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[inaudible conversations] >> thank you. >> i would like you to say hi to jeannie. >> hello, how are you doing? >> i am doing good, good. >> hello, this is a great day. >> yes, it is. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> do you know where cohost over here? >> it would be nice of you to meet him. >> that's great. >> thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> congratulations. i really admire you. >> thank you, thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

>> your book is very, very good. >> thank you. >> i will tell her you said hi. two thank you. >> i will tell you that her son is graduating. >> thank you so much, i appreciate it. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> it's a great story. it is a unifying story. >> thank you, thank you. >> they really brought people together. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for coming. thank you very much. >> i will be with you at some ungodly hour in the morning. it's to thank you, i appreciate that. >> oh, my goodness. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

>> there is more to it than you offer now. >> thank you so much. >> congratulations. >> thank you, i appreciate it. you, too. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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they said that he was a good man. i thought that was nice, but i realized that i wanted to start thinking about it. that he was heralded as a great man in newspapers and so forth. what made him good with the fact that he was married to the woman of his dreams were 56 years. he raised five kids, all of them who love him. he had a daily intense relationship with god. he went to daily mass every day. he had countless friends. i don't mean governors or cabinet secretaries -- he had real friends, and guys at the national air force. those who waited in line at restaurants for 35 years. waiting in line and said to me, your dad was a good man and turned around and walked out of the weight. he clearly had the ability to balance his faith and his family and friends. his commitment to the community and to the world.

he taught us how to deal with aging parents, make a commitment to god, will try to do something with my life. i decided i need to dig in and figure out what the secret of my jabber. that is what that book is. a series of stories about a guy who lived and balance these interests. i think he did it very well. he did a good job doing that. the principles that structured his wife or his faith and sense of hope and love. that faith, which was nurtured in him as a child, sustained him through the depression when his family lost all money. they put them through high school and college and through law school, all on scholarships, and the fact that that faith survived with them through world war ii when he signed up the day after graduating from yale law school to go fight in the war,

that faith demand of hope. it demanded active hope, whether it was in chicago were working on the catholic interracial council to integrate the schools and hospitals in the city, or whether it was the creation of the peace corps. services for the poor, the job corps, those important programs. ultimately, the acts of love. i know it sounds kind of corny, but he really believe that. you see that commitment to love in his relationship with my mother of 56 years. you also see seen in the fact that some have said that the greatest sign of faith hope and love for him with the fact that he chased my mom for seven years before she agreed to marry him. there was a seven-year courtship before they got married. they both had accommodation of faith, hope and love. he was exemplary in his role as a father and grandfather. bobby got busted for pot in

1970, so i'm not saying anything about that. [laughter] [laughter] he said at that point, uncle bobby had died a few months earlier. dad was thinking of running for governor of maryland. congressman hoyer worked on that. he was told, as the plane landed, it was on the front page of "the new york times." he remembers walking down the hall, and dad said, sit down. and he sat down and said you are a good kid. i love you, it's going to be fine and i will take care of you. that was it. there was no yelling or screaming. nothing like that. that was the end of the conversation. bobby knew that he was loved and supported. i think when you look at a guy that gave unconditional love like that, when i went into the peace corps, big public announcement was made, and then when i walked out a few months

later -- he was a guy that -- he said that's fine, how do you want to make a difference in what you want to do? we had that conversation. never once was bad language expressed in disappointment. he was a man that loved unconditionally. i hope that how to balance fatherhood in faith and friendship is what the book is really about. i'm going to tell my story. greg jordan, in a house here, helped me out of baltimore to put this book together. the end of the book, we were finishing up in grades that i got engaged. i said, congratulations. and i said what happened? will put you over the top? and he said it was her father. your father has become a friend of mine.

and i thought that he was telling me to make a commitment to love and commitment to a girl of my dreams. a lifetime commitment to the girl of my dreams. i hope this helps people deal with being a better father and mother, helps them deal with balancing everything and helps you be a better friend. i hope you get a new friend by reading this book. thank you, very much. two. [applause] [laughter] [laughter] [laughter] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> here is a look at some books being published this week. the daughter of winston and clementine churchill recounts

her time in "a daughter's tale." neil borofsky argues that the officials who perpetuated economic crisis pander to big banks instead of considering public interest. a member of the judicial watch resents his thoughts on the obama administration, including obamacare, they allow, and guantánamo bay. in his book, the corruption chronicles. in global weirdness, severe storms come and deadly heat waves, rising seas, and the weather of the future. journalism and research foundation climate central analyzes the big questions regarding climate change. look for these titles at book stores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on

booktv.org. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> the inventor of information, and also, books about claude shannon, which is by james book called information and by george dyson on mr. turned and mr. shannon. claude shannon is a great figure from bell labs who i've been following for decades. i have studied telephone and internet and this required me to master information theory. and i discovered that

information theory is perfectly aligned to economics and actually gives a better way of explaining capitalism than the existing models that are based on a false imitation of determining physical theories. it's not a material system, it is an information system. just as a key measure of information under claude shannon's theory is news or unexpected bits or a surprise, so in capitalism, key factor is profit, which is the surprising upside of entrepreneurial creativity. these books by james