director, and we have some extraordinary members of congress here on stage, senator dodd, senator bourbonarkin, representative waxman, rep christiansen, and rep platz, all who did a big part to move this legislation forward. [applause] i want to thank all of them. there are three members of congress that i have to especially thank, representative waxman, representative dodd, -- senator dodd, and most importantly, senator ted kennedy who cannot be here today. [applause] and the legislation i am signing today represents a change that has been decades in the making. since the middle of the last century, we have known about the deadly effects of tobacco products. more than 400,000 americans now die of tobacco related illnesses each year, making it the leading cause of preventable deaths in the united states. more than 8 million americans suffer from at least one serious illness caused by smoking. these health problems caused us all more than $100 billion a year. what is even worse are the effects on our children. one out of every five children in our country are now current smokers by the tim

we will be very proud to have a third bourbon baseball academy. we need it in all cities across america. the second is the juvenile diabetes program we are building. this is something terribly important to us. it is one of the centerpieces of all the foundations. the third big thing is our relationship with the boys and girls club of greater washington, specifically we work with the chapter closes to the ballpark, but we reached out to all of them. we are proud to do all this work. the three anchor programs are all four children or for d.c.. d.c. children. that is what we are spending our time and effort to achieve to benefit. they also do some little things. let me give you a list. arlington little league, centro neosho, center city schools, children's cancer foundation, d.c. rbi, the everybody wins program, hispanic scholarship funds, living classrooms foundation, the diabetes center, rebuilding together programs, and the tyler elementary school partnership fund. that is just a partial list of the grants that are foundation had given out in the

i am not fighting i'm talking about the definition and it comes from a spanish bourbon which means to love so as i use it here it is a place that we have a special affinity for, a place that we love. what i see more and more in this country perhaps across the world that i have some concern that has become ever more electronic five that we're losing some of our special place is. i am really concerned about them because i don't think you can have a virtual special place. e the you have the real thing or you do not have it. what i tried to do a last 30 or 40 years of my travels is to ever expand my special place so either i can go to places an alabama where there are spots where i feel i have they belonging and i think this is my tenth trip to seattle so there are places in this city i feel they belonging and i mentioned when i began one is across the street at the pacific hotel i belong to just a little piece of that particular corner. i think if we can get the young feeling they are connected to a place that you begin behaving differently and if there is one word that lies at the base

apparently harry, had a couple of bourbons that night.n frostburg, maryland they stopped at the princess restaurant a great town in far western maryland. they splurged on the chicken dinner. the cook was an old army mess sergeant and harry, of course, was his old commander in chief so there's no getting away from it there. and soon, of course, business was booming at the princess and phones were ringing all over town. and the principal sap restricti incess that is still in the same family and in the same business. if you happen to be taking u.s. 40 through western maryland and frostburg the princess has been preserved and they have a little plaque that says harry and bess truman ate lunch here june 21st, 1953. they went to washington and saw friends he gave the speech in philadelphia and went to new york and spent eight interesting days with margaret as their guide sightseeing in new york. they stayed at the waldorf towers. i was curious how harry was to afford this at the truman library, he saved everything. harry never wrote a letter th

apparently, harry, had a couple of bourbons that night. in frostburg, maryland they stopped at the princess restaurant a great town in far western maryland. they splurged on the chicken dinner. the cook was an old army mess sergeant and harry, of course, was his old commander in chief so there's no getting away from it there. and soon, of course, business was booming at the princess and phones were ringing all over town. and the princesst

you walk down bourbon street, and it makes an impression on you. so from the beginning i wanted to get a job in new orleans. i had fallen in love with the city, and i'm still in love with it, hopelessly, lo these many years later. c-span: how big is the school, by the way? >> guest: twenty-five thousand. c-span: is it a state school? >> guest: yes. it's part of the lsu system. c-span: i counted in the front of your book 16 books, plus this one. is that right, 17? >> guest: that sounds pretty good. c-span: which one sold the most? >> guest: gee, i couldn't tell you -- oh, "rise to globalism," certainly, by far. i'm sorry. that's a book on american foreign policy that is widely used as a textbook, and it's now in its ninth printing. it's been for 18 years a standard, really, around the english-speaking world. it's been a fabulous -- it put five kids through college for me. c-span: i started to say earlier, i've got another book that you did, one of the many that's on former president nixon, and in the introduction you say that "it's a lonely life tha