. >> how is poetry taut across the schools now? is it still taught in schools? >> i don't know -- i don't know how much students are getting in school. i teach a freshman seminar at emory university. and my students have varying degrees of experience with poetry from their high schools. some have a lot more of it. some took creative writing as well as the study of petraeus literature in their class is. some haven't had much at all and i think it does vary depending on what school you go to. >> natasha trethewey, you have a memoir coming out. >> i have one my riding. >> and? >> i have one i'm writing. >> it's due in 2014. >> thanks for reminding me. [laughter] >> natasha trethewey who is the u.s. poet laureate, thanks for joining us of the national book festival on the c-span bus. >>> we are the lou henry house on the campus at stanford university. it's significant because this was the primary residence of the hoovers and significant as it relates to hoover because she was the one who designed it. she had a strong grasp of design and how she wanted the house to l

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from the right or not tough enough on the soviet union and that is where reagan came from 1976 the taut and sailed on the answer was to be even tougher so he got it from both directions. >> would you teach at george mason you? >> george mason politics, security, defense policy, book graduates and undergraduates. i did great work at oxford. >> or economic interests important in foreign policy? >> i think that sometimes they are over the estimated. i didn't find the major decisions belong with the narrow economic interest it's not as though they get on the phone and ask the leaders of the oil companies should we in iraq or something like men. i think the context is pretty much every president wants to maintain amasa the international system which is open to peaceful exchange and that this is part of the american vision of economic order that's an important factor but the idea that special interest drives on the trade policy you do find interest group activities. >> when you have to shift for example like today why is it hard to get through congress with columbia, south korea and so on the

they have helped to broker a kind of the taut between sunni nations and it took him our sacred alley. they cooperate with us on counterterrorism measures the they share intelligence with us. clearly read an important economic relationship, but they are imperfect partner. and this body should have a debate as to whether it's in the united states national security interest to get drawn more deeply into the set of proxy wars that is playing out in the region. this is between the sunnis and the shia, that proxy battle plays out in yemen, it plays out in syria. it plays out in other ways in places like lebanon. and just because you have a friend doesn't mean that youav have to back every single one of your friends fights. ask my friend asked me to hand him a rock to fill the neighborhood kids. not i'm not going to do it.e but if he wants me to help him stand up to neighborhood bully,r then maybe i'll be there for him. even with your friends, you decide what fight she joined amanda what fights you don't. in yemen, it's not just me that's making the argument that that civil war is accruing t

the economics specialties include today's taut and political assassination and around japan and germany the rest of the world. to examine the underground in germany with its numerous efforts to assassinate adolf hitler. described as likely to become the history of the subject and a starting place for all future research it is a fascinating story of courage with the struggle of individuals with. brcs so please to wellcome danny orbach. [applause] >> good evening. thanks for coming here. and so what this book is about. and maybe read a few passages and finally to zoom in on one particularly interesting area that is the secret of nature this book is about secret underground organization from nazi germany 1938 through 1844. and the theologians the also from the social democrats. and delaware are all united. and from that german secret service from that 1938 with germany and europe. so when the award began as soon as possible by eliminating the not see regime. released with the nationalist germans so this is a story of a conspiracy of numerous assassination attempts to be very bold and creat

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it's a brilliant it's a brilliant, really taut, slim book that we thought would be the right one to tokick start our list with. and so we we made the case, you know, that we were new press that were that was going to be enthusiastic champions of this kind of work. and yeah, we were really lucky that lisa was on board and andres and his spanish publisher publisher were also on board. and we had a great success with it. now, let's get to the second half of that headline. yeah, publishing a nobel prize winner tell us that story. yeah, well, ashley and i were admirers of john fossey's work before we first saw his is what would become his masterworks, hepatology and submission. and so we received about 30 pages, typically with international literature, you're not reading a whole manuscript on submission in the way that you are with an english language manuscript. you're you're seeing just a sample of it. and sometimes it's synopsis, but usually it's just a short chunk of pages. so we read the first 30 pages of what we were told was going to be a 1200 page book of of slow prose by john foste

