allen, as devined from this comment thread (mind the bile).
The gentlemanly Steven Joerg of AUM Fidelity was kind enough to allow us to post a track from 17 Musicians for one week only. Check it out here through Monday, thengo buy your own. This little snapshot is not nearly enough, but we hope it will whet your appetite for the full hour’s worth. The concert was an unalloyed success. Nobody does sound texture and dynamics like Dixon, and for 17 Musicians he really brings the low end out front. “Contour Three” is a decent microcosm of the whole, offering spare, quieter solo and duo passages that build, in sonic waves, to a sustained wail.
Stephen Haynes, a longtime collaborator of Dixon’s, played on the date and is credited as orchestra/production coordinator; he has also been blogging on Dixon. Haynes offers his own thoughts on the recording, and has provided the Signal to Noise reivew. Last year he also posted a number of photos from the concert and related rehearsal.
The title of this post was adapted from a Dixon utterance found here.
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Thanks to a C&Ler that emailed me much of this post. Limbaugh is an arrogant ideologue that loves Howard Kurtz and hates the black victims of NOLA. Don’t you understand, it was all their fault for not escaping Hurricane Katrina! Wake, up! You drive by media fools. They were lazy, lazy people that deserved their fate. If only they were white and responsible. Just listen to this horrific rant as Limbaugh is all agush with admiration over the way in which Iowa and the midwest has responded to the flood disaster that befell the area last week. But to just congratulate the residents in their determination and courage in fighting the disaster isn’t enough for the AM talk blowhard. Limbaugh could not pass up the opportunity to once again trot out his old, well known disdain for poor blacks in the south who were victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. To hear Limbaugh describe it, Iowa is more American, more honorable … you know … more white than Louisiana.
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It would seem that the images of floating bodies, and documented stories of elderly New Orleans residents drowning in their attics is cold hard facts surrounding humans that Rush Limbaugh thinks could have benefited by just pulling themselves up by their bootstraps a little more. Nevermind that more than 1700 human beings lost their lives on live television as America watched in horror. You don’t hear progressives saying that Iowa is any less devastating because the death toll in those floods was a total of 5. It is still a tragedy. And progressives understand that full well.
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October 01, 2008
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I am honored to be here today with the likes of U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair, Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan, JP Morgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, and a host of others, gathered around the future of responsible mortgage lending to and for low to moderate income households. Let me start by saying there is nothing wrong with responsible sub-prime lending. Responsible sub-prime lending has done more to lift the poor out of poverty than almost anything over the past 50 years. The problem has been predatory sub-prime lending, irresponsible sub-prime lending, fraud-based and investment-speculator-based sub-prime lending, and massive levels of borrower financial illiteracy. 
The Future of Responsible Sub-prime Lending and Financial Literacy
Remarks given by John Hope Bryant
Before the FDIC Forum on Mortgage Lending for Low and Moderate-Income Households
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
FDIC Seidman Center
Arlington, Virginia
I am here as both the chairman of Operation HOPE, and the vice chairman of the U.S. President's Council on Financial Literacy, as well as chairman of the Council Committee on the Under-Served. Operation HOPE, founded following the worst civil unrest in U.S. history, is today the only national urban delivery system for financial literacy in the nation, operational in more than 60 low-wealth communities nationwide, having educated more than 300,000 low-wealth youth in financial literacy, dignity and what we call âsilver rightsâ (making free enterprise and capitalism work for the poor), with the help of 6,000 HOPE Corps volunteers from the banking and financial industry, and more than 1,200 low-wealth schools nationwide. Recognizing that many of the communities I serve are significantly under-served, HOPE became the first non-profit in history to build a bank branch, and to sell it to a bank.
As will soon be announced, our HOPE Banking Center based credit and financial counseling services have resulted in an average increase in credit scores for our clients from 580 to 650, or more than 70 points. That is significant.
This mortgage sub-prime crisis is personal to me. Our family lost our home, and my brother, sister and I never realized the benefit of assets and net worth (grown and) shared from generation to generation. Personally, this lack of both assets ownership, and financial literacy knowledge, materialized itself in my literally becoming homeless for six months of my life at age 18. For my community, not even addressing the ravages of irresponsible mortgage subprime lending, today check cashers, payday loan lenders and other forms of mostly predatory credit providers have resulted in a more than $8 billion a year industry, or close to the annual M & A (mergers and acquisition) fee income on Wall Street. In the words of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, âthere are more check cashers and payday loan lenders in Americaâs inner-cities today, than there are McDonalds restaurants and Starbucks coffee house locations worldwide.â Today my proud father lives in a new 4-unit building, built by my wife and I, and sitting on the same street of the home we lost.
My dad, an integrity rich man who built and ran a business for more than 53 years, and in the process helping to raise me to be the person I am today, was neither dumb nor stupid. âIt was what he didn't know that he didn't knowâ that was harming him.
Simply put, no one taught my dad the language of money, financial literacy, or what we at Operation HOPE call âsilver rights,â the basic rules of free enterprise and capitalism, and how to make them work for him. Like anyone else, had my father known better, he would have done better.
