. >> now, as a publisher based in brooklyn, you live in brooklyn and the founder of the brooklyn book festival, can you tell us about that? >> the berglund book festival is hosted by brooklyn hall, new york city has one mayor but five of burroughs and a to the five boroughs as a borough president and elected president, and brooklyn's very popular borough president is marty mark tourette's. and when he came into office fibre six years ago or maybe seven years ago he always wanted to start a big book festival because brooklyn is the home of creators and has a literary tradition dating back -- dating back to walt whitman, richard wright them and these days we have many best sellers living in brooklyn so it was a very natural place where a big book fastball and i contacted borough hall and was able to help them to realize this vision of a big book festival and has quickly become the city's best book festival. this year sunday september 13th will be the fourth annual brooklyn the bequest of all, we will have over 150 authors participating in programs, 150 exhibitors and publishers, literar

and then another book that takes place one century later is brooklyn. that is about an irish woman that comes to the united states, to brooklyn obviously, and meats her family, there is no work for her in brooklyn and it is a very lovely book about how she is able to settle then, friends then she has to decide when she comes back to ireland what side of the ocean and she has to live on. you don't know until the very end what decision she will make. it has a little bit of mystery and a little bit of romance and it is a very lovely book. we're out of its why cannot even sure you recover we have sold so many copies this weekend. another in a grand novel is it to the comments into the beautiful north. this is the second of his that i have read the first was hummingbirds daughter taking place in mexico with this takes place mostly in the united states because it is about a mexican woman who comes to the united states to find seven men to save her town from bandits. she is under the presents under you'll brenner and the magnificent seven and they're looking f

who comes to the united states to brooklyn obviously and leaves her family, there is no work for her in brooklyn, and it is just a really lovely book about how those a woman is able to settle in, fine friends and then she is called by her mother to come back to ireland and she has to decide which side of the ocean she is going to live on. you don't know until the very end of what decision she is going to make. as got a little bit of mystery and a little bit of romance, it's just a very lovely book. and we are avid so i can't even show you a cover, we have sold so many copies this weekend. let me see, another immigrant novel is to the beautiful north -- into the beautiful north. this is the second of his books, the first was hummingbird's daughter which took place in northern mexico. this actually takes place mostly in the united states because it is about a mexican woman who comes to the united states to find seven men to save her town in northern mexico from bandits. she is under the influence of you'll brunner's the magnificent seven and she and her gay friend traveled around the u

and his letters to their'ia mot back in brooklyn are kind of really threw me back. he would write to his mother saying, mom, we were a little dust-up a couple days ago. i don't know what they're going to call it but it was close to a little creek called antietam and then would follow a brilliant five-page description, a very careful recreation of the battle. george is in the thick of the fighting and afterwards would walk the grounds of the battle to really understand the forces that had come to bear. so anyway i thought these different kinds of manhood were very interesting and i thought there was a book there. >> did you ever consider writing just on walt whitman in the war or is it in the course of the research that you expanded it to include his family? >> no, it was the parent -- when i realized they had written so much to each other and taken -- had such different experiences of the war that i thought there's something here. >> so that was part of the genesis of the book itself? it >> yes. >> richard, obviously, we all know you through your political work. thi

to build new york city's aqueduct, the first water supply for new york city, the puddings of the brooklyn bridge, the pedestal of the statue of liberty, and the walls of the animal canal. another bit of new material in theory, what i call the mohawk crisscross the 18th way one, 1822. and the situation never written about in any other erie canal book as best i can tell david benjamin wright, the father of american civil engineering, against a fellow named john randel, a different spelling but an albany native, very prominent family in albany in new york. he was a skilled surveyor and the man who had just been a dozen years laying out an mapping the future street grid of manhattan. we are here on 57th street because 200 years ago john randel put markers for thousands of blocks and in a very rugged and rural landscape. so john randel. here is the background. the path of the canal in the mohawk valley was supposed to be entirely along the southern bank of the river. using eaters from the mohawk to water the canal, to get water into the canal. between schenectady and albany, the mohawk makes a

