family and his wife and his children. they all live together on the ranch at that time that he was killed and most of them, are there which is a murder first hand. only his son was absent who was off looking for some cattle in the mountains at the time. economics, definitely but apparently love between them as well and i don't think i'm reading a dramatically for the record, the record supports that. >> were there any repercussions to the massacre from the indian side after it happened? >> that is a good question. no pity if they had resisted white particularly american encroachment since the early 19th century. lewis and clark, the whole two and a half years there was a fatal encounter in the discovery that involved the so-called to

madison fight in which the detachment from the discovery was merely run afoul that was involved there and so after after even before but certainly after they were very suspicious of the americans. they call the british operating out of canada by contrast a northern white man which i think sort of gives you an idea of the way they looked at the two groups and there were other reasons they hated the americans particularly whereas the canadian and british traders let them come to them a building for the trading post that it delivers letting the indians bring good to them. they went right into the heart of dhaka country to set their traps and this led the indians to distraction so there was a history of some conflict between the groups that was ameliorate

it certainly during the 18 twenties and thirties and forties with fur trade and sort of say relative period of the accommodation that evaporates in the 1860's when white americans show up in droves and a skit this turmoil because of the series of gold strikes as one person on the reservation i interviewed very generously agreed to talk to me and explained that in memorable terms as like water over a rock in terms of the influx over the 1860's and so they had a history of resisting anglo encroachment that after the massacre the curtain comes down and i would say in that final act just like that because they were so horrified that the americans what annihilate a smallpox can't they figured they were capable of anything and of course of their numbers were dwindling because of starvation and disease and it's pretty hard to

mount much offense for that matter and so it is definitive and even ten years afterwards, people who were involved on the american side with the massacre explained and recognized that it had a completely sort of before and after a fact in terms of the resistance and they were confined on to the reservation a pretty much ever after. any other questions? >> okay. thank you very much. appreciate it. [applause] >> key will be happy to sign your books. >> most happy to sign your

books. at the national press club talking to tevi troy. why did you write this book? >> i've always been interested in buying a presidential historian and i wanted to see how presidents get shaved and i realize the culture is a universal influence both on their child had as they are growing up with the different instance is and how the pop culture is their time. >> tell me how house pop culture changed in the white house? it started with the jefferson? >> in those days you only have a choice for education they were the written word or the performance and now obviously there are so many other options in technology and that is what i get asked as technology evolves,

there are so many ways for a president to get information or to be entertained but one thing that i wonder in the book is are they making better choices in this election. >> and how much -- how many changes are made how they communicate with other public? >> that is the whole point of the book while they are finding the new ways to get information themselves they find ways to get their own images and voices and their thoughts to the american public. the of 20 million twitter followers, that is unimaginable but jackson still gets his inaugurations to reach 10,000 people. warren harding reach 125,000 people in his post radio address to the nation and obviously president obama has 20 million twitter followers. >> how much have things changed from the television age until today in the last 40 or 50 years crux seen it is a huge component in the book and it really changed the way presidents interacted with the american people both as a political they were able to go on tv and tell

people they think that to talk about the military industrial but it also shaped and when you are a president you don't get to watch tv, you are tv. i tell how the bill clinton and monica lewinsky scandal, clinton, hillary and the soon to be governor went on vacation and they were trying to find a channel that didn't have the scandal and she couldn't find one and she finally settled on espn because there was no other channel that didn't have a scandal. >> where do you see technology going in terms of how the white house uses it? >> it is a great question. i worked in the white house [inaudible] now you have a dozen and was unimaginable not that long ago. any word that goes out of the white house goes through the white house staffing process to make sure every office signs off

on whatever it says to be the that is in possible -- >> is there a follow-up to this? >> we will have to see how the culture those. all the presidents from washington through obama we don't have to follow what we will have to have an additional president. >> so which president was your favorite in terms of the technology? >> bill clinton gets high marks in my book for his understanding of technology and his use of music. remember fleetwood mac stopped talking about tomorrow. he understood how to use television and he was watching the political conventions and he watched adamle stevenson's address and he also read a real and serious books so he gets high marks both ronald reagan gets high marks for his use of the media in the way that he

appeared with and as i say in the book without pop culture, ronald reagan had never would have made it through anything let alone president. >> thank you. >> this was a deliberate move and to simply and with a controversy, but was always the perspective of the government. in other words, she was the one that stuck out to say hello to the crowd. she was responsible. there was very much the idea, but she was a victim and she should have been protected and there was no protection. they said the formation of an elite force that led accompany her into the political rally where she was killed after.

we sell videos and pictures and we talked to the witnesses with 150 people and all the people we interviewed saw no formation, no elite force for the police protection and that was the duty of the government, that was the duty of musharraf. >> the former assistant secretary general

we are talking with ida jones at the national press club. tell us about your dhaka on mary mcleod bethune. estimate is about her as a washington resident from 1943 to 1949 and became in the 1930's to work with the fdr administration and she served as the director of the national deily commercial use administration and she was taken by her leadership can deter the director of the actual organizations itself. by the conservative right to vote in the house, they have lost their funding by by at that time she was able to grow the council of women in the organization. >> what did he learn about her in this book and we probably didn't know before? >> we learn she's not only a local figure here in washington bg, ka she is a global figure and because of jim crow in d.c., the city that it was she purchased a property at