In the hurried and seemingly one-sided subprime mortgage lending process experienced by my family in South Central Los Angeles, there was no financial literacy scorecard or questionnaire calling forth âcommon senseâ questions at the start of the process, as well as the potential answers those obvious initial questions begged forth, in turn. There were no simplified disclosure of terms and conditions, in plain English, for my dad. A Ph.D could not understand the papers he was signing. Or even if he had questions, there was not an opportunity for a meaningful break in the process, nor a meaningful resource to turn to, of any kind, for my dad. It was for all intent and purposes, a one-sided, if not wholly predatory transaction. The mortgage broker held all the cards, and seemed to have all the answers too, and my dad and our family held and had little to none, of either. My dad was alone and on his own, as he undertook possibly the most significant single financia l transaction (for family wealth creation) of his lifetime.
It is striking that in the largest economy in the world, no one is teaching our children, yet alone our adults, financial literacy and the language of money. This must change.
Let me also say that this is not an issue of the poor.
This current crisis is principally a crisis of the middle class, not the poor. Individuals who asked âwhat's the payment,â and not âwhat's the interest rate.â Individuals who purchased a home, like many of us purchase automobiles, and you shouldn't purchase an automobile that way.
If you purchase an iPod, and place it on a credit card and make minimum payments over time, it will cost you $4,000.00. Now, apply this analogy to a six-figure home purchase and you have an economic tsunami on your hands.
Let me thank my friend and colleague FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, in calling for this important and forward-looking forum on (the future of) low and moderate income mortgage lending. This is a vitally important meeting, at a vitally important time in our nation's history. The still-unfolding magnitude of and fallout from this mortgage sub-prime crisis, has not been seen in my or my father's lifetime.
I see this crisis in three primary buckets; (1) make sure it never happens again, (2) make sure that individuals have reasonable continued access to credit, post crisis, and (3) make sure that folks in the economic soup (of foreclosure) get as much help as can be reasonably provided (without rewarding investors, speculators and providers of capital).
The U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy was created by Executive Order by U.S. President George W. Bush, on January 22nd, 2008, in the midst of this mortgage sub-prime crisis, and the President's very words on that day articulated his own desire for this group, saying, âone of the issues that many of our folks are facing now are these sub-prime mortgages. I just wonder how many people, when they bought a sub-prime mortgage, knew what they were getting into. The low interest rates sounded very attractive, and all of a sudden, that contract kicks in and people are paying high interest rates. One of the missions (of the Council) is to make sure that when somebody gets a financial instrument they know what they're getting into, they know what they're buying, they understand.â
I certainly saw that we, the Council, could and should do all that we could to ensure this sort of crisis never happens again (with respect to future generations), and that going forward, reasonable access to credit and the financial markets should continue for those qualified but under-served and/or low-wealth in our great nation.
Operation HOPE's Mortgage HOPE Crisis Hotline is doing its part in California, and HOPE Now and others are doing their part nationwide. Operation HOPE's crisis hotline received more than 25,000 calls in the first 60 days, in Los Angeles alone. To the extent that there has been a Washington, (D.C.) response to the current economic crisis, including the innovative proposal by Chairwoman Sheila Bair, it has understandably been with respect to stemming the pain of those in foreclosure.
This said, I remain very concerned that lending to the poor, the working class, and even America's middle class, will effectively âdry-upâ post mortgage sub-prime crisis. Some would say that credit access has already dried up in the non-government market.
I first communicated my concern to the chairwoman on a Saturday morning in March; a concern that unless you had a credit score of 800 and 25% down payment, you were not going to be able to obtain a loan from a mainstream lender. I offered that, in my view, this would not be good for America.
I didn't expect her to respond immediately. Privately, while I hold Chairwoman Bair in very high regard, I didn't expect her to even share my depth of concern, nor my passion for the issue. It was I, after all, who grew up in an inner-city community; who saw the ravages of communities and individuals, whose only sin was that they were hard working yet financially illiterate, and forced by circumstances of life to make sometimes major financial decisions, daily, yet without the knowledge and tools to do so.
This was my problem I thought. Chairwoman Bair's response to me was instantaneous.
I had barely finished my message to her, and there was her response â this was indeed a problem, but not just a problem of the poor (Operation HOPE's mandated target audience), it was a problem for the country, and she wanted the FDIC to be a part of the solution. What I didn't know was that Chairwoman Bair was in fact, ahead of me.
Chairwoman Bair shared with me her vision for this âforum on the future of LMI lending,â and likewise she vowed to work with me in my new role, both as vice chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy as well as the Council's chairman of its Committee on the Under-Served.
On May 28th, 2008, as my Committee gathered together experts from a range of disciplines, from banking, to mortgage lending, to state and federal regulatory agencies, to community leaders, and leaders from Wall Street and the secondary market, many individuals in this room today, on âthe future of responsible sub-prime mortgage lendingâ in the Cash Room at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the FDIC was with us. Led by Robert Mooney, director of consumer affairs for the FDIC, the four substantive half-day Committee work sessions, encompassing products, disclosures, intermediaries and of course financial literacy, were even moderated by FDIC personnel.
