he ran this by bess first. she finally submitted to written questions and all the answers for yes or no. she just didn't take, just didn't take to being in public the way harry did. so yeah, but she loved her hats. >> when president truman left office he was not the most popular of president's. my question is, on this trip did he run into any animosity, people shaking this or anything of that nature? >> honestly, i did not find and i can't believe that didn't happen but i didn't find a reported incident of that and you are absolutely right. his approval rating was about 22% when he left office in early 1953, which is just about where george w. bush's was when he left office in january of 2009. it is interesting that george w. bush has compared himself to harry truman and for obvious reasons i think he hopes his reputation-- but you are right he was unpopular when he left office and he speaks house apprised was that this outpouring of affection for him even as early as the ride home on the train, colleagues cann

and do it in a way that we could have 50 state laboratories, look at and pick and choose among the bessate's demographics. utah is not new york, massachusetts and utah both have exchanges, health exchanges but they are very different was they have different demographics. if we have a one-side fits all health care program, even their own actuary said it would cost a lot of money. they do it with gimmicks. they put off cadillac health plans for the unions to 2015, after this president will be gone. they also put off a bunch of other costly programs for four years, even though this president may not even be president at the end of his first term. >> we're going to have to leave it there, because we're out of time. please come back tomorrow ort next day. we want to talk about health care and what you'll be proposing. thanks orrin hatch. thanks for being with us, senator. that does it for me, this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." >>> extended testimony by the transportation secretary, we'll have more on that. tomorrow on the show, former democratic national chairman howard dean plus "ha

this is not faulkener's air bess, and it felt like natural prose and that is -- >> doesn't maky feel as you are reading the book, why do i bother. >> impossible. i can admire but i also, you know, can feel sort of discouraged by it. with him you feel encouraged by the and want to do it yourself. that is kneeling that he gives me, wants you to try -- the feeling that he gives me, you wanted to try to write an essay like that because the prose is simple and has the plain style and it seems like the leading characteristic of it is honesty, which one ought to be capable of. on the other hand, i think triing might go too far in the the sense that decency alone, i think the word he uses about orwell, it is a key orwell word, common decency and it is an important one but he was an eccentric. orwell was a difficult man. he had -- full of contradictions and he was not so simple and good, i think as trilling would have you think and you alluded to his antipathies and he was a man of violent dislikes and some of his earlier work, before i think he calmed down, with a certain amount of self-assu

. >> bess, have you been pleased?r research and awareness. >> it's going excellent. over 1600 schools and touching one million fans and raising over $1 million so far. coach yow would not tell us to quit until we've cured cancer though. we've got to keep it. that's what coach yow would want to say. >> thank you very much for everything your organization does. we appreciate it. it a pink zone week. for the rest of the week, some for the rest of the week, some more m?m?m?m>eíeíeíeíeíeíeíeíeíí >>> the georgia tech yellow jackets have a one point lead over the duke blue devils here in atlanta. as we take a look at the first half stats, debbie, duke, their lowest scoring first half of the year. >> they didn't shoot it well. less than 31%. but georgia tech shot it only 25%. so both the teams are certainly capable of playing much better offensively, but they have to take better care of the basketball. whoever gets the battle of the glass going jen is going to ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the georgia tech yellow jackets, looking for their fir