he has a new book coming out and a new exhibit at the billy graham library in charlene israel. great place. the exhibit show cases graham's personal writings and late wife ruth. in a rare interview graham shared how working with his dad prepared him for the ministry. >> absolutely. then the work with the men on the farm, that became a team of people. a team of people all these things contributed to my ministry and the years to come. >> wow. he is looking pretty good for 93. graham's new book is called "nearing home: life, faith, and finishing well." it comes out next month. >> gray-head friends, he is 93 and has a book out. >> until next week good-bye

. >> billy graham's daughter live tonight. tonight, ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. >> mike: thank you. thank you very much. very enthusiastic audience with us tonight. welcome to new york city. this week the palestinian authority is coming to the u.n. and demand that think be declared a state in total defiance of all the agreements of the peace process and they're going to force the hand of the u.s. to veto any favorable vote. it's an unnecessary and unproductive move on the part of palestinians that reveal their disregard to consummate a peace deal with the israelis and further example of the blatant contempt that foreign leaders actually have for the current administration and president obama. what was supposed to be a new day of foreign relations, well, it certainly happened. we're no longer feared and therefore, we're no longer respected. iran builds nuclear bombs and the saudis thumb their nose at human rights and the europeans lecture us on running a debt and the chinese violate trade agreements and debt r

, evangelical billy graham. well, guess what? we also, you know, have banks in this city, and we have fine museums in this city, um, and not all of us like nascar. [laughter] >> host: karen cox, thank you very much. >> guest: thank you. >> for more information on booktv's 2011 cities tour, visit c-span.org/local content. >> host: and welcome to day two of booktv's live coverage of the 13th annual national book festival here in washington d.c. we have nearly six hours of live coverage ahead. here's our lineup. in just a minute, we'll go to the history and biography tent down here on the mall where doug waller will be talking about his 2011 book, "wild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionage." after that he'll join us here on our booktv set to take your calls about wild bill donovan and modern american espionage. after that you'll have the chance to talk with another pulitzer rise-winning author. sid hard that knew carry won the 2011 prettier for general nonfiction. after we'r

just for instance, billy graham had been a normal visitor to the white house before i was in office,don johnson and for richard nixon and for others. i didn't -- he would hold religious services in the white house. i never did invite him to do so. and the times when i did teach sunday school in a local baptist church, it was a completely secret thing in advance. nobody knew it in advance. so i separated my religious beliefs totally from any aspects of statehood or governance. >> do you think that -- do you think it is troubling now to see people running for president doing so by essentially preaching sermons, by talking about their faith as if that is a qualification for office? >> i do. i think in a slight way it's even unconstitutional for an incumbent president to claim that his own faith should prevail and that other faiths are not warranting equal treatment under the laws or under the president's policies. i think that's -- you know, it may not be a legal violation of the constitution but i think it violates the first amendment, separation. and the other thing is that we have se

billy graham told me this story. if you ever hear billy graham's imitating hubert humphrey's boys, he is quite good at it actually. -- voice, he is quite good at it actually. he missed an -- he moves to the state that has the cleanest government. he is swimming at the ymca. men's swim altogether. he is resting outside the pool and hubert lumbers over to him. he reaches down and insists on shaking hands and says, hello, billy graham's. i am hubert humphrey. i'm running for mayor. i would really like your vote. >> we need to go to barry goldwater. >> do we really need to? can i say one more thing about hubert? >> barry goldwater. >> ok. >> well, the beginning of modern conservatism. but also, an unlikely politician. some of these people seem to have absorbed in their water, a soup or whatever -- he should of been the head of the department store in phoenix. yet gradually, he takes this path that i think is true of some other politicians. they get into community affairs, and then, as you know, he is elected to the senat