host: that call from brooklyn, new york. the front page from "the new york times" with a picture of the demonstrations in iran. lead article, unrest sharply divides the ruling clerics did ex-president's relatives briefly held inside of a governing rift. atlantic, the morning, michael on independent line. -- atlanta, good morning. caller: i want all the republicans to remember what happened when george bush in iraq said we support you, you guys could rise up and we support you and then saddam hussein slaughtered those guys. so we have to be really careful. we don't want to have to just have tough talk and then when they start getting slaughtered we don't go in there. all the republicans just setting tough talk to show symbolism is a good thing, they have to remember their history. go back to 1991 with what george h. bush did with the shiites in iraq. host: port st. lucie, fla., mike on the republican line. caller: i do not think the president is handling this very well at all. all of these callers are an indicator. it just se

arrested on criminal charges in the wake of 9/11 and held under highly restrictive conditions in brooklyn's metropolitan detention center. they sued a number of offices, alleging that his harsh treatment carried out a discriminatory policy under which he was designated a person of high interest solely because of his race, religion or national origin. in the former attorney general and director of the fbi were both named defendants. they saw a threshold dismissal on grounds of qualified immunity. disagreeing with the district court and court of appeals, the supreme court held the big leagues were insufficient -- held the plebes -- deeply beans -- pleadings were insufficient. a plant this must -- a plaintiff must allege a fax -- alleged fa facts. jerry did not create the plausibility standard, but he did began the whole business. [laughter] perhaps he can tell us which side got it right. in my personal view, the court messed up the federal rules. justice briar dissented separately to underscore a seat -- a key point the court had made. one government defendant asserts qualified immunity, the

let's go to our next call from the democratic line in brooklyn. caller: good morning. i am concerned -- that are talking about inflation. we had the people taking care of this country the way the democrats -- he did a pretty good job. they took money from everybody. they invaded iraq without a reason. it is sinful the way the bush administration robbed this country blind. and with halliburton robbing the country blind, sending the money to the war and put it in their banks. our problems come from the people that is running it. shell and all those companies. host: republican line from new york city. are you worried about inflation? caller: i would like to say it the last caller is wrong. bill clinton did not do anything great. the great man behind that came in with his budget four times is newt gingrich. it was a republican house. all we do is fight back and forth. they should both be responsible for what they did with our national debt. both parties are wrong. we should wake up and demand that our debt be paid off, whether we use our own oil, whether we find solutions

they had a bunch of washed up yankees, brooklyn dodgers dodgers and giants on the team. willie harris gets under that, hits that a long way to right center. over the shoulder catch. b.j. upton. [cheering and applause] that kid covers ground doesn't he? the other thing, if he gets to it, he catches it. >> rob: gabe kapler gets a two run home run. willie harris hits a ball 400 feet and has b.j. upton run it down. that's what happens in the major league level. the ball is crushed. that will be the last pitch of the day for james shields. [cheering and applause] nats with a runner on in the 7th. tie game. izon fios. these are your widgets, they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out local traffic, weather, even your news up there. i've got a news flash you're out of mayo. how did you get in here? door was open. you'd have tons of ways for you to search for content: by actor, director, any word at all. what about chicken? chicken's fine. any word. no i mean do you have any chicken? i want to eat some chicken. one of the coolest things you can do w

host: on the flip side, this person for brooklyn and asks if we know what will happen to relations if mr. mousavi comes to power? guest: not being a policy maker i hate to make predictions. the hope is that iran will be more flexible and relaxed in its response and dialogue. but the conflicts that ruled the society right now and have rolled during mr. ahmadinejad's time will not go away. until now mr. mousavi has not been in a position of power since he was prime minister to show whether he would act any differently in regards to the nuclear issue, among others. we will wait and see. host: raleigh, n.c. on our end of the line. caller: good morning. i want to thank the program about the iranian people. i have a message. iranian are not asking americans to intervene. it is just because their turn to get their intention -- the united nations is in the united states. -- they're trying to get their attention. they do not realizrecognize ahmadinejad's government as iranian government. when the time comes for him to come to speak to the american people we hope that americans do not give him

