well, i got on the phone to dave guard. he was an old friend. he hadbecause he got my book, my bestseller. i mimeographed it first, but later printed it. it's printed 100,000 copies. how to play the five-string banjo. he wrote me a year later. he says, "i've been putting that book to hard use. i and two others have a group we call the kingston trio." so i called him up. "oh, pete, we didn't know it was your song. we'll take our name off it." it was very nice of him, because technically, legally, i had, as they say, "abandoned copyright." but they took their name off, and my manager copyrighted it. it pays my taxes these days, that song. it's been translated into dozens of other languages. >> pete, could you play "where have all the flowers gone?" >> where ah, maybe i'll just sing the very, very last verse, because the contradictions of life still amaze me. you have to laugh, if you don't cry. ♪ where have all the graveyards gone? long time passing. where have all the graveyards gone? long time ago. where have all the graveyards gone? covered with flowe

it was like i had udropped an atomic bomb. ust looked at me and said, congressman, don't want to offend you but, may i tell you, strike one, you're a politician, strike two, you're a lawyer. boring, boring. this is not going to happen you need a ghost writer and writing a book for publication, that's a big deal. and i said, i'm irish and an ex-bartender. i know how to tell a story. it took me 45 minutes and finally she patted me on he head like a child and said, okay, you go write your chapter or two, and you send them to me and when i tell you that they're horrible, then we'll -- no more talk about the ghost writer. so i went home and did the first couple of chapters with roughages and she e-mailed me and said, when can i have the third chapter? the book came out ten years ago and sold out. the book has been out of print for eight year, readers digest picked it as one of their top four nonpix books in 2004, and i'm meeseed to say after eight years of being out of print, it just was republished in the tenth anniversary edition

when they told me, you know, that i had the show, i was -- the show had been picked up. was excited. i went to a christmas party with my wife. and michelle ashford, the producer of the show said, you know, we're so excited that you're here. you're going to be so -- you're so great in the pilot. she's kind of stroking me. my wife is standing next to me and she said she saw where it was all going. i said, well, thanks, you know, this is a great opportunity for me. they said, we have some really wonderful twists for your character coming up. my eyes lit up and my wife said she knew exactly where my head was going which is, oh, i'm provost of the university. there's all these people behind the scenes, they're having sexual experiences. i'm probably getting it on with some co-eds at the college and stuff. i said, what? what's the twist? he said, you're gay. you know, that totally threw me for a loop. my wife burst out laughing because she knew where it was going. but in the end, you know, love is love, really. and i'm playing a man who is married for many years. allison janney

i had to be in an isolation booth, like superman. would walk into a board meeting and would have to have the answer. street walk into a wall presentation and would have to answer financial questions. said, youd in and know what, i am having a hard time and do not have all the me?ers, could somebody hug that would have been it. i am highly competitive and lived a survivalist life. that is at the detriment of your soul, your family, your health, and all of the accessories to power and success become hollow. >> even when you were at the height of the power with the boats and planes? being partoved was of a company of journalists, though makers, and musicians. i would try to get out of the cockpit and go and be with them in the creation. the journalists i would follow along. that was the good part. heart and thest wall that was constructed so that everything that i did related to the company. if you and i met, i would take your measure. your title, if it had nothing to do with the business of time warner, i would move on. that is a terrib

the first date we broadcast, i had humphrey out. i made sure, before i ended, tomorrow night, we're going to have richard russell. so it was very balanced. finally, the southerners began to trust me and i began to get calls from their press secretary, do you want to come over and meet? >> i think we could keep the story going and doing profiles of the key actors, senator dirks and senator cagle. you mentioned majority leader mansfield. of course, we would always go up to the white house and tried to get a feel for larry o'brien. even the president, who was accessible on the story. one day, i went to see james. it required some coverage. by the way, over 84 days, it was always with senator russell and mr. glass. so i went to see the chairman of the judiciary committee to convince myself i was the congressional correspondent of the new york herald tribune. i am sure you know, a big flag of mississippi, american flag. after about five minutes of a monologue, he had a cigar in his mouth and said, "sonny, you stick around here for 20 year

