April 3, 2020 • 11 mins
Tom discusses why, if we’re going to beat the Corona virus, it is important for everyone, no matter their status or political party, to come together so that our country is best prepared and strong enough to overcome this difficult challenge.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard Radio presents Tom Broke now here this. We're
now in a new phase of this deadly virus that
has invaded our lives and lives of people around the world.
Six and a half million people apply for unemployment in
America last week, and that's just the beginning. How much
more damage there will be done to our economy? Displayed
(00:22):
the inflated optimism of President Trump. It's very hard to
say at this point. I know a very successful retailer
who does not know whether he can recover. He's been
in business for fifty years, and he's been one of
the most successful retailers in America, and now he's looking
in despair at the prospects that his company and all
of his employers will be gone by the end of
(00:45):
the year or next year for sure. So how do
we begin to deal with us? Well, first of all,
if I'm a Mr. President, don't be such a Pollyanna.
Don't tell us that this is going to be over
in a matter of a couple of months and then
we'll be able to go right back to work and
have a booming economy. It's not gonna happen. Nobody in
the scientific community, nobody in the upper reaches of the
(01:07):
financial community believes that that will happen. We have to
start now by including everyone, and by that I mean, sir,
people who are in the other party, on the hill,
in the Senate, and in the House. You have to
put together a blue ribbon commission that will deal with
the immediate impact and the long term. May I suggest
(01:28):
that you name Bill and Melinda Gates, to people who
are very familiar with these kinds of issues, as your
co chairs for the immediate attack coming in from the
other side, not just that great team that you have
in the White House, but other voices as well, and
have them become, if you will, along with you and
(01:51):
the other elected officials, the face of this united effort
to do something about coronavirus. If we do that, it
should be the beginning of an attempt then to create
a new cabinet post, a new cabinet post that will
deal with this in the future. We're always playing by
games gone by, but the fact is that coronavirus and
(02:14):
those kinds of invasions of our lives are here to stay.
You can't fool modern nature. Think for just a moment
about all the devastation that we have suffered as a
result of say, Katrina in New Orleans, and the result
of all the tornadoes that come every summer. Mother nature
(02:36):
is not something that behaves the way we would like
it to. But what we can do is get in
a much better position to deal with the consequences of it.
I can't say how all of this is going to
turn out, and neither can the President or anyone else,
because there's just too many unknowns. In fact, I was
(02:57):
in the hospital for cancer treatment when this first began
to be an issue, very quietly, and my chief in
college has said to me, this is going to be big,
Mr Brokaw, we are going to have an invasion. It
was at that time the President was saying, I'm not
sure what this is all about. I can't quite figure
it out. Well, now we know we do have an invasion,
(03:19):
and our economy, which had been roaring along, has been
brought to its knees, and it's hard to see how
we can reconstruct America in the matter of a few months.
And it comes in the midst of a presidential election.
Stop and think about that for just a moment. We're
gonna be going to the polls before too long to
decide what our future is. So let's begin to have
(03:40):
a dialogue right now among us in families, in what
we're once workplaces, and also in universities, also in retirement homes,
in schools, about who we are and what we want
to be and how we can get out of this.
By the way, let me just say parenthetically to the
(04:00):
young people of the country, it's about time you get
off the beach. This is not just another holiday for you,
young people your age. During World War Two, we're going
off to fight the greatest scorers the country had ever
faced before, Nazi Germany. The leash that you can do
is show some kind of awareness of how difficult this is.
(04:21):
Go home, help your family, but don't go down on
the beach. Come on, get with it. And at the
same time we also have to understand that we need
more of a kind of, if you will, national fabric
for dealing with it. The state of Washington was into
this early, and for the governor's efforts out there, he
was belittled by the President. But what we need is
(04:43):
a council of state governors who are meeting, probably electronically,
to see what is most successful in their states, coordinating
that with Washington, d C. And again with the Hill,
and again with the Special Council that I would like
to see form led by Ill and will Inda Gates.
We are at war, a war of proportions we have
(05:06):
never faced in this country before. Let's be candid about that.
We can only succeed in dealing with this if everyone
steps up and is willing to listen as well as
it's hang. It is a terrible time. The emotional loss,
the economic loss, and most of all, the loss of
(05:26):
life for so many people, the millions who are dying
from this. It seems like something out of the dark Ages. Here.