My participation in today's FDIC Forum on (the future of) LMI Mortgage Lending represents an important benchmark in my commitment both to Chair Bair and the under-served communities we serve.
Joining the likes of Treasury Under-Secretary Steel, Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan, Deputy Comptroller Barry Wides, SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins, and representatives from all of the federal regulatory agencies, as well as the New York Banking superintendent and Washington, D.C. Banking Commissioner, here today, were banks including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Washington Mutual, Bank of the West, Goldman Sachs, the Financial Services Roundtable, and many others. 60 leading experts, to be exact.
I know that James Lockhart is here today, director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who was an active participant in our Committee discussions on May 28th.
The goals of the meeting were to:
1. identify and differentiate between responsible and irresponsible sub-prime mortgage lending;
2. outline the principles that should govern future development of sub-prime mortgage products; and
3. identify what financial literacy initiatives would be needed to address the massive level of financial illiteracy that has been a key contributor to the recent crisis.
After a half day session at Treasury on May 28th with 60 leaders, and a 4-hour follow up meeting with lead participants from May 28th, the Committee was able to finalize and issue a report, entitled âthe future of responsible mortgage sub-prime lending,â and the Committee-approved version is available on the Treasury website here .
Here is a summary of some of our key recommendations from the report:
- A fixed rate, fully amortizing mortgage with a term of up to 40 years.
- Minimum one month PITI (principal, interest, tax, insurance) in required borrower cash reserves at closing (borrower's own funds).
- Standard verification of income and assets.
- Minimum down payment required by borrower.
- A Life Event Clause. For borrowers with good payment performance, under certain circumstances borrowers would be allowed to skip a payment (or payments) for certain specified âlife eventâ reasons, with the amount of missed payments added to loan principal. One approach would be to provide one âpayment holidayâ for every specified period of months with good payment history. So, after 10 years of consistent and timely payments, a borrower could request as much as a 6 month âlife eventâ payment deferral, with principal and interest here moved to the rear of the loan. Everyone wins.
- Determination of the borrower's ability to repay. Appropriate underwriting parameters are critical for borrowers with an established, but blemished, credit history. The risk factors should be carefully balanced and include the borrower's credit score, debt payment capacity (debt-to-income ratios), post-close liquidity, etc.
- Non-traditional credit history. Borrowers with thin credit files and/or non-traditional credit history should be underwritten in a manner that takes into account a borrower's non-traditional payment history profile â that is, their fixed or regular payment obligations that are not reported to the credit bureaus (e.g. rent or utilities, as well as other periodic payment obligations, e.g. alimony, child support, or remittances).
- A simplified disclosure of terms delivered to borrower early in the process. Possibly, a one to, maximum, four page, easy to understand form at the loan shopping stage, with the most pertinent information summarized on page one.
- No prepayment penalty.
- Pre- and post-purchase counseling options to be made available, but are not required for this loan product.
- Ongoing best practices to maintain payment discipline. The ongoing best practices should include, for example, providing periodic free credit reports to help manage credit, with access to credit education specialists that can answer questions about the reports. In addition, education should be provided about banking products that can make money management routine and effective for the borrower.
- A Financial Literacy Scorecard review would be required for this loan product; helping to ensure that borrowers understand the basic terms of the transaction, including a clear differentiation of and between âpaymentâ vs. âinterest rate.â Borrowers who are not clear at that point would be encouraged to stop the process, and to call a designated 1-800 number.
- No negative amortization or pay option features allowed.
And while I will not get into details around what crafters referred to as âProduct B,â also outlined in the Committee report, let me provide a clarification here:
- Product B is a variable rate product with 1) affordable rate and payment caps;
- 2) does not limit rate and payment discounts for borrowers;
- 3) with underwriting based on one's ability to repay the âfully indexedâ rate and amortizing payments.
We will clarify this more formally in a future report revision.
Other good ideas included:
- The overarching goal is to move consumers from sub-prime borrowing to become a prime borrower. Every participant in the mortgage process should be held accountable in making this happen. By establishing compensation based on the demonstrated performance in making loan payments, the originators or brokers and servicing representatives would be encouraged to follow best practices.
- Therefore, we recommend that these incentives should be implemented: 1) withholding a portion of originator sales commission until payment performance has occurred, 2) reduction in GSE guarantee fees for loans where the borrower has received certified financial education, 3) reduction in fees/rate for borrowers who have received certified financial education, and 4) GSE/investor compensation to servicers for financial education and servicer prompting of borrowers to make payments to help establish good payment practices.
- Financial education should be done face-to-face, over the telephone, and financial education resources and contacts should be listed and provided at all points of the mortgage process and in all mortgage materials.