it's young people like you, taut and educated by people sitting behind me who can change and continue the change the way our society should move forward. this will be tough language for some of you but i'm used to that, having been reversed by court of appeals for exciting injury. [laughter] there's a wonderful author by the name of kenneth week. if you haven't read his pieces on how the law developed over the past 100 years, you should. because, just 80 years ago and i hate to say it, but there's some people here in the audience were older than 80, 80 years ago he describes what happened in germany. he describes how, at that time , hitler stated it was his goal to make every citizen realize that it's a disgrace to be a lawyer. and that lawyers were the greatest single threat to a new world order. folks, that was 80 years ago. that's not that long ago, and, as a result of that, 6 million people lost their lives. i'm not telling you lawyers would've saved 6 million lives. what they would've done is created a society where that couldn't take place, but what was remarkable, of course in

it's been very us from tauting. i've told -- frustrating. i've told that to both our democratic senators and our republican senators and congressmen, that we've just got to learn, we've got to get some things done. we've got to give clarity to these issues in the american business. and i'm especially concerned about the tax policy. and, um, many of the companies in our industry pay a dividend, as you know. and, um, if left alone and the bush tax cuts expire on 12/31, that tax rate goes up, um, to over 40%. which has real implications. and at the same time, it becomes disconnected with the capital gains rate which i think is, um, is very, very important to keep both of those low and linked. it encourages investment. with respect to dividends, it matters a lot to, um, our shareholders. people think about dividends more from a corporate perspective. i just had a shareholder meeting in little rock two months ago, and there are people who are really living off these dividends. they're buying these telecom stocks and rely on these dividends to pay

who went on to become one of the looming figures of the harvard medical school, who specialized in taut anatomy and dissection for most of his time there. that is just one example. we are far more indebted to the french in many fields that we realize. medicine is one of the clearest of all examples. host: how much time did you spend in paris? guest: well, a good deal but not as much as most people would imagine. when i was getting my information and material from was a letter these young medical students were home. they wrote and reminisced on years later. many of them were the sons of doctors, their fathers wanted to know what are you learning, what's the latest? they were in the very forefront of the experimentation. in their fathers here in the united states did not want to be left behind. so the sons had to write home about how they are doing fine and working hard to stand up trouble. they also had to talk about what they were learning every day. those letters are absolutely phenomenal. they are all available at the harvard medical school library in boston. host: hears last comment

there was see codes that he inherited the lessons his grandfather taut him the literature he wrote and he consumed fiction and nonfiction but always had two or three books goingt the same time. it was the hemingway code wit sacrifice and so was the honor code of those over importa in his life. and the naval academy where he was rebellious witmore discipline graduated from the bottom of his class but he said he never violated the honor code. and the idea with the cause bigger than ourselves why he wore his emotions on his sleeve he was devoted to his causes no matter how successful he was he would fit the causes and get quite emotional from time to time. i think all those things contributed to that. >> talk about his father jack mccain with no illusion to his alcoholism. >> it did affect him you'd have a hard time pulling out of them how it affected him. to be very candid and very unguarded but when talking about his father his father was gone all the time in the war and appointments and said the difference between your father and your grandfather is your grandfather love the navy your

frederick douglass, an american slave which contains douglass' narrative that was part of a course she taut in ucla in the '70s so it really brings to life that essay and we'll also include a new essay that includes that written by her. it will be enriched by the old and the new world. we're also publishing the awakener it's a long-awaited memoir with her lenny bruce, allen ginsburg in greenwich village in the '50s so more than just focusing on the beats it really presents a bigger picture of literary life in new york in the '50s and greenwich village which continues to always seem to be of interest. so we're excited about that one. and then our latest book that came out is called the peep diaries how learning to love watching ourselves and our neighbors. and what the author is talking about is at one time everyone was interested in pop culture because everyone is fascinated by celebrities. but he's coined this term peep culture in that the focus has gone from celebrities to the focus on yourself. that you actually can be the celebrity and you -- you can do that by blogging and websites and

to newton to, it was obvious that the rope would pull taut even in empty space and, therefore, he saidwhat is the rope and rock spinning with respect to -- there's nothing there, there's no earth, no sun, no anything, therefore, the rope and the rocks must be spinning with respect to something called space. space itself must be setting the benchmark, the reference with respect to which that motion is happening. others came along and said, no, you disagree. you remove everything from the universe and take your spinning rock and rope thing, and it's not going to pull taut. it'll just stay completely limp, and it's still an issue that people debate. >> is there any evidence we could find one way or the other? >> it's very hard to remove everything from the universe, right? [laughter] that's kind of what you'd like to do. so what you do is you try to find alternate implications of one perspective or another, and i would say today most people -- i haven't done a survey, but i suspect most people would say it would pull taut, that space-time does set the reference frame for a certain kind of

