likely nest mayor of the city of new york proposed universal child care to be paid for by taxing the wealthy, you know, okay. probably won't happen, but it's being talked about. it's going to increase. eventually, eventually, we are going to end up looking a little bit more like europe. >> host: i put a lot of faith in the sloi personal experience. you watch tv, guys take care of their children more than there was two or three years ago. it's mainstream sit coms, everyone has shows, "guys with kids," whatever, so you see that, it's normal, you pick your kids up, a situation of a lot of men these days. you just like ac la mate. >> guest: all i say is, like, in the corporation to say that you want on-site child care,

we've thought of that as a women's issue. it's not. it's a parents' issue. you know, when men come out as parents, we'll say, this is what i want. of course; women won't get it unless men support it too. i say there's -- this is in the grater gender equality is in men's interest, but greater argument of giving it up, guys, the ship sailed. that may be true, but i want men to be motivated towards this. i think that the quiet accommodation is the biggest trend, and as the most dominant one, there's a rippling effect. i think that that's terrific because he sees that in all over the country that men are far more -- all over the country. this is not a red or blue state or even a purple state thing. this is across the board. they are valuing them. you know, the courts are going to have to recognize this

eventually. >> host: ending on that wonderfully on optimistic note,a pleasure, congratulations on the book. >> guest: great, thank you. >> host: sure. >> joining us now on booktv is james restton, jr., the newest

book called "the accidental victim: jfk, oswald, and the real target in dallas." what do you mean by "the real target in dallas," it's a story, but there's been 50 years of conspiracy theories on the jfk assassination, and i think all of them are nonsense. i think we have to bring it down to the mind set of lee harvey, the killer. what i attempt to do here is go to the core of the motives for picking up the weapon on november 22. you put two things together, first. the attitude towards kennedy where he had absolutely no an mouse towards the president at all, and, in fact, admired the president for his policy, but being in the car with kennedy, he had a long standing grudge that had to do with his change

in the military's discharge from honorable to dishonble. he blamed him for this because he appealed to changes. that was back in 1962, and that hounded him to change in the discharge, hounded him for the next year and a half. i believe he put that on frustrations, so he had a rage and anger, but no such attitude towards kennedy at all. >> host: how did you do the research 50 years later? >> guest: well, i published a biography of john connely in 1989. in fact, i was on booktv back then in 1989. . .

>> history of american infrastructure next on book tv. the author, a naturalized u.s. citizen follows in the footsteps of those who aided in its geographic reunification of the country. from lewis and clark's exploration of the american west to civil engineer thomas mcdonald's creation of the interstate highway system. this is about an hour.