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The Leonard Lopate Show

Friday, April 04, 2003
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  • Bruno Bettelheim
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    Mind Games: Bruno Bettelheim Revealed

    Ambassador William Clark, Jr., former US ambassador to India and president of the Japan society, claims the US led war in Iraq will not only have significant implications for the Middle East, but for the far east as well. He discusses the effect the war will have on our policies in North Korea. Then, Scott Spencer talks about his new novel, A Ship Made of Paper. And Stephen Eliot chronicles his formative years spent in the University of Chicago’s Sonia Shankman Orthogenic school, then run by controversial psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim, known for his unorthodox and often cruel mental treatment.

William Clark, Jr

Ambassador William Clark, Jr., former US ambassador to India and president of the Japan society, claims the US led war in Iraq will not only have significant implications for the Middle East, but for the far east as well. He discusses the effect the war will have on our policies in North Korea.

Music: Catch Me If You Can Soundtrack composer John Williams

Scott Spencer

Scott Spencer talks about his new novel, A Ship Made of Paper.

Music: Intersection Soundtrack composser James Newton Howard

Stephen Eliot

Stephen Eliot chronicles his formative years spent in the University of Chicago’s Sonia Shankman Orthogenic school, then run by controversial psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim, known for his unorthodox and often cruel mental treatment. Eliot's book is called Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School.

Music: Awakenings Soundtrack composer Randy Newman

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

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Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel from Illinois has agreed to be Chief of Staff under President-Elect Barack Obama. You can hear him on the Lopate Show in 2006 discussing his thoughts on what the Democratic party needed to do in order to succeed.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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As the Democratic Convention is underway in Denver, listen to Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

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Sen. Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. To find out more about his personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?

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