and it's not so much keeping that dramatic string taut isasu ie b- h toyoowet f ll km u mapquest that there are three or four different routes. with a novel there areeven more than that. so it's, it's those coice u a t thou wenthek, aheu k, aows en >> host: this e-mail from bay yard pigeon in oregon, i had great hopes that the success of the mi menou keiend eci t inorn emlu sitiou t w eon twa gentler for men as well as for women. this, in my opinion, did not happen. instead, women seem to have been of sarkhiannthe same md me nsntstem f ly oid . your thoughts? guest: where's that fr? >> host: klamath falls, on. >> gst a aoto vefe theau th.olyhtut atil ssu of betty friedan in the mid '60s writing "the feminine mystique" which began some of this, in a relativeort rif twechd . whhameis t vego iht y me slovts eiaic you start out with a thesis. so the thesis is, you know, woman as wife and mother alone. and then you go to an dot a b afe n'reutng thitll ait d r heor eval yomh a synthesis which is, gee, some of the old ways were really good, and some of the new ways are really terric. buveefa

they didn't even taut it in law school. i don't think i remember anything in eminent domain and why do people do the things that they do? why this someone who works at a college, a liberal arts college, that teaches people to help the poor, the underprivileged -- people who don't have representation in government -- why would somebody like that carry the banner that says, we need to get these people out of their houses and knock them town? what makes somebody think that way? why did the governor think that this was a good idea? what about the guy from pfizer who had to make the decision whether to support this decision. is in how does he think and feel about this? obviously, i want to know why did someone like susette, a nurse, who's never been in a courtroom before, never testified, never been deposed, never been represented by a lawyer, never been interviewed by, you know, sean hannity and all these other shows that suddenly are on her doorstep and with cameras and lights. is she greedy and mad? those are the questions yo

yeah like you said they taut sap but everything is in i balancing each other out.t sorof like regulators, the wolves regulators on just how much rearranging beavers can do. yeah, i it's really interesting. a couple of weeks ago, i actually was at the kerry institute of ecosystem studies and i was to have a conversation with clive jones, who actually coined the term engineer. and itting to talk to him. how did he come up? i said, how did you come up with this? why beavers? and he said, we looked at snails beavers andlcesting. so apparently rock eating snails were one thing and beavers and elephants. elephants, we can kind of get. but i think the ways in which beavers are so brilliant at constructing, it's also we don't fully understand yet how they do so i think researchers now are starting to crack the code of beaver yes. and i write about this researcher, ishe's out montana e blackfeet. she grew up on the blackfeet reservation. but when i interew■aed her she was at harvard and. she thinks that beavers are abls and theirthem have lasted 200 yd successive generation

say well we're doing to change those and that degree of transparency with political discourse went taut -- one side internal or extra all and this is what we doing to address this. >> host: we could spend a lot more time on this is a fascinating book as the former prosecutor with a perspective on individual side did not have the my for rules saw as a personal thanks to you for undertaking a the work and is of great time to spend with you congratulations and thank you for sharing our website, booktv.org. [cheers and applause] good >> good evening. thanks for coming out tonight i am on a the co-owners of politics and prose my husband is right here on behalf of our great staff we would do think our friends and partners we love to do even see year. how many of you have beenin here before? i can see where you are coming back it is one of our favorite venues and we are excited for tonight's event. you have been given instructions on how this will proceed as we year are under did is up pleasure to introduce a woman recognized by millions of people most of us know her as one of the most influen

wondering what you think about the search for marriage and commitment among women and the different at taut todd among men have hindered friendships between single men and women? >> in practical terms, you know, in terms how we can fix the courtship rituals, to me it seems like -- for example, you have a relationship that starts as a really close friendship. to me it seems like what we need is more occasions for men and women to pay sort of casual attention to each other. a situation in which asking somebody out for a date doesn't mean you have asked them out in the sense of going out with you. so, -- i mean i think our cultural will be healthier when we get to a state where men and women can be friends but also where they can be sort of casual dates in jane austen's day, the social life was you went to a dance, and a guy could ask you to a dance and he was expressing some sort of interest in you. it was acknowledged. he thought you were cute or wouldn't ask you to dance. but it was a very limited sort of experience. everybody knew it was for a couple of dances and then you were supposed to

. >> nextuestion is from carnegie's counsel grady jacobson fm massachusetts prayed we are often tautas children in the u.s. that the liberation ofuropean jews from nazi germany was aajor reason the allies fought in world war ii so ifhe allies were not immediely concerned with the justice perpetrated underewish people and indeed mistreated as well about point to that attitudeowards them change? do think it did or is this a failure of the historical curriculum? >> it's abundantly clear to me that the war was not fought to save the jews. there is no evidence whatsoever. it was fought to save the jews not at all but in as a matter fact, roosevelt and his cabinet went out of their way to discount any words that americans boys were sent over to save jews. the war was fought for a variety of reasons but the rescue of the jews was never part of that. and if that is currently in the textbooks then that's just wro wrong. when the world was -- when the war was over it was common sense view is that americans opened their arms and pocketbooks to save the jews who they had not saved during the war

there were decades and decades t were rethought or we were taut that african-americans have a differentskull shape and these bizarre things that even living with us for a long time. you have to do things that scare you and you have to put yourself in harm's way just a little bit. there's a professor in the school who if you don't agree with or whose views you find a bore and is getting canceled or getting fired or getting put under review for something that he said you have to argue against your own interests because they really deeply believe that without a robust free-speech environment in which we get a little bit dizzy, i honestly every day i would wake up andnd see what fresh -- fresh is trump bringing me but i also know full mating like he did on twitter it showed what a maniac he was and one of the big reasons we got rid of him. >> i love the saying you have to work against her own interests. i can remember in the 60s and the aclu, the aclu backed their right to do that or they weree carrying flags. >> they got a lot of grief. >> i know they did it i thought wow that's true to fr

i think this set him in motion for this sort of taut, you know, patricia o'toole was saying watch in all the photographs his fist is clenched. and that's the kind of way he went through life. i think it's really important to understand how much we are the beneficiaries and how much we are, you know, have to be very careful and see in very, very clear eyes what the deficits are of that kind of behavior in a human being. >> host: in fact, the title -- chapter one of the book titled "get action" about teddy roosevelt from 1858-19 to 1. the finger pointing forward. >> guest: always. >> guest: always. >> guest: you just think about his life. if you hear as a child that you're not expected to live out of childhood and the story is called "get action," you can realize the kind of tension this life is under. and i think that's why he burned out so quickly. >> host: and what age was he when he died? >> guest: 60. and he looks 80. i mean, it's really stunning. and by the time he was 50 years old, he was an old, old man. and after his adventure in the amazon where the ex-president of the united

all conspiracies at the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. i couldn't find a better definition of conspiracy and a place. what we were doing is not only being prejudice across the indians, which americans have a knack of, but also taking what was deserving of them. oil was discovered and we come along, the conspirators in order to get back. if we have to use murder to do it, we will do it. so many of these tribespeople were killed and murdered, poisoned. doctors had conspired to judges had to conspire, lawyers had to conspire. this was a true conspiracy and if i told you the story before this book came out, you would've said that's crazy. that could have happened here. by the way, this gave way to the fbi. jay edgar hoover fumbled with the conspiracy in the 20s, was trying to make sense of it. not until a texas ranger really came to help him. there is a story and another self about how he pursued it persistently and how people were keeping quiet about it. this is a real conspiracy against an indian tribe. .. >> or on facebook. booktv on c-spa

hoover lived a very taut long time. he died in 1964 the age of 90 on the cusp of goldwater's transformative defeat. in the then became the foundation lunch for the republican party. hoover was once asked how he won his political arguments against such preventable photos. roosevelt said frankly i outlived the masters. [laughter] herbert hoover also worked mightily to shake the way his own history was told. he especially tried to shake a narrative of these critical months. between 1932 in 1933 which i think we can say he correctly understood provided the ground zero not only for roosevelt's presidency but for american politics as we know them now. i will stop there in the hopes that you will now want to read the book. [laughter] [applause] >> where doing q&a so if anyone hamza question. >> turn of the microphone if you would be so good to do so. >> one thing the you are aware of is the film gabriel of the white house which came out in 1933 and was made during this pivotal period which americans crisis needed a dictator an