the letters to their mother back in brooklyn is released during me back. he would write saying mom, we were in a scuffle a couple of days ago but it is close to a little creek called antietam then a brilliant very real creation of the battle and george's in the thick of it and afterwards walk to the grounds of the battle to really understood the forces that had come to bear. i thought these different kinds of man could bring interesting. >> did you ever consider just riding on walt whitman and the war or did you expand use family through the research? >> it was his parents when i realized they had written so much to each other there are so many different parts of it. >> that was part of the genesis? >> richard we know you're political work but this latest technical, scientific, what special challenges did that pose and what are your thoughts of history and biography? >> it is the least well told story of a 20th-century you almost have to do it much of the material that is discovered in the period which recall the heroic age is too complicated. for people t

arrested on criminal charges in the wake of 9/11 and held under highly-restrictive conditions in brooklyn's metropolitan detention center. as plaintiff in the bivens action, it -- a number of federal offices alleging his harsh treatment carried out a discriminal that story policy under which he was designated a person of high interest solely because of his race, religion or national origin. former attorney general ashcroft and the director of the fbi were both named defense. they sought threshold dismissal on grounds of qualified immunity. disagreeing with the district court and the court of appeals, the supreme court held ikthal's pleadings insufficient to stay the claim for relief against ashcroft and the fbi director. the majority opinion on justice sutor's dissent variously interpreted the court's 2000 decision in bell atlantic corporation v.tromley. under tromley, a plaintiff must allege facts that if taken as true state a plausible -- plausible basis for relief. the district judge [indiscernible] with us. jerry didn't create the applausibility standard, but he did begin the whole busi

the next call is from south brooklyn, new york. caller: good morning. this show is very good overall. thank you. uc obama being careful with iran -- it will do only one thing. what is going on in iran right now -- obama is playing politics right now and is dangerous. asked the iraqi people who are rallying there now. do you like democratic? if they say yes, then they should accept the election. because when we have an election and the united states in the party wins, go ahead. the party who loses, if you do not like it, you do not go into the street. [unintelligible] host: before we run out of time a couple of other opinion pieces. "the wall street journal" puts it this way. the president yesterday denounced the extent of the fraud and a shocking in response of the running regime to public demonstrations. he says if ahmadinejad had made such progress why such violence? they show that the president who spoke these words was nicolas sarkozy of france. this is that the rebellion which is too soon to call a revolution is turning out to be the 3:00 a.m. phon

the bronx, brooklyn. we are bicycle riders. we talked about our roots. she is a human person of the great legal mind, and that is to right kind of person to be on a legal bench of the supreme court. thank you, everybody. >> did you give her any advice on what to do in the hearing when it comes up? >> the most important thing is to be herself. she is such a powerful presence, a powerful person. it is not just her history, her amazing legal record, but when you meet her person-to-person, sitting across the table a couple of inches apart, her personality, shining, strong, comes through. it is great. >> my only advice to her was to let people get to know her, but then get to know her experience. they can understand what kind of justice she will be. i look forward to the next series of conversations we are going to have with her. >> thank you, everybody. >> later, judge sotomayor met with mitch mcconnell of the u.s. capitol. >> [inaudible] >> later in the day, judge sotomayor your met with dianne feinstein. >> well, actually, i do not think this many have bee

the yankees -- or the mets back then were made up of washed up yankees, new york giants and brooklyn dodgers players. it was kind of a gimmick. load up the ross ter with players that the fans would know their name. they didn't have ryan zimmerman or jesus flores and john lannan and jordan zimmerman. the '62 mets didn't have players like that. >> rob: detwiler and gonzalez and dukes. we have fabulous talent here. we have some holes. big deal. i would love to, you know, be where mike rizzo, stan casten and even manny acta saying we have to do this, do that, tighten it up. that's like rebuilding a ferrari. >> bob: 2-2 to willie who hacks one into the bullpen. >> bob: i think the '62 mets were summarized by one thing. their most valuable player was ricky ashden. they gave him a boat. it sank. >> rob: how would you like to be a pittsburgh pirates man. about 25 years ago when i played against them, they were one of the toughest teams. now nate mac lot goes to the braves. >> bob: i would be mad about that. willie harris made an out but he battled for about seven or eight pitches. now, garza

host: brooklyn, new york. michael pre-dawn. -- michael. you are on. caller: first a comment. it we are trying to get some peace in the middle east situation. it is probably one of the most failing questions of our time policy-wise. .

