if you go to amazon and type in common sense, you'll see there's the common sense of investing, the common sense of, you know, reseeding your backyard. there's a common sense for everything. >> host: second book? >> guest: this is my second book, yes. >> host: and, sophia rosenfeld, professor at the university of virginia and author of "common sense: a political history" has joined us here on booktv. >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> host: nathan hodge is the author of "armed humanitarians: the rise of the nation builders." mr. hodge, define nation building. >> guest: it's one of those tricky terms that nobody wants to own, and that's one of the reasons i chose to write about it. i'm using it in the way that people like george w. bush, barack obama or even dave petraeus would have used it which is this is a way of describing this kind of mission of armed nation building that we're involved in. it's been described in some ways as armed social work. and i'm trying to really tribe this phenomenon to the ordinary reader who might have this idea when

he had a very pucker sense of humor.nd what i think is pretty obvious is i was trying to create the same good humor when reagan displayed when reagan said to the doctors i hope you're all republicans. he had a really great sense of humor. it developed. i didn't know when he was younger and perhaps less loose. but he had -- one of the osof that campaign ended tragically as it did --. >> host: you were working for him at the time. >> guest: i was in a senate staff and in those days pre-watergate basically if you ran a campaign you put everybody on the public payroll and claim they were on their vacation time which is what we were all supposed to be. but he would do things like -- he would -- he was in fresno. i used this in a sunday morning piece about him and he says people asked me why i ran for president and i'd tell them because i would go to california. and then i would go to see the fresno mall because he said, after all, when you've seen the pyramids and the taj mahal, what else is there but the fresno mall? he was

he had a really great sense of humor. and it developed. i didn't know him when he was younger and perhaps less loose, but he had one of the joys of a campaign ended tragically as it did -- >> host: you were working for him? >> guest: in those days pre-watergate basically he the run a campaign you were just like everybody on the public payroll on vacation time which was -- but he would do things like, he was in fresno. i use this in a sunday morning piece i did about him. and he says, people asked me why i ran for president. and i tell them because i would vote in california. and that i would go to see the fresno mall because he said after all, when it it's in the pyramids and the taj mahal, what else is there but the fresno mall? he was actually waking as his audience saying you know and i know that a lot of what we tell you -- >> host: this is what is so disoriented about him because you have that story. you have him saying that in the book. so you take stuff that you have made up and he makes you mix it all together. having said that jef

in terms of what our sense of entitlement is. i think a sense of entitlement today is infinitely greater of subtly changing, but the expectation of the younger generation today of what is owed them, of what they have a right to expect -- >> guest: i don't think that is liberalism. that's something else. ..cwewgega >> guest: the notion of an active, compassionate government, a liberal notion and personal responsibility and autonomy which is, essentially, a conservative notion, he was trying, groping toward a way to put the two together. and in that sense i think the great loss of robert kennedy, you know, could he have been president, could he not, it still isn't, you know, it's a speculative notion. but the fact that this 43-year-old powerful political figure was trying to rethink the tradition of progressivism and not linking it to sending checks and entitlement was a great loss. i think it hurt the democratic party badly. i think bill clinton tried in some way to kind of get back to that a little, but the kind of stuff wher

evaluation of the senses.ur organizational change and others at the census bureau and lessons learned. i'm going to concentrate on the third part. but i cannot bet the preliminary findings on the quality of the 2010 census are positive and the majority and show improvements over the 2000 after. i'd be happy to expand on that. i want the committee to do with also been engaged in a variety of initiatives that we care deeply about. we have basically concluded that her business model of collecting social and economic data faces of your challenges over the long run. we know we must innovate in order to remain useful and relevant to the country. further, we know that this innovation is not likely to be funded by added resources. we must become more efficient and fun innovations from cost saving measures and that's what these programs are about. i want to mention three and specifically first we've mounted a program that is seeking proposals from throughout all the employee groups for cost efficiencies. it was heartwa

kennedy sort of sense of humor. you have body at one point, stephen smith takes the lead in the shoulder for his mother-in-law and somebody is saved and you have him than saying my first as president is granted to pass a law outlawing jokes against brother and loss. i can see body saying something -- >> guest: he was ruthless. he used to take that and, yes, he had a very good sense of humor and it's obvious i was trying to create the same kind of good humor that rall reagan displayed when he sali pure all republicans after he had been shot in 1981. but yes, one of the things more generally about robert kennedy because he was a very intense man is he had a really great sense of humor. i didn't know him when he was young girl and perhaps less loose, but he had one of the delays of the campaign ended tragically as it did -- i was at the staff and in those days pre-watergate. if you ran the campaign just like a brigety on the payroll claimed they were on vacation time which is what we all were supposed to be. but he wou