Finally and in conclusion, I am proud to announce today that today the following endorsements and statements of support for the Committee's work have been released publicly:
- This morning, Wells Fargo issued a full endorsement of the Committee-approved report, stating âwe support the Council on Financial Literacy and the Committee's recommendations noted in âthe future of responsible sub-prime lending.â Their statement continued, âwe agree with the Council that financial literacy should serve as a foundation to all responsible sub-prime lending and understand the Council is continuing its discussions. We look forward to their final determination.â
- Cara Heiden, co-president of Wells Fargo Mortgage deserves special leadership credit. As far back as 2003 she risked her career by stopping practices she thought inappropriate but which unreasonably benefited the broker community. She went on to require her bank to send a letter to every approved sub-prime borrower who qualified for better rates and terms, copying their broker, offering them a prime loan instead. Oddly enough, I recently received a call from their home equity division, noting my good payment record but offering me assistance around restructuring âduring these times,â should I need it. I didn't need it, but I sure appreciated the offer.
⢠Banco Popular today endorsed the Committee-approved report, and we have heard from its CEO here today. Honored to be associated. - The Housing Policy Council of the Financial Services Roundtable issued a statement of support, saying âHPC supports the mission of the Committee which is to ensure that responsible sub-prime lending continues in the future.â HPC continued âwe applaud the efforts of the Committee to reinvigorate the sub-prime market through responsible lending practices and improved financial education for consumers.â
- John Reich, director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, issued a statement of support, saying âthe OTS strongly supports initiatives and policies that foster financial literacy, informed consumers and high standards of business conduct throughout the financial services industry. Consistent with these objectives, I strongly support the efforts of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy and the Committee on the Under-Served to develop a range of practices and policy recommendations for responsible sub-prime lending. The OTS is committed to lending our support to this important work. Senior members of my staff have participated in discussions, including the May 28th meeting of the Committee on the Under-Served. We remain available for additional discussions and assistance as needed.â
And while these are surely very encouraging developments with respect to the now public Committee-approved report, and fairly early on in the process, and we encourage others to take whatever good ideas they find might be useful to them âin the market,â Council Chairman Schwab and I are already looking at what I refer to as âphase II,â of the process.
The next step, which is now underway, involves the full Council review and consideration of a broader, related series of âguiding principlesâ (policy recommendations) around âthe future of responsible mortgage sub-prime lending,â which build off of the Committee report.
This final series of âguiding principlesâ will be brought before the full Council in the very near future.
Thank you.
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One of the last things Brian Williams did before leaving for a reporting trip to Afghanistan two weeks ago was record some thoughts about Tim Russert.
Katie Couric participated too, as did other industry heavyweights, in a video production to air at today's Mirror Awards luncheon, at which Russert was to receive a Lifetime Achievement award.
He did, posthumously.
Williams accepted the award telling the group of journalists at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, "You honor him today and I can't think of someone more deserving. Will we see his kind again? No. Will we practice that kind of journalism again? Yes, we do every day," the Nightly News anchor said.
In the video tribute, Williams talked about how it was Russert's idea to etch the First Amendment onto the exterior of the Newseum in Washington, where he was a board member. "Tim had shared that little nugget with me," Williams said. "He thought that it would be be a way to remind all of us that this was our job, our task, our calling. I'm not at all sure it was public," Williams added, "and I thought I would get holy hell from him at the luncheon today."
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Above: Maureen Orth
3:32 pm: Dan Rather..."Tim was all about heart ... He fought the good fight, finished the race, kept the faith. ... So much is said about Tim as a professional ... Not enough was said about him as a person and a man. Tremendous character and never forgot his roots in Buffalo and never forgot his faith and his family. ... Washington, D.C. will never be the same without Tim."
3:35pm: Keith Olbermann: "How much character is there in that young man [Luke]? And how much of it was brought to him by Tim and his mother." Olbermann gets choked up.
3:44pm: David Gregory: "Tim had great purpose ... Tim had a sense of purpose about how to go about living his life. ... I found myself sitting there, thinking about what kind of life am I leading? Am I living up to the purpose of my life? ... I think Luke was instrumental in having Sen. McCain and Obama sitting next to each other."
3:46: Howard Dean: "The thing I remembered most about Tim Russert ... he was very open about what we shared in common -- two kid sons in the same class, but not in the same schools, and we used to compared their escapades. ... I thought he asked me one unfair question in five years."
3:49: Gregory: "He was like an old fashioned Irish pol, who took care of his people and protected his territory."
Seen in audience: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bob Woodruff, Dan Rather, Madeleine Albright, Huma Abedin, Bob Woodward, Michelle Norris, David Gregory.
Excerpt from Memorial Service program: "Tim made so many people feel as if they were part of our family. You have all made the shock of his death so much easier to bear." All our love, Maureen and Luke
>Tom Brokaw: "This is a celebration and we're going to do it Irish style: There will be some tears, some laughs and the occasional truth." Says the largest contingency in the room is "Those who think they should be his successor on 'Meet the Press.'"
Big Russ is not there, but watching from Buffalo. Brokaw addresses him directly, pulls out a mug given to him by Big Russ and pours a Rolling Rock into it that he grabbed from Russert's fridge:
>Betsy Fischer says what she's learned sinc Russert's passing: "There's a nation mourning the loss of a great man and an extraordinary journalist. There are millions who feel they've losted a trusted friend. There's a news division that feels like we've lost our soul, our moral compass, our glue. There's a son, your son, that has comforted us and lifted us up with his strength. He is your true legacy and you'd be so proud of him as you always, always are."
Fischer: "In the seventeen years I've had the great honor of working with you and learning from you, you have never once steered me wrong."
Sister Lucille Socciarelli:
"Tim Russert stands hands and shoulders above all students I have ever been blessed to have taught. ... His snowbalsl flew the hardest and went the furthest." "You're in Heaven now, Tim, where every day is 'Meet the Press.' Welcome home."
Al Hunt: "He's watching this with a little awe, some pleasure and some raw amusement."
"To be as great as Tim was, you needed a healthy ego, a good sense of himself, but he always marvelled that he got Maureen Orth to fall in love with him."
He calls Luke: "The most memorable baby in almost 2,000 years."
Tim made politics, "informative, entertaining and compelling."
He had the "instincts of Ted Williams and the competitiveness of Michael Jordan."
"None of us had a more devoted friend than Timothy J. Russert. Whenever you needed help he was there. Our older son is disabled. An essential figure in his life has been Tim, sending him hats and notes, calling him when he got back from school last month, periodicialy bringing a welcome exuberance to his life."
Hunt address Maureen and Luke: "I hope it provides comfort in knowing that millions and millions from around the world -- from the most powerful to all of those whose Sunday's mornings revolved aroudn Tim Russert's 'Meet the Press' to the many children and those in need who he was always there for, that they love him, they will miss him and always will remember him. We shall not see his like again."
Mario Cuomo:
Cuomo says that Russert believed that politics could be beautiful if done right.
TVNewser also live-blogging.
MSNBC continues to have audio problems.
Cuomo: "It's not enough to think of him as a great journalist. How would that explain the tremendous outburst of deep sadness? .. The tears shed by millions of people who knew him or felt that they knew him? ... It's not because he was just a great journalist. ... They loved his genuineness, his integrity. ... They loved his profound devotion to his beautiful, talented wife Maureen. To Luke, who already in his early manhood has started to reflect his father's wonderful gifts. ... He regarded a day spent without real enthusiasm as a sadly lost opportunity. ... We have lost the benefit of Tim's political wisdom at a time when we need it most."
I'm Mike Barnicle. I'm the head of Luke Russert's security detail.
"A man without envy, Tim took pride in your success, in your accomplishments."
"I see the absolute joy in the life God gave him. ... He was loved by his wife, his son, his friends and a huge slice of this country of ours. He was a boy of summer. He met his wife on a summer day. His son was born in summer. And so it is that we blow him a kiss goodbye on a soft summer evening, this sweetheart of a man who always left us smiling."
Maria Shriver:
"I lost my heart to Timmy Russert the day I met him. ... I remember the day I showed up to NBC news, I had been fired two days earlier by CBS news. That's another story...Tim came up to me... and said .. Look, I was also educated by the nuns. I was educated by the Jesuits. ...There aren't that many of us here in this building. But if we stick together, we'll be just fine."
"Tim loved his life and he loved life. ... He loved helping people. He loved helping people who worked for him. He loved helping strangers. ... With that famous Russert radar, he knew exactly who needed help."
"Tim was family and his family is our family. ... Tim always made sure that I felt as if I were still a part of the NBC family."
"He always made me comfortable and I know that every person in this room can relate to that. ... Here we are feeling anything but comfortable, feeling lost, feeling sad, not understanding why we're here and Tim isn't."
"Having lived through more than a few losses that define understanding, I've realized that asking 'Why?' doesn't help. The only thing that does help is leaning on your friends and leaning on your family, opening your heart, crying, and keeping your loved one alive in your heart and alive in your stories. And it helps to have faith like Tim. All of us here were meant to witness Tim's life. We were meant to be touched by it, we were meant to be touched by his humor, his love, his faith, his idealism, his passion and most of all, his compassion. Tim Russert had a larger than normal heart. Maybe because we were all occupying space in it."
"Maureen and Luke I'd like to thank you for sharing Tim with us and with everybody in our coutnry. You were the love of his life."
Brian Williams:
"I'm Brian Williams and for the longest time I thought that Tim's full name was 'Washington bureau chief and moderator of 'Meet the Press.'"
Williams reports Tim's latest moments. "His last words happened to be 'What's happening?' He was greeting our Washington bureau chief supervisor Candice Harrington. He had gone downstairs to record his voice in a sound narration booth. He turned the corner to greet Candace, said 'What's happening?' and never made another sound. Fitting, because he was all about what was happening."
"He had every gift but length of years."
"What happened here is that our Maker has taken our partner and brought him back home."