We are at the apogee of development in the world
in this country. There's never been in a country quite
like ours in terms of creating a strong economy with
all the parts of it, not just what we are
(05:47):
all fascinated with. When it comes to what we're dealing
with our communications, how we're dealing with the way we
get things. I'm talking about hard scientists, deep scientists who
go into the body and figure out what's going on
and then share that information with us. We not only
need to listen, we need to support them. We need
(06:08):
to take it seriously, and we're going to have to
change our lives. The lives are not going to be
the same as they have been. There will be a
lot less impulse buying, for example. There will be a
good deal more of people living in a more spartan
way in the future because of the economics of this
invasion are going to change the way we deal with
(06:30):
our finances. So we've got a lot going on, And
what I worry about is that we can't solve what
we have going on with just a nightly presidential briefing
by the President and his team. We have to have
a macro approach to it. Everyone has to step up
and say what's my part and how do I deal
(06:51):
with it? And what do I have to give up
to make sure that we can all survive. This is
as I said earlier, and everyone knows that greatest country
in the history of mankind, it was formed in the
seventeen seventies. We've gone through world wars, we've gone through
a civil war, We've gone through all kinds of other trauma.
(07:13):
We were invaded in America on nine eleven, but we've
been able to emerge. This is a lot trickier because
this enemy just doesn't sit up and wait to be
knocked off. We don't know where it's coming from, what
it's likely to do next, and the best way of
dealing with it. So I think I'm preaching obviously to
(07:34):
the converted. We all know that we're in this now,
not for the short run, but for the long run.
And as part of that long run, we have to
get ourselves organized. No country and the history of mankind
has as much brain power as this country does. No
country has the resources that we do. And I'm not
(07:54):
just talking about financial resources. I'm talking as well about
scientific device is the work that is going on right
now in the laboratories in America. And by the way,
those laboratories are staff many of them by people who
have come here because they know the promise of this
great land. So I'm saying the obvious. This is the
(08:15):
greatest test of my lifetime. I was born before World
War two started, so I am in a way a
veteran of that. I can remember being on an army
base when I was three and four years old, and
then I went to the revival of America the post
war years, but unfortunately, first Korea, then Vietnam. Then I
(08:36):
went to the upheaval that came with the social revolution
of the nineteen sixties, when America was divided in so
many parts, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the enormous
success and great courage of the civil rights movement, which
is still underway. We are a country that is dynamic
and constantly changing. We always hope next step for the better.
(09:01):
I don't know how we can now deal with this
and see a light at the end of the tunnel
unless we all agree that we're going to talk to
each other and find the very best voices out there,
the very best minds that are out there, and give
them the authority that will need. But make no mistake
(09:21):
about it, our lives have been changed, and the President
wants to be a cheerleader about it. Will be robust.
He wants to say we're gonna be back before too long.
It'll be great again. It will be great again. But
not as quickly as he says that it will be so.
Speak to your neighbors, speak to your friends, speak to
your fellow workers, speak to your places of worship, and say,
(09:46):
what is our role in all of this. We are
coming up on a time when we're going to have
to make a decision about who will leave this country
for at least the next four years. But it's not
going to be just about who's in the White House US.
It's also going to be about who's in communities across
this country, the mayors that are elected, the school board members,
(10:08):
the people who are employers, how they begin to change,
if you will, to the new reality of how the
economy can continue and succeed. I have great faith in
this country, because, after all, I was a working class
kid who come from the prairie of South Dakota. The
jobs that I've had, and I have great faith that
(10:29):
we can respond to it. But A D A J D.
I don't have a lot of time to wait around.
I want everyone to step up right now. And I
know that in our family, this is a dialogue that
we're having constantly. I have a daughter who is an
emergency room physician now working with the San Francisco Fire
Department for dealing with the medical issues that they have,
(10:51):
which are profound, and she has looked at these kinds
of issues in the past working in Pakistan and in Africa,
and we're on the phone constantly, So be in touch,
but be in touch to say what can I do next.
How can I help? I know we'll be up to it,
and I hope in the long range of history that
(11:12):
people will look back and say, in so many ways,
it was their darkest hour, but at the end it
was also their finest. Good luck everyone. I love you all,
I love this country, I love the potential that we have,
and we just now have to show history that we
were up to it. I'm Tom broke off our. I
(11:34):
heart radio. God bless
I heard Radio presents Tom Broke now here this. We're
now in a new phase of this deadly virus that
has invaded our lives and lives of people around the world.