whenever i had a difficult person, i would always put him at his table. kissinger was something else. dinner, iarticular think it was a french dinner. for some reason, there was a person very high up who had taken real offense against -- someone at the "washington post" had taken a real offensive against this woman. they were doing this campaign against this woman. it was almost like annihilation. i got to feeling sorry for the woman. she did not need me to feel sorry for her. believe me. i thought, ok. i will sit her at scocroft's table. i will seek "the washington lady and put the general between the two. when he came out of that dinner , the poor guy was reeling. he looked at me and he said, thanks. [laughter] he remembered that. we talked about that the other night. >> ok. i am getting the "let's wrap it up" sign. unfortunately because this has been a wonderful time. on behalf of the clinton presidential center, i want to thank our esteemed panel. they hold a revered position, like their first ladies, in our nations history. these are unique stories on

i know i had nothing to hide. i wasn't even thinking i had nothing to hide. it just -- i'd never been through a situation like this. >> riky's father, richard jackson sr., can't bring himself to believe that his own son is a murderer. >> the first call i received was from riky. when he explained to me what was going on, i asked him. son, did you do this? and he said no. >> they already told me at the police station that they had my fingerprints in blood through the whole thing. i was thinking, oh, tomorrow it will blow over. they will figure it out. >> we arrived at the police a station. at least three people came into the room with the prints. and explained that they were no one else's prints but riky's. and i said to them, my son said he did not commit this crime. so i'll just have to prove you wrong. >> unable to pay the $500,000 bail, jackson is sent to delaware county jail to await trial. >> i'll never forget the feeling of when they put me in a cell on the second tier and closed the gate, and i've never been claustrophobic in my life. that's when it hit

what wasn't great was last night when i was lying in bed and i had remembered that i had not washed my touching the chicken. [ laughter and applause ] so apologies -- apologies to my wife to whom i roll my eyes every time she tells me to wash my hands after touching chicken. and also apologies to her for years of what life would be like without me. because after i touched that chicken, i likely only have one or two days to live. i touched that chicken a lot. [ laughter ] and when i finish a show, this is like a thing for me. i go, one more down. [ laughter ] so it went right in the mouth. i have a dog. i have a dog named frisbee. i talk about the dog every now and then on the show. one thing i don't do is show pictures of my dog that often. i don't want to be that guy that shows pictures of my dog every time it does something adorable. let me know -- it's not i have a shortage of opportunities, my dog is being adorable 24/7. so i don't want to be the guy that shows pictures, but frisbee did something yesterday. and i'm going to be honest, she went next level. so i'm going to full-on sh

chores i still earned an allowance i had to make my bed every morning i had to help her cook dinner every night i had to take care of the doctor said my dad is a working professional work he's actually the president of a medical company and so did he enjoy you working in i can't say that he necessarily enjoyed it but he doesn't have a problem with that they were always very supportive of the. maybe like she did tonight of course and they're very proud of me but i think there's sometimes there's you know a difference with with parents that really are doing it to letting you do something because they want to support you versus have it they neither one of our parents got any personal fulfillment out of you in our lives and says i have a younger brother chris and does he work in the business she does he works behind the scenes he's a producer on any day and he kind of works on a bunch of different we have a movie i do yeah boiling pot was doing something out it's about racism and it's all based on a true story based on two thousand and eight when president obama was running for reelecti

i had to pump up a little keg on the front of it and we had some wonderful times. i made a lot of marine friends and families because the whole base was family mostly. we had some lifelong friends that we made there. so actually it was a nice experience. i enjoyed -- now today, i think north carolina is my favorite state. >> this, my experience, the worst time of all that for years after my husband died in 1989, i had a recurrent dream that he was walking down a country lane to a mailbox and i would get there and there would be no letters. and this dream continued throughout the years until obviously maybe in the last 10 years and actually that's kind of what has happened. there were days, to me the lifeline was the communication and communication when our husbands were in the army were by letter. no telephones, no ipads, no cell phones, no pictures, nothing and then these letters at least coming from okinawa would come, maybe you would come down to the mailbox for two, three days in a row or maybe five days and then there would be no letters. the and then the next

so, i knew something was wrong because i had i had reached my stride. i had a beautiful home. i had a husband that loved me. but something was wrong. and which you scratch beneath the surface, i hadn't dealt with the pain. i was experiencing symptoms of gynecological cancer. it was fortuitous because the next year, i was diagnosed. this was like the last season of "the nanny." i wasn't feeling well. the marriage was, you know, busted apart. and i was just very unhappy. but, you know, there are so many it was like a perfect storm from the gyneco logic cancer and the treatment of hormones to treat a benign condition that i never had, that was making me kind of whacky. and the pressure of the show and the marriage and confronting my -- i wasn't really in touch with myself and my need to always be perfect, the perfect daughter, the perfect wife, the perfect star, the perfect human being. everybody's caregiver, never a taker, only a giver. >> what feel? >> i hit a brick brig walk and had a garden variety midlife crisis. >> which over the course of the years that followed, my cancer

