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not. >> to assign this up? then does what i want to know. carry this with your wife mitt we had to introduce her to the kitchen because that is the one part she does not tell. [laughter] >> the other day we did that [laughter] i want some toast.

[laughter] >> this was a darker color in the art was different. so we bright to ended up in the earlier the process to change out the carpet and some of the furniture. it has been almost 20 years. because the interview with kerry is scheduled at 2:00 rand 5:00. civic going down to miami to borrow -- tomorrow.

then las vegas. >> it is so odd to walk qdoba street to see elvis. >> it is just amazing. >> let's go talk to him about changing diapers. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] did you wash dirty hands after?

congratulations. [inaudible conversations] you made it. fantastic. i have won the stage.

>> then it comes from running the show. let's get you. >> fantastic. >> thanks for coming. things were coming. >> how is the life? how is the family? >> busy busy.

three kids. >> sari. sees bin tv. [laughter] it was nice of you to come. >> i can sleep in my own bed in washington tomorrow night is the first night in three weeks. i cannot wait to get home that monday we leave sunday afternoon then monday afternoon we fly to dallas. that should be fun. i've spent more time in ohio

>> they wanted we do have an ohio driver's license. they were charging for that. i did not even try. jedi helped a little girl. and they call this afternoon that is nice. >> they have arrived. base to see you.

>> how are you? client coming your way. joseph we were talking about you win in cincinnati on monday. >> i will be there. >> who is your guy is cincinnati? >>? a guy named david. i talked to him on the phone talking about his experience.

the first might have worked on the campaign and he is 34. [laughter] >> thanks for the hat to. i love that. i was sent a hat it was cool and it had a detachable peace. >> fantastic. base to see you. >> excellent. fantastic. >> i don't mean to be personal but where? is tough.

the billionaire dotard -- daughters? it took me months. end of lost a lot of blood. [laughter] >> that is what people say. yes, yes, yes. [laughter] statement we were worried you would not come back. [laughter] i know whose sense that out. >> 500?

the other things. >> the campaign? >> he is having a blast. >> id has been a fun. >> i have not seen you.

[inaudible conversations] >> we know each other. >> my campaign manager. >> do you live here? >> yes and then a couple years ago.

>> but good for her. thanks for coming. so the books are coming down? >> the turkish review or something else? there was a nice review. and a very nice review tomorrow. >> now the you know, ? >> i agree very good

student. >> andrew? is fantastic. he is a computer programmer. yes. he is very good. [inaudible conversations] >> i am so grateful.

spee vicki would frequently test me. >> if you would use your own advice. [laughter] >>. >> speaker? definitely. >> we're thinking new year's.

>> i do have a couple of defense for the world affairs killed so. called -- council. >>. [laughter] once a month we get together for lunch. is we ravenous. -- ravenous. >> very good. maybe we could get their race card into the house.

>> 1876? >> i would love that. >> we will table to and around in the york. -- hamilton in new york. >> i need to read more about hamilton. you have the wrong turn out to. and then with the richard burr kaiser i sent it to him. i said why don't i really doubt myself? i had forgotten how the 1800's election was. and then we were all in tv a couple of years ago but ted richard brookheiser has some

great quotations. >> but the government's process. >> and they were making that up. >> with every consideration impossible. >>. >> in the you will come back? >> i will sign books all evening. i can sign the adelgid just

described them. let's do that. >> that nizolek old name -- that is an old name. >> fabulous. you have a handkerchief? [inaudible conversations] >> we're waiting for him to raise his book on teddy roosevelt. [laughter]

>> what other public events are you doing? >> american enterprise institute in january. then a woman's club the say one is john mecham. [inaudible conversations] >> o there we go. when you finish you will know how important.

>> watch this. watch this. watch this. i worked on that. [inaudible conversations] >> i feel like i am a kardashian. >> that is longer than karl rove.

>> our you? [inaudible conversations] >> i will make that out to you no matter what. you are stuck with it. >> one is to bill sanders.

