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- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies about the way the social media and networking company has handled user data. In his opening statement before the joint Senate committee hearing, Zuckerberg says the company is working on steps to prevent tools from being used for fake news, foreign interference, and hate speech. Zuckerberg apologizes for the way Facebook handled user data security and is grilled by members of the Committee over issues of data sharing, privacy, his business model, advertiser disclosure, and fake news. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) chairs the hearing.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Gina Haspel, acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Former Senators Saxby Chambliss and Evan Bayh introduce Haspel to the Committee. Haspel talks about her thirty year career with the CIA and answers members' questions about her involvement in a controversial detention and interrogation program. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) chairs the committee.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-05-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In the second of a two part oral history interview, liberal political activist Bob Alexander talks further about his time in the National Teacher Corp, his youth in Detroit, Michigan, and the influences in his life which served to make him a liberal activist. He talks about leafleting while still elementary school, associating with French radicals in Detroit, protests he was involved in, being shot at, and being confronted by an armed bar owner while hanging posters. He also talks about his political activity in southeast Michigan, including working for increased voter registration, joining the Human Rights Party, and running successful campaigns for HRP candidates for the Ann Arbor City Council. Alexander is interviewed by retired Michigan State University Labor Studies Professor John Revitte.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-02-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Oath administered by Chief Justice Burger; introduced by Senator Cannon.
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- 1977-01-20T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Marvin Grinstern talks about his employment at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1965 and 1975. Grinstern describes growing up in Lansing, farming, visiting his father at the plant, as a boy, during the 1937 strike and finally joining his father and other relatives at REO. Grinstern also talks about a fatal accident on the shop floor, managers abusing their position, the REO bankruptcy, the plant closing, and the resulting shock, depression and suicides among workers. Grinstern laments the loss of manufacturing companies and jobs in Lansing and remarks on the great changes that came to factories in the wake of unionization and women in the workplace. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Carter warns of the danger of nuclear war, the need to protect the environment, pressure groups, and talks about human rights. With commentary by reporters Bob Schieffer and Bruce Morton.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-01-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Barack H. Obama announces that ten states will be authorized to implement reforms that raise standards for student achievement without being required to meet certain parts of the No Child Left Behind Act, which was enacted during the Bush presidency.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-02-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Jimmy Carter talks about the hostages in Iran, and resolving conflict in the Middle East. During the inaugural broadcast of Cable News Network.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Eighteen year old Michigan State University Mathematics sophomore Katie Overweg discusses growing up in her hometown of Portland, MI, her parents and their careers, her siblings, the closeness of her family, and the emphasis which they place on education. She says that she hopes to become a teacher and start a family and that many of her peers seem only to be interested in how much money they hope to make. She also describes life in the dorm, rates her professors, and says that the process of socialization and maturing while at college is at least as important as the course work.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-11-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Clinton's press conference announcing the appointment of his economic team for his second term. They are Secretary of Commerce Bill Daley, U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson, National Economic Council Chairman Gene Sperling, and Dan Tarullo, in the newly created position of Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-12-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection