now walter again. he knows he has this choice to live is what life is a white man or black man because nobody would know. but something incredible happened to him when he was 12 years old. that set the foundation for his life's work as a sort of maniacal and i don't use that word loosely a maniacal. um secret of justice in america and that is when he 12 years old. he went on his father's mail route. his father was a male carrier and after school each day. walter would go with his father on this mail route. and on this day i think was in september 1906. they witnessed the outbreak of the atlanta race ride of 1906 now at the time. um photographs didn't really exist cameras were hard to come by and there's very little photographic evidence of this riot, but it was reported so widely that you can see this this is actually the cover. of a french newspaper and in france because photography they didn't really work in newspapers at that time. they would paint the covers you can see across the bottom in small l

barbara walters. terry reeser saw the writing on the wall on the back to cbs. barbara walters did not lose her anchor title but redefine how the evening news was going to work with guys working different capitals on barbara still technically an anchor but gradually she did what she does best which was a big interview. she did not create a big tv interview. i think you would say edward r earl did that she expanded it, defined it came to donna that genre. >> absolute true. the today show experience she was clearly always told to beat besecond fiddle or third fiddle, did that help her in the later reachingia out to a broader, not just politicians and national leaders, but really broadened her access to other figures? here's a life lesson from barbara walters when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. here's how she o had done that. she had been on the today show and the host was hugh downs heard he was very supportive of her. one of the very few men on the air who supported barbara walters and her ambiti

barbara walters. tehran, 1977. i said, indeed, we work for the same company and gyptian said he wants to know, is it true she is paid $1,000,000 a month? and i said, well, actually i think it's $1,000,000 a year. and the drivers face fell. barbara walters was already a global icon. and then didn't it kind of propel her her career from that point on? isn't that a wonderful story? because how many journalists have had similar experiences to that? and, you know, one of them who did was walter cronkite. so walter cronkite was, of course, the leading anchor of the day and a figure of unquestioned authority. and someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. and they were both trying to cover the groundbreaking things that were happening in the middle east, a groundbreaking trip of anwar sadat of egypt to israel. and it was barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders that a few months earlier in 1977 enabled her to get the first si

and a great friend of barbara walters, barbara walters decided she wanted to see deep throat our member the porn movie that had a kind of following, made dick wall take her there because she didn't want to go alone. a perfect escort. >> >> i did 150 interviews for the book. they were not great on resources but there were some i looked at which were helpful. and a few others. >> i was going to ask about the barbara walters archives, do you need special permission to get in? >> they are at the beginning of being processed and not very complete. you want to find a personal letter that they wrote. >> couldn't find that. i'm hoping now that she's passed away that she made her vision put more of her papers, i hope so. >> one moment in the book i just love. it is 2010. at abc news. they want to show team spirit. what do they do? >> guest: david weston and all these rivalries not just between diane sawyer and barbara walters but other journalists as well. it was a really cutthroat culture. david weston wanted to show that they were working as a team, it was the 7 big anchors at abc which includ

was barbara walters mother. and i think the cemetery office, assuming they were actual mourners, not reporters, and costume told where it was. and that's how we found the gravestone and it's three it's not a it doesn't it's not a standing tombstone it's it's for. plaques it's flat to the ground along a path in cemetery for her her father her sister and each of these markers said, you know, beloved husband and father, beloved mother and wife beloved sister and does not say that. barbara says to barbara, jill walters, no regrets. i had a great life. i, i love that. i she says she had no regrets. but we she did. and you wrote in the book that when people would come up to her and say i want to be you, she would say, then you have to take the whole package. what did she mean by that? well, you know, it's i think, the happiest people in the world probably aren't relentlessly driven, refuse to acknowledge any role for a personal right. i think while we've lots of ambitious people in washington, some kind of balance is

>> well, i think so much of barbara walters was shaped by her father, lou walters, one of the leading impressarios, he'd book the biggest acts in the country and was one of the top tourist destinations in new york when lou walters was in charge of it. lou walters was a guy who had a wonderful touch and understanding of what audiences wanted and that's an asset that she inherited from him, but he was also a gambler and he would make a million dollars and gamble it away playing begin rummy. >> literally gambling it away? >> literally gamble it away. he would make a million dollars at the latin quarter and decide he wanted to open a new nightclub and it would flop and he would be bankrupt. i think finally a pivot point in barbara walters's life came when she was 28 years old. she had gotten out of college, out of sarah lawrence, but she wasn't exactly on a career path. she had gotten married to a guy and gotten divorced. gone to alabama for a quickie divorce of dubious legality. and she had come back to new york and staying with a school friend and that her apartment, when her father att