[inaudible conversations] there you go. fabulous. is kelly in rhode island? >> new picture -- new hampshire. >> is getting colder rand colder further north. [inaudible conversations]

that his the interjection -- handkerchief. >>. >> deal with down there iran gave a lecture. he has ben talking about you ever since. [laughter] >> she invited me to come. also my condolences. [laughter]

[inaudible conversations] what could be better? there you go. how are you? congratulations. nobleman who makes those is my wife's best friend. she will not let me pay for them so of course, i send them to everybody. [laughter] [inaudible conversations]

he is around here someplace. did you see you when you came in? we did break up your donkeys. right here. steven colbert rigo.

>> there we go. [laughter] >> do you want me to hold your bag over here? [inaudible conversations]

spee dec i am trying not to keep track they stews see you again. how are you? >> if she's still in impose brings? into another one for my father.

>> fantastic. if you need any let me know. >> good memory. good for you. i will reach out to my longtime subscriber.

>> with the paper product or the web site. [inaudible conversations] >> come over here. how are you? how his life? i have been here 30 days this year.

four or five i will be back in shape during. >> just coming back from beirut and has an apartment at the watergate you were welcome to that. seriously. spee beck will you sign this? >> absolutely. [inaudible conversations]

is this year's someplace. >> merry christmas stick then they are texting. very funny. what is that? what have you done? >> is a that's a fabulous very christmas. >> great to see you.

beside your brother had a great visit with him. >> fabulous. give me a hug. [inaudible conversations] >> there we go. i am not giving up is just taking longer than i thought.

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible] should i make it out to you? into one for me. >> who is the next one and?

>> i am the father a lot. [inaudible conversations] there we go. thank you good to see you. karl rove.

[laughter] maya indian. where is she? >> not kier. [laughter] one dash year. >> my sister was coming. >> michigan will play wild characters. >> thanks for coming. nice to see you.

[laughter] that is familiar. >> is a labor of love. >> but first i had to clear out 18 plastic bins of archival material. did you get the book? how would you like that inscribed? [inaudible conversations]

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[inaudible conversations] >> there we go. excellent. to fill.

>> ladies ended gentleman we will welcome you to tell our coated we're delighted most if you are sheer. [laughter] we are particularly pleased to be celebrating karl rove. he was an architect when he failed at that. [laughter] but he found his true calling as a historical scholars and wrote a brilliant and engaging book that has a lot of characters that remain to be of this fellow that i do food rand a presidential campaign and executed brilliantly but they clearly needed fibers six where george w. all the needed one. and my wife in particular particular, has the pleasure

of in the pain of working with him in the ball white house. [laughter] we are all very pleased you are here and congratulations on a brilliant book which i recommend to all of you. [applause] >> thanks for opening their little modest cottage. [laughter] i have to litigate i was unsettled because the manuscript that cited schuster final stages of editing going back and forth of the gremlins as we go to the final edit i get a call that says i was sad editor last night's with wade who loves your book and i thought what son of a bitch

gave him the biggest curve. [laughter] so i called simon & schuster to cover my ass i don't know who gave that to him. [laughter] i have been nine cities in the last four days. so i am grateful for you to cause people to show up. [laughter] also my lawyer is great to has been your lawyer throughout 41 and 43 and reagan and clinton and then

gave me a gigantic and creance. my wife will be forever grateful. also i want to thank her that she had to put up with the way back machine. where are you? particularly the last three years that was we disappearing in front of the computer she went to the archival material out of the house so she has been very supportive in this project. also somebody else has done a great deal of success crested is here. the chief of staff working on the presidential campaign and in order to keep my reputation but the book would have been awful without here. we have been partners over the last six years.

in between september 23rd. with one hand is 64 pages of material. she did a magnificent job and has an incredible eye in judgment and the only thing i could say to falter if she is obsessive about the oxford, . [laughter] who else has this? i gave up. i have always been the economy you don't need the extra up punctuation but it is only fitting if you have friends her mother has asked

me on her behalf. [laughter] she will never afford any personal attachments whatsoever. [laughter] also bought the food made a possible for me to do the book by keeping the out of jail. that is another story. [laughter] linda said mitt i am having fun going around the country tomorrow night for the first time in three weeks i will sleep in my imbed. i have studied this election as some of you did a but from the position of political science with populism and agrarian in the culture and economy and