and their documents which you can go and see if it billy graham center archives you don't have to trust me you can go look at these documents seventy years of papers and so on they describe themselves of invisible they deny they existed and finally in two thousand and nine they went public and on t.v. one of the representative was when asked why are you going public now said charlotte's book that was gratifying and i think i think you mentioned the uganda thing too i think that was you know in the first book in the family had written about their connections to family or to africa the ways in which you know we need to understand american religious politics not as a purely domestic issue that so often separated you see in the republican debates right now religion is a domestic issue not a foreign policy issue. and that's not how some of the religious conservatives experience it they're exploiting american religious politics to africa when i try to talk about that the first time around i got no reaction. the second time around in uganda where a legislator who had some associations with som

billy graham told me this story. if you ever hear billy graham's imitating hubert humphrey's voice, he is quite good at it actually. actually. he moves to the state that has the cleanest government. he is swimming at the ymca. men's swim altogether. men's swim altogether. he is resting outside the pool and hubert lumbers over to him. he reaches down and insists on shaking hands and says, hello, billy graham's. i am hubert humphrey. i'm running for mayor. i would really like your vote. >> we need to go to barry goldwater. >> do we really need to? can i say one more thing about hubert? >> barry goldwater. >> ok. >> well, the beginning of modern conservatism. but also, an unlikely politician. some of these people seem to have absorbed in their water, soup or whatever -- he should of been the head of the department store in phoenix. store in phoenix. yet gradually, he takes this path that i think is true of some other politicians. they get into community affairs, and then, as you know, he is elected to the senate, and he

that may with a name that you know -- be a name that you know or don't know, take a little bit of billy graham. that might be easier for you to grasp. and add to that a little dose of william randolph hearst. he was a very famous newspaper man and also someone who had napoleonic tendencies. add to that a great deal of p.t. barnum, a name that's familiar to you because of the sensation and showmanship. and then because it's the '20s and because of norris and some of the things he did, put a little bit of al capone in there because he was very much into winning battles and fighting battles. he built first baptist church from a few hundred people in 1909 to a church that would draw sometimes 10,000 people by the middle of the 1920s. now, there areture churches -- there are churches in america bigger than that now, lots of churches. but there weren't then. it really was the fist mega church in america. but he didn't do it without controversy. there was an area before the days of world war i called hell's half acre. it was where the brothels, gamble houses, bars were and so forth. and it was a plac

i mean, have you had billy graham down there. >> bill: you can do both. >> you know physically what thet is. >> bill: go down there, we can work them all. in they would all be there. >> my friends, the cops are really angry at him. >> bill: of course and they should be. >> they should be and perhaps he could have done it more delicately. i understand what he is trying to do. >> bill: you understand what he is trying to do. it's not respectful. >> what about the indian chiefs? >> bill: the indian chiefs, geraldo? >> seek political correctness. >> bill: i don't want anything to do with political correctness. nothing. i want respect and in context of the day. and that would have been -- >> -- have you ever been to jerusalem. go to the church of the holy sepulchre. the maryines they have got their corner. >> bill: the more the better. >> are a mean are a mainians are there. a problem difficult to solve. >> bill: all i'm saying to you is this should have been handled and the fact that is he raising separation of church and state is crazy. now, on your show on saturday. >> i have got a great

you take a little bit of something that maybe you'd know or don't know, but take a little bit of billy graham. cannot see that a little holes of william randolph hearst. he was a very famous in his liebermann and also someone who had the polling on mac tendencies. add to that a great deal of pt barnum, a name familiar to you was sensation and showmanship. and because this is the 20th and because of norris and the things he did, put a little bit about capone in there because he was very much into winning battles and fighting battles. he had built first baptist church from a few hundred people in 1909 to a church that would draw sometimes 10,000 people by the middle of the 1920s. there are churches in america bigger than not now, lots of churches. but at that time there were. this was unheard of back then. it really was before the name is used the first mega-church in america. but it didn't do without controversy. there was an area in fort worth that during the days before world war i clubhouse half-acre. it is for the were commonly gambling houses, all the parts weren't so forth. and it was a