and when they did was walter cronkite. walter cronkite was of course the leading anchor of the day andqu a figure of unquestioned authority. someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. we are trying to cover the groundbreaking things are happening in the middle east the ground breaking trip. barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders a few months earlier 1977 enabled her to get the firstia sitdown interview wh the egyptian president and the israeli prime minister. this was the interview that not only solidified her come back as a coanchor of the evening news it also beat walter cronkite which both of them do. that interview split screen was not only a moment for journalism, it changed american foreign policy in middle east foreignn policy at a really difficult time. how dare barbara walters make that leap? not only from nbc today show with a very high profile and then into this kind of interviewing maga operation. did she do it a

uld you ask barbara walters? good, and i'd want them i probably ask myself, what would barbarae had she was enormously skilled in sh that to the heart of the matter and that were she knew that the more words you had around a question, the be for someone to dodge it. so i think if i were going to ask her three questionher what's your best let's see if she says somethingpersonal. what's your regret? beets, but none of us have no regrets. and then i thiquestion i would ask perhaps would be, were you happy you that question of many of the people you interviewed. the said yes, she was happy. joy bahar, the co-host on the view ish. there's no question she she was very proud of what she did and she was proud of the money she she had. but almost everyone else i talked to no, she was never happy. susan page.u. in. we are here tonight petraeus and lord roberts of

that year, our caseload at walter reed tripled the period fortunately, walter reed was in the process of moving to bethesda. the first thing that happened was they started to get rid of all of the employee parking lot so in order to find parking at work you had to get to work no later than 6:00 a.m. which we all day, we got to work at 6:00 a.m., we work through lunch, and we stayed late. we were just so busy. we are so busy that at nights, in my dreams, everyone was in amputee. even me. my friends, over the years got really sick of hearing me say that i was going to leave walter reed. i was always gonna leave, i was going to quit, is going to find a new job with parking and better hours. then the next time they saw me i was still at walter reed and they would get kind of annoyed. i never could quite explain it to them why i stayed. i stayed for nine years. i realized that i was part of something that i was much larger than myself. i cannot just walk away. just because it was hard. i was lucky because at night i was busy writing humor articles about life in d.c., that really took my mi

i was always going to leave walter reed. i was going to quit, find a new job with parking and better hours. then, the next time they saw me i was still at walter reed and they would get kind of annoyed, but i never could quite explain it to them why i stayed. i stayed for nine years, but i realized that i was part of something that was much larger than myself. i couldn't just walk away, just because it was hard. i was lucky. because at night i was busy writing humor articles about life in dc. that really kind of took my mind up for what i was seen it work. anyway, one night i was at home and i was writing and working on an article and my girlfriend, ashley, said something to me that really surprised me. she said, you know, you are wasting your time writing those articles for the post. i thought, what, and she said your articles are funny and their cute, but you should be writing about what you are seeing at work. i thought, that's a terrible idea. the last thing-- the whole reason i am writing in the first place is to get my

that year the caseload at walter reed tripled and unfortunately walter reed was also in the process of moving to bethesda. the first thing that happened was that they started to shut down the employee parking lot and so in order to find parking you have to get to work no later than 6:00 a.m., which we all did. we worked through lunch and we stayed late and we worked and stayed late that night in my dreams come everyone wasn't amputee, even me. and i know my friends over the years have gone really sick of hearing me say that i was going to quit walter reed. i was always going to quit, this is that, i was done, i was going to find a job with parking and better hours. in the next time they saw me i was still out walter reed and they would get irritated. but i could never quite explain it. and the reason i say this because i was part of something that i was part of something that was much larger than myself and i was trying to find something to write about to send you "washington post" and i took my mind off of what i was seeing at work. and then one day my partner actually surprised me an

medical center the walter reed center where she continued to rehabilitate war in duties through 2014. she edited the department newsletter known for its reviews. and suggestions the hospital uniform policy should include superhero costumes. her writing has appeared in "the new york times", "washington post", psychology today, and the washingtonian. i present to you ms. adele levine. [applause] >> it is an honor to be here in the vienna. a beautiful state and a beautiful festival. just did little background i worked as a physical therapist at walter reed for nine years seven of those in the npt section. walter reed was all of america's oldest military hospital and in the end the largest in vermont clinic the world has ever seen. we were shut down in 2011 as a congressional budget decision emerged with bethesda. my book "run, don't walk" focuses on what it was like the last couple of years. so i will talk about how i ended up writing a book in the first place so in 2007 and had a 17 year-old car that my friends would call the rustang because the doors were rusted shut the only way to g

