Now I've Heard Everything

What has happened to the idea that the American people are the ones in charge of their own country? According to Longtime cable news personality Lou Dobbs, American populism has been replaced by a network of elites in government and business. In this 2007 interview Dobbs dioscusses his book Independents Day Get Independents Day by Lou Dobbs As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns f...

After the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade decision many states have enacted, or restored, strict anti-abortion laws. It’s become a major campaign issue in the 2024 presidential contest. And much of this was forecast nearly 20 years ago by Kate Michelman, the longtime head of NARAL, the pro-choice organization founded by feminist icon Betty Friedan. In this 2006 interview Michelman discusse...

Truddi Chase became the public face of multiple personality disorder in the late 1980s when she wrote an autobiography in which she described the 92 distinct personalities she carried. She said it was the product of sustained childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. She eventually came to refer to her personality as “The Troops.” In this 1987 interview Chase talks about her book When...

"Saturday Nitght Live" debuted on Oct. 11, 1975. The first guest host was comedian George Carlin, and the show featured two musical guests, Billy Preston and Janis Ian. At 24, Ian was a major recording artist. She was starring in concerts and on TV before she graduated from high school. In this 2008 interview Janis Ian talks about her memoir Society's Child. Get Society's Child by Janis Ian As an...

Whatever happened to honesty, Integrity, and accountability? And not just among our politicians, but our sports heroes, our entertainers, and all leaders. In this 2006 interview longtime Ohio politician John Kasich explains how he recognized years ago that the country is in a battle, of sorts, to reclaim personal responsibility. Get Historian Allan Lichtman on Why Presidential Campaigns Don't Matt...

For the better part of four decades historian Deborah Lipstadt has been combating Holocaust denial. She has found that there is a sizeable share of people, both in the United States and elsewhere, who are convinced the Holocaust never happened In this 1993 interview Lipstadt discusses her book Denying The Holoocaust. Get Denying the Holocaust by Deborah Lipstadt As an Amazon Associate, Now I've He...

For 15 years, from 1989 to 2004, Brian Lamb was host of the popular weekly C-SPAN show “Booknotes.” In this 1997 interview Lamb reflects on the personalities he interviewed, and the knowledge his viewers gained about history and writring. Get Booknotes by Brian Lamb As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may also enjoy my interviews with Larry King a...

Kamala Harris is going to be our next president. So says historian Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted every presidential election except one since 1984. In this 1990 interview Lichtman explains the basis for his "13 Keys" method of forecastinhg election outcomes. Get Thirteen Keys to the Presidency by Allan Lichtman As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying p...

It was in the summer of 1963 that young actress Mariette Harley lost her father to suicide, a tragedy that has colored her life ever since. But even she wasn’t fully aware of just how deeply it had affected her until the 1980s. And it inspired her to write a book that became a bestseller. In this 1991 interview Hartley talks about her book Breaking The Silence. Get Breaking the Silence by Mariette...

In the years immediately following World War II, one of America's most popular entertainers was a young singer named Margaret Whiting. She estalished herself as a top performer on radio and TV as well as in the recording studio. In this 1987 interview Whiting reflects on her life and career. Get It Might As Well Be Spring by Margaret Whiting As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns...

For 21 years, starting in 1966, through five administrations, Swiss-born Henry Haller was the White House executive chef . In this 1987 interview Haller reveals what it's like feeding a First Family -- and how the kitchen staff handles a new administration. Get The White House Family Cookbook by Henry Haller As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases. You may...

In 1966, Marvin Miller – an economist by training – was elected executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. By the time he retired 16 years later, Miller had helped transform not just the players association but the entire professional sports industry. In this 1991 interview Miller recaps his accomplished labor union career. Get A Whole Different Ballgame by Marvin Miller...

In 1933, a three-yearold boy, his older sister and their mother moved in with the boy’s grandparents – who had a very large house in an important city. Curtis Roosevelt was that young boy. His grandparents were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just recently moved into the White House themselves. In these interview highlights from 2008 and 2010 Curtis Roosevelt recalls his unique childhood e...