been written about as walt whitman's embarrassing smug mother, and the illiterate mother back in brooklyn. abbate went to the archive and i found hundreds of letters that this islam at emitter mother had written. [laughter] and not only letters but a long stream of consciousness extremely funny and perceptive letters. she was writing to her son who was a nurse dealing with amputations and walt would write her mother, i have to tell you about a soldier i saw yesterday, i cared for him his wound already has gained three he will die. he is beautiful like a god. i combed his hair, i watched him and could barely hold back the tears i am so sad. she would write back and talk about much din is $0.32 a pound and then there be a paragraph saying walt, you can write me about the soldiers, understand that you love them and it is a fascination, there is nothing wrong with that. i a understand she would encourage him and hearing that from his mother really would book him up. she would do the same thing with george you would write to her very, very frankly about what he was going through in the war. th

. -- bert plan -- brooklyn, new york. caller: i wanted to talk about the health care plan president obama is pushing. what they create more debt? host: what do you think? caller: i think there will be a major problem. how come attacks more rich people? it will discourage people like me to donate or to help or to give by paying more taxes. host: let's move on to laura on the independent line from maryland. caller: i am a poor person. i never even thought to write it off my taxes. that is not the point i wanted to make. i wanted to talk about fox. rupert murdoch', owns several newspapers. he describes himself as a tabloid journalists. he owned a tabloid in england. he is fond of saying he does not report the facts. he is a commentator, like plan backed -- glenn beck says that he was. i would suggest you turn to c- span. i think rupert murdoch should know. host: thank you for calling. this is a picture of william jefferson. they are entering district court on tuesday. the federal bribery trial opens. they say he used his off

and his wife, brooklyn decker, unphased by it all. she had confidence.h set, enjoying the sun as well, melzer a nice drop shot here. roddick comes up with the big forehand winner. roddick, a nice stroke from the base line. roddick wins in four sets. 33 aces, improved to 9-0 against melzer. >> and considering the way he served the first two sets, i was glad to get through with a two-set lead. you know, i was having trouble getting a read on hill. he was hitting all of his spots. i played him a lot of times and that's the best he served against me. like the other two matches, i wish i could have converted on a chance in the third set. but probably hit the ball my best in the fourth again. >> the third seed, andy murray facing viktor troicki. murray serving 4-2 and he stays on and wins. and second set murray 4-2 and the big serve. and puts troicki away with the forehand. and murray the second set 6-3. the third set murray suffering for the match. murray aces troicki and the 17th ace of the match and 37 winser as well. and he wins in dominating fashion. >> g

and his wife, brooklyn decker, watching. soaking in the rays. as her hubbie continues playing. roddick all over it with the forehand winner. and he had 33 ace as and 9-0 against melzer and 22-3 this year in tie-breakers. >> considering the way he serve ed the first two sets, i was glad to get through with a two-set lead. you know, i was having trouble getting a read on hill. -- him. he was hitting all of his spots. i played him a lot of times and that's the best he served against me. like the other two matches, i wish i could have converted on a chance in the third set. but probably hit the ball my best in the fourth again. >> the third seed, andy murray facing viktor troicki. murray serving 4-2. murray, nice drop shot. he wins the game and the first set 6-2. the second set, murray serving again, 4-2. and murray the big serve, and then troicki with a forehand. and murray takes the second set 6-3. and murray serving for the match, and murray, 37 winners and was in dominating fashion, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. >> get the engines revved up. nationwide race in new hampshire motor speedway and

