CBS Face The Nation Bob Schieffer

4/13/2015

Mr. Bob Schieffer

CBS News/ Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer

2020 M Street NW

Washington, DC  20036

Dear Mr. Schieffer,

 My name is Matthew Winick and I am a fan of your work as a reporter for CBS and also your work as a host for Face The Nation.  The reason I am writing you a letter is because I heard that you will retire later this summer and I wanted to say that you are a true inspiration to me to get interested in learning about government policy including history. I want to use what I learn from studying history including government to understand the need to advance on Civil Rights to protect people who are discriminated, the need to protect the environment from pollution to improve public safety, strong need for government reform like campaign finance reform with disclosure rules to reduce corruption in elections and government officials, and many others. Mr. Schieffer, I really liked you as a news media reporter with correspondent because I really like how you are balanced when doing a debate with other people including different politicians including candidates, taking the time to honor famous people who work hard to make a great difference, and advocating for the need to have government reform to reduce corruption with the need to advance on Civil Rights to help protect people who are different like me from being discriminated.  

Mr. Schieffer, I have Autism with a learning disability and having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning new subjects, have trouble speaking when communicating with other people, and I get teased about having it. Your work as a CBS reporter, a correspondent in 60 minutes, and host of Face The Nation really helped me get the resources like your interviews with activist including candidates and political figures, your commentary with interview different people in 60 minutes about the issues that we face or working to help viewers understand the problem, and taking the time to remember or explain to viewers about different famous people who work hard to make a difference like Ted Kennedy really helped me pass my classes in history and government because it was easy for me to comprehend through your work and you asked the right questions when interviewing people which helped me expand on learning different issues.  My favorite episodes of Face The Nation are when you interviewed my Congressman John Dingell about his legacy, interviewed General Colin Powell about his moderate stance on different issues, and when you interview Senator Mark Udall of Colorado on the need to reduce NSA surveillance. Besides the interviews on Face The Nation, I really like your input on things like addressing the need to reduce money in elections to reduce corruption, grilling people who have controversial views with proven facts, and expressing the need for Civil Rights to end discrimination. Your work really inspires me to continue my pursuit for history, working on ideas to make society better, exploring different issues that we face, and use different resources to help improve on my disability with comprehension.

I am sending you a thank you card to thank you for your hard work as a CBS reporter and making a great difference for the media.  Also I’m sending you a story about working hard on my disability with mentioning how you really helped inspired me with making a difference. Also my story I included on my ideas to make society better because of your work on addressing the need for reform. I want to wish you well when you retire and I strongly believe that you really made a great difference in the media and history by presenting facts, addressing the need for reform with protect people who are different from discrimination, having a great balance when moderating debates, and using history as a tool to remind us not to repeat the same mistakes. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference, and working hard to make society better.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Former Governor John W. Carlin of Kansas

4/6/15

Governor John W. Carlin

Kansas State University

103 Leadership Studies Building

Manhattan, KS 66506

Dear Governor Carlin,

My name is Matthew Winick with a strong interest in studying history and how different U.S. Governors work hard to make a difference.  Governor Carlin, I find your work as 40^th Governor of Kansas to be very interesting and your work as 8^th Archivist of the United States on working to preserve history to be very inspiring to me.  The reason I have a strong interest in studying history is because I like to learn the need to advance on Civil Rights to protect people who are different from being discriminated, a need for education reform to help make education with learning better for students, understand the need to protect the environment from pollution, have government reform to reduce corruption with making it more accountable, assisting people who are low-income including middle class with farmers on jobs with security, and many others. Your work got me very interested to be motivated to learn history with understanding the need to preserve history in order to teach people about the way of life with the need for good ideas to promote a better society with future.

