c-span: who was? >> guest: who was the very conservative statesman of early 19th century who, as it happened, henry kissinger has written a book about, a very interesting book about metternich. so there i was, attracted to this very conservative statesman, and if i again look back upon it i find that some of my first writings were on edmund burke, for example, who was a great 18th century -- he called himself at the time a whig, but from our perspective he's very much in the conservative tradition. lord acton himself was in one sense a great liberal, but he had a very strong conservative streak in him. he was a very pious catholic, for example, and therefore a great believer in tradition, in institutions, in authority and so on, so that i think that throughout my life i've had this kind of predilection even in my most radical period. c-span: in the front of this book there's a list of some 13 books that you've written plus this book, four that you've edited and nine that you've actually written. >> gu

c-span: where? >> guest: in dc. it's a--northeast. it's about two miles on the other side of the capitol, down on maryland avenue. c-span: and what do you find when you go there? what kind of folks are in the methadone clinic? >> guest: well, our clinic is mainly for working poor. we do have maybe a 25-percent medicaid population. but mainly, it's people who pay for their methadone and who hold down jobs. c-span: what's the racial mix? >> guest: i want to say about 50-50. c-span: ok. >> guest: the staff is almost all african-american, but the--and the doctor who owns it is african-american. c-span: because you write a lot about race in your book and what's going on in "pc, m.d." medicine and all this, do you see much racism in your clinic? >> guest: no. i see--no, i don't see much racism. c-span: do you see much racial politics in your clinic? >> guest: not as it--not as far as the relationship between the counselors and me and the patients go. c-span: do you see a lot of what you're talking about i

c-span: do you speak a lot? >> guest: yes, i do. c-span: do you tell stories? >> guest: i tell stories; i tell anecdotes; i recycle stories. c-span: what's the one that gets the biggest laugh every time? >> guest: i guess telling the story about when i was a young working mother and had two kids of my own and i was working at the white house. you tend to forget a lot of things because the white house comes first, so i forgot and left our big, fat dachshund at the vet about two weeks, and suddenly i kept getting insistent phone calls from the kids to go get mitzi. i went by and got mitzi. they handed me this little, tiny dachshund and i felt so guilty. i just thought, she's been love-starved. i put her in the car, and i tried to call her name all the way home. she wouldn't look my way. we get home, she jumps out of the car, and the kids come tumbling out of the house and they just scream, "mommy, that's not mitzi!" so of course i dashed in, picked up the phone and called the vet. sure enough, i took her back and got our own fat dachshund. it was none the worse f

c-span: what is it? >> guest: it's the only university in the world that's predominantly for the deaf and hard of hearing. it's here in washington, d.c. i've been doing that for about two years. i'm starting to learn sign language, asl. i'm a very slow learner. and i'm pleased to be there because it's introduced me to a whole new culture. it's made me realize that the deaf can do anything i can do. in fact, they can do many things better than i can do. the only thing they can't do is hear. but other than that, it's mainly stereotypes and misconceptions that hold them back. and i'm pleased to be there as someone who's hearing because my goal is to work on these causes as a matter of principle, recognizing that it's not just charity work. i'm learning tremendously from this about deaf culture, about sign language. it's making me think about issues in a completely definitely way. it's really just opened my eyes and i think that's what we all have to do a little more of, put ourselves in those places where w

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most of you in the audience have not seen him before on c-span, but he has worked at c-span for over5 years, just retired as our london producer. when you look back at the last 25 years and the relationship between great britain and the united states via c-span, what comes to mind? >> i think the great period of closeness between britain and the united states. fluctuated.ship has of course, we were particularly close in world war ii. it was revived under margaret thatcher's premiership. there were some rocky patches had a close but she ideological relationship with ronald reagan. they were very fond of each other personally. beginning of a -- it was not quite so warm under her successors. tony blair became extremely close to bill clinton. and to president bush. i would say that that was a particularly interesting time of the transatlantic relationship. politicians were sometimes embarrassed at what the public like to call the special relationship. comeshe prime minister into town, some of those things are little unnecessary. >> you have watched our government over 25 years and your o

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and c-span 3. c-span radio and c-span.org and watch our recent interview at the george w. bush presidential center in dallas at 10:30. c-span, we bring public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences, and offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service of private industry. we're c-span, created by the cable tv industry, 35 years ago, and funded by your local cable or satellite. watch us at h.d., like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. "washington journal" continues. host: for the next half-hour we want to focus on a story that's been getting a fair amount of attention over the past few days, based on a new essay on political.com, and reprinted, including in people magazine, which has the headline, america, i saw you naked. the six most shocking revelations from a former t.s.a. agent in his tell-all. want to ask whether t.s.a. screening is going too far.