he told me that he thought that i was wrong. we had an old trainer there at the time, teddy scott -- he was a great old man. he said to me, "boss -- he's right." so i thought about it. we gave it a try and it worked. it was amazing what you were actually watching. seeing the player's habits. seeing the little defects in their performance. you could see sometimes that a player was not quite right on the day and you would wonder what was wrong with him. it could be a million things. and that observation i've carried through with me all my career and i've used that really well. >> you have to make sure that you really are 'in the moment' because it is only when you are in the moment that you can see with great focus. you always have to say to yourself, "what is happening here? what is going on?" >> that's the power of observation. you don't take your eyes of it. by doing that all the time you increase your ability to see things happening >> and then there is -- never stop adapting -- you constantly have to change. >> always. if you have a

and i knew at that point that i had had it. i had had it. and all the things -- >> rose: this was before the merger. >> this was after the merger. it was right after 9/11 when we were supposed to have a board meeting the next week, i couldn't believe. i mean -- >> rose: mergers were 98, 99. >> no. it was 2000 announced and took effect in 2001. but you know, some of our journalists that went down to ground zero and it was so shocking so stunning and i had been at the inception of the world trade center, i was working with a fellow at the time in 1966 i think it was, and i saw the cornerstone being laid. they had a helicopter that was going to be the height of the tower and everybody was oohing and aweing and i was going down to see all of these first responders passing parts one another. i mean it was like the news reels we used to see, i'm not presuming age, the world war ii bombed out buildings. here it was in new york city. and so the emotions of the family affected me again because they had a family member who just showed up at work that

today on larry king now i had scandals tony goldwyn and i was blue shonda rhimes called me and said i'm going to play the president of united states with kerry washington that sounds interesting no matter what the situation is that the scene is every time you walk into a room you just have this power this power this aura the way people deal with you know you bring so much through every scene just because you got that title on his new project that divide the you find out where they innocent were they guilty who did what and we explore all of the great errors in our justice and on them you touch success at the moment larry i'm really grateful for you know i mean i've been doing this for twenty five years and as you know you know you go through dry periods and periods of success and you go up and down plus the most embarrassing moment on the set of scandal probably was directing myself in the sexy kerry washington. and what do you do running around that can make it and be like ok you know what i got to get it fixed and it's all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special gues

there was a number of meetings i had the white house in which they were trying to understand what had happened, what the scope of it was and as we continued to have those discussions i got to the point that it was obvious the white house would withdrawn its support and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know when your boss does not support you. you figure it out. >> host: your new book we want to show on the air, "on my watch: leadership, innovation, and personal resiliance," you kind of details that were last day in office. what was the last they might? >> guest: the last day was a very sad day. i was in mourning for most of the day. i couldn't show that because my resignation was very sudden in the afternoon and i was concluding things and signing some letters and orders but when i resigned i was on the senior staff became very suddenly and i simply said to them that i had chosen to resign and i sent a letter to the president and i left the room, turned the meeting of the to staff and went downstairs and got in my car and drove home. by the time i got home might e-mail was b

. >> my problem is i went to the border by accident and i had three guns in my truck and they are trying to possess -- they are trying to take my guns from me. >> so you're in mexico. >> yeah. there's nothing i can help you with, sir. i do apologize. >> you're not on american soil anymore. i can't really help you. >> sergeant tahmooress found himself founded by mexican customs. he told them he had guns in his car. guns that were illegal in mexico. only on the record obtaining these receipts, they are proof he legally owned and purchased these guns in the united states and thousand the u.s. marine is languishing in a mexican prison on weapons possession but he is not charmiged for weapons smuggling. >> mexico doesn't think he was smuggling and that's a big deal. smuggling means you want owe bring the guns in to sell them. but possession could be a mistake. >> so sergeant tahmooress first put behind bar at the state penitentiary. >> he leapt over a huge wall, scaled over a wall and obviously active vaivated the security pr pro k oe kol. he dlibately hurt himself. apparently with a light bu

