Airdate 12/28/08 60 Minutes has followed the rise of President-Elect Barack Obama for almost two years. Steve Kroft first met with the Obamas before the Senator announced his candidacy, and he was there when tens of thousands of people gathered in Chicago to celebrate Obama's election as the 44th President of the United States. In this full-broadcast edition, Kroft revisits his conversations with ...
Airdate 12/07/08 Despite the pledge of Barack Obama and other politicians to break America’s addiction to foreign oil, Saudi Arabia – the world’s largest oil supplier – isn’t worried about losing its biggest customer, the United States. Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi tells Lesley Stahl that it will be a long time before alternatives to oil are found, and in the meantime, the Saudis ar...
Airdate: 02/17/08 Who's the world's most precocious conductor? It's got to be Gustavo Dudamel, that shaggy haired prodigy from Venezuela who has become classical music's newest rock star. Aside from the hair, the first thing you might notice about Dudamel is the joy, the exuberance, the passion, and the sheer energy with which he leads the orchestra. Bob Simon reports.This product is manufactured...
Airdate: 11/16/08 In his first interview since the election, President-elect Barack Obama -- the 44th President of the United States -- talks with Steve Kroft about the challenges he'll face on his first day in office, including a crumbling economy and two wars. In part two of this DVD, Barack and Michelle Obama discuss the prospect and challenges of raising their daughters (and the dog) in the W...
Airdate 11/30/08 Michael Phelps swam into history at the Beijing Olympics, becoming the first person to win eight gold medals in a single Olympiad. Now, the 23-year-old is garnering even more gold in a marketing extravaganza certain to make him a multi-millionaire, and his endorsement schedule is almost as grueling as training for the Olympics. Anderson Cooper interviews Phelps and his mother and ...
How does a poor girl from Uganda wind up at a college in New England? Bob Simon tells the surprising and inspiring story of a girl named Beatrice, who made it out of her tiny village and into a school in America -- thanks to a goat from an Arkansas charity called Heifer International....
Airdate: 10/14/07 Dubai is a Middle East success story, an island of stability and prosperity in a region torn by conflict. In less than a decade, Dubai has gone from desert to metropolis, with $300 billion worth of construction projects including luxury hotels and some of the world's tallest buildings. It is all the vision of one endlessly ambitious man: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, wh...
Airdate 12/14/08 Whether he's coaching his University of Southern California Trojans to another Pac-10 college football victory or reasoning with Los Angeles street gang members, Pete Carroll's unique style is a winning one. Correspondent Byron Pitts is on the field, in the locker room, and on the streets with the motivating Coach Carroll. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recor...
Airdate: 05/17/07 MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte has a dream: one day, every child in the world will have a high-quality, low-cost laptop computer so that even the poorest among them can learn. Negroponte is now touring the world, toting these laptops with him, and children love them. In one Cambodian village without electricity, Negroponte says the children's glowing laptops illuminate their ...