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he was very shy all hilife, and he managed to be folded into a circle of friends in princeton and eyere only friend he had his whole life, very important to him. he felt challenged in a very good way by princeton. he got to be in the oratory and debate societies and he did very well at those things. that was quite a happy time for him. as a boy, there is a huge psychological literature about wilson, and i have read it, but i have the sense that it just reduced him to oedipal tangles that i did not feel like i could deal with on the strength of my own knowledge of the theory. some people have said his stubbornness in later life was a reaction to his father's strictness, and they can point to a story where his father made him revise a little thing he wrote a bunch of times. the divisions are that wilson resented this but he was a good boy and put up with it. you read every mention in his letters of his father, they are worshipful. he never had an unkind word about his father. a presbyterian minister. brian: this is a letter to mary. just between you and me, i have not the least idea of

(laughs) >> rose: i always bece very sad when you descre th end of hilife. ken burns told me every time h ran the film as he was editing his dumentary heouldburst into tears. every timee showed that last... with the actors talking about what happened >> the truth is even as i was finishing the book the last couple months of it i couldn't bear the knowledge that he was going to die. i've lived wit this man for ten years and suddenly he was going to be gone. >> rose: to love shakespeare was part of the nature of this man? >> huge. nora and i talked about this when we were working on the book because she did a lot of research on the theater part of the book. think about what shakespeare... first of all, he memorized shakespeare. he could talk with aors, he could make all the moves the actors did. he knew it as well as any profession knew shakespeare and shakespeare's writing about tragedy and betrayal, wars, all the things he's dealing with. those huge themes are shakespearean, so he's loved him from the time he was a child. itas said when he got a copy of shak

. >> but this makes it more amazing cause putin is now fighting a politic battlef hilife in preparing for presidential ections in a tuation when hundreds of thousands of people across moow demonstrate in support of various candidates. so to even compare in the remotest of ways the political structure and the situation in russia to what has been there in syria is just... i think, frankly, lacks an intellectual honesty and this is too bad. >> rose: i hear you. but let me make this point also and mr. friedman is perfectly capable of reiterating his int. the is this point, that your prime minister who's now running for president has made it very clear that russia will not... that he thinks that the arab spring is gone way beyond where it ought to be and that he considers anybody who will suggest that the arab spring is coming to moscow something that will not happen. >> well, of course it will not happen. >> rose: it's an idea! >> of course it will not happen. >> rose:itis an idea! listen, charlie, i'm sorry but anybody o cod even... i ow thatome sators have been making this point. russia

i can tell you jeb bush who lives hilife in a bilingual life, i think that's personally offensive to him and his family. i have a feeling he's not going to take that too well. >> chuck todd, with all the political headlines this morning. thank you. >> as chuck and savannah were discussing, speculation flying about whether clinton will have an opponent in vice president joe biden. he held his first major speech on wednesday. since buzz about a potential president run began. peter alexander has more. good morning. >> hey, willie. good morning to you from florida. joe biden is reveling in all this extra attention. it feels a lot like a campaign trip, but his aides s aides ins is not one. still, his every word, his every move is being analyzed. maybe overanalyze, including what he told college students here yesterday. that people who aren't willing to risk failing never succeed. we'll be talking about himself? for now, we wait and see. those hunting for hints will have to keep looking. vice president joe biden offering few clues about whether he'll run for president in 2016. while speaki

when the texas medical center us ove100 units of blood, an hour-long valiant attempt to save hilife, his fellow police officers stood in lin and raised enough blood to replace all of the bloodhat was used to try to save him. the captain, his supervisor, said he was the ki of officer who didn't say a lot but his fellow officers knew they could always cou on him to be there. mr. speaker, we are all able to go about our everyday lives because of officers like manny. we should never take their sacrifice for grante he was a grave and courageous peace officer every day the o who is wear the badge place the lives between us and the lawless. officer manny was one of those lawmen. he's one of houston's finest. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro mpore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> to address the chamber for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objectio the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i came to thi congress a year ago as a small business man tsolve problems. and one of the critical