"His capacity to transmit his cheerful strength of others, reach out to people, pick up their emotions, put himself in their shoes, inspire their trust...his boyish sense of wonder...his death has produced an outpouring of emotion across this land."
Luke Russert:
"For Tim Russert, his glass was always half full. I've never met anybody filled with so much optimism, who not only loved the good parts of life but also the challenges, the ability of the human spirit to sustain tragedy always interested my father. He firmly believed that with faith, friends and a little folly, anybody could withstand anything."
"All of you were such a source of support for our family."
"He had a great time living and he's no doubt having the time of his life in Heaven. I ask you, this Sunday, to imagine a 'Meet the Press' special edition, live from inside St. Peter's gate. Maybe Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton will be on for the full hour, debating....We could even have Teddy Roosevelt on for the full hour talking about hte need for a third party."
"I love you Dad and, in his words, let us all 'Go get 'em!'"
Standing ovation for Luke:
Luke's uncle -- "Uncle Tony" -- plays "Born to Run," by Bruce Springsteen:
Bruce Springsteen:
"A memory I had of Tim, was uh, early in the morning, we were playing on the Today show, which is a little early for rock musicians ... I did what I ususally do, I was looking in the faces along the first row...I always look for that face that's being enlivened...as I scanned the front row ...there was a guy in a crisp white shirt and a tie and it was Tim. He had on that big Irish smile that hid absolutely nothing and it was beaming like the rising sun. I remember thinking, 'Oh my God! That's Tim Russert at this hour of the morning' And I knew that given his day job he had more important things to do so we were always flattered and honored to have Tim as part of our E Street band community and it's funny that we're playing that song. Tim had a real belief in that promised land, in the American idea and there was the passion you heard behind all those tough questions on Sunday morning."
"He believed in the joy and duty of honesty of service. That's his legacy for politicians, journalists and rock musicians too."
"I want to send this out to Tim. Luke, this is for your pop."
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September 18, 2008
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Dr. Elizabeth Phillips in her office in Trible Hall at Wake Forest University. I’m not sure when the photograph was taken, but this is how I remember her from my first class with her in the fall of 1975. Whatever I say here will be too little or too much or not quite right. I persevere in the saying because of the light Elizabeth Phillips shared with me, and shares with me still.
Dr. Phillips died last Tuesday night at the age of 89. Here is her obituary. Here is a news story about her death. She was born the same year as my mother. As it happens, she died in the same hospital where my mother died almost nineteen years ago, Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Now I have lost two mothers, for Elizabeth Phillips was surely my intellectual and academic mother. To say that she inspired me to become an English major is to say far too little. Elizabeth inspired me to think that there was a place in school for someone like me, someone lost in wonder and and confused by exuberance, someone who loved ideas but kept veering from the analytical to the figurative in his work, someone who had given up on the idea that studying literature in a classroom could be anything much to savor. She not only inspired me, she welcomed me, encouraged me, corrected me, and was my first and deepest lesson in what it means to be an intellectual.
I remember the room where I first heard her speak. No one in my immediate family had been to college. I had no idea what to expect. After that class, I left the room feeling dizzy, giddy, elated, and not a little anxious, for everything had changed, and I knew I had to at least try to be answerable to that revelation.
Elizabeth Phillips always gave me the courage and desire to be answerable. She was an extraordinary teacher whose “pedagogy” consisted of intense thoughtfulness, challenging material, a willingness to let us witness how deeply the literature mattered to her. I was asked recently if I had thought about just how Elizabeth Phillips worked her magic in the classroom. Of course I had thought about it. I think about little else when I try to do my best in the classroom. But how exactly had she done it? I had no complete answer. She read beautifully. She had a wonderful sense of humor: sometimes a line of poetry would begin with a throaty rumble and build to quavering glee. She was smart as a whip and curious about everything. She knew me by heart. She never once coddled me and never once turned me away. She introduced me to verbal art with a level of intense, total engagement that I had never known before and have rarely seen since. She trusted my instincts and taught me to trust them too. I took every course I could from her. Is that a methodology? I am skeptical it can be so reduced. All I can tell you is that of course Elizabeth Phillips brought the literature to life for us. But she also let us see how, and to what extent, and with what consequences, literature brought her to life for us. This without a whiff of the maudlin, the confessional, or any cloying insistence that she was “one of us.” How could she be one of us? There was only one Elizabeth Phillips.
Once when my mother came to visit me, I asked her to come with me to Elizabeth Phillips’ class. My mother and Dr. Phillips liked each other and asked about each other for the rest of my mother’s shortened life (my mother died of leukemia in 1989 at the age of 69). Not everything about my college education strengthened my ties to my family, but Dr. Phillips could strengthen any bond, and the connection between these two mothers of mine filled me with hope for a future I’m still trying to work toward.
In memoriam, I offer five items. One is a tribute to Elizabeth I was privileged to contribute to a whole series of such tributes at a luncheon in her honor in May, 2007. Elizabeth was in the audience, so I take some comfort in knowing that she knew, as precisely as I could articulate it, how I felt about her and what she had meant to me. I share this tribute with you so that you will know it too.