i mean, i've had a lot of campaigns where i mean, for instance, i had a razor campaign. razors. that's not exactly good for endorsing any kind of brand. >> seth: yeah. that would maybe be like the last thing you should do. >> yeah. yeah. i'm not very good at self-promotion. >> seth: you've been a model since you were in high school. >> yes. >> seth: you don't seem to take it very seriously which a lot of people find refreshing. is that accurate that you don't take it super seriously? >> i do not. do you take modeling seriously? >> seth: i don't. well i will say this though, when i have to say when i have to get my picture taken for something, i find it hard. but i think for someone like you, it's not hard. >> it is very hard, i mean, honest -- for me, i think i'm very lucky to be able to just, i am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. >> seth: right, that's a good description of it. >> that's all that ends up having to happen. and listen, it's, you get to travel, meet a lot of people. it is fun. but i don't take it very seriously, no. >> seth: that proba

doing this i had to really think about why was i why why was i hear why am i doing this i was pretty religious at the time and i went charge the chaplain in. under the orders of my commander actually and. i got nothing out of it he just basically it's god's plan it's god's plan for people to die like that i don't want to hear that. i didn't feel like i was a part of anything good or wholesome or healthy or. contributing to the greater good i felt like i was. destroying myself. i was taking who. i pictured myself to be in my head and chopping it down and breaking it down taking a sledgehammer to it. and. it crumbled there's a lot more known and i think what. mark come up i mean you say the brain is quick to tell ya marshall none of us are like you miles plus we're like. the selves that this. is the place there was but. little did i miss it for the. first this. last month. doesn't get out one in my life. is about. police or the. ladies and all of these are part of what all. this is the much regular life they did. you did or fell off the. dogs are bought up. on a theme by the elizabeth.

so i had no competition. that's why the prominence. >> i was going to ask you, what was the challenges for a tv correspondent to cover the senate in the 1960s? in particular the civil rights but just in general. how easy or hard was it far tv correspondent? >> well, everything -- the main stuff was behinded closed doors, as you can imagine. cameras were not welcome except at certain places. cameras didn't get into the house until 1979 and not into the senate until 1986 i think it was. and i thought when cameras finally got into the chambers the world of political reporting would really, really change because for the first time the public would be able to sit in and watch what happens on the floor. well, as you know, not a lot happens on the floor. [ laughter ] so as -- so it was difficult just to know where to go with the camera. you couldn't go lots of places. you couldn't go into the chamber, you had to wait for the sergeant at arms and stake out a place and then you've have had v to grab them as they came o

but i had a big box in my pocket that i was trying to hide. i even had the england flag. pe, you know. kelly was like, "you're kind of like a public person. you know? isn't this a little weird?" i said, "i know." and she goes, "boy, you're acting so weird." i'm waiting for the right moment, and then england scored. and i got on my knee and i said, "will you marry me?" she said yes. and i thought, "this is fantastic. it could be another sign." and then the united states scored. >> seth: perfect. and ultimately, marriage is a draw at its best day. >> yes. ohh. [ laughter ] >> seth: that's really, like, the perfect outcome. [ applause ] >> and if i remember correctly, the goal dribbled in between the goalie's legs, so -- >> seth: another perfect -- [ laughter ] >> maybe. i just took a poop on a nice moment. i'm sorry. [ laughter ] >> seth: no, you're fine. that happens all the time. >> it does. >> seth: you mentioned your father's from liverpool. >> liverpool, yeah. i'm soccer mad. >> seth: a tough town, and you went to your first match in liverpool. >> yeah, i went with my c

i had rich parents. s raised -- >> look at you -- >> this hidden neurosis came from -- that is your question. i don't know if i answered you properly but if i had to put -- don't know if it is a good answer. in some way i am wired, i don't look the way i am wired but i do think that it helps me as a writer that i grew up in a world that i loved. i grew up in new orleans. it was a world that was outside in many ways american culture. american culture was clearly hostile to it. it was not going to survive as a culture and a lot of things i've valued in that world were crumbling before my eyes. i could see my father's way of life was unsustainable. that probably helped. >> what do you mean by that? >> what was unsustainable? >> it wasn't the state division sustainable -- your status from your achievements in the world as opposed to your personal relationships from your family. it was not a success culture. people were indifferent to what people did to make a living. much more focused on family relationships.