point because ultimately howo you make this sorts of tests actionable in people's lives, someone that taut me a lot just from reading his work, you know him as well and as it turns out he's joining us right now and has a testing question. are you there? >> testing is one of most crucial public health tools inside a pandemic so in the u.s. review all tests through a single lens which is clinical, medical diagnostics so is it because we have only a single pathway for evaluation of tests throughout the fda? for tackling public of problems we need to have tools tailored for public health and test must be accessible and fast and frequent. is there a role for a new pathway for evaluation of tests focus squarely on public health metrics which is distinct from medical diagnostics? >> well, he has asked the question after i gave the answer. [laughter] >> no, his question is totally relevant. i know because i listened to doctor mina make that point about the differences between testing for a medical reason and testing for a public health reason and that is an important issue that i think we need to

i u knew very little about suffrage movement not that they taut it in school. so it was one of the topics that interested me while i was back in school and i was first going to write about -- suffrage in the 19th century when there was this terrible schism between the two branches of the movement. between elizabeth katy stanton and suzanne b. anthony on one sides, and lew see stone and her husband henry blackwell on other. stone and black well after the civil war, they are -- abolitionist and they believe that the black men should be in franchise first. that the 15 president amendment which gives black men the right to vote should be ratified and then women can fight for their vote. suzanne b. and elizabeth katy -- if they're going into the constitution we're going with them or o else we're fighting it. and this -- this list the movement for almost 30 years. and they had rival organizations it was deeply damaging for the cause. and that was going to be my top toik prove that elizabeth katy and susan b. were horrible people and they had ruined the movement and s

probably his most famous case the one we were all taut about in school is marbury v. madison and that established the principle of judicial review. i think the most important thing about marbury was not that principle. john marshall did not invent that. that was already well known. alexander hamilton had written about it in the federalist paper. marshall had spoken of it in the virginia ratifying convention. but it's a long opinion, 9,000 words, and the news when it was issued it stood 8500 words of it are a scolding of the jefferson administration. theming it has misbehaved. that william marbury was entitled to a commission as a justice of the peace in the district of columbia, the jefferson administration had not delivered this commission to him, they ought to have done it. marshal decides that marbury can't get it because the means of redress that he is seeking is in fact something that the supreme court cannot do. the law that gave them that power was unconstitutional. most of the decision is shaking his finger at his second-cousin's administration. the decisions

grandfather who she had been told had fought against the nazis in world war ii, and she was shocked to find taut out that, in fact, he had collaborated with the nazis and was responsible for thousands of jews, including many of her own family members on the jewish side, and she was compelled to discover the truth, and a guest at the shooter's ban quest is her story of going in quest of the truth behind her grandfather's life. she's a poet and writes like a dream. it's an amazingly powerful story and a gripping one as well. and then in january we're going to publish two books, one by a man named wendell potter who is, how should i best describe wendell? he's a whistleblower or among many things. he wrote a book exposing the insurance industry, and the book in january is called nation on the take, and it is the story of the hugely corrosive effects of money in politics. and how, how it affects every american at the grass roots level. it's not -- grass roots level. it's not just the political system in washington, but it affects every american as they live day-to-day. and he actually documents how

doctor gallagher became his academic career in 1986 at penn statesi university where he taut for 12 yearsbefore coming here to uva as the inaugural jon l the third professor of history and the american civil war. it is a long title. he was the inaugural director of the noun center we are all incredibly grateful for all that he has done pays the author or editor of more than 50 books. including most recently the american war. a history of the civil war era co-authored. the enduring civil war reflections on the great american crisis. as i'm sure many of you know gary has been pivotal in the field of public history and his list of accolades could go on and on. indeed, if you like to read more about this accolades i will shamelessly promote the new book that his former students have just produced in the introduction that tells you all of the many, many ways in which professor gallagher has been instrumental to the field of the academic world and in the public world. i will point out kt shively, peter lipke and iso- three of your speakers today were all blessed to be his students and many, man

it was her taut and challenges to macbeth apparently fragile masculinity -- [laughing] perhaps he has small hands. [laughing] [applause] that ultimately drove him to commit the murder. it was late in macbeth who with wine knocked out the kings chamber. it was late in macbeth who left the daggers ready what macbeth could not miss them and it was lady macbeth who set up the chamber by smearing the sleeping groom with blood. such a nasty woman. [laughing] [applause] so how did we end up here? well, with the true murderer beheaded and his fiendish wife sent with in sandy, he had to punish someone to fulfill his promise to drain the bog. [laughing] but the prosecutions case is full of sound and -- dignify nothing. [inaudible] [laughing] they are applauding, why? to make foul what is fair, to lead him on, to last for the throne. they conjure an image, an apparition, that tells him to be bloody, bold. all that is in the record, and it seems you're ignoring it. >> no, your honor, not at all. all the sisters did was inform him of the prophecy. they told into things, that he would be -- and tha

