started out with comic they did not want to go back can't fight again. but we had no idea who they belong to what we found them but all the information was taken from them. the first day, and the first place. it was a constant struggle to see where these men belong and some light because they showed cowardice with the captures. say that i have a hundred men yesterday never mind.

[laughter] >> actually the naval units moved back all those still was pointing at the annapolis hospitals and other areas. then there was not a trace. is not just the big battles the civil war history literally in your backyard. i will see if i of a the

also re-read with the camp every where with the history i just want people to know about it. >> host: for those of a certain age on our screen is a to an earlier phase, a kennedy. mtv vj. what is your history and what is your real full name? >> kennedy montgomery.

that was too long for the radio starting in los angeles 1981 so we just chose kennedy that was it my name on the air. >> host: how did you get to mtv? >> my a vote on dash my boss people give me a hard time for being naked on a horse. that is a donkey. my boss at the radio station went to mtv to be the senior vice president of programming. and at the time they were having a changing of the guard, the look, they wanted new p.j. and fortunately i was in the right place at the right time. so that i became a vj 1992. >> host: how did that

change your life? >> i moved to new york guy did not know what to expect. the night before i was shopping in a garage restore and i thought will i be mont the next time? i assumed it would be no light switch but that took a long time to be recognized and it was interesting and strangely and loan the i was far away from my family but i knew the grated ginger had begun if i made it great promise to myself i would maximize every moment to take advantage of every interview and appearance. >> host: were you a conservative at that time? >> self identified at that time i did dawn with a libertarian was. one of my co-workers introduced me to libertarianism. ayer heard it and knew it had great mystique that was

strange and little understood in politics but i identified with a conservative republican. >> host: were you out? >> now that first. i went to a 13 week trial period i did not want to get fired i did not know how icily -- easily i could be dismissed so i kept politics to myself but i also enjoyed a little political discourse if people were not informed or under in for deborah like to correct course. >> host: why did you keep a private? >> mtv was known to be pretty leftist a lot of our bosses were baby boomers with a the campaign in the network catalog of access. there were not pushing clinton but a lot of people

were excited and they did not try to hide their politics. at some point i was ousted from "the washington post." >> host: then could you talk politics on the air? >> i wasn't encouraged because i was not the host of the political show also not encouraged to talk about volleyball. they wanted me to talk about the music they did have interviews that were political and occasionally we would get into heated discussions. in his world if you don't agree you are the enemy. but when night came across

but marilyn manson did you would assume they have the free and easy lifestyle but it is more confining than any other that i have come appointed my career. >> host: was a powerful? >> i think it was because they realized it was a generation of voters and also this is the time in your of the eight teens and early 20s who are the most passionate and realizing if you could turn into politics it would be an incredible force. regardless if i agreed or disagreed of the politics, i liked the fact they wanted

to the engage people and wanted people to learn about their own political meanings and feelings. sometimes i was stepping in and get of little bloody but thought it was the benefit to of all because when you really challenge it will make you a better person now politically but all around. >> host: you call the choose or lose campaign choose clinton lose bush. >> guest: that is what it felt like they've wanted to get rid of the reagan-bush years and you have to realize 1982 economically it was pretty depressed. the people wanted optimism toots' turn the page and a and since you had over the

elimination. >> host: of the your entire time that mtv drug and alcohol and smoke-free a vegetarian and virgin. >> guest: to have all those things in the same person was pretty rare. is here is an entire stream in the community that that was the wisest thing you could do but i did not have that intention or foresight to gesso happened i was sober i did not find the drug czar alcohol did anything for me i did not want to do anything stupid. i honestly did not need them it was much more fun thing

and my friends that got sloshed the '94 than they do what jackasses they had been. >> host: you also talk about the amounts of cocaine that were available. >> i joked plastic surgeons on the call but it was basic cable. nobody would foot that bill. that was a joke. people that what think maybe the privileged and affluent. >> host: what happens when clinton and al gore came to visit. >> guest: i was not to allow there they would find a far this place for me to travel and they would take me there it was in a working environment with a camera crew otherwise i would have

struck back on the train to see if i could cause trouble they would always find a remote for be in someone with real power was visiting the studio because they were worried i would say something like guided not only embarrass the network get in trouble with the government. >> host: you have a chapter in your, what is this about? >> guest: the 1993 inaugural ball because the president would visit many cotillions that night. it is a play on words. >> host: explained that chapter. >> guest: and tb was thrilled to finally throw the of rock-and-roll inaugural ball and this was the greatest that i have ever seen in that moment of

the biggest people on earth were all at the mtv and now it year-old ball. if you were a staffer or lobbyist you would have punched a somebody in the mouth to get a ticket. >> host: why we allowed to go? >> i was on air the jay so bill bellamy and i were the new people. i went to in there with a great deal of sadness because i felt the country was going down the tubes. >> host: when bill clinton and al gore went on stage to right said grand old party boys hit by a instinctively started to chant nixon now. we became nostalgic because we thought it could not get much worse. there were bumper stickers

in 1992 he is ready nixon now because he was still alive at that point. we thought how ironic. >> host: why are you here at freedom fest? >>. >> guest: i am working with reason tv for a year-and-a-half and i love it and i love the pieces that they do with them with a ton of creativity and a solid message i don't think libertarians should allow anyone to define them and that means different things to different people and you should define that for yourself. it brings so many different types together that question what is the function of government? should we be on the gold standard? oh what a precious metal and gold here. i like that. i where that right now. >> host: have your

