we embed with occupy wall street. i will say you have a whole generation that is just getting back on its feet. they have been disenfranchised economically, disenfranchised politically, dissatisfied with the media, young, which is dangerous, and they are pissed off. and god help us when the next economic downturn comes because you are going to see europe explode, southeast asia explode, the middle east explode. and if america hasn't forgotten its revolutionary past, america is going to explode, as well. >> you heard it here first. thank you all very much. [applause] >> thank you. >> next, a series of discussions on space travel. we will hear from what cunningham on the space race,

then greg olson talks about what life is life on the international space station. tomorrow night on book tv, the focus is on feminism. discussions of feminism and american women's movements. then katie pavlich. later, deborah road. that is tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> the c-span cities to her takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to austin texas. >> we are in a private sutiuite of

lyndon johnson. these were the private quarters -- they were not part of a tour. this has never been open to the public. you are seeing it because of c-span's special access. the mps come into this space as they did in lyndon johnson's day. the remarkable thing about this space is that it is really a living, breathing artifact. it hasn't changed at all since president johnson died in january, 1973. there is a document in the corner of this room, it tells my predecessors and my successors that nothing in this room can change. >> we are here at the 100 block of 1 hundred ave.

just down the block, the colorado river. this is an important historic site -- this is where water lose private -- where waterloo was. i am standing at the spot where the cabin was. this is where mirabella bar was staying when they got wind of this buffalo herd. lamar jumped on his horse in those days it was just a muddy ravine. the men galloped on their horses and stuffed their belts. and road in the midst of his herd of buffalo, and lamar shot this enormous buffalo. from there he went to the top of the hill and he told everybody that this should be the seat of future empire. >> watch all of our events from

austin saturday at noon, eastern. and sunday afternoon at 2:00. >> now, conversations with astronauts and private citizens who have flown into space. we begin with walter cunningham, the lunar module pilot on apollo 7. he talks about the early apollo missions and the space race, and the future of nasa. this is almost 50 minutes. >> thank you for coming out so early. we have a big program today. and we are very honored to have with us -- well, to start, and i think this is great chronologically -- apollo 7 astronaut walt cunningham.

we will get into some questions, but walt was on the apollo 7 flight, which was really make or break for the apollo flight program. they sent some unmanned ones up, and they had the terrible fire on apollo 1. these guys made it happen. we've had many legends on, but this is one of the greatest. let's hear it for walt cunningham. [applause] >> that is a pretty good welcome. >> i keep fearing i'm going to call him glenn cunningham, the old quarterback. i'm terrible with names. this is a great story. i want you to explain it. evidently, number 13 and 14 had a lot to do with your career. talk about it.

>> well, actually, like a lot of people, you learn things later that you did not know whether it was critical. but it must have been about 10 years ago, i get an e-mail from a friend of mine, paul haney head of public affairs when nasa selected me in 1963. how many here were alive in 1963? a few of you. [laughter] but i met paul haney. he was the only person i knew with nasa. after i left nasa, i wrote a book called the “all-american boys.” a lot of people here have that book. and paul was a friend of mine. i gave paul a copy of that book.