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I'm Clyde Lewis and this is Brown Zero.

The numbers to call the night 503 225.

0-860, that's 503, 225-2-50 60.

I like history a lot. I like going back in time and trying to remind people of what has

been said, what has been, you know, what has not been said or what you can prove or disprove is history.

And now with the technology we have, we're able to go back and find video and audio of what people have said in the past and what they say now and

how it comes back to haunt them. In 1984 I remember that I mean I was in South America at the time I remember that there was a

time magazine article that talked about the Reverend Jesse Jackson meeting with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

That was big news in South America because of course they were communists in South America and many of them were

exiled from the Chilean fiasco in 1973. So you know something about Fidel Castro, a fellow Latino and a communist, got a lot of attention.

But just the idea that American, an American like the Reverend Jesse Jackson also a presidential candidate was meeting with

Castro and apparently we find out that he was meeting with Castro many times

before that it was but, you know, it bounced off our backs and it was, you know, he was trying

to get hostages out of there.

Dan Rather, journalist, interviewed Saddam Hussein on February 24, 2003.

That was very, that was a, if I recall, that was shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The interview was aired both of the United States

and on all three Iraqi television networks.

Saddam Hussein, Dan Rather, interviewing Saddam Hussein.

Mike Wallace, he conducted an interview

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