A number of countries require national service from their young men, and Israel from its young women as well What should the US? In this 1990 interview conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. makes the case for a year of national service as a way for young Americans to demonstrate their gratitude for our civil liberties. Get Gratitude by William F. Buckley Jr. As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Hea...

For 40 years a modest family-owned business has been supplying folks in Washington DC with the treat no one dislikes – chocolate. It was started in 1984 by sisters Frances and Ginger Park, daughters of a Korean immigrant. And their story is as appealing as the morsels they sell at their store, called Chocolate Chocolate. In this 2011 interview Ginger and Frances recall how they got into the busine...

In 1943 a 20-year-old model from New York was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS to be a spy in Europe. Thus began the espionage career of Aline Griffith, later the wife of a Spanish aristocrat. In this 1988 interview Aline, Countess of Romanones recounts her recruitment and training as a spy. Get The Spy Wore Red by Aline, Countess of Romanones As an Amazon Associate, Now I've...

One of the leading contenders for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination was Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy. His anti-Vietnam War position resonated with a large segment of Americans. In this 1987 interview McCarthy talks about his political memoir, Up 'Til Now, and what went wrong for his campiagn in '68. Get Up 'Til Now by Eugene McCarthy As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything...

Commercial radio in its infancy was a novelty, and it took years for the medium to realize its full potential as an essential part of American life. Ed Bliss joined CBS radio in 1943, and over the next 25 years worked alongside Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, among others, to shape the directio of broadcast journalism. In this 1991 interview Bliss reflecs on how readio and TV news evolved. G...

It's been 47 years since the king died. Elvis Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis on August 16,1977 at the age of 42 . Among the utterly devastated were those closest to Elvis, including his family, and his longtime hairdresser and confidante Larry Geller. In this 1989 interview Geller reveals things Elvis told him during their long friendship. Get If I Can Dream by Larry Geller As an...

It was this week 55 years ago – starting on August 15, 1969, to be exact – that organizers put on what they called an “Aquarian Exposition” in White Lake, New York. It came to be known simply as Woodstock. Elliot Tiber and his family operated a small, rundown motel in Bethel, New York. And Elliot also owned a permit to hold a music festival. In this 1994 interview Tiber explains how Woodstock may...

In her anger and grief after the death of her 13-year-old daughter in 1980, Candy Lightner formed a group which she dubbed Mothers Against Drunk Driving. And it quickly grew into a powerful grassroots campaign to force states to stiffen the penalties for drunk or impaired driving. She later wrote a book about grief and death, called Giving Sorrow Words. In this 1990 interview Lightner offers compa...

50 years ago today Richard Milhous Nixon made U.S. hisory by becoming the first, and so far only, president to resign from office. In this 1991 interview, renowned Nixon biographer Stepheh Ambrose explains why the resignation had to happen, but also what the unforeseen ramifications were for the countfry. Get Nixon: Ruin and Recovery by Stephen Ambrose As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everyt...

William Cohen was white, Jewish, Republican. Janet Langhart was black, Christian, and Democrat. Yet somehow they've endured as a couple since the 1990s. In this 2007 interview the Cohens atalk about thier "opposites atrtract" marriage and how it's lasted. Get Love in Black and White by William Cohen & Janet Langhart As an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases....

Back in 1997 a young dyslexic sales and marketing executive, temporarily employed as a bartender, turned his frustration with "politics as usual" into his first book, a self-published political thriller called Term Limits It got only lukewarm reviews – some even hated it. But readers ate it up. and Vince Flynn’s professional writing career was launched. In this 1998 interview Flynn recounts what i...

Millions of people say they have had a near-death experience, a term coined by Dr. Raymond Moody in 1975. But questions abound. What exactly happens during a near death experience? Some people have one and others don't? And why do some people choose to come back? In this 1988 interview Dr. Moody addressesthose and other critical questions about NDE. Get The Light Beyond by Raymond Moody As an Amaz...