them had the energy to go from london to liverpool and made the atlantic crossing and settled in brooklyn. my grandfather, mark, the butcher, was too lazy and stayed in london, but what this meant, the reason why it's so digressive answer to your question was that we had an american family always when i was growing up, uncle elliott came in his rather beautiful air force uniform when i was a kid. we were close to our new york sandbergs, so new york when they came, -- very much like home to me. it wasn't a surprise. you know, i got tired -- i was raised in cambridge and i was given liberty by any doctor father to write scholarly history and i went to teach at oxford and there was a sense you were tied to an immemorial curriculum. never mind what you wanted to team. i was interested in crack pot things to do with cleanliness, feats tissues and strange and wacky things, and i remember standing up and proposing that the history on the history of the family, for example, and it was as though -- i remember being met with looks of rummy-eyed disbelief as though i uttered some unspeakable profani

host: here is brooklyn on our end the ban . caller: hi, will we ever be able to return to do with a person with proper i.d. tennistennis court your spouse or child down to the gate and went with them as in the old days? guest: i think that the answer isyes. there is the opportunity, but much of the reason not to was the congestion check point. as that has become more manageable and we can screen differently, that is possible to get that changed at some time. host: the four martsa administrator, kip hawley, joining us from mountain view this morning. guest: it has been a pleasure. host: president obama is speaking to doctors this afternoon. we will have live coverage at 12:15 p.m. eastern. that will do it for "washington journal" this morning. we will we back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . .

amounts, the patti smith group, and it is not atypical event but it is about a jewish children from brooklyn and queens to decide to go to manhattan. it is the story of my contemporaries except they went downtown. >> 2009 bookseller convention in new york city with bloomsbury and walker books i am here with peter miller. what you have coming out this fall? >> the most ambitious and exciting is the one over my shoulder which is a graphic novel. we decided to do this one because it is a historical biography of bertram russell and as crazy as that sounds it is interesting novel of ideas and the two people behind it are mathematicians and computer science experts said they decided to approach the i.d.'s of the foundation of mathematics been told as a comic book form because that big idea is what russell was pursuing as heroic and life-and-death as anything you would find with a super hero. it is a book getting a lot of attention before the convention and all lot here. we have been getting a lot of the galley. everyboby seems very excited to embrace this medium with this particular subject. >>hos

had the energy to go from london to liverpool and maybe an anti-crossing and settled of course in brooklyn. but my grandfather was too lazy and stayed in london. but what this meant, the reason, the answer to your question is we had an american family always when i was growing up. by all cocaine in his rather beautiful american air force uniform i remember when i was a kid. we were close to our new york family. we always felt very much like new york was home to me. but in serious, you know, i got tired. i was raising cain which i said you know, i was grateful for the kind of liberty i was given by my family to write. but then i went to teach at oxford and there was a sense of what you would die to end curriculum, that nevermind what you wanted to teach. i was kind of interested in crackpot things to deal with the dutch and cleanliness and real strange and wacky things. and i remember actually standing up and proposing the history of the family, for example your and it was as though i remember being met with looks of rheumy eyed disbelief as though i uttered some unspeakable profanity. and

host: list take this next call from sylvia in brooklyn. caller: good morning, i like to address this to mr. michael ettlinger. i like to tell or suggest we do we do not need a commission to study the problem. we need to go back to the history of medicare. the original intent was for medicare to be for 65 and over. that was congress' original intent. only people 65 and over, separate from everything else -- now when medicate came and i did not know how it got involved with everybody else from everywhere in the world. but medicare was the people who had worked all their lives to put money into the system. so that when they got to be 65 -- i am 71, by the way. but before i became 71 i was under 65 -- when i went to the clinic i had to pay the doctor -- get this -- the doctor before i could see him. i think the fee was $40. i am not sure. anyway, but when i got to beat 65, then i came into the medicare system and that took care of that, ok? guest: yes, and medicare still provides care for the elderly. you are in directly touching on an importa