so walter reed shut down, and i was part of the group that transferred to the new walter reed at bethesda naval hospital. and i wrote with the book. before it turned of the manuscript into my publisher, i kind of ran up the chain of command. i had some of my coworkers read it, and my supervisors, and then i had to give it to the department head. and this is a guy whose management style, he's not here, i would classify as being like highly unpredictable. [laughter] and slightly insane. and i was will be nervous about getting it to him. i thought, he's going to blow his top. so i thought, well, you know, i'll wait until friday and document him at the end of the day. that way he will have the weekend to hopefully cool off. so friday gain and he shows up at work, and i gave it to him and i just took a step back because who knows how he's going to react. instead he got really seminal, and he said that we have this new hospital, this nice facility, and that most of the staff had stayed on. but he always felt like there was something missing. he couldn't put his finger on it, didn't know exactly

the caseload walter reed tripled. unfortunately walter reed was also in the process of moving to bethesda and the first thing that happened was that they started to shut down the employee parking lot to find parking you have to get to work no later than six in the morning which we all did. we got to work at six and we worked through lunch and we stayed up late. we were so busy that night that in my dreams everyone within amputee coming even me. now i know my friends over the years have gotten really sick of hearing me say that i was going to quit walter reed. i was going to quit. find a job with parking and with better hours but then the next day they saw me i was still at walter reed and david get irritated that i never could quite explain it. the reason that i ended up staying, and i stayed for nine years was because i was a part of something that was much larger than myself. and i couldn't just walk away because it was hard and i was lucky because i night i was trying to find something funny to write about to send

walter's this willard being the son of david and rachel walters. so it's through their family line that we have these letters to share with you and share with american public in this donation. it becomes clear why the walter's family valued these letters. there's 180 letters and papers, mostly of the use of envelopes that show the way that the mail travel, the cost of that mail. when the address had to change, to find somebody who had relocated and the postmarks of the work that the post office was doing to to process those mail. we have about 100 of those envelopes and about 80 or so letters and a few items of ephemera that the family enclosed while trying to communicate with each other, including the item in the middle here, which is a special order that was issued in 1863, and that david had chosen to enclose in this envelope with his letter that's pictured. and this was at a time while david was serving in kentucky, a border state, and working with the fifth indiana calvary to secure a peace in the area. in particular, this special order declar

they were walter mondale's words. right after they lost in 1980, he was able to look back at the four years in the white house with clear reflection. he said we told the truth. we obey the law and kept the peace. [applause] i wrote those words down on a piece of paper and kept them there to get through the last years. we told the truth, obeyed the law and kept the peace. that is our mondale. that's the standard and more. he helped himself to each and every day of his life. it is what guided him as a young state attorney general. when he led attorneys generals to embrace the right to counsel in a landmark supreme court case, tell the truth, obey the law, keep the peace. it's what mattered to him as a u.s. senator when he fought for civil rights and fair housing. it's what motivated him as the country's vice president when he insisted on being a true partner to president carter deserving of a place in the room where it happens. setting the high standard, how about when he picked geraldine ferraro and his running mate. [

walter suspect did that meigs was doing everything he could to take credit for walter's accomplishments in design. in fact, both people were right, was happening exactly as he described. there is really no stepping back from the brink. from 1857, from 1857, pretty much until the beginning of the civil war, very little was done to the dome inside the dome just sort of languished because walter wouldn't give meigs the drawings and at the drawings couldn't build the domes. this is the senate after he was dedicated in 1859 and include this only to show it looks exactly here at this point exactly the way it does today, even to the carpet. and this is, i've included this -- this picture is his most dazzling. database and meigs together at top did decorations taiyo that they describe as the highest taiyo. this is the presidents room just off the senate chamber and nothing reflects the media is more dazzling techniques then that's. almost all the, it looks like this is loaded with relief sculpture and with the pain teens and things like this. it's almost all optical illusion. the british still

walter: antonio yet.dence that a lot and usually take six months and a cake around a whole lot of ideas and a lot of current people who are interested in the world of business from bill gates, elon musk in a particular bio bill gates with for a lot of reasons which could imagine and historical figures who won the nobel prize in chemistry even before jennifer. but i am taking my time. holly: we will wait with baited breath . we look forward to that and also want to say thank you for being here. we have the book doesn't come out until next week rated so were so audited lucky have you here with us tonight is a preview of me tell you, this book, keeping it because it is like the bible and because of my shelf because i love all that you right . so thank you very much. ... ...

