faith and allegiance, story of service and sacrifice in war and peace and he's interviewed by brent kendall of the wall street journal. >> host: alberto gonzÁlez, currently law school dean, former attorney general, former counsel to george w. bush, texas state supreme court justice and now author of a new book, memoir recounting his life both in texas and working for governor bush in texas and a time here in washington. welcome. >> guest: thank you, it's good to be here. >> host: let's start with why the book, why now, what motivated you to write it. i know that several of your colleagues that you worked with in the administration have written books about their time there. you know, what prompted the book? >> guest: well, you know, it's something that i have been working on for many years that obviously had several distractions in the interim i thought coming up in the 15th anniversary a marker to try to hit. you're right, there have been several memoirs written, people's perspectives have been out there and i thought it would be important to add mine for my son's sake, there's been a writt

he is interviewed by brent kendall of the wall street journal. >> host: alberto gonzales, currently law school dean, former counsel to the president of george w. bush, texas bush, texas state supreme court justice, now author of a new book, memoir recounting his life both in texas and working for governor bush in texas and his time in washington. welcome. >> guest: thank you, it is good to be here. >> host: let's start with why the book, why now, what motivated you to write it. i know several of your colleagues who work within the bush administration have written books about their time there. what prompted the book? >> guest: it is something i've been working on for many years. obviously i've met several distractions in the interim. i thought coming up on the 15th anniversary would be a nice mark to try to hit. i was also motivated by the fact, you're right, there have been several memoir's written, people's perspectives have been out there. i perspectives have been out there. i thought it might be important to add my for my son's sake. quite honestly there is been a lot written and set

and he is interviewed by brent kendall of "the wall street journal." >> host: alberto gonzales, currently in law school dean, former attorney general and counsel to george w. bush. texas state supreme court justice and the author of a new book, a memoir recounting his life both in texas and working for governor bush. here in washington. welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> let's start with why the boat, why now. what motivated you to write it? i know many of your colleagues have written books about their time there. what prompted the book? >> guest: you know, something i've been working on for

faith and allegiance, the story of service and sacrifice in war and peace and he is interviewed by brent kendall of the wall street journal. >> alberto gonzales, current law school dean, former attorney general and advisor to george w. bush. texas court supreme court justice and author of a new book , mm moore recounting his life both in texas and working for governor bush. he spent time here in washington, welcome. >> thank you, it's good to be here. >> let's start with why the book, why now, what motivated you to write it? i know several of your colleagues have written books about their time there. what prompted the books? >> it's something i've been working on for many years. obviously there were several distractions that i met in the interim but coming up on the 15th anniversary would be a nice worker to hit. i was also motivated by the fact that there have been several memoirs written and people's perspectives have been out there and i thought it might be important to add mine for my son's sake. there's been a lot written and a lot said about me. some of it is true in some of it is not true

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