Six and a half million people apply for unemployment in
America last week, and that's just the beginning. How much
more damage there will be done to our economy? Displayed
(00:22):
the inflated optimism of President Trump. It's very hard to
say at this point. I know a very successful retailer
who does not know whether he can recover. He's been
in business for fifty years, and he's been one of
the most successful retailers in America, and now he's looking
in despair at the prospects that his company and all
of his employers will be gone by the end of
(00:45):
the year or next year for sure. So how do
we begin to deal with us? Well, first of all,
if I'm a Mr. President, don't be such a Pollyanna.
Don't tell us that this is going to be over
in a matter of a couple of months and then
we'll be able to go right back to work and
have a booming economy. It's not gonna happen. Nobody in
the scientific community, nobody in the upper reaches of the
(01:07):
financial community believes that that will happen. We have to
start now by including everyone, and by that I mean, sir,
people who are in the other party, on the hill,
in the Senate, and in the House. You have to
put together a blue ribbon commission that will deal with
the immediate impact and the long term. May I suggest
(01:28):
that you name Bill and Melinda Gates, to people who
are very familiar with these kinds of issues, as your
co chairs for the immediate attack coming in from the
other side, not just that great team that you have
in the White House, but other voices as well, and
have them become, if you will, along with you and
(01:51):
the other elected officials, the face of this united effort
to do something about coronavirus. If we do that, it
should be the beginning of an attempt then to create
a new cabinet post, a new cabinet post that will
deal with this in the future. We're always playing by
games gone by, but the fact is that coronavirus and
(02:14):
those kinds of invasions of our lives are here to stay.
You can't fool modern nature. Think for just a moment
about all the devastation that we have suffered as a
result of say, Katrina in New Orleans, and the result
of all the tornadoes that come every summer. Mother nature
(02:36):
is not something that behaves the way we would like
it to. But what we can do is get in
a much better position to deal with the consequences of it.
I can't say how all of this is going to
turn out, and neither can the President or anyone else,
because there's just too many unknowns. In fact, I was
(02:57):
in the hospital for cancer treatment when this first began
to be an issue, very quietly, and my chief in
college has said to me, this is going to be big,
Mr Brokaw, we are going to have an invasion. It
was at that time the President was saying, I'm not
sure what this is all about. I can't quite figure
it out. Well, now we know we do have an invasion,
(03:19):
and our economy, which had been roaring along, has been
brought to its knees, and it's hard to see how
we can reconstruct America in the matter of a few months.
And it comes in the midst of a presidential election.
Stop and think about that for just a moment. We're
gonna be going to the polls before too long to
decide what our future is. So let's begin to have
(03:40):
a dialogue right now among us in families, in what
we're once workplaces, and also in universities, also in retirement homes,
in schools, about who we are and what we want
to be and how we can get out of this.
By the way, let me just say parenthetically to the
(04:00):
young people of the country, it's about time you get
off the beach. This is not just another holiday for you,
young people your age. During World War Two, we're going
off to fight the greatest scorers the country had ever
faced before, Nazi Germany. The leash that you can do
is show some kind of awareness of how difficult this is.
(04:21):
Go home, help your family, but don't go down on
the beach. Come on, get with it. And at the
same time we also have to understand that we need
more of a kind of, if you will, national fabric
for dealing with it. The state of Washington was into
this early, and for the governor's efforts out there, he
was belittled by the President. But what we need is
(04:43):
a council of state governors who are meeting, probably electronically,
to see what is most successful in their states, coordinating
that with Washington, d C. And again with the Hill,
and again with the Special Council that I would like
to see form led by Ill and will Inda Gates.
We are at war, a war of proportions we have
(05:06):
never faced in this country before. Let's be candid about that.
We can only succeed in dealing with this if everyone
steps up and is willing to listen as well as
it's hang. It is a terrible time. The emotional loss,
the economic loss, and most of all, the loss of
(05:26):
life for so many people, the millions who are dying
from this. It seems like something out of the dark Ages. Here.