>> guest: walter cronkite.hotly brinkley tried to catch up with it, but that changed a lot of things and then it became this culture of the anchor getting the big interview. it used to be white house correspondent. he was livid that cronkite's first news brought past, he got cronkhite a footed and got to do that they kennedy interview. when he was covering as a correspondent on the time, there became a kind of celebrity status accorded to these journalists. but the thing about cronkite that interest me the most as i knew it, but just how he liked talking to everybody, but his real genius was that even though he lived in new york and operated as social circles, he loved talking to cab drivers and gardeners, the man on the street. he never said no to anybody and in many ways people use to laugh at the sight of him. but that is where his genius was. he'd never lost touch with the average american people. c-span: we only have a couple minutes left. how did you do this? give us insight about how you write a hundred

walter: a did. and that's book, i'm trying to say the system tells us these are the realities of your life. this is how you should be. at work and at school and relationships. and to your than yourself. but i think there is a whole other step of rules that we need to have. i haven't read that book in a while but i don't remember the steps but i do know the system out there does not really care about us in general. we have to understand that. we have to control that. host: what's the system. walter: and ends up being people with the most power. and ends up being the people who paid the politicians to give them the money to me in a situation of control. i donated like $10000 to something like a candidate. someone asked me to write it so i said okay i'll do it. so then, same person can read said, we are having lunch with the candidate. this is this week. and they're ten people given $10000 to the good to have lunch. going to be able to talk to this person. i went and we talked. i realize, what would i

but walter in particular shows a theme, reading is not optional. and we were able to send him during his first year through around the country. at the que visited some new places. louisiana tech book festival which was sponsored by the louisiana center for the book. and i would like you to, perhaps point to a couple of these wonderful experiences that i know you had come not only in places like festivals, but your concern about visiting detention centers and talking to young people in detention centers. >> one of the other qualifications you did not mention is that you have to be very handsome. [laughter] >> distinguished and at least 6 feet four. right. >> i am particularly interested. i wanted to know the reading levels, what they read, what was going on with their venture with books. and for me, i have been in this gamelan time. i have been writing years and years and years. i have seen prisoners that i first saw in grade school and second grade and third grade. you see them 15 years later in maximum-security prisons. to me that is absolute shoc

walter mccormick, president and ceo of u.s. telecom, and chris lewis of public knowledge, he's the vice president there. mr. mccormick, in the year or so since the fcc made the decision on net neutrality, how has that affected your member companies? >> guest: it doesn't affect us operationally day-to-day because the open internet standards are standards that we agree with; the no blocking, the no throttling, the no paid authorization. we have supported their adoption as regulations under 706 authority, we support their enactment into law by the united states congress. but what we objected to was the way in which the fcc went about the open internet standards i. adopted them as regulations pursuant to common carrier authority. this is a 19th century form of regulation, originally applied to common carriers like railroads, trucking companies and airlines. it has been repealed for all of those traditional common carriers, and we don't think common carrier regulation is the right form of regulation for the 21st century internet, so

walter killed the peace. said it reflected badly on the networks.that word got around really fast, and one of walters writers leaked it to the "new york times" and so suddenly it was another conflict between mudd and concrete. we sat down and talked about it. >> we have another hour to go in our next weeks q&a and will cover a lot of things including the question asked of ted kennedy, why he wanted to run for president. in addition to that some of the comments were made by cbs after richard nixon resigned on auguse you got some news in this book that no one is ever seen before, and that's the story of lillian brown. being with richard nixon right before he resigned. what's that story? >> lillian was the premier makeup artist in washington, and she had started with the face the nation contract and she had done john kennedy when he was beginning to run for the presidency. she was also eric several rides regular makeup artist, she got a call from the white house, we want you over here for the nixon speech. she went over, left eric and went over to the

. >> now, walter jacobson, author of "walter's perspective: a memoir of fifty years in chicago tv news," and keith koeneman, author of "first son: the biography of richard m. daley," talk about their books. this event was part of the 2013 "chicago tribune" printer's row lit fest it. >> walter, what compelled you or who compelled you to tell, most of the people on television have made so much money that they can just go up and do nothing. you write this book for money, he wasn't always was in television one of the best writers and we don't always associate television with good writing, especially in local news. but you always were a good writer but he wrote in the short form a perspective, what compelled you to tell your story? >> i had, rick, no idea that writing the book. never have thought about doing it. of course, never have tried to do it. when i retired maybe five years ago for the first time -- >> he's like the michael jordan of local television broadcasting. [laughter] >> my retirement is often compulsory. as the hair gets a greater, the less management wants to be part of the