so i did mine in three days and i was done and i had three months ago and i had read one of his books that the only obligation he felt that he had as a former president was to answer letters from young people and so i sent him my report. and i said dear president, tell me what you think and get it back to me because i have to turn in in three months. and this was also before the advent of a copy machine and we just can't get our heads around it, if you wanted to make a copy of something you had to get a piece of carbon paper and i didn't even know about that. simon ellis to him and it is just gone. so three months later, today comes in to turn my report and he collects everybody's report and says where is yours and i told him this story. and actually i did my three months ago and it was really good and i sent it to him and he must like it because he still has it today. but when i get it back, i will turn it in and everything will be fine. so he called me and he humiliated me and he called me a liar and said none of us is true, you did and do your report and gave me a bad grade in atla

i knew i had to get here. from 5:30 to 9:30, how many hours is that? i got four hours of riding the morning i just started. it is persistence and doing the work. when students come to me and tell me, when i start, if you coming at 10:30 when you better go to somebody else's class. because i have to model it. i have to be fair on the dust at 10:30. when you and your papers, the next class i have to have your paper corrected. i want you to give me back. so you models that. there are no exceptions and it always interests me that students come to my class the next semester, you know what you are into. sometimes when you say you wish it, i want it, i wish it, i want it, that is fine but young people have to understand people who reach where you are, wishing it and dreaming and imagining it, it is by working, putting hard work, i say to my son all the time, and -- >> that is important. and it started early and end very late. and i believe in hard work. i believe like you said from being on time, doing what you say you are going to do. if you can't be on time,

i had a pickup truck and a great job. any job in food makes me happy, with the exception of dish machine operator. that is humbling, hot, and very hard work. i don't wish to have that job again. >> you are far away from that now. >> i loved restaurants. i've wanted to get back into restaurants for years. i think that is something we are going to get accomplished this year. i do not sit down with a piece of paper and i say i want something that is around for 100 years. i want to have a purpose and goals. i want to stay true to the brand we have built over the years. >> we are successful as restaurateurs and chefs if we make you happy. >> our job is to provide you with the confidence that you can follow a recipe book or follow page six if that happens to be where you happen to be. >> does it annoy you when someone says, ah, bobby flay is a tv star, he is not a real chef? ♪ >> define your brand in three words. >> can do. i want you to be able to envision yourself doing anything that has my name on it or that we touch as a gro

i had to put my name on the wall. resentable. >> abbott also uses his art to connect with his mother. >> makes her day when i send her like a "thinking of you" card. she has all kinds of pictures that i've done for her, jesus pictures, pictures of jesus, all kinds of religious pictures i like to do. >> she's religious? >> yeah, christian. >> as though his devil horn tattoos aren't ironic enough for a christian-themed artist, abbott is also serving 40 years for stealing from and burning down a historic catholic church in his hometown. and while he claims he didn't do it, he does admit that he stole some shoes from the church before the fire started. >> there's definitely something mentally wrong with me when it comes to, like, klepto, like, taking little things, probably wouldn't think much about it. some people wouldn't understand why certain people take certain items, i guess. i wouldn't be able to explain it. the psychology part wouldn't add up with me. >> but even in prison, abbott still has a certain appreciation f

it's. >> guest: i wish i would have had a chance to meet him. i really wish i had any talks very little to the press and unfortunately he died but some of his lines of the accident were very compelling. the other characters in the book and there weren't many characters. there was chuck castell and i really liked chuck. we talked to him. he was very kind and chuck was the nrc expert on boiling water reactors who was brought into tokyo and was there as i recall there for almost a year. he became in our tale that kind of central person who is buffeted by all the forces at work. the government of japan and the culture of japanese society and government. the urgency to get the best possible advice to americans living in japan through the ambassador who was there and then the scramble and infect your office is trying to figure out what was going on and getting to it. he is working by all appearances 24/7 full out struggling to keep all the in the air. to me he was a human face of a safety system that was just not ready or what it was being asked to do.

i had no idea it could get this bad. and that's what i -- [ buzzing noise ] >> in the middle of interviewing stefan the alarm went off. the protocol at the prison is all inmates have to get down on their stomachs and all staff and other personnel remain standing. >> false alarm. >> it was a little sad, actually, watching stefan on the ground because we were in the midst of having this great conversation almost and he started to think of himself, i think, as a regular guy, back out on the street and suddenly it was very clear, no, he's an inmate and he has to get down on the ground like all the other inmates, get dirty, until he is told he can get back up. how long did it take you to get used to doing that? >> well, when i was in jamestown i got a lot of practice. the yard goes down a lot on that. so -- glad that happened for you guys. >> so i had made a little joke with him because i could feel his embarrassment and i wanted to just try to lighten it up a little bit. did you arrange for that, stefan? >> can't say that i d