it may make sense to do it if it is appropriate. you need to make sure that health care staff are alert and on the job and regular employees are doing the job they need today. supervisor campos: thank you. colleagues, any questions? finally, why don't we hear from the sheriff's department? good morning. >> supervisors, i am sure if jan dempsey on behalf of the sheriff. in salaries, are spending is staying flat between fiscal years. this is partially due in fact that one of our jails has closed and we've been able to reassign staff. there are still a number of vacancies in the apartment, but because of the one jailed being closed, we were able to get by without the increase in overtime as a result. our overtime is driven by mandatory staffing levels. the minimum staffing levels in the jail is primarily where they are. we need them, definitely, as minimum staffing levels. we also have the impacts of who comes in the front door and who comes in at any given time, which we have no control over. we do our best to get as many people out o

which is homelessness is not helplessness when you have streets and that street sense is the key to this and that is it's information that newspaper you have is not a newsletter it's not an advocacy piece it's the news that's happening on the streets today there's some pretty damn good articles in here i've read quite a few of them that's are going to sort of team which i must tell you are two editorial or part time workers we have four people on staff total two full time two part time and mary at least so our editorial team are phenomenal with our interns and volunteers to make those articles happen and most importantly the vendors themselves contribute and what i buy one of these and they're you know the theoretical prices of dollars i said i just get more ever i have to have that's over a dollar over. there is the relationship between me and the person that i'm having that interaction with. seems to be a high respect relationship rather than the kind of patronizing. keeping people in place of. of begging and subordination that happens with beggars and that's what i think that's a

giving people a sense of tangible hope.ne thing is to be famous, it is quite another for people to like you. i am grateful for this award. it is another blessing. i do not take it for granted. this is an incredible city. everywhere i go, i tell everyone that this is the atlantis of today. there is no other city in the world -- i have been everywhere. there is nothing like san francisco. in fact, to me, it is not even the united states. you can see how fox network always attacks us. we do not have an inferiority complex. we just do not follow blindly. we question authority. as i said before, a person for person, there are more artists and con artists in the bay area. >> you are someone who has identified so strongly with the bay area. a lot of it reflects the values that you also identify with. i know that you have been promoting an idea for a work of public art that could be pretty transformative. could you talk about that? >> peace brother is something that i saw, i think in the 1980's there was this lady. she started back

>> it is the sense we get. partly if you look at the geographic spread and the mapping of the country over the last ten years, the sources of grievance are basically national even though people are expressing it in different ways and different places, there is not a place in the country where some group has not some reason to be up set, which is again why it is so hard for them to contain it. because it's now emerging virtually across the country and across ethnic and security groups as well. >> woodruff: so no one group is dominating over another. >> i mean the numbers, if you want to look at the numbers, of people that are sunnies, there is really no identity, there is a northeastern identity, arab kurds, muslim christians, but there is no sunni identity. so think of it as a country of minorities. all of them have their own cultures. but as-- all united by the fact that we have one central authority that has continued to-- for so many years and in a sense if you have now a sense of identity at this stage. and

economic sense? >> it does make economic sense but i regard it as extremely risky. in a sense there are logical arguments for it. economics is a very, very uncertain science so it could well be the right thing to do. my argument throughout has been you have to build in flexibility into such a plan. you have to see what happens to the economy. if it turns out the economy collapses under the weight of the cuts then you have to have some way of slowing down the process while remaining credible in the longer term. i think that can be done. >> rose: how do you build that in? >> you could announce that if the economy performs then you'd have tax cuts. why not have tax cuts? perfectly reasonable in the present situation. the emphasis really is on cutting the spending. in the meantime we can sell debt very easily. if we had temporary tax cuts on employment, taxes, for example, we could support employment, increase the support from the government for the economy quite easily. i think some flexibility would actually make it more plausible. it's too rigid. nonetheless it's cle

in a sense, it reflected larger issues that are impacting the city as a whole. so, there are issues like that that would require a knowledge of the neighborhood, and knowledge of what is happening on the ground, and knowing the difference is of how all bernal heights may look at an issue vis a vis the mission or portola. as a supervisor, i do have to be able to balance managing citywide issues, which is very important, but at the same time, focusing on the specific needs of your neighborhood. that is really important to us. one of the things we need to prioritize is that making sure we focus on the nuts and bolts of government. a lot of the calls we get involved fixing alights, replacing a pothole. i think it is really important to make sure we get those things right and we try to work very closely with the city agency to make sure government is responsive. if we do not do those things right, those little things, which are big things in life of a neighborhood. >> how you reconcile the needs of your district with the needs of the city? supervisor campos: i think

