william beecher and others? >> guest: well, i wasn't. i wasn't important enough and i didn't leak anything that mattered. bill beecher at "the new york times" leaked the information about the so-called secret bombing of cambodia. i was little mischievous around and. i was on "meet the press" mla or, the secretary of defense was on. and i said well, why did you insist on calling these the secret bombings? surely cambodians were aware of it. and actually it turned out later that day.this is a very bad day to try to keep his secret. some people knew they were being wiretapped. these tended to be people who are let's say the king kissinger, marvin cobb, joe kraft, henry brandon. kissinger approved some of his own staff, approved it has to go to the fbi to institute these wiretapping. the idea i believe was to another quirk in the relationship to nixon and kissinger was kissinger had to keep proving to nixon how hardlined he was about ellsberg, about leaks against the press. it was quite a funny little footnote to the hotels are business. and

this is very early and of course we do not know what is going to happen in the beecher. we will be those updates as we go along. we have been very happy with the hospital course, of blood transfusions have worked well. things are going very well and we are all very happy at this stage. i will open up the floor for questions. >> as you verbalized at all? [unintelligible] >> what can i get into too much more detail than what we already have. i can tell you the right now with the type of surgery she cannot open her eyes at this moment -- at this point and she cannot speak at this point. >> it could be anything as simple as please squeeze my hand or point with two fingers. we take those kind of simple commands for granted, but they implied a very high level of functioning in the brain. >> this was not a little brazing wound to the brain. it traveled the entire length of the brain on the left side. the neurosurgeons save her life. with the function that she had before the surgery it tells us how much injury the bullet did, but the fact that she had a lot of [unintelligible] o

if the nation was indifferent, to the plight of the cherokees, harriet teacher stow -- harriet beecher still was holding all of america and not just the south to blame for slavery. i think i at least had not known her conclusion to uncle tom's cabin. one of those books that we all know but nobody probably actually reads. what she wrote at the end was this. the people of the free state have defended, encouraged and participated in the evil of slavery and they were the more to blame because they did not have the excuse of their upbringing or the culture around them. both north north and south have been guilty before god and the christian church has a heavy accounts to answer. i understood that indictment better because i grew up during world war ii. i was 12 and at a saturday matinee at the neighborhood movie, when i first saw those newsreel pictures of gis unearthing the skeletons from the auschwitz death camp's, ever since then, i have felt a pang whenever people asked, and they were always asking in a friendly spirit, what nationality is that? and i was compelled to answer german. tha

we became the home of harriett beecher stowe, mark twain, p.t.arnum, and the founder of webster's dictionary. and, of course, we are still home to america's oldest continuously published newspaper, our own hartford current. [applause] >> we have after all overcome events beyond our control. ferocious hurricanes, blizzards and devastating floods. and more recently when the planes hit on 9/11, and i remember this as my of stanford at the time, i remember how we all went into rapid response mode, ramping up our hospitals and preparing for the wave of transported victims we would be receiving. that, of course, they never came. instead we counted the cars there remained and commuter parking lots. we mourned and we persevered. we have is a standing histories, this heritage. you know, as i've traveled around the state for many years meeting amazing people in churches and diners and have picnics, one of the consistent messages was this feeling that maybe our best days are behind us. that economic security, let alone prosperity, is a thing of the past. th