so i had no competition. that's why the prominence. >> i was going to ask you, what was the challenges for a tv correspondent to cover the senate in the 1960s? in particular the civil rights but just in general. how easy or hard was it far tv correspondent? >> well, everything -- the main stuff was behinded closed doors, as you can imagine. cameras were not welcome except at certain places. cameras didn't get into the house until 1979 and not into the senate until 1986 i think it was. and i thought when cameras finally got into the chambers the world of political reporting would really, really change because for the first time the public would be able to sit in and watch what happens on the floor. well, as you know, not a lot happens on the floor. [ laughter ] so as -- so it was difficult just to know where to go with the camera. you couldn't go lots of places. you couldn't go into the chamber, you had to wait for the sergeant at arms and stake out a place and then you've have had v to grab them as they came o

i had never heard of a bone marrow transplant. didn't know it was possible to donate your stem cells. so i'm very pleased we've been able to increase the donors that are registering. >> yeah. so we know that god can take it. >> yeah. >> the question is whether or not we can take it. now, there are those of us believe that god never puts more on us than we can bare, yet there are times i think, particularly given what you were up against, that we have to question whether or not we have the capacity the ability the wherewithal to actually endure. we know god can take it, but were you ever in doubt about whether or not you could take it? >> yes, i was in doubt. when you're told that you only have a year or two and the possibility of finding a donor at the time i didn't know my sister would be a perfect match, thank you, jesus. there are many times -- but then i realized, it was really funny, taf tis, especially when i was putting down the audio version of this. and i had to stop sometimes and i almost was -- who am i talking about? an

i had my rifle slung up as well. and just trying to get the distance to bring my rifle up to return fire. >> officer kenworthy exited the passenger side and engaged him, i came around officer kenworthy's side and started putting a good amount of return fire on him. >> to be honest with you, it seemed very much like a training video. i was waiting for somebody to pause it and basically start asking questions of the class, but it was just -- it kind of kept going. it just -- it didn't stop. >> through the shower of police gunfire, mccloskey somehow is able to get back into his truck. but he isn't going very far. >> when he was trying to get back into the vehicle, i had made a decision that he was not going to leave. i was going do everything i could so he couldn't leave that block. what i didn't want was a rolling gunfight. so i just continued to return the fire into the truck, into the driver's compartment. >> mccloskey is fatally wounded. >> as you can see in the video, if you look close, i believe he took a head shot

but i really want to share the experiences i have had. i came to this job as i write in the book in quite an unusual way. i was surprised when the president asked me to serve and slightly less what i agreed to and from the very first moment it was a mad dash because he inherited a serious agenda and problems and challenges. the perspective i have gained encouraged me to speak by mind and contribute what i can to whatever debate is occurring. >> let's talk about the process of writing the book before getting to the substance. i remember from the last book you had a day job. >> i did. >> you were in the senate. and you did a lot of the work on the bock between midnight and 3 a.m. and i remember having meetings around your table at 3 a.m. we did that for a few mont months to get it finished. this time you carved out more time to get it finished. you had a great team working for you but you are not somebody who has taken a draft of a book, speech or chapter and said this looks good and put it between covers. you have always slaved over your wr

a lot smarter people and i had to come up with a shrug. i wish i had a better answer for you. i don't. man. [inaudible question] >> yes, my wife is here. it is important to know the woman who called me in darfur was marine. this affair that i was seven was just the last drop. since before went back. [inaudible question] >> she did. absolutely. she is recognized for it. we still talk pretty regularly. any other questions? here comes the microphone. >> is this on? since you just went to the va, have you seen -- what kind of progress have you seen on behalf of the va? also, perhaps in their willingness to work with nonprofits like the writing project i no there are signs of change across the country and new funding coming out of the va for nonprofits through supportive services programs and things like that. wonder if you get some small sense of hope there that this big dinosaur may be making some important changes. >> thank you for the question. i do see -- could you guys here that? could you hear the question? is the kaytoo getting better at what they do? the supervisor was laug

always thought i had superpowers. that's like the origin of batma superman, the hulk, the whole thing. >> and here you are in "the expendables." >> yeah! i'm a real life super hero. i made it! it's funny because, you know, these things, you know, we all as young men, we always have that desire. we have the desire to save the damsel in distress. i had a desire to save my whole family, to save my brother and sister and save everyone in my community. and it's weird because that desire, it should be in you. >> what did nfl teach you about acting? how did the nfl help you with acting? >> because you start to realize that it's a business is a business. and one thing you learn through sports is that it's on you. it's on you. there is no one else to blame. there is no one else to put it on. i took my career. i took a sport -- the whole sports thing and i applied it to my acting. i realized that i was the only guy with the -- who is going to improve myself. and i had to do the work. you have to do the work. you have to do the p