the shaving for the ones like the judge who don't keep a beard or moustache, you just pull the skin taut and slide with the blade. it never curls back into the pores to make a bump or get infected like his own. if only they would keep their mouths from moving while you try to work. [laughter] humiliation! the judge sits in dorsey's chair lathered up to mr. you are turpo owns the pharmacy. the colonel waits near the door, his face hidden behind the wilmington messenger. we have attempted to hold on to our heritage, to our custom of living, says the judge, and we have failed. so now we must be humbled. i don't know, judge, says mr. turpin as hope clips out the hair in his ears. hoch is a good boy, stand on his feet all day if he needs be, although sometimes commences to hum while the gentlemen are still talking. i don't know, you scratch under the surface just a bit, you'll find somebody making a profit on it. that's what politics is all about. russell got sufficiently foot even before he was governor. this appointing of half of our aldermen, unprecedented. another chance to force us to ea

once you go through that forestry quick so like to break -- what has scienceht taut us about how to manage inner voice that we have that is usually helpful but can sometimes be harmful. i talk about 26 different tools in the book. you can find these tools falling into three different categories. things you can do on your own. ways of shifting the way you are thinking that can help youth harness this chatter. then there are what we might call itss relationship tools whh we just talked about how toan harness relationships with other people. and then there are environmental tools which refer to tools that exist in the physical world around us. ways of changing the way we talk to ourselves by engaging with our physical environment in particular ways. there is no magic tool. people often ask me journalists often ask whatt is the one thin, what is your favorite tool? what is the one tool you should used to manage her chatter? i don't have a favorite tool third what i know is that people generally use multiple tools. but the challenge i think we all face is hey, what is the combination of healthy

compound waited in the perpetual anticipation, one ear trained for the phone, muscle and concrete taut in preparation, a coiled spring. armored trucks lay in wait in the yard, noses toward the gate, robots loaded, explosives stored, doors open and at the ready. team sorted gear, packed and repacked, checked and rechecked. every day the explosives were inventoried and refreshed. every day the robot batteries were swapped, every day the jammer was turned on and cycled. every day the bomb suit came out of each truck to inspect the pants and suspenders and spine guard, the zipper and ties, the diaper that swaddles your groin, the heavy overcoat and front kevlar plate, quick release tabs, helmet and air snorkel, microphone and power fan electrical connections, a line of fresh batteries and a wipe of the 2-inch-thick visor. no one started a task they could not quickly put aside. some cleaned their rifles over and over again. over others fretted over the last e-mail from their wife or girlfriend. one slept with one eye open. eubanks slipped on a hugh hefner silk robe. took a seat to wait with

so but our country is full of these stories and and we have amnesia about it's not tautness schools, you know. and it brings us to another awkward question that we talked about and talked about. what about reparations? all of those stories that you said that are in this book about the injustices that took place after the civil war, after emancipation are pretty stark and pretty def, you know, terrible. so should there be reparations? that's an issue that we're grappling with today. it is. so. so ginger and i had a long conversation about this saturday, and i. and i don't and we ended up saying, yeah, we ended up. well, you know, just to say the obvious, it's complicated. know, how do you make right the injustice is that were inflicted on people long ago who are gone. how do you make that right. maybe in george and carolyn's day, something could have happened to make it right to those folks, but they're all gone. so. but we live in the in the aftermath of it. so how do we make it right for those who still are living in the in the injustice of that? and certainly a part of that has to