conflict with the changing demography and industrialization and urbanization but the more i got into this it is one helluva story like it is concocted by a screenwriter drinking too much coffee and whiskey. has sex, violence, backstabbing betrayal courage, compassion , decepti on and fraud twists and turns that our weird and very cold nicknames. [laughter] what is not to like that the of all leader for the nomination led the fight to 30 years and his nickname is silver dick. [laughter] the first time i read that so we have to bring back the

napoleon of protection. cyclone davis. the easy blast. even he had a name for himself and the, -- the, or the easy boss. attended is the junior senator and then the 34 year-old congressman from chicago at the age of 22 shows that in the precinct to go in his first election and is so disgusted with the republican organization in chicago in two years changes from us a democratic to republican stronghold and is offered a seat on the committee than the streetcar conductor is given the more lucrative job bin though water department cook county

it at 28 head of the water department with employees underneath him. two years later he takes over the republican party and get himself elected and controls 10,000 jobs in chicago the and the most ardent opponent of mccann the in the race for the nomination. it was like this everywhere. there right to each other coated the letters i am in the archives reading letters there is one that has so many code words that they have written the meetings above the zero letters and he could make sense and from then to my register that politics has not changed.

he says i need appear ended this week and up pagoda next. three grand this week and five grand next it is a great story. i hope you enjoy it. i gave it everything i've got. but it is a magnificent story. we honor 414 listing at the age of 18 and shot down in the pacific and bob dole for a listing in the military to storm the beaches and jfk william mckinley at the age of 18 a number of the poland militia shows up that camp jackson april 61 fulfilling

the call for the baby day enlistment. they said sari we have filled a quota so side of for the duration or three years. said he enters as a private three years and leaves as the major because he has battlefield conditions and to the suicide missions what he determines for himself the bloodiest day of the civil war. it is safely behind the front lines. without having been fed and at 2:00 p.m. they find their way across the open field in there safely on the other side under the cover of a bluff in the chimney is

watching from the up back he decides he will resupply them because the men had nothing to eat or drink since the night before he organizes the stragglers boiled meat and makes his way toward the front and officer stops him and he explains you have to go a hundred yards of open territory in you will be killed or slaughtered he says i have to go forward the road is too narrow a half to turn around he has no intention just as the second officer comes upon him and he says i order you to the we are of the front-line and mckinley says yes, sir,.

then he comes out of the tree line and all hell breaks loose. here is the stupid guy going across open territory the only thing is dead bodies. literally a cannon shell and then to make it over the bridge in there is the commissary sgt he is getting him coffee. if he says god bless the l lad. it is recommended for the congressional medal of honor. >> said the age of 21 the second to the attendant and

then the brigade commander under the regiments under his command to there in an orchard about ready to be shot to pieces than the brigade commander picks out his most dependable the tenet wide diagonal and order them to withdraw. so they said it was a suicide mission. and is held. and hastings thinks he has gone down.

he makes it justin and nick of time the commander says can be give him a round? then mckim the will walked out of the orchard to give him a round and then have a orderly retreat. the commander turns around and is startled to say oh my god never expected to see you in this life again. they have seen two future presidents and one supreme court justice. a congressman and a governor but prefers the major.

and was a great legislator with a spokesman of economic policy. on the ways and means committee and adopts him messages in his proteges to become the most effective spokesperson on economic policy is respected by the democrats. if you have a narrow reelection they kick you out if then winning reelection by seven votes he knows from

the election committee he should be ejected. and then says he has to be reelected. and he make say wonderful speech. but he has been so effective is integrity is so on is that seven leading democrats including those on free trade as an act of respect. but his leading opponents vote for him which is under heard of. there is a great quotation that said my colleagues might be to the nail that they will apologize before

they call him names. >> i hope you enjoy the book and have a great holiday. the publisher will get a new car. the data for car is mckinley [laughter] >> if you have any burning questions in the end the war in the neighborhood if you have any questions keep them to yourself. [laughter]

it is the people selling buttons with the delegation is mostly black eland for. -- and for in the popular thing the tin man loved him so richards out i had one for a long time. lot of the things that was popular with a blue handkerchief with a stern portrait because it is very hot before air-conditioning. in that congressman from

ohio to wipe the top end is perspiring to wipe off the sweat. i thought it was a great thing. so i've made a copy for everybody. [applause] [inaudible conversations] . .