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Here, There and Everywhere

Monday, February 18, 2008

In September Senator John McCain sat down for a long conversation with Brian on everything from net neutrality to New York mayors. For your Presidents' Day listening pleasure, tune in to hear the highlights. Also: Some immigrants in America face a decision: should I go home to find a spouse? It’s a decision fraught with questions of class, money, equality-- even fraud. Two views on marrying here or there. And: we open up the National Archives and take a look at some letters to the White House.

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McCain's Pains (rebroadcast)

John McCain, U.S. Senator (R-AZ), presidential candidate, and author of Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them (12 Books, 2008), explains why he'd be a good president for New York.

I Heart Huckabee

Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, author, From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 Stops to Restoring America’s Greatness (Center Street, 2007)
, sat down with Brian last year to discuss his take on national issues and his own presidential aspirations. Hear the highlights.

From Hope to Higher Ground is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Dwight Young, author of Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives, discusses the letters that people have sent to the White House over the years.

Love and Marriage

Alex Kabba, editor-in-chief of African Abroad, and Angela Ogbolu, publisher of Kitu Kizuri, a magazine for African women living in the United States, debate the pros and cons of going back home to find a spouse.