what was the sense of this? what is -- was the purpose of this in >> now, what do you mean not the most scintillating? gwen: i know, it was. >> it was our version of the royal wedding this week. gwen: without hots -- hats. >> exactly. with no hats. 25 years ago bill grider wrote a book about the federal reserve called "secrets of the temple." that is completely antithetical to the drift of public affairs in the united states. it's a move toward greater transparency. a move toward opening up things that have been closed before. bernanke since he became the fed chairman had been interested in opening up and expanding transparency at the fed. the need to do that is all the greater in light of all the extraordinary interventions the fed had to take in the period of the financial chris and attempts to stabilize the markets and get economic growth going. in that sense he was working hand in glove with president obama who was also taking steps to intervene in the auto industry. like the president, ben bernanke felt the

is there a time that might make sense for us to consider revisiting this? >> someone said, 10 years or 25 years or something like that. we need problematic stability. -- programatic stability. we spend seven or 8 months of our year engage in very difficult conversations with very passionate park users. we understand the concern. in a sense, even though we are on different sides of the issue, we are all very passionate about our parks. i think we are looking for is sustainable funding. the advantage for this particular fee does not impact san franciscans. this is sustainable the more data we have, the sharper our projections will be. this is not going to ed and flow mostly every general fund budget cycle. we will be able to count on it, program it, and we will know what we have. for us, that stability is very very important for the way our department operates. we have certain minimum staffing needs in our parks. we are looking for long-term sustainable funding. >> about the feet, if you could reduce it, would that reduce people coming to the park. get a sens

i was trying to think how it would make more sense to me. it seems that you have two theoretical orientations. one is the realist and the other end of the spectrum is the interdependent global list types. below that, you have the other boxes that can fit under york realists. you have major power orientation which seems pretty consistent with realism. asia first would seem to fall there and global south would seem to follow. you have that have a realistic but realism is a theoretical orientation into which these other things seem to fall. interdependence under that is a sort of the radical orientation. you have global list and select a multilateral we still are left with the reality you describe. many people don't fit neatly into one or the other. this seems to put these boxes a little more than a comparable kind of way. the seven boxes on the same line did not quite clarify things well for me. the second broad comment is i am still wondering how important are scholars? this is essentially documented how chinese scholars view their own circum

you have a sense of this lack of vision in a way. but if you don't know where you are deficient it is hard for me to think of you as a tragic figure and as i said because he was successful he actually did stave off the transformation of the south for many decades. i don't think he would tell himself as a tragic figure. >> somebody who would walk 14 miles to go to an election. >> in the snow. you talked about -- >> where are you? >> you talk a little bit about his family when he was young. tell us more about his family life as he became an adult? >> his wife taught him to read and write. we don't know that much about her. she was an invalid for many years and did not accompany him to the white house. did not stay with him in the white house most of the time. his daughter served as the first lady most of the time because she was ill. he was someone who seemed consumed by work. he without giving speeches all the time. he was running for office. he was plotting and planning. you don't get a sense that much of his family life other than h

model that the american sense, but also the spiritual sense. thank you very much.god bless you thank you very much. god bless you thank you very much. god bless you. >> leaside, god bless you. >> leaside, thank you for the question. it's interesting how are traditions for the way we respond but we see and i am not going to represent protestantism and give you a very flat answer is not even very imaginative talk about the ultimately displace religion that hovers above in the, all image and in doing so affords us of said eric insists he can't afford. i first saw jerusalem in 1983. i was in the middle of my seminary education that he'll notice on my way to india where he was going to spend some time looking at south india at the seminary. for some analogy by the world of counsel churches. those good friends with a rabbi at yell, rabbi laurie battenberg who employed me on the way to india that messed up and been spent time in jerusalem. so i followed her direct and she arranged the whole trip for me. was met by one of her cousins at the airport and driven into jerusale

my sense of where we are, i think there are three items. one is the issue of the franchise agreement, the fees, and how we compare to other jurisdictions. second is the issue of the transfer station and issues associated with that th. third, on the issue of merging, -- barging, lookit that issue of using the report provided to us by the department of the environment as a way of augmenting what is reported to lafco. great. i have a final thing that is important. this is directed to our general counsel. i think there are a couple of legal issues that i would ask lafco help you with into. if you have a franchise agreement the, how can the money be used legally? can that go directly to the general fund? are there limitations on the use of those funds? i want to know more about the 1932 ordinance. it is a lot of discussion about what the ordinance supposedly says and does. i think it is important for us to have more specific information of what it actually says. the question i had is whether or not the department of public health can issue permi