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Following the video, I have put up four lyrics from a set of poems my dear friend and college roommate Michael Thomas and I recorded Elizabeth reading in the summer of 2005. I am very grateful to Michael for arranging this occasion. These readings are extraordinary testimony to the depth and power of Elizabeth’s poetic and critical sensibilities. I hope they give you at least some idea of what was so compelling about her, and what we have lost now she is gone from this earth.
The first poem is Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Dirge Without Music.”
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The second is Theodore Roetkhe’s haunting villanelle “The Waking.”
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The third is a great poem about faith in the here-and-now, Marianne Moore’s “What Are Years.”
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The fourth is the conclusion to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” and it will explain part of the conclusion of my tribute to Elizabeth.
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CSpan Q&A: Kathleen Parker - How Dare...
September 17, 2008
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On Sunday’s Q&A, host Brian Lamb sat down with National Review columnist Kathleen Parker to discuss her take on the comings and goings in Washington DC. My buddy Heather noted this odd little bit of unsound morality and logic. Parker wrote a scathing piece on McClellan’s book What Happened for the NRO, coming thisclose to likening him to a serial killer (No, I’m not kidding, read it yourself). See, for Parker, McClellan has reached the apex of immorality, because he listened to the Bush administration’s plans, apparently put up no fight (of course, this is according to the White House, whose veracity should have dubious credibility) and then said nothing until he left the White House and wrote a book.
Don’t get me wrong, if I had been in Scott McClellan’s position, you could be damn sure I would be speaking up loudly and longly while in the White House. And I’d probably be out of a job and smeared within an inch of my life by the Karl Rove machine (see how they treated Paul O’Neill as an example). But for Parker, the fact that he left the White House and then spoke up makes him more deplorable than those he spoke up against.
Parker: … I’ve met Scott and he is, comes across as just the sweetest, nicest fellow. I took great umbrage at this primarily because, whether the… you know, if… if he were… if he sat in those meetings where evidence was being trumped up and people are actually dying and never so much as cleared his throat or raised an eyebrow–which is what I’m told by everyone in the White House–then I think that he is guilty of something much greater than whatever he presents to the public in this book. You don’t sit there and listen to what you now consider lies and know… you walk out the door. An honorable man walks out the door. And you can go and call a press conference if you are the Press Secretary of the President of the United States. You can call a press conference. You can walk out and get a book contract that day, but you don’t sit through it for years and years and then say ‘well, I think I’ll go get a book contract and you know present basically my notes that I’ve taken all these years knowing that these people were doing wrong.’ So I simply don’t trust a person like that.
But you’ll trust the ones that did the lying and put the Americans in harm’s way and continue to do so? They are actually LESS offensive to your mind than someone whose conscience was so burdened that he left the job and spoke out against what happened?
Methinks someone needs their moral compass re-calibrated.
Transcripts below the fold: (thanks to Heather)
Lamb: In this particular column, this is not that long ago, May 30th, 2008 “Sometimes the answers to our most perplexing questions can be found on the playground. Take Scott McClellan. Is he dishonest? Dishonorable? Disloyal? Is he telling the truth that the Bush administration conducted an organized propaganda campaign in order to lead the country to war?” What is your analysis of Mr. McClellan?
Parker: Oh wow that’s, you know I’ve met Scott and he is, comes across as just the sweetest, nicest fellow. I took great umbrage at this primarily because, whether the… you know, if… if he were… if he sat in those meetings where evidence was being trumped up and people are actually dying and never so much as cleared his throat or raised an eyebrow–which is what I’m told by everyone in the White House– then I think that he is guilty of something much greater than whatever he presents to the public in this book. You don’t sit there and listen to what you now consider lies and know… you walk out the door. An honorable man walks out the door. And you can go and call a press conference if you are the Press Secretary of the President of the United States. You can call a press conference. You can walk out and get a book contract that day, but you don’t sit through it for years and years and then say ‘well, I think I’ll go get a book contract and you know, present basically my notes that I’ve taken all these years knowing that these people were doing wrong.’ So I simply don’t trust a person like that.
Lamb: Well let me take you to the other side for the purpose of getting you to expand on that. Let’s say that he started working for George Bush, which he did, as you know, back when he was Governor and running for President and that he was not particularly high in the organization. He goes to Washington; he’s in the press office and they need a Press Secretary and they say– this is the cynical view of it– send old Scott out there ’cause he’ll just do exactly what we tell him to do.
Parker: Right.
Lamb: So he goes out there, and in this case, it would be somebody like Karl Rove, lies to him. And he says I’m…and he’s steaming about this. You talk about the rage involved. He sits there and says ‘Someday, I’m going to get back at these people.’
Parker: Well that’s fine but you don’t do that while people, if people are going to be killed by your inaction.
Lamb: How are people killed by his inaction?