i saw the letter of brooklyn toymaker, a mom-and-pop toy shop "dear mr. president, like to make a bare called the teddy bear. i will do it unless i have your approval." roosevelt rights back that i don't think there's much of the market for the toy, but you have my blessing to make it." if the teddy bear became the most popular toy in the world and still is. taft thought he could tap into that and created a possum and had companies make a possum stuffed toy. the teddy bear stayed up and billick' and went nowhere. people that thought they could take the magic from roosevelt, there were no coattails. hso taft has become a very victimized person, ranked the lowest president. roosevelt did not help matters. even though he knew taft was a man of integrity. >> in 1909 taft becomes president. then the 1912 presidential race i have been to medora and saw the shirt with the bullet hole. that is an assassination attempt you don't hear much about. but roosevelt was running as a third-party candidate against wilson and taft. he went to give a speech in milwaukee. a c

the load it is as high as 750% in some places like brooklyn, new york where i practiced for a long timethey load the rate, they take the room and board, and they loaded the rate 750% to cover the indigence. you cannot force people to buy insurance unless you create a tax and then everyone would be injured, including illegal immigrants. it is just impossible. host: on the republicans line from minnesota. caller: the gentleman who just called it was on the right track. i have been in the health-care industry for 32 years. the solution we try to put forward to many of the companies which make up actually about half of the expenses you pay, the insurance companies actually make a living the nine care, opposing innovative new treatments. -- make a living the ninth year. i have seen it with cancer. i cannot tell you how many people i have seen that. as republican i cannot stand. i sell lindsey's graham bellyaching. he is on the government program. we need to push back the insurance companies who are in the business of the nine claims and paying huge bonuses. i spent my entire career fighting

for example, within the latino community, the needs of the puerto ricans in brooklyn, new york, might not be the same as the need for the chicanos in l.a. we need to create the avenues that will help increase those opportunities for our community, and that is why we strongly support the creation of new funding streams as well as our commitment to fully funding existing title vii federal health programs. these programs increase the diversity of the primary care, mental health, dental and oral health provider work force. one of the title vii fundamental goals is the education of primary care providers with an emphasis on the recruitment of underrepresented minorities and disadvantaged populations who can deliver quality health care in our medically-underserved communities. health reform must also include provisions to increase funding of the title viii health profession's programs and to expand and bolster diversity of the nation's nursing work force. we also support increased support for residency training for advanced practice nurses in order to bolster the nation's primary care work

and once again, his wife, brooklyn decker. and fourth set. the nice shot. >> she is spoken for. >> roddick with the forev fore- winner. >> and considering the way he serve served in the first two sets, i was glad to get through with a two-set lead. you know, i was having trouble getting a read on hill. he was hitting all of his spots. i played him a lot of times and that's the best he served against me. like the other two matches, i wish i could have converted on a chance in the third set. but probably hit the ball my best in the fourth again. >> get engines revved up. joey logano and carl edwards, and we started off on lap 60. edwards in the 60 car passing log willing log for first. what the man's want informed see. and after a caution he went to the pits and problems with the lug nuts. >> guys, shake it off. you are the best pit crew down there. that's just a mistake. it is a rare mistake and don't sweat it. we have another one. >> edwards, what a team player. shock it off. and dropping back to eighth place. and lap 164 and kyle and logano

he was really a person that reached out to the people of brooklyn and, of course, a lot of people where they are today plit -- are where they are today politically because of his involvement. he was truly a great political strategist and, bill, we will miss you, but your work is something that will live on and on and on. on that note, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? mr. burton: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burton: madam speaker, the fourth of july is a holiday that we hold very near and dear because it deals with our independence and our desire for freedom and liberty. and we celebrate that with a great deal of awe and what bothers me right now is that this administration in my opinion, is violating the sanctity of that day by inviting iranian diplomats to our embassies around the world to help us celebrate the fourth of july. let's just look at what iran's doing. iran is still pursuing nuclear weapo

