[inaudible conversations] >> you just heard from sharon weinberger on the pentagon agency darpa. in a few minutes we will be back with more from the gaithersburg book festival. [train horn] >> books being published this week.

look for these titles in bookstores this week and many authors in the future on booktv@c-span2. >> a great sense of humor, a lot of jokes and stories, so much humor.

he usually used it to make a bigger point. and to put people at ease. and pretty nervous. and often use humor. and stories make a significant point. we need to realize humor is an important component. i don't say by a joke book or anything. you can take the role seriously, without taking yourself too seriously. ronald reagan was excellent at using self-deprecating humor making himself the butt of the joke. didn't take himself too seriously and that allowed people around him to relax and of people around him were relaxed they were in their best work out. i was not terrified the guillotine was going to fall working for this man.

he surrounded us with such an era of acceptance and appreciation and sense of humor about things because not everything went perfectly. sometimes things went wrong. when you were part of that regardless how hard you tried to make everything perfect things didn't go as planned. he was always gracious to roll with that, to have a sense of humor. as someone who worked for a man like that you were not afraid to try something new, put yourself out a little bit, take a chance. you know he has your back. whether it was presidents before him or presidents that had come after him. what? he also had great respect for women. he talks about his mother is the most important person in his early life. so much was written about his relationship with mrs. reagan and the respect they had for

each other. mother teresa came to visit the office and this little tiny woman he recognized as being a giant on the world stage, had amazing respect for her, being the first president to put a woman on the supreme court with the appointment of sandra day o'connor, very proud of. he respected their role, many years ago that wasn't one of our big issues but it was important to him to show respect. as a young woman working for him i felt his utmost respect toward me and his appreciation for the value that i have. he was a man of incredible patriotism and that is something you would expect from a president but having been behind the scenes with him that was not something he did when the cameras were rolling. this man was patriotic to the core. how many times do you think he heard the star-spangled banner, the national anthem, or any of

these other songs being played. we have guests come to the office, they would perform for him and thing for him or play music for him, you can imagine if you're playing for the president what will you probably perform? probably patriotic music. here is this man who has heard these songs 1000 times before but i would watch him and as the song would start you see him tapping his toe in time, singing along every word to every word versus i didn't know it existed. he knew every word. he would stand up at attention out of respect, put his hand over his heart, there were certain songs that were so beautifully performed, he would look over and see tears misting up in his eyes. man who was patriotic to the core. he loved this country. it meant something to him. he felt the honor and privilege of having served at the highest level, he was proud of what he

represented and proud of what america represented on the world stage. he hoped it was okay with mrs. reagan that there was another woman in his life, he would talk about lady liberty being the other woman in his life which was especially sweet and he would describe lady liberty is this beautiful feminine lady who was the beacon of freedom for the world. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here is a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's afterwards, our weekly author interview program.

>> they have shown, universities have shown and the obama administration has shown resoundingly that they are incompetent and doing this and terribly biased. incompetence is they don't know how to investigate, they don't have subpoena power, they don't do scientific evidence. they train their so-called adjudicators by telling them almost all guys who do this are guilty. if the guy is persuasive and

logical that is a sign of guilt. if he is not persuasive and logical, that too is a sign of guilt. this is standard practice i'm describing. i think that the question is, is there any way this system can be reformed so that it is not so guilt presumes, theoretically there is and i hope the trump administration will take steps to do it. in practice i have doubts knowing what campuses are like today, knowing how skewed to the left and the extreme feminists by their attitudes are, maybe not all of them but people who make the noise, leadership is afraid of. i don't trust any campus in america to do a decent job at this. >> afterwards airs at 10:00 pm and sunday at 9:00 eastern. you can watch all previous after

words programs on our website, booktv.org. >> now you have people - don't tell me they are entrepreneurs. what does that have to do with education. what does rex tillerson really know about being secretary of state? look at the vicious sexism against hillary clinton. we know about the racism against obama. we can't even speak about the sexism against hillary clinton. it was so normalized we didn't remark on it. she was smart, more smart in her little finger and donald trump possessed in the ever ascending follicular fidelity of his holding on hair. [applause] >> i made an exception. then here we are, all these white folks and