Parker: Because if he knows that something is wrong, then you have a duty to say so. (crosstalk) I mean we all respond, we all react and depend on the quality of the information and we make our decisions accordingly, so if you know that the administration is lying, and as a consequence of those lies, people are being killed in Iraq and American lives are being sacrificed, then you have a duty to say something, immediately. Not, not, not later, not to build your case of revenge. We can all understand that human emotion but I think the, the stakes are raised too high here for that kind of, that kind of biding one’s time.
Lamb: What was your reaction to the media coverage of the book? In general. Did it get as much as it deserved or should it have gotten less?
Parker: Oh I think it got plenty of attention and I… I suspect that Scott has, is going to have a long career around his book. I think he did very well, didn’t he?
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Meet The Press: Tom Brokaw Wants Al...
September 15, 2008
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Somewhere in the darkest recesses of the RNC (or from Norquist’s or Rove’s office, your pick) the fax machine was working over time making sure that Tom Brokaw had the latest GOP talking points to discredit Al Gore for his appearance on Meet the Press. You know Al, that over-achiever that managed to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Nobel Peace Prize and legitimately the office of the Presidency before the Supreme Court overreached and gave it to George W. Bush, the lifetime underachiever. That kind of superiority niggles at a party that believes that government can’t do anything well, so they’ll find anything–and I do mean anything–to detract from Al Gore’s message.
This one is especially laughable though, and truly beneath Brokaw in its clear partisan bent. When the “Draft Al Gore” movement was in full gear, Gore demurred from running again, saying that he wasn’t interested in the political gamesmanship necessary to mount a campaign. Tom Brokaw confronts Gore, worried that he’s sending the wrong message to the children:
BROKAW: Let me ask you about your attitude towards politics these days. I was a little surprised. You’re a man who was in politics at the highest level in this country: in the House of Representatives; in the Senate; Vice President for eight years and yet you said recently, “What politics has become requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply.” Is that the right kind of signal to send to the young people of this country who more than any time in recent memory are deeply involved in the political decisions that we’re making this year? And young people who want to get into the political arena look to Al Gore and he said âit’s all about trivia and nonsense.’
Oh good lord. That’s so head-poundingly stupid that I’m surprised that Al Gore took the time to respectfully respond. My first inclination would have been to laugh in Brokaw’s face and point out that those kinds of questions are exactly the kind of triviality and nonsense I have little tolerance for. But it gets worse. Gore’s response merits the concern troll follow up of “but I can hear Rush Limbaugh saying this about you…”
BROKAW: With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, I can already hear your critics and I don’t do Rush Limbaugh, so I will not attempt to. But I can hear him saying on radio, “Well there’s Prince Albert. There he was, 25 years hanging out with lobbyists, raising big money, then he lost and now he’s above the process, calling it trivial and nonsense.”
Tom Brokaw = Concern Troll. Gore goes on to encourage Americans to be on the forefront of alternative energy development and to raise awareness of the ramifications to our environment if we don’t and Tom Brokaw–elder statesman of NBC News–wants him to be worried about Rush Limbaugh poking fun at him.
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BROKAW: Let me ask you about your attitude towards politics these days. I was a little surprised. You’re a man who was in politics at the highest level in this country: in the House of Representatives; in the Senate; Vice President for eight years and yet you said recently, “What politics has become requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply.” Is that the right kind of signal to send to the young people of this country who more than any time in recent memory are deeply involved in the political decisions that we’re making this year. And young people who want to get into the political arena look to Al Gore and he said âit’s all about trivia and nonsense.’
GORE: Well, no….I…that quote you used was about my own personal tolerance for…bear in mind, I was in the political process for almost 30 years. And I…no, I encourage people to get involved in politics. Public service is an honorable calling and I’m very excited by the way, about the fact that millions of young people that haven’t been involved in the past are now getting involved, many of them for Senator Obama, of course. And I think that’s exciting. I do think, Tom, that we have a very serious set of problems affecting our democracy. The role of big money, the role of lobbyists, the role of special interests, it’s a very serious problem for our democracy. I think the new internet-based forms of organizing and mobilizing people and that’s what has gotten a lot of these young people involved offer a real ray of hope. I’m optimistic, but I think my best role is to try to help that…bring…come to pass and to focus on enlarging the political space so that we can start focusing on real solutions and not these gimmicks.
BROKAW: With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, I can already hear your critics and I don’t do Rush Limbaugh, so I will not attempt to. But I can hear him saying on radio, “Well there’s Prince Albert. There he was, 25 years hanging out with lobbyists, raising big money, then he lost and now he’s above the process, calling it trivial and nonsense.”
GORE: I’m not saying that I’m above the process. I was in it for a long time. When I first was elected 32 years ago, I called for full public financing of every federal election. I introduced legislation and proposed that every year…
BROKAW: And your guy Obama has turned it down…He said he was for public financing and now he’s decided to stay in the private sector.
GORE: There’s a new reality now with the internet-based small donor playing the dominant role. And I think that’s another example of how the internet has helped to bring about some positive changes that can give us a way to break the back of the special interests dominance that we have in government today.