When you were Governor of Kansas from 1979-1987 I liked when you advocated for the need to have Civil Rights to protect people who are different from being discriminated and also express the need to have equal rights amendment to help protect women including gender from being discriminated.  Another thing I liked was your hard work on getting funding to help improve transportation on highways by fixing roads that were damaged.  I was amazed by your work on being bipartisanship with Republicans on finding common ground to help protect farmers from going in debt by getting rid of property tax on farmer machinery and create a new prison to protect society from dangerous criminals.  For government reform with proposing constitutional amendment I was amazed by your hard work on them like allow states to get federal grants programs to assist the state in different needs, protect farmland with environmental lands from being polluted or disturbed, and make legislatures have authority to regulate liquor sales with licensing, but need a county vote approval.  Beside your work as Governor of Kansas, I really like your work as an Archivist of the United States from 1995-2005. When you were an archivist I liked on how you worked on preserving with conservation on different historical documents like the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights. Also I liked on how you worked on a campaign to raise money from different groups to create an exhibit to assist visitors like me to learn more about the American history with looking at documents with stories that influence history.  I was amazed by how you worked hard on finding ways to use electronic with technology to help preserve documents with making them more access for students, people, and me to study and to learn more about them.

A few years ago, I went to visit the National Archives Museum and was amazed to learn more about our roots in American History, I enjoyed examining the Constitution with Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, and technology at the Archives helped benefit me to easy comprehend on understanding the topic with interactive tools, and audio with subtitles because I have Autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on different subjects, however your work to improve on making history a better tool with improving ways to make learning easy to comprehend really helped me understand different topics with getting me motivated to be interested in learning more history. Another thing I enjoy is watching your you tube videos of your ideas to make government better with reform with advocating for the need for campaign finance reform to reduce corruption, advance on Civil Rights to protect people who are different from discrimination, and the need to improve on education to make learning better and efficient.

Governor Carlin, I want to say thank you for your commitment to make a great difference to make society better through your role as Governor of Kansas and as an Archivist of The United States on preserving history, finding ways to improve learning through technology, advocate to improve on Civil Rights, and help farmers with low-income people survive during an economic time. Your work on history really made a great impact on me to be motivated to continue learning history and to work hard on my disability through studying, researching people’s work, visiting museums, understanding more about diversity, see historical reenactments with plays, and being a supporter for historical sites with museum and memorials.  I am very proud to call you a true role model and an inspiration to me.  Also I strongly believe that you really make a great difference for society and history. I was wondering if you could please give me advices about history and explaining to me about what it is like working at a history job with being an archivist. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter and making a great difference.  Please continue making a great difference for society, history, and the future with your ideas and I want to wish you well on your role as a professor at Kansas State University School of Leadership Studies.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Got a gift from him which is a travel bag, pen, notepads, and a Kansas State University School of Leadership Studies keychain 

Chinese American Museum L.A.

4/10/2015

Attention: Mr. Steve Y. Wong

Chinese American Museum

Suite 300

125 Paseo de la Plaza

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Dear Executive Director Wong,

My name is Matt Winick, an Asian American with a strong interest in studying history and learning about how Asians including Asian Americans work hard to overcome their struggles through discrimination and how Asian Americans are making a great difference.  On the 1^st week of March 2015 I enjoyed visiting the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles.  In the Chinese American Museum the staff including the volunteers were very friendly with being helpful at answering questions about Asian American History and explaining the origin of the museum.  The Chinese American Museum really has great exhibit and is well organized from the history of Chinese, life of Chinese in America in the early years including the Gold Rush, the struggles that the Chinese immigrants including Chinese American face with discrimination in America with how they work hard to overcome it, and how Chinese Americans are making history or making a difference for the Asian American community like Congresswoman Judy Chu. Also what I liked about the museum was that it even helped me understand more about Chinese American culture with diversity.   I also liked seeing the replica of Sun Wing Wo General Store and Herb Shop because I got to learn more what it was like for a Chines to do business in America with learning how different herbs are used to help benefit people.

In Conclusion, I really enjoyed the museum because it gave a great message about the need to have diversity, help teach people about the need to overcome different struggles, how culture with different Chinese Americans are working hard to make a difference, and having different facts with interactive exhibits to help me understand more history.  I really had a great experience visiting it and the museum helped me feel inspired to be an Asian American.  I am donating $3 to help fund the museum to continue on making history and diversity a better place for people like me and many other Asian Americans.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter and making the museum fun with interactive exhibits and having a strong message.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

I got a pen with a nice design, a sticker of Chinese American Museum, with a card, a notepad, and a book L.A. Heat about different artist.