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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 not have happened if not for hinm and that permit,

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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 compassion and insight into the grieving process.

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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.

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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.

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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 inspired his debut thriller.

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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.

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The entry of Vice President Kamala Harris into the 2024 presidential race has energized and invigorated millions of American women. Could it be the culmination of a societal shift that some people saw coming thirty or more years ago?

In 1993 author, speaker, and political candidate Marianne Williamson wrote about the changing landscape of American society in a book called A Woman’s Worth, in which she sought to clarify the critical role women could, and should, play in driving the betterment of our world.

In this 1993 interview Williamson shares her vision for the future of women in America.

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For three years, back in the late 1980s, Jack O’Donnell worked for Donald Trump.

O’Donnell rose from senior vice president at the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City to, eventually, president of that enterprise.

In this 1991 interview O’Donnell recalls his front-row seat into how Donald Trump operates. And what he saw was a shrewd deal maker, a not so great manager, and someone who is motivated almost entirely by how many piles of money he could accumulate.

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Forty years ago9 in Los Angeles one such hero was track and field star Al Joyner. He won the gold medal in the triple jump, with a leap of an incredible 56 feet 7 and a half inches.

And in 1987, he got another gold, a wedding ring when he married track star and fellow Olympic gold medalist Florence Griffith, who became known as FloJo. She wrote a book, Running For Dummies, in 1998 but died before it was published.

In this 1999 interview Al Joyner shares the coaching expertise FloJo put in her book.

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Back in 1995 in London, a teenager was out shopping one day when a stranger tapped her on the shoulder. That stranger was a modeling scout, and before long, that teenager was signed as a professional model.

And it wasn’t long after that that Alek Wek was seen on covers of major international magazines. She was MTV’s Model of the Year in 1997.

But what makes her story even more incredible and extraordinary is that she had only been in London for four years, after her family fled a life of poverty in their homeland, civil war-torn Sudan.

In this 2007 interview Alek talks about her life and career.

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