politics have changed over the years? >> guest: not drastically but how we feel a certain issues as seibald did this after i left mtv i refined my voice as a libertarian because curr loader gave to me with the book of mine rand in said you are really libertarian i was doing talk radio in seattle that is a very political tel but if you get outside seattle people are more conservative and they don't even know they are libertarian that is when i started to engage in the discussion to bring people to fly to let them realize the believe 70 about limited government to do do on their own that people are the best barometer for their own choices and actions. i have always felt that way but now it is for particular

issues to be in talk radio, of breaking and working for reason has helped that. >> host: what you think about the current political situation in america? >> guest: it is interesting for a group of people to show how you do it how people's lives can be better because now we see in so many ways fat government can be a terrifying force. if you think about it when a conspiracy theorist seem rational you know, the government is in trouble. >> host: you have another chapter this is about mayor guiliani? what is it about? >> in his young tenure in

1994 tried to bring them back to new york city and mtv was going to take it out of time square and for the first year they said we will let the veejay be a part of the show present the award, walked the red carpet you will be treated like stars it was right before may 22nd birthday one of the first things i did the mayor of new york city. i was so excited for this moment we were ready to go on my tv then the biggest award of the night and bill and i were to present that but then i was called up as

a republican is she had seen me backstage doing something with my mouth with rush limbaugh and i had never met him and the crowd started to do and it freaked me out so when we came on they were booing very quickly in so i did that on the microphone and then they started to laugh but it did not ochered to my brain in that 60 seconds that that could have severe ramifications not me in my job but mtv and their relationship with new york city. sova ceo the owner of viacom is saying who is this kennedy? who is this person?

he literally wanted me fired to that second and the fact i kept my job three more years is a miracle beyond my own understanding. >> host: what is mtv's role? has it been positive? >> guest: i certainly think my era was very positive that is one reason i wrote the book because every generation has their own era. they'll have their time in a sign mine was the '90s. and it is such a great contrast with the way media is now. that is one of the reasons that you could see the music on tv. it was something we took for granted that you don't see any more and women were portrayed with tiffany went

to put it in a book that is a fun read a and you can have your policy books and your period biographies but then at the beach with the kids' easter this in your bag he and live in a time that will be great for you i just want to take people back to experience that again they remember the names in the time in the experiences now they getting in detail. >> host: what you doing now? >> guest: correspondent for john stossel on fox business a contributor for reason tv i am doing things in the york and los angeles castle have a morning show is a los angeles and alternative music show that i interview behan's i get to see young up-and-coming bands how they fight to get attention through a very

crowded landscape is possible but i talk to the established plan to have been around 20 years like no doubt, lincoln park, garden park, garden, and how they struggled to break through even with a catalog of hits spitting 20 years or more. >> host: hatter politics limited your opportunities in your chosen field? >> guest: there is a limiting factor but i have to be true to what i believe. i have a wonderful husband into beautiful girls. my husband owns a snowboard company and is a retired snow border he has a manufacturing plant in southern california it is so funny to hear my girls talk about him going to the factory and they think they

are joking. but i want my girls to know that you can be true to who you are in speaking your own voice and still have a good life will people always judge to me you cannot focus on that. >> host: are you stopping cars restorers today? >> i do. a lot of people see me on stossel. they love john stossel and the message with a pure libertarian in the great person and a wonderful mentor. an older crowd, a college-age students know me from the reason videos than people who remember me from mtv and i have a long this conversations with them with the good old days. >> host: are there closet conservatives in hollywood?

>> guest: and they have well organized meetings to talk about ideas sometimes they include libertarians are get frustrated or think they are sellouts trying to make the world have me but we know they are the most consistent wraparound -- a group around. >> host: we have been talking to kennedy about the kennedy chronicles the -- here is the cover. this is booktv on c-span2.

>> anything about the bay, size, by this point it is a shallow bay 20 or 30 feet over all with a tremendous number of creeks and streams that feed into which. wonderful fishing then you also kayak or can do what we enjoy is the varied see life, a fishing, experience is you can have with the sea birds that are everywhere. at 1.we saw dolphins hand over the years as a and i

wrote the liveliness people that ought then i should write something about it but what i discovered is even though there are many short studies of the bay in various topics i thought no one brought them together in one book so mine is all the stories told a and the in depth research. >> with said the and are especially the fisheries area and also but the fisheries, howff they have been doing over the years.

and the conclusions are difficult but we catch fish today. but the catch has diminished so you kind of wonder revere going with the cleanup of the bay that is a perpetual topic coming up every year in the paper and the studies that come out with the chesapeake bay foundation and the biological laboratory. everybody is working toward a better day but it just seems to take a long time to get there. overtime since the '80s new laws have been put into a defect to inhibit development of the shore areas as a eyes it back that

also prevents them from taking down the shrubbery and trees that are right on the water. we now have river keepers better paid to patrol the creeks and the rivers and keep track of what might be illegal with the encroachment on the protected bay property. that is what is happening now. people come into use of day the thin their on dash head boats? debuts strike is a lucky and

recreational boating ser is over one hand to 50,000 on the day today only 50 percent of the entire population come i don't consider this to be a complete story. there is room for other work but it does give an image of the day at a particular time. in all aspects whether the fisheries, a trade, at one time coming from the forms and with the bugeyes a golf of fright but they went away in the early 20th century replaced but what van did do

with their hands is the and get the same time began to diminish resources. i applaud people to come away with the depth and beauty of the chesapeake here sid japan to condition. to see no other people were killed in the ninth and enjoy. fall has begun.

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