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The Leonard Lopate Show

Wednesday, December 22, 2004
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    Seasons Greenings

    Gerard Lordahl, director of the Open Space Greening Program, advises listeners on how to on how to keep plants thriving all winter long. And he’ll tackle some specific holiday plant issues—like what do you do with a poinsettia, anyway? Chef Thomas Keller of Per Se expounds on the virtues of simple, though meticulously prepared, bistro cooking in a new book: Bouchon. And Eli Goldensohn elaborates on the revelations contained in the interviews that his brother Leon, an army psychiatrist, conducted with German defendants at Nuremberg. Mr. Goldensohn is joined by Knopf editor Ashbel Green who helped turn the interviews into book form.

Winter Green

Gerard Lordahl, director of the Open Space Greening Program, on gardening through the winter. Call 212-267-9692.

Info:
Council on the Environment
51 Chambers Street, Suite 228
NYC 10007
Phone: 212-788-7923

Music:
A Toolbox Christmas (Gourd Music), by Woody Phillips (GM124) #2, 1, 6, and 12

Precision Cooking

Per Se chef Thomas Keller on the pleasures of bistro cooking: Bouchon.

Music:
soundtrack for Hanging Up #3 and 10

Trials of War

Eli Goldensohn and Ashbel Green look back at the interviews that army psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn conducted with German defendants at Nuremberg: The Nuremberg Interviews.

Music:
Cobb soundtrack (by Elliot Goldenthal) #17 and 16

Bill Richardson on Diplomacy

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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.

Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show

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NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.

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.

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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Listen to President-Elect 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.

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?