when you have a sense of such superiority does it not lead to a sense of arrogance in regard to the culture and the way of life of other countries? does it not lead to the notion that since we are so superior and according to someone got is on our side that we have to impose our values on other countries, be it iraq or afghanistan or other countries? thank you. [applause] >> i will take the question. that is a very important question. the fact that there is indeed a sense of superiority and arrogance about the fact that this country is what it is. this is a great country in the sense of opportunity and all were things people have but i don't think we should think turtle fretted is a superior country to others in the sense of culture or language and identity and all these things. because here's what i am saying this. i immigrated here and often times i do a lot of work in non-government organizations and various issues. people have an idea that our idea of happiness in the divided states is what everyone else was in the world. that is not true. have things in common we can work with to the.

it just does not make sense to me. it has economic benefit. it has clear economic benefit for the district that is right next door, which happens to be represented today by ross mirkarimi because when all of those folks come to the arboretum, they go to each in anderson said, and those are demonstrable benefits that come with tax benefits for the city, so it really does not make sense to me. and i say to my friends at local 261, with whom i think i have a good relationship, that as visitation goes down, does it mean less and less need for gardeners in that facility? because very few people are continuing to visit it. please rescind the fee. supervisor chu: thank you. >> and the -- end the fee. i'm a resident of oakland, but i lead a giant walking group here it is on the internet and in the real world. has over 3000 members, and about half of them -- 1500 -- are san francisco residents. we mainly what in san francisco. for the past four years and one month, i have read over 170 walks. as many as 70 people have followed me on a single wall. on a

take out one person but not another ok but this is where al qaeda does have some traction in some sense ok now again rebranding how do they what is the what is an effective strategy for them to rebrand if they can embrace democracy but they can still point out the hypocrisy of the west well i think. out of awakening as you call it and different sponsor of the west police police awakening those police and some very very serious challenges to tell you that i think ok that would have been afraid that if the west had supported the troops because i would tell you that one of the themes from the very beginning. they were struggling against the west because it was western support that can. the states as they call them up were state governments in place that was the whole theory of al-qaeda that they had to strike against the west in order to weaken western support the freeze up was they play games that if the west were forced to we throw in support they would fall with the democrats. we are seeing. the most of the session process that we have seen in key countries like egypt. in tunisia libya

i thought it was important to show google and get beyond the sense that google represents a force for good in the world or for that matter a force for evil in the world. i thought it was important to pay close attention to the mechanisms behind google to the fact that google is a company, and it should be both respected as a company and feared as a company, and for all those reasons, i thought it was healthier for us to bring google down to earth out of the habits. >> you write we may see google as a savior, but it rules like caesar. >> in the beginning, before google asserted its dictatorship over the web, there was chaos, and there were a number of competing forces out there making sense of the web and help us through. if you remember back in 1998 and 1999, maybe 2000, before almost everybody you know started using google, many of us used yarks hue or any -- yahoo or other search services, none of which did the job of aiding in the navigation, and so it was chaos. there was no sense that the web offered a stable and dependable environment, for instance, for commerce or for communica

and they would conjure the sense of another world i was no longer a part of but was connected to. i think the -- i came to the brink of this sort of, you know, really quest gradualy by hearing the names. the other experience i had when i was growing up is music in my grand mother's house. my grand mother live on the first floor of the apartment building the door was open. everyone in the apartment building stopped there after work. they would stop for a drink and play polka, not polka, poker. and lynched to john gibbons play an accordion on his wooden leg. you had the sense of people having come over if not in mass by a great number to this other place with a kind of echo of that place being transposed into the world that became my world. so that of my mother's side of the family. my father's side was more mysterious. over time i heard stories of lost aunts and saint john >> new found land which is not where they are from and a deeper echo further back. i had my grandfather's passport from 1918, you could smell the must on it. all of the mysterious presences were there. my father'

it is important for congress to continue oversight of the senses. -- census. this concludes my remarks and i would be pleased to respond to any questions you might have. >> thank you very much. let me ask if i could of you, you heard dr. groves testify today. we want to get a better count going forward for less money. what did you hear from dr. groves today that you were actually pleased to hear? and what did you not hear that you wish to hear? >> i had the opportunity to review dr. groves' testimony before i came here today. i would have to say that i think that dr. groves' observations, the observations from my office, and mr. goldenkoff's observations are all right on the same page. we are in agreement with what dr. groves has laid out. i think of what we would want to see more of that is more attention paid to some of the nuts and bolts management's issues for budgeting and project management. >> i am glad to suspend record. i wanted to ask senator brown to do something. i'll pick where we did pick up where we started. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. grove