would make militant demands and most pros honest congressmen in the united states was a manual from brooklyn and all jewish constituency. fierce zionist congress man. and as soon as truman backstedt for a moment and wouldn't take the position the zionists were supporting he would condemn truman as a traitor, sellout, fraud, anti-semite and castigate him and the blood drive truman crazy and he constantly got that kind of pressure from the organized zionist community and we make the analogy at the end of the book which is a good one between lincoln and the abolitionist. lincoln pleasant an abolitionist. the aladdin visiones one of satisfied for lincoln. for many years they considered lincoln an enemy and lo and behold, including frederick douglass but years later he says he was a hero and he was a great man and greater demands peter even though he didn't do everything he wanted. his american politics and reality of american politics and he was a great man who brought the nation forward. it's the same thing. truman wasn't a zionist and he reacted viscerally against militant pressure because he

the biographical literature as walt whitman's embarrassing salam mother, electorate mother back in brooklynand i was puzzled because i went to an archive and i found hundreds of letters about this illiterate salameh mother. they were not only letters but they were long, stream of consciousness, extremely funny and perceptive letters. she was writing to reyerson, who was this nurse dealing with amputations. walt wood reichert, mother i have to tell you about a soldier i saw yesterday. his wind is already being grannis and i know he is going to die. he is beautiful like a god. i watched him, i combed his hair. i can barely hold back the tears i am so sad about this. she would write back, she would talk about mountain is 32 cents a pound, and then there would be a paragraph saying, you can write me about the soldiers. i understand that you love them and it becomes a fascination. there is nothing wrong with that. i understand. she would not say i know what you are going through but she would encourage him and hearing that from his mother really bucked him up. she would do the same thing with ge

as he came to the united states and then settled between south carolina and brooklyn, new york, to know that he was part of that wonderful tradition of history and heritage, the wonderful cuisine of rice and peas and many other good things that we continue to enjoy culturally in my family, that i raised my children on, that i was raised on, so that this nexus of knowing your roots is so very key. so what i say to all who are listening, this nation is valuable because it respects the culture of all of us and today we salute caribbean americans and i've been privileged and proud to serve in the united states congress with that history but also to work on a number of issues helping to make their land, their nations better and creating a better partnership between the united states and the caribbean. with that, i'd be happy to yield back to the distinguished gentlelady. mrs. christensen: thank you, congresswoman jackson lee, and thank you for your hard work and service and support for all issues relating to the caribbean. i know you're very proud of your jamaican heritage because you speak

i saw the letter of a brooklyn toymaker, a mom and pop toy shop. dear mr. president, i would like to make a bear called a teddy bear. i won't do it if i don't have your approval. he wrote back i don't think there is much of a market, but you have my blessing to make it. suddenly, the teddy bear became the most popular toy in the world, still is. taft thought he could tap into that and created the possess so many and had companies make possess so many stuffed toys. the teddy bear stayed up, the billy possess so many went nowhere. people thought they could take the magic from t.r. somehow, there were no coattails. taft has become a very victimizedperson in history, ranks low as president and roosevelt didn't help him any even though he knew taft was a man of integrity. >> let's do a little history. 1909 william howard taft becomes president. the 1912 presidential race and the reason i get to that is because mindora, i remember seeing the shirt with the bullet hole in it. >> yes. >> that's an assassination attempt you don't hear much about. what's that story?

build new york city's at aqueduct, the first water supply for new york city, the footings of the brooklyn bridge, the puzzle of the statue of liberty, and the walls of the panama canal. another bit of new material in erie, what i call the mohawk crisscross of 1821 -- 1822, and this situation never written about in any other erie canal book is best i can tell, it. benjamin wright, the father of american civil engineering against a father against john rendell, a relative of randalls island, the various palin, but in albany native and very prominent family in albany, new york. news a skills survey air and the man who had just spent a dozen years laying out and mapping the future street grids of manhattan. we're here on 57 straight because 200 years ago john randolph put markers for thousands of a rectilinear blocks on what was then a very rugged and rural landscape. so john randall of the year is the background -- the path of the canal in the mohawk valley was supposed to be entirely along the southern bank of the river. using peters from the mohawk for to water the canal and now between and