We are at the apogee of development in the world
in this country. There's never been in a country quite
like ours in terms of creating a strong economy with
all the parts of it, not just what we are
(05:47):
all fascinated with. When it comes to what we're dealing
with our communications, how we're dealing with the way we
get things. I'm talking about hard scientists, deep scientists who
go into the body and figure out what's going on
and then share that information with us. We not only
need to listen, we need to support them. We need
(06:08):
to take it seriously, and we're going to have to
change our lives. The lives are not going to be
the same as they have been. There will be a
lot less impulse buying, for example. There will be a
good deal more of people living in a more spartan
way in the future because of the economics of this
invasion are going to change the way we deal with
(06:30):
our finances. So we've got a lot going on, And
what I worry about is that we can't solve what
we have going on with just a nightly presidential briefing
by the President and his team. We have to have
a macro approach to it. Everyone has to step up
and say what's my part and how do I deal
(06:51):
with it? And what do I have to give up
to make sure that we can all survive. This is
as I said earlier, and everyone knows that greatest country
in the history of mankind, it was formed in the
seventeen seventies. We've gone through world wars, we've gone through
a civil war, We've gone through all kinds of other trauma.
(07:13):
We were invaded in America on nine eleven, but we've
been able to emerge. This is a lot trickier because
this enemy just doesn't sit up and wait to be
knocked off. We don't know where it's coming from, what
it's likely to do next, and the best way of
dealing with it. So I think I'm preaching obviously to
(07:34):
the converted. We all know that we're in this now,
not for the short run, but for the long run.
And as part of that long run, we have to
get ourselves organized. No country and the history of mankind
has as much brain power as this country does. No
country has the resources that we do. And I'm not
(07:54):
just talking about financial resources. I'm talking as well about
scientific device is the work that is going on right
now in the laboratories in America. And by the way,
those laboratories are staff many of them by people who
have come here because they know the promise of this
great land. So I'm saying the obvious. This is the
(08:15):
greatest test of my lifetime. I was born before World
War two started, so I am in a way a
veteran of that. I can remember being on an army
base when I was three and four years old, and
then I went to the revival of America the post
war years, but unfortunately, first Korea, then Vietnam. Then I
(08:36):
went to the upheaval that came with the social revolution
of the nineteen sixties, when America was divided in so
many parts, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the enormous
success and great courage of the civil rights movement, which
is still underway. We are a country that is dynamic
and constantly changing. We always hope next step for the better.
(09:01):
I don't know how we can now deal with this
and see a light at the end of the tunnel
unless we all agree that we're going to talk to
each other and find the very best voices out there,
the very best minds that are out there, and give
them the authority that will need. But make no mistake
(09:21):
about it, our lives have been changed, and the President
wants to be a cheerleader about it. Will be robust.
He wants to say we're gonna be back before too long.
It'll be great again. It will be great again. But
not as quickly as he says that it will be so.
Speak to your neighbors, speak to your friends, speak to
your fellow workers, speak to your places of worship, and say,
(09:46):
what is our role in all of this. We are
coming up on a time when we're going to have
to make a decision about who will leave this country
for at least the next four years. But it's not
going to be just about who's in the White House US.
It's also going to be about who's in communities across
this country, the mayors that are elected, the school board members,
(10:08):
the people who are employers, how they begin to change,
if you will, to the new reality of how the
economy can continue and succeed. I have great faith in
this country, because, after all, I was a working class
kid who come from the prairie of South Dakota. The
jobs that I've had, and I have great faith that
(10:29):
we can respond to it. But A D A J D.
I don't have a lot of time to wait around.
I want everyone to step up right now. And I
know that in our family, this is a dialogue that
we're having constantly. I have a daughter who is an
emergency room physician now working with the San Francisco Fire
Department for dealing with the medical issues that they have,
(10:51):
which are profound, and she has looked at these kinds
of issues in the past working in Pakistan and in Africa,
and we're on the phone constantly, So be in touch,
but be in touch to say what can I do next.
How can I help? I know we'll be up to it,
and I hope in the long range of history that
(11:12):
people will look back and say, in so many ways,
it was their darkest hour, but at the end it
was also their finest. Good luck everyone. I love you all,
I love this country, I love the potential that we have,
and we just now have to show history that we
were up to it. I'm Tom broke off our. I
(11:34):
heart radio. God bless
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