home. i do love to cook but this is a great picture and a great family story right here i would love to people to do about that is tradition. the left-hand side is george romney the greatest guy in the world, he brought the family together we had to be there on the fourth of july and homemade vanilla ice cream was part of the celebration he is turning it and those are my sons waiting for their taste, that spoonful before it goes to the freezer and on the of their side is a picture of my husband journey the homemade vanilla ice cream with the same recipe with our grandchildren. now these boys children

waiting to taste the ice cream so the things that we love to pass on its traditions to bring families together to share experiences. >> host: is mitt romney a good cook? we mckee is fantastic in the kitchen and helps me out. thanksgiving morning he stuffs the bird, and saute the celery and onions and is very helpful in the kitchen. he is also one of the most responsible people because anyone that worked hard in the kitchen he takes them out and cleans up themselves that is a thrill for anyone so he is fantastic in the kitchen. >> host: are people getting family photos that have never been published before? bid you will see a lot and the one in the cover makes me laugh everytime i see it because we get together in

the summer with all the grandchildren you hear about the of romney family olympics than these competitions but we had a watermelon eating competition. they could not use their hand the you will notice they're all using there hands. it makes me laugh because they're all competitive it got at it very quickly they would not eat much without their fingers. see you can see the little ones are really grabbing on. >> host: hopefully you did that outside. did you put this together after the campaign? how did your life changed with your schedule? >> if you care intensely fly all over the country of being here and there having

the media following neo busloads and planeloads every word you say everything you do documented with intense scrutiny and intense activity and political fund-raisers fund-raisers, interviews they do just go from the moment you wake up and crashed at night than several years. then the next day, it is done. it is over. that kind of energy was just such intensity it is a huge adjustment in so many different ways. of course, we were disappointed with the loss but i kept feeling for months after words, this is my sentiment, a coach, put me in. the game is over. but that is how i felt. put me in. and sitting on the bench. put me in.

that energy takes a long time to dial back down. but now it has and i am back to normal life into normal life schedule the life is wonderful and i am busy with the book but i really believe with the family that so many problems could be solved with good strong values to take care of each

other. not just government that solves a lot of problems. >> host: you guys are riding? so we can expect? >> we have been thinking but we have been doing a lot of thinking and prod thinking about challenges that "face the nation" and i know he is thinking about energy and how those needs will increase broadly with the energy demands that will be much bigger in china and india so he is abroad thinker he was a consultant for years then he was in business known as the turnaround by but his ability his unique talent to think about big problems

looking at the unusual angle how to solve big problems either of you will hear the end of either one of us. with lover country in families and we are concerned. >> host: how incognito kgb today? >> not very much. i can do pretty well with no makeup and a ponytail and i can hide better than it. it is very difficult to go out in public everybody has a camera phone and once to be on facebook if you can imagine every 10 seconds if you just try to walk down the street, it is hard because we don't have security it is just he and i. but it is all right in those

people of very appreciative of what we went through in very grateful. so it is the testament to what we have been thorough for us to still be recognized. >> host: talk about the romney family of your family also grew up in michigan what is this picture? you talk about the cabin your father built? he built this on lake michigan and i love campaigning in michigan and i love the great lakes and what my family taught me beyond how to cook, they adored me and how love die was. we had note monday at all as a welsh immigrant family that we had a lot of love. my father built this cabin

with his bare hands really go on the weekends and i remember doing the wiring and plumbing in pouring this amanda was a very small child but i wasn't helping that the impressions that i got from being independent building with your own two hands coming to this country with nothing then having the opportunities and the great blessings to be the extraordinary country were taught to me by my father my dad it my brother we were in the woods. i grew up catching frogs a and snakes in the michigan woods. >> host: would you encourage your sons to go to politics? >> a mother of two minds on that. because a recognized we need honest and decent and good

people to run but i also love my children. it is very tough to put yourself out of public because your the instead target for criticism that is often not deserved it quite abusive to go through this you have to be prepared. as we out of five would have absolutely no interest i never have to worry about it but i have to sense that love the game. my oldest son and my number three son josh. my oldest son was a massachusetts so it is hard as a republican to do anything. but my son joshua i could see him do something down the line. >> host: finally shadow mountain is your publisher? >> guest: they have been fantastic representing me helping me to get the book out.

there the ones that my son went to they jumped on it and thought it was a fantastic idea they're helping to represent the book now and they do think it will be a big success. >> host: what is your favorite recipe? >> guest: is his favorite it is my favorite to cook because of is there love the fact bringing family together so this is a meat and potatoes cook book is his favorite food which is meat loaf that maybe surprising to people but he is not he is meet and potatoes and sweet potatoes so this is for home cooking it is not a fancy cookbook. >> we have a kitchen in this

is his birthday be celebrated rather late i remember the first chance i had to get the family together to be off the trail for one day the first thing i did was get ready in may can his favorite dinner. >> host: "the romney family table" coming of fall 2013. think you for being on booktv.

>> i am a voracious reader particularly of history so this summer i started with two books one is called revolutionary summer one of my favorite historians that is a fascinating look allow was happening to both hour political perspective man military perspective what i love about that book is a represent the york the cause could represent that ragtag group against the mightiest military power on earth with the british because the police of the book them to lose the battle but when the war. the other book is called children of fortune about

the vanderbilt empire just house several decades after that commodore died the extraordinary wealth of that family had dissipated so i enjoy that book because it talks about how temporal wealth was the importance of longevity and policies.

[applause] fate you for coming. i was delighted to get the invitation into come here. it could not be a more appropriate place to give a talk to mark the publication of my book it is great to be your. i am not a physicist with my a background aviation start by saying how did i get to right a biography in what is it occurred to me to do that? it began 12 years ago to review a collection of correspondents and up until

that point i knew about oppenheimer the river betty else with a security clearance was taken away but that is all i knew. i did not know he was writing poetry or short stories or expert a french literature but he calls himself sanskrit deeply interested in hinduism and he taught himself to read the classics in their original i did end of this city detail in the thirties and i found them absolutely fascinating there is a really interesting biography after this was published they got in touch to say why