[laughter] >> walter -- walter that was wonderful and one thing that i was determined to say while we have walter was this, years and years ago walter working in california and working around the country and around the world and the institute and i was exhausted just thinking about his work ethic and i said, walter, how do you do it, how are you attending to all of the different responsibilities. well, charles, you know, i have a lot -- i'm determined not to let any drop and i wanted to say that today to the students here and for everyone that that's part about life's work we often have lots of responsibilities and we learn to find to akin to them all without -- without letting them drop. walter, he laughs every time i say this, but that was just so profound because he was worn out. you would see him coming back from these meetings with his spirit, smile and everything else and so that's -- so walter knows have never forgotten that and the students here. this is about life's work. dedicate a lot of balls in the air and the goal is not to let them drop. >> you forget the most important

so, um but yeah, i mean, walter, he was fantastic. walter he was awesome. it was a great place to be and and i was so happy to see a lot the, the warriors getting the care they got and being able to move on and continue their lives. like i about two and a half years and and i seen from burn victims to bullet wounds and and then we got the guys are they'll be amputees, triple amputees, quadruple etting a chance. arms from other people it's just the technology and and then advancement was just it's amazing to watch amazing to see and and that gave me hope as well a and so once i got out of the tree and my wife goes, i love out here. i love i love the four seasons and course i'm going to stay over there. i'm not going to see eveof we're going to stay here on the east coast. so we ended up moving to waldorf, which is the southern and southern maryland. so we enjoyed it out there. i mean, the east coast beautiful. we loved the cherry blossoms and the potomac river and and then you head out to philly and okay, but but then we got out to new york and, he whole eas

i love that about walter reed. they took care of you when you got to explore new york, disney world,d, we went to the carolin. "was a great experience out there it was really, really fun. got a south, got us out, got us out. that is what we needed. less and less i felt embarrassed of being out. you should not feel embarrassed it was just hard. sometimes it's hard to not feel embarrassed. but, since it let's us get out and took us to all of these places to became less, less, lessor embarrassing i'm becoming more and more proud of who i am, how i ended up in how i look now. a little bit shabbier i guess i can control that, right. [laughter]r] walter reed was fantastic. it was awesome. it is a great place to be i was so happy to see the warriors get the care they got. be ablee to move on continued their lives. like i said i was there about two and half years and i seen from burn victims and got amputees on it guys getting transplantshe, arms from other people. it was the technology in advance and it was amazing to wat

that is a little bit of the walter rhino. -- the walter i knew. i did not work with walter.like. i would answer, he is just the way you copious. you -- you hope he used. he was always the pacman that america would hope he is. he was physically brave and he was never afraid to show his emotions. he was generous, fun-loving, a courtly gentleman, and good company where ever we were. to steal a line from melville, he was my harbor and my deal. -- he was my heart and my yale -- he was my harvard and my yale. i have enjoyed my ivery own smal celebrity watching him. our happy friendship began years ago. we were hosting a fund-raiser on the chesapeake bay. walter and best thbetsy were the celebrity couple. it was a rather dull affair. mrs. concretcronkite seemed to a good time. bessie was done fundraising and ready to go down to the annapolis warfront to visit a small 100-year-old saloon that i happened to own. we had great fun that night and spend the next day on the water. for the first day of a lifetime of sailing together. we visited each other's homes, laughter, and lots of the

x now about her featured attraction walter isaacson. would be surprised if you have not already seen him on tv in the past few days or read a bit about his new book because while, he has been everywhere. and for good reason. the release of another biography by walter isaacson has become an event in itself. heat staked out a well earned reputation as a preeminent biographer and genius and whether he is writing about brilliant people from long ago like leonardo da vinci, benjamin franklin or albert einstein or contemporary innovative figures of our age steve jobs or jennifer or henry kissinger you can bet the results will be at fascinating revealing comprehensive and vividly told book. walters take on elon musk is certainly all of that. the story turned out to be even more than walter bargained for when he set out a couple of years ago to do the biography. back then walter thought he'd be writing mainly about the technological trailblazer a leader in the field of electric vehicles and private space exploration. then came musk's impulsive