, evangelical billy graham.guess what? we also, we also have banks in the city and find me seems in the city. and not all of us like nascar. >> karen cox, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> you're watching the tv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> a bit of the history of the charlottes riders club. >> it was founded in 1922, so that makes it one of the largest, the oldest organizations in north olympic i don't know if what is the but one of the oldest. and it started off i think a little bit more of the social club, a reading club. for lovers of literature. and then is just evolves over time. it's going to be 90 years old next year spent what is the focus of the club? >> with a variety of focuses. we want to be a support group providers. so we offer workshops, contests. we meet once a month during the academic year and a presentation by writers. and we want to offer resource and networking providers. so we also have have members or publishers, editors, people who love readi

we were talking about the stamps, we had some great suggestions like medal of honor recipients, billy graham says cloris leachman stamp since she's licked kilmeade and doocy, only fair he licks her. >> that's fantastic. everything wants to lick phyllis. >> you what? >> phyllis. star of phyllis, rota. >> i hate to be a party pooper, i don't think you still lick stamps. >> if you're cloris leachman. >> let me give you the headlines. we have hall of fame waiting in the wings. >> we sure do. police in california say they're closing in on the fugitive suspected of killing the city councilwoman. this surveillance photo shows him holding an automatic rifle, there it is right there, as he breaks into a cabin near fort bragg. it was taken by one of the 40 cameras police installed across a 400 square mile area where they think he's hiding. he's accused of gunning down city councilman jerry mellow when mellow stumbled upon his opium garden. >> crazy story there. new video surfacing of murder suspect joran van der sloot confessing to murdering stephanie flores. the 24-year-old described to police in spa

and the daughter of billy graham and the award winning author of the new book "heaven, god's promisee here on the curvy couch of "fox & friends." congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> tell me a little bit about why you felt inspired to write it. >> i have three little inspirations and they're called granddaughters. and so just looking at this very important truth through their eyes and trying to make it simple enough that they would understand because i think, you know, we watch tv and even though you try to protect your children, the news and the things that come on tv, there's some horrific things that are happening and i think children can be afraid and -- or if they lose -- my one granddaughter who is now 9, there were four people close to her that died within a year's time. a neighbor, a child classmate's mother and some others so she was confronted with this and we were talking about it and one of the things that helped us is when we talked about heaven, what happens after death and how you can know you're going to heaven. >> when kids read it, do the little light bulbs

what is it like growing up the daughter of billy and ruth graham?have nothing to compare it with. it was the only family i grew up with. i was pretty much raised by single parents anded grand parents because daddy was gone 60% of the time. you can do it with god's help. and then the other thing is it was a christ centered home so jesus was believed in. he was loved, served, obeyed and that was contagious to me. my mother taught me just by her scam tomorrow love god's word and love the jesus of the bible. my daddy taught me to be faithful about what god has taught me to do. that was the kind of home it was. you said you met franklin, a lot of fighting at our. >> mike: he has been such a servant of the lord in his life. did you have the times of rebellon. were there times in anne's life when you went off the reservation? >> i didn't. i always loved the lord. i remember the day, it was good friday. i watched cecil b. demille film on tv. claimed jesus as savior and gave him my life as lord. from that day forward i loved him. >> reporter: a great irony i

he was a great friend of billy graham. he was pro-life not just on abortion, but on the death penalty as well. he was antiwar. he was antibalanced budget. he was an interesting, independent, decent man. soy simply -- so i simply want to say from the vantage point of someone who serves today in the united states senate what an impression this man from oregon made on a 26-year-old young aide to howard baker in 1967. i remember him for his courtesy, for his decency and for his independence. i thank the chair and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon is recognized. mr. merkley: i ask unanimous consent that my intern, yan pern, have the privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: i also ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, the senator from oregon is recognized. mr. merkley: i applaud my colleague from tennessee. i appreciate him coming to make comment