The Brian Lehrer Show

John Dean

Grand Old Party-Pooper

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

There are currently nine men running for the Republican presidential nomination. Ex-Republican and Watergate-era White House counsel John Dean says electing any of them would be a bad choice. He maintains they would all be forced to carry on many of the current administration's failing policies. Plus, a closer look at a cosmetic surgery popular among many Asian American girls, reaction to the striking down of the law requiring fast-food restaurants to post calorie contents on their menus, UFT President Randi Weingarten on pricipal independence and test scores, and we begin to assemble our Democracy Club.

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Schools In

A week into the school year and Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and chair of the Municipal Labor Committee, discusses principal independence and test scores.

Food for Thought

Diane Brady, senior writer for Business Week and Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition food studies and public health at New York University and the author of What to Eat (North Point Press, 2007), new in paperback, discusses the striking down of a law that required fast-food chains to post calorie counts on their menus.

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Eyeing a Western Aesthetic

Dr. Edmund Kwan, a plastic surgeon from New York, looks at whether Asian women get eyelid surgery so they can look more "Western."

Republican No More

Thirty-five years after Watergate John Dean, White House legal counsel to President Nixon, comments on the current struggle between the executive branch and Congress, and discusses his new book Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches (Viking Adult, 2007).

Broken Government is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

John Dean will be signing books tonight at the Lincoln Square Barnes & Noble, 66th St. & Broadway, at 7:30PM.

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