he and i were having a scheduled meeting on a morning after a lot of this had been happening and i was there was one of my aides and his chief deputy. he was a little late because he had been at the white house in a meeting with others who were involved and he came in in a hurry, we began going through what we know now, what is our next step and i was looking at him as i am looking at you and i saw his face turned scarlet, deep purple read and i said what is wrong? he said i don't know. i don't know what is happening to me. you are getting up immediately and we are going to go to the medical unit in the state department. i said no. we had some staff help him and we took him to the elevator and took him down and one of his trusted staff went with him in an ambulance to george washington hospital and after heroic efforts to save his life he passed away but the outpouring of grief and admiration of those who worked with him, richard was a bigger than life character, i called him a force of nature. you would take no for an answer. i said no no no. he followed me into a ladies room in pakis

four dorm parents, i had my advisor, i had all my teachers always making sure i was okay, always constantly omarina is not the kind of kid that lets mediocrity rule. she's not happy with that at all, and so she gets kind of feisty and angry and wants to fix it. and so it's been great to kind of watch that growth in her and watch her kind of come into her own that way. >> i feel like i've widened my perspective so much being here. i've seen so much-- i've seen too much, almost-- to go back to how i was talking and living and acting, and if you'd see me in the street, i don't think you'd recognize me. >> so what if i asked you to graph this thing that's changing over time? >> well, zero is there so it would go away from it, so it wouldn't be negative. >> start negative, zero, positive, zero, negative... >> i caught up and i got good midterm grades. i'm excited about that and i'm proud. >> blessed be god, blessed be our life together. blessed be our food this night and our fellowship. we ask these things in god's name. amen. (kids talking happily) >> have a great time tonight at the dance. you

i had a book in 1997 that was semi-autobiographical. it was about my life and politics have been to this point. and i have an agent. i was very fortunate to get justin agent. so i went back to that agent and he worked with me in getting the book ready to go to the publisher. he couldn't sell it. he went from publishing house to publishing house and they all said either the web is too controversial or they might say this is his first fiction and we don't do first fiction or they might say we already have a thriller author so we are not going to take is that one. they have great excuses than they are all legitimate excuses. they all made me feel good in their rejection but i was rejected each time. after three months, four months my agent said webb i can't sell it so i'm going to recommend that you publish it yourself. so i spent about a month learning the self-publishing business which is a really complex field. if you have ever tried to do it, talks to a lot of friends about what was involved and was about ready to go when a friend of mi

i had seen this online order. [laughter] he said approach. i thought cool, so i approached. but isolate a friend of mine about my big rhetorical moment of court. he said he had served with the special forces of the green berets in vietnam and he was patiently and said he had, it's kind of like the first time i got to say cover me, were so to put a big hole in some areas. most of us don't get to say the really cool lines that you hear, that some people here in real life and others here in movies like charge first bunch, clamp, sutures, three, two, one, a commission or a periscope. in my case it would have been down periscope after ramming some innocent japanese research vessel. let's get out of here. the captain auclair, what about the survivors? this is my career. i will close this actually with a story told to me by my new friend, christopher hitchens to whom this book is dedicated. but it is purportedly a true story. as a magistrate scotland in the town drunk would hurt brought before him for the team time and he was sick and tired of seeing this guy and his court room. so

believe the computer is the greatest invention ever. >> i liked history even before my machine that i had barely heard of with physical size is to look at the nomenclature of the switches. >> the industry has made bigger changes in a few decades than printing has over a few centuries. >> when i was a student at m.i.t. the computer took up half a building and caused tens of millions of dollars of the computer in your cellphone is 1 million times cheaper than 1,000 times more powerful. >> we are recording the events of this extemporaneously. rarely in history do you have a chance to do that wouldn't you love to hear michelangelo talk about what it was like for the sistine chapel? >> it is important. >> that is what the museum is about to understand the history of what has been happening and it to see it and feel it. >> as a graduate student completing about the architecture of a faculty member told me study it even if you don't like it there is something exceptional year need to know what that is. that is what the computer history museum is all about. >> good afternoon. [applause] is great

i wanted to find out if i had any talent natural. ly could act, if i really could interpret a song. ♪there's no business like snow business ♪like no business i know. >> cowan: she stayed sober for more than two decades. in her final years she decided she could handle one drink a night. still for haunting insecurity remains >> i love you. >> cowan: at the new york premiere for her documentary, she was welcomed with open arms. >> >> cowan: but it wasn't until the end of the film when she got it standing ovation that she truly felt she'd delivered. >> and seeing the audience and watching you [laughter] >> it's just too much, i'm telling you. >> cowan: for this life long performer, it was still about the audience. what's it like when everybody starts applauding? >> fantastic. got to happen. or else -- >> cowan: stritch left her beloved new york last year to return to detroit to be close tore family. it seemed even then she knew she had precious little time left. ♪this road -- >> cowan: the regret that it was only in her later years that s

