ann frank and her family went into hiding during world war ii. she kept a detailed diary until she was taken away to a concentration camp where she died at the young age of 15. that diary was published and helped the world understand the true horror of the holocaust for jewish families. frank's cousin, buddy elias and his wife, gerdy, helped write the book "ann frank's family" after finding letters, drawings, postcards, and poems written by ann. i want to welcome both of you to our show this morning, buddy and gerdy. nice to have you on. tell me, buddy, i want to start with you. how did you stumble upon these letters and poems, and where were they found? >> well, they were found by my wife, actually. she wanted to clean up in the attic. in our attic there are lots of suitcases and closets from my grandmother and mother, and gerdy went up to clean up, and she got nosey, and she opened a trunk or a closet. come on, tell us about it. how did you find it? >> what did you think then when you found all of this? >> it was amazing. i could not -- i could

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a anne frank, you know who she is.ing a strong willed young girl who still believed in the good of people despite all of the evil that surrounded her and now thousands of newly discovered letters and poems and postcards, photographs, found by her closest living relative, her cousin. it's all documented in this new book called anne frank's family and buddy joins me along with his wife who helped organize and edit all of the papers. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> just for transparency stake, buddy is hard of hearing we may have to repeat questions. my first question to you, buddy, what do you remember of anne frank when you two were just young, young kids running around together? >> well, anne was a normal girl like any other girl as long as we were together in freedom. of course in the secret she developed to be a fantastic author. it's incredible. it just happened. as long as we were together, as long as we were kids, we were playing games like all of the other kids. we played hide-and-seek and she lo

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anne frank said how wonderful it is nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. class of 2012, never lose your optimism, never lose your passion for making a difference and never forget your experience at this university and i promise you'll have many, many opportunities to fulfill your dreams and improve the world. it's your turn. it is your time. my best wishes to each and every one of you and once again, congratulations. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> wrapping up our block of commencement addresses for this afternoon. if you missed any of it, we will reair it tonight at 10:00 eastern here on c-span. a little bit later today we'll bring you today's white house medal of freedom ceremony among those receiving the honor this sear, singer bob dylan, mad lynn albright and astronaut john glenn. on the road to the -- >> a distinction between success and greatness and too many are focusing on success. let me put it this way, you can be successful without being great and you

ann romney. and policies like dodd-frank, and the voelker rule and other things could affect the bottom line of tagecomes president, he wants to take back dodd-frank, and he will prevent anymore rules governing private equity firms to be put in place thus enriching tagg romney. >> yeah. beautiful. beautiful. >> and it's like nobody seems to care. oh, well, who -- you know we're used to this now. remember cheney and the oil companies. really does it matter anymore? >> yeah. >> it's line everybody is sitting there going i hope we don't get hurt too badly. >> it is also patriotic. because mitt romney said none of his sons are serving in the military because they are serving a higher purpose getting him elected. and he is helping them get richer. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> it is touching. >> i don't know if i can say that on the radio -- >> if you are thinking it probably not. >> it is like this circle fond elling. >> yeah. >> of rich people it's like using the money to wipe themselves after. >> by the way you also cannot say cluster [ censor bleep ]. >> for once i'm going to give you your next co

frank welles will pick you up. ( whispers ): thank you. ( woman whispers condolences ) thanks. thanks. who's this guy? oh, how thoughtful. he's a friend from san francisco. uncle brendan. and you must be anneu for making the trip. i'm very sorry about your father. it all happened so fast. we can't believe it. thank you for the flowers. they're... just beautiful. i don't know anyone here. where's kevin? over there. excuse me. it was good you called brendan. you did the right thing. it's wrong for a family to be like that. i know. brendan can be very stubborn. but i guess your father was, too. yeah. how're you holding up, kid? pretty good. you know, i don't know a soul here. do you know who any of these people are? not all, but some. that guy over there worked with dad at the fire department; and that's mrs. peterson. she lives in our building. oh. that guy over there-- that's frank welles. he's a fireman, too. he's an old friend of dad's. oh, my god! i can't believe my eyes! is that molly over there? kevin: aunt molly? yeah. frank welles picke$ her up at the retirement community. you know, we used to get christmas cards from her but i haven't seen her in i-don't-know how long. brendan's so

round of hearings into implementing frank in the coming weeks and this new round and the losses of jp morgan. >> kelly wright thank you for joining us this morning. patty anne>> -- patty ann? >> ron paul calling it quits for his presidential campaign. the republican congressman telling supporters in an e-mail he will no longer spend money in states that aren't holding primaries yet. he praised them for supporting mitt romney and urged them to continue to do so. he will have a conference call to go over their plan. >>> a long time new jersey airport security supervisor is known as jerry thomas. jerry thomas is dead. his real name is nigerian. he used a fake id to hide his immigration status. he worked as a security supervisor at newark international for 20-years having passed background checks and everything. we will have this story in a live report later in the show. >>> an al qaeda affiliate in yemen is releasing an english training manual. telling wannabe terrorists not to leave their home for a week so they can understand what terror camps are like. they said to image virgins waiting for them in paradise when they feel afraid. it is written by a man who

required, i mean there are very few an rand, ann rand fountain head fans on wall street that i would say just have government go away. life is complex. and dodd frank i think .. was an effort to try to address some of these issues but congress is really disadvantaged trying to understand how to solve some of these problems. and they recognize that. so they created a framework and they gave it to the regulators and the regulators are split in trying to solve these and we now have literally just the volcker rule is hundreds of pages. there is a real problem we need have a better way of addressing the regulation because so far from what i can tell we haven't solved the problem. >> rose: the volcker rule is we to know what it is don't we. >> we do but we don't know how to apply it. we absolutely don't know thousand apply it. >> rose: essentially what it say is that banks that are -- have a deposit bearing banks and therefore the deposits are protected by the government, should not engage in what is called proprietary trading don't we all know what that means or not? or is ate murky area? >> longer than we have today but it is murkier than you might exp