to yield at this time three minutes to the chairman -- full chairman of our committee,ed towns of brooklyn, for three minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. towns: i would like to thank the federal work force subcommittee chairman, mr. lynch, for the outstanding job that he has done. i would like to thank congresswoman maloney for her leadership on this issue. i would like to thank the majority leader, steny hoyer, for his work on it. and i would like to thank congressman connellly for his work as well. the the gentlewoman from from new york has worked tirelessly to make the federal government an environment that is supportive of working mothers and fathers. i want to thank her for her efforts. and may i add, a job well done. we need to recognize that the federal government is the largest employer in the united states and that it is -- its policies should set the tone for the country. h.r. 626 provides federal employees with four weeks of paid parental leave for the simple reason that no employee should have to choose between caring for a new child or their paycheck. by provi

manitoba and patti smith and this is not a typical yivo event but it's a story of jewish children from brooklynand queens who decide to go over to manhattan. it's very much the story, you know, of my contemporary but they went downtown and created punk rock. we thank you for coming to yivo and we look forward to seeing you at the lecture and the punk evening. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ronald radosh is the author of many books culled commies a journey from the old left, the new left and the leftover left. he's an adjunct senior fellow at the hudson institute and professor emeritus at the city university of new york. this event was hosted by the yivo institute in new york city. to find out more visit yivoinstitute.org. >> bookexpo america new york city 2009 we're here with a publisher of basic books. what does a publisher do? >> a publisher is just the title i have. i run the imprint of basic books so we have editorial, marketing, publicity, design and i just end up making the final decisions on things. i say a lot of yes or no's all day long. >> what do you say yes to. >

other games in the orioles minor league system, aberdeen lost to brooklyn 8-0 and bluefield a loser 8. major league baseball highlights from the red sox- nationals game. pick it up. jon smoltz american league debut. first inning. anderson hernandez drives in dunn and josh willingham to give the nationals a 4-0 lead on a two-run single by hernandez in the first inning. moving into the sixth inning, bases loaded, nobody out. cristian guzman comes through with a two-run single. willie harris and hanley ramirez will score. nationals take a -- anderson hernandez will score. nationals take a 7-0 lead. big news on alex rodriguez. he comes through with his 10th home run of the season to dead center field. this home run ties him with reggie jackson on the all-time list at 563. congratulations there to alex rodriguez. jon smoltz -- jiewn excuse me, that home run was by alex rodriguez. nationals beating the red sox 9- 3. nationals will be in baltimore starting tomorrow night. cristian guzman delivered a two- run single. new york yankees, 10-6 advantage in the top half of the seventh inning over

the most pro-zionist congressman was a man from brooklyn. fierce zionist congressman and as soon as truman back steps or wouldn't take a position that the zionist were support, they would castigate him and that would drive him crazy and he constantly got the pressure from the zionist community. there's a good one in the lincoln and the abolitionist. he was not an abolitionists. they were not satisfied with lincoln. for many years they considered lincoln an enemy. and lo and behold including frederick douglass but years later frederick douglass said lincoln was a hero and he was a great man and a great emancipator even though he didn't do everything we wanted, his american politics and his reality of american politics and he was a great man who brought the nation forward. well, it's the same thing here. truman was not a zionist and he reacted zealously and it was relentless day in and day out. the reason why jacobson was so important -- if you look at the difference between the way rabbi silver would talk to truman or address him and the way

i know that i trace them back, they live in very, very modest homes in brooklyn. the whitman family were a family of carpenters that built that houses. the father, walt, george all build houses and sold them and they lived in these very small dwellings. a lot of questions have arisen about, to the family note that walt was what we would now call? that were did not exist in the 19th century. of course there had been a long scholarship denying that some walt whitman was. i discovered that he had a very active love life while he was a nurse, but i got back to, i actually needed to understand how big the house's work, how they were built and the walls with up that. the rooms were quite close. and walt in the period of 18583 teen 60 lived with another man in his mother's house. every night they wind up together to the same bedroom so the idea that they did not know what was going on was unthinkable. once i saw that, it is the human drama. i can see them, i can see them in the room and i can see the fights that they had and i think it is quite natural to think of someth