it wasn't the only time i had that dilemma. how do you move a big organization like gsa to go faster when you have due process, a system of rules, a system of protections as well as performance. i tell you, they can jam into each other at times. it's a great the limo. >> martha johnson, what is your next book? >> i would like to do another novel and i'm also working on a book about what it's like for organizations and leaders after trauma, after something happens to the organization and then want to learn on the other side, how you grow from these experiences. so hopefully you will hear from me a lot. >> and who is doubly precious because my wonderful publishers. they held my hand and walked me through a book which is i will note a washington book that is not too big. it's a short. you can read it quickly. you gain a lot of very good at lessons but it does not require 800 pages or the 20,000 many of these washingtonian books are. >> martha johnson's book, "on my watch: leadership, innovation, and personal resilience." this is a

had. and so when i read that, i sent out a survey to 100 guys that i had flown with an i knew all of these years later, asked the same question and at the end of the book i compared it to say, okay, this is what has changed and this is what has stayed the same and i thought about was pretty interesting. talk about history repeating itself. anyway, that is kind of a brief overview of this and with that, who has questions? we can talk about this were any of the other books and i have been talking politics all week. maybe we could start with the book. anyone? [inaudible question] >> there was none in the second gulf war and the first one the iraqis sent out a few bad ones are it wasn't going to end well for them and it didn't. if you picture yourself in a karate fighter squadron. they take off and never come back, you probably won't be too jazzed about this. so the f-15 planes were out in front before all this had a chance to our dismay. there was one day in the first war where we managed to pick up some low-flying mid-23 that were running like scalded aids for the iranian border and taking o

i had a drunken woman in the front row. and she says "that's a bunch of crap." [ laughter ] then i do sir walter raleigh. "that's a bunch of crap." so we listen to the tape, she is clearer than i am on that tape. [ laughter ] so we had two shows on saturday to get the album and it went crazy. went insane. >> jimmy: it was super popular. it was number one album. >> of the year, yeah. >> jimmy: of the year? >> yeah, it beat out belafonte. i hate to say it beat out elvis. [ cheers and applause ] it beat out frank. which frank wasn't all that thrilled about. [ laughter ] i'm still here. >> jimmy: who won that battle. [ laughter ] bob newhart, everybody. go see him in atlantic city and at the bergen performing arts center this weekend and the complete box set "the bob newhart show." we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> the jimmy kimmel concert series is presented by at&t, mobilizing your world. sorry (whispering) hi, uh we need a new family plan. (whispering) how about 10 gigs f data to share and unlimited talk and

after banality, i had a huge success with that show. le said it was the equivalent of roy lichtenstein. i really kind of became an art star. at the same time feeling that culturally not being very relevant and participating in american culture through the film industry, entertainment industry, the standard has been kind of looked at as being culturally significant. maybe i will put another star on my shoulder and the easiest way would be film. and they asked me if i would have interest in participating in an exhibition. if i wanted to make billboards and i could do anything i wanted on the billboard. i thought, i will call that politician. i used some of the images of ilana. i used an image of a dress that she wore. one of my banality sculptures. i will call that woman up and i will just use her as a ready-made set. i will put myself in their and it will be like we are making a film. it will be called made in heaven. i called her up, i hired her. >> and fell in love. the next one is balloon dog. one of the more famous. >> it is like a ch

i had been punished to instill a different way of life that i didn't understand, nor want it. - [breathingeavily] [grunts] - the government school had tried to force me to forget the lakota language, and i wouldn't do it. yeah, we had a deep sense of preservation for our culture, our language. so we would go and hide in order to speak lakota. if we got caught, they were allowed to beat us with whatever they could, but we took that chance. the lakota language is something that comes from deep inside of you. it comes from... how you look at things and how you see things. sometimes i feel like i'm not able to communicate with a non-indian. the lakota feeling is what forms my language. so i try to put that into the english language, but it--at times it just doesn't seem to work, and i lose a lot of confidence in myself. - that's fine. everything helps. we've been really busy with the holiday. - so this is where we need an interpreter. - okay. - thank you so much. - one night, i went to a 7-eleven store to pick up some things, and i passed by a rack of magazines, and one magazine fell off the s