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i bet they taut it was a pretext for the americans to come after them. take the israelis saying this is 5 threat. they have hundreds of atomic bombs. who's the threat to whom? they run the planes out on test runs and run them into greece. if i were the iranians, i would be looking closely at that quite frankly, and what -- i don't know that the iranians will do that. suppose they build a bomb, the turks would get one, and india would, and the israelis have the hair on the trigger. what's the advantage from this? i don't know what it is. we have a year or two, bomb longer than the turks, but that's it. >> host: as you say, they would be annihilated. >> guest: the israelis would put their nuclear force on hair trigger. >> host: yeah, uh-huh. you came up in a palestinian state long ago. >> guest: i -- well -- >> host: when you first said the israeli lobby is powerful in congress, like who is going to deny that? 400 and some automatic behind the resolution. >> guest: right. >> host: what's interesting in 60-some years since israel was created by the united n

and my mother taute the love of gardening when i was a young child.mowing lawns with my dad, and i got the job of learning to read flowerbeds and cutds back her roses and do those things. so i'm sure that's what whi learned the love of gardening. flowers don't really talk back. they just show you beautiful things and that's what i love about them. >> what a great point. if you need a friend in washington, get a bed of flowers. [laughing] >> yes exactly. >> susan, nothing beats royalty and your parents welcomed queen elizabeth and prince philip to the white house at the time of the american bicentennial, putting too the side all that unpleasantness about burning the white house in 1812. but that state dinner must've been a remarkable occasion. >> it was. it wasas a beautiful evening. i don't know ifou're coming the white house and then, but they had put a tent on the south lawn, a it was the only time we did it during our administration, and it was a white tie dinner. it was the first time i got to wear long white gloves because i wore a one shoulder d

those people you taut are just cold-blooded murders. there's a big, you know, kind of fierce debate, and, of course, the fact that the debate goes on makes everybody else more interested in the case. >> yes, sir, during the 19 months of the -- that they were jailed, how were the three little girls caredded for? was this any special attention given to them in your research? >> yes, okay, i'm so glad you asked that question because i wanted to go back and show you what a difference history from below makes to the story. okay. remember professor gibbs consistenting -- counting from one to ten? there was a story after they moved to new haven where a man says the three little girls were teaching gentlemen how to count from one to ten in their native language. the best idea the professor had he got from the three little girls, okay? they were in an unusual position, and they were actually the source of considerable conflict between the amistad africans and the jailer because what the jailer did was remove the three little girls to become his

my wife is a a teacher and taut at public schools. i believe wholeheartedly her fm is a 30 year north carolina teacher. her dad was a teacher and coach and ultimately became superintendent of schools. i believe in public education. i believe it is absolutely critical that we find it adequately but i believe we've got to be creative and we have to be effective in in the got o make sure that we have effective schools. obviously republicans at times have not had all the answers. the no child left behind had similar issues and problems that did not advance where we needed to be. but i do believe public schools play a key piece in what we are doing. mccready: it is unacceptable to me that any child would not be able to get a great education and 2018 and the greatest country in the world. right now your education in north carolina depends on your zip code. it's a very different education is the group and parts of western or north charlotte or if you grew up in rocking him or lumberton. it depends on your zip code. that's wrong. every child

. >> gst: yes, alough i do think my research taut me that in the 1960's really this becomes a much broader phenomenon and conspiracy theories really become democratized in the kennedy assassination and morend more people think that they can solve this mystery and they can propose an alternative narrative and before the internet, it was difficult to get out there theories but nevertheless they would come up with a place about the kenned assassination or they published alternative newspapers or also because it is marketable they are able to get major publishers to publish their books so even back in the '60s when society-- that is another way to exchange it. >> host: why do we take a break and be will be back in a few moments. thanks. after words and several c-span programs are available for download as podcasts. more with kathryn olmsted and barry glassner in a moment. >> after words with kathryn olmsted and barry glassner continues. >> host: in my own work on the culture fear i have finster chocate by how the old adage follow the money really explains things except that wld revise it a lit

others went taut ship. the cannon blew up. killing the secretary of state, the secretary of the navy, the fiancee who rather the fatherhood of a woman that tyler wanted to make his fiancee, and several other government dignitaries. so tyler then had a certain near-death experience followed soon after by another coming back from the funeral of those individuals, the carriage in which he was writing, the horses went wild and tore through the streets of washington until a an unknown man stepped into the street and somehow got the reins and held a would have collapsed and yet john tyler and missed these personal crises in the political ones who will discuss later soldiered on. his greatest shortcoming that he was a slave owner. he had 40 slaves. they say that he was ambivalent about the institution, that the slave market in washington and physically sickened him who during one visit but slaves as was true where so many of the other founding fathers were essential two their livelihood. so tyler was a supporter of slavery and that d