>> it is a very big problem. that is why i am thrilled to by the emergence of the tea party. we need a grassroots movement. they have a grassroots movement, that is what the left-wing has done. they have done this from top to bottom. we need the tea party. there is another dimension to this, which everyone is aware of, which are these social issues that run this way. that is a big problem. i would not want to be a politician. it is tough.

i do not expect mitt romney to come out swinging on that. you know, marco rubio knows all this. they understand the political issue. right now, schools are controlled by leftists, our media is dominated by leftists. while that persists, there is a problem. you know, i think we have made progress on that. >> david, cutting to the chase, who would you suggest should be mitt romney's advisers, so that we can win in november. >> political advisers? i think he is doing very well. i like what is going on. who are his advisers? do you know who they are? >> i know some of them. jim talent, jimmy troy, but i don't know who his political handlers are inside.

i promised i would not mumble here for it. [laughter] is somebody who came out of the left, and i grew up the communist left and i use that -- but anybody who called themselves a progressive was basically a post-soviet communist. we were ghettoized. we could not say what we believed. we were targets, you know? we were quarantines. that was a good thing for the country. it was a very good thing for the country. i watched the left, the new left was formed by children of communist and fellow travelers like tom hayden.

most of the people that formed the new left were communists. and i watched as breakout into the mainstream. then when i was leaving the vote, hayden and the others went into the democratic party. the mcgovern campaign -- mcgovern was a supporter of henry wallace. the party in 1948. i watched them take over the democratic party. that taught me how important it is to have a grassroots, year in and year out, movement. there has neverbeen one since i became a conservative. until the tea party. i am hoping -- the problem with conservatives is that they have real lives, unlike the others. when you are doing a business come you don't want to alienate

anybody. you want every customer that you can get. so you don't want to get involved in messy things like politics. i didn't think for a while but it would ever happen, but it has happened. isconsin, i mean, the left declare war on scott walker. because of the incipient fascist arrangement with the state, it was being threatened. the unions have a stranglehold on the state. they have their hands on the public purse for it in and found that their political machines out of taxpayer dollars. they raise the salaries of their members, it is totally corrupt. they have absolute contempt for the democratic process. they picked the fight. and they lost. they lost on the ground where conservatives have never really been strong. and that tells me, that is the bright spot that i see for the

future. i think that obama has put fear into ordinary americans who understand and to our beneficiaries of the free enterprise system. the system of individual rights. we want to hold onto those american values against the left. so i'm i am expecting big things to happen in november. anyway, that is my optimism. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you. >> for more information about the author, visit david horowitz freedom center.org. what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. i think there are some wonderful political books. of course, since that is what i

do, i'm always interested in looking at the history and things that have happened. i think certainly robert caro's book, the third in his series about lbj is worth a read. this one documents his years as vice president when he was running against president kennedy for the nomination. president kennedy tapped him for vice president, and we all know that that was a troubled time for both lyndon johnson and resident kennedy. they were certainly different in just about every aspect. it was a time of trial, certainly in lyndon johnson's life. then as he is passing into the presidency, this is one of the more interesting times to see

this from the background. i have to say that robert caro does an incredible job. having looked at his other books and heard him talk about this book and the others, he is so nonjudgmental. he tells the good and the bad unless people decide for themselves what they think is important. i think that he has captured so much and done so much research. he has went out and lived around johnson city to kind of see in the early growing up years what lyndon johnson's life would have been like. each time he has gone further, he has done detailed research. amazing amounts of research. so i think he is an excellent

writer. i was privileged to invite him to speak to a group of republican senators at one point. he came, and we had a very interesting back-and-forth conversation. the senators, of course, were interested in the experiences that lyndon johnson had as majority leader and the tactics he used, which are different from any kind of leadership tactics that he would be able to talk about and actually do today. it is a different world, he was very strong as a leader, and also a very demanding winter. i think that i would certainly recommend robert caro's book. i know that his books are so good that you would enjoy reading that another book that i have been beginning to read is the book by douglas brinkley about walter cronkite. there wasn't a more well-known

news anchor than walter cronkite. we loved him. he went to the university of texas. he grew up in houston. then he was a foreign correspondent for the united presidents international, he got a lot of real reporter experience. he just wasn't a face guy. when "cbs evening news" became more important, walter cronkite started as the anchor, i think, in the 1960s, and was there for about 20 years into the early '80s. i just think that his time, he said he covered a president, and his time covering is certainly fascinating and he was a

fascinating person because he was so thoughtful. i think douglas brinkley is a wonderful historian. he is a history professor at rice university. he has also taught at the noble double academy and princeton. he is a real historian who also does detailed comprehensive research. the book that he wrote, "cronkite", will be the definitive biography of walter cronkite. the fact that douglas brinkley wrote it in my high regard for him, and the fact that walter cronkite, of course, is so well known and loved in our country, having this kind of a biography is an excellent thing for us to have poor documentation in the future. the last book.

i have a chapter in this book. it is vital voices. vital voices is an organization that was formed with senator hillary clinton and myself as the honorary cochairs. i relate to this, and i put a chapter in, as did secretary of state hillary clinton. i have been so impressed by the roles that women have taken throughout the world, particularly in countries that are in trouble. the women leaders have emerged to create peace for honesty and integrity. or just to fight for human rights, in these countries where it is still lacking. all of us, i think, were taken with the women -- the treatment of women in afghanistan.

what they endured as well. the treatment they received, and how some of them emerged, even in the face of torture and death, to say that we can create a society here. we can fight for education for girls, which the united states has done since we have been, in afghanistan, have tried to help them be free of the taliban and al qaeda is infiltration. we have assisted insisted that all of the aid that america puts forward be for girls and women, as well as boys and men. "vital voices" is an organization that came from these experiences whereby the

voices honored each year, the women who have led in these countries and made a difference. every year that secretary of state hillary clinton and i have been the honorary cochairs, we have come to the award event. they are held at the kennedy center. these women get a validation that helps them pursue what they are doing in their countries. in some cases, it is the women who are building an economy. giving women like her opportunities for micro businesses. letting them earn for their families. in some cases, it is just standing up. we have had a rape victim in a village in pakistan who pursued

justice and got justice, and she turned back to create schools for both boys and girls in her village. she was a woman that i will never forget. she was so magnificent. even though she was illiterate, but she had a spirit and wisdom that was so far beyond her experience or education, it was within her. it is women like that who are honored by vital voices. the book, it is a wonderful book for the summer. it just came out. it talks about some of the great stories and what women coming together and honoring these great leaders can do to begin to bring an economy and inequality

in treatment for the women who are in countries thatdon't have the luxuries of freedom that we have in america. so those are three books that i would highly recommend to the readers the summer. they are not funny books or the light reading that some people like to read, but they are very sensitive. when you read a book like a biography of walter cronkite or lyndon johnson or the stories of these women who have done so much, i think it does enrich every one of us. i am kay bailey hutchison come and i hope you have a great summer of reading. >> for more information on this and other summer reading list, visit booktv.org. >> booktv attends a book party for mark