, c-span radio and c-span.org.and we'll start the evening with a conversation with historian richard norton smith about the first ladies and their contribution to the nation live at 8:00. >> next, the results of a seann research institute poll ranking the impact and importance of the first ladies. -- iena research institute poll ranking the impact and importance of the first ladies. >> the siena research institute in loudonville, new york, has released a survine the first ladies. heeshes the results, the top -- here's the results, top 10. don levy is the director of the siena research institute. dr. levy, what do you see in this top 10 list? >> what's most amazing about this survey, five times, 32 years, we interview historians, political scientists, those scholars who study the presidency and the institution of the first lady. what's most amazing is the consistency over time. eleanor roosevelt first every time. this is first over 32 years and she really stands out as the quintessential american first lady. if we w

watch on c-span and c-span three.o on c-span radio and c- span.org. >> the honorable member has the government stand against her and should be swept from office and placed in her own garbage. >> i believe that privatization will go very successfully indeed, it will go very successfully, indeed, and the gentleman can wait and see so that we can pontificate in the light of the facts. ofthere was a whole list what had been ruled over the years as parliamentary expression. a few weeks ago the present prime minister called the speaker to withdraw a remark he suggesting that the leader of the opposition was in some way less than honest. there are a lot of parliamentary expressions. it was said that churchill was instructed by the speaker to withdraw an accusation and instead of accusing whoever it was a telling a lie, he said to that there is a terminological in exactitude. no one could understand that in their report. it is probably a mess. >> c-span's former london producer, behind the scenes of the british parliament, to

c-span: what about the reverse of it? you could have gone over here to another neighborhood where it's all black. >> guest: you'll find some neighborhoods like that, but what's interesting is the black neighborhoods -- fancy houses -- those houses are worth $50,000, $100,000 less than in the white neighborhoods, even if you match up all the same features. everyone knows that one side of rock creek park, the park that divides d.c., is -- well, has higher housing values than the other side of rock creek park. and any realtor will tell you, if you buy on one side, your house isn't going to rise in value quite as quickly. i think sometimes people say, "well, don't african-americans want to segregate themselves? aren't they all trying to -- to," you know, "form their own clubs or their own cliques?" well, some of that's true. that's true of asian-americans. it's true of many groups. and if we want to really have a racially diverse, integrated society, we have to fight our own tendencies to do that. but partly, there's a differ

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c-span. a.m. eastern on c-span. >> here they are, closing in on me. when i went through survival school, they taught us that the people who cap sure are probably the least trained to capture p.o.w.'s and maintain them. your best chance to escape is right then. i thought, these are rookies. three rounounds and ds. i went like this, get away. i fired a round of that tracer over their head. they did not flinch. they just raised their rifles like this. one of them reached in his pocket and pulled out [indiscernible] it had drawings on one side and vietnamese semantics -- phonetics on the other side. the drawing show them capturing an american pilot. said, surrender. no die. hands up. hands up. here i am, facing about nine long guns staring at me. i decide that's probably the best advice i'm going to get that day. >> former air force pilot and vietnam pow lee ellis sunday "q&a."t 8:00 on >> next, the results of a poll by the siena research institute. we discussed the results with the institute's d

after that, c-span's original first ladies. >> c-span, created by america's cable company 35 years ago and brought to you today as a public service by your television rovider. >> and joining us this week on "the communicators" is the ranking member of the commission on technology, anna eshoo. democrat from california. some of the companies she represents in her district include facebook, googlele, netflix, mozilla. you recently said you wanted to be the new ranking member, the top democrat to replace the retiring henry waxman. why do you want that position? >> first of all i think that the committee itself, the energy and commerce committee, which is one of the oldest committees in the congress, is really the committee of the future. its jurisdictionses are so broad and so powerful and it's very citing and so to step into that position, which is not easy to do, because you have to be elected by your colleagues, i think is an enormous opportunity to leverage everything that is there, not only in communications and the internet and technology but how that is applied to increasingly to he

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to c-span.n, i think her name was betty, called in and gretta for leaning toward the republican side and this morning a gentleman was accusing youe and of being on the other side of the agenda. offensive whent anybody criticizes you folks, because you provide so much to us. so many channels that provide absolutely nothing, hundreds of channels. one place youthe can find a vast amount of nonstop help, i mean you guys are outstanding, and you provide such a wonderful society.o how anybody could criticize you folks, i don't think they realize the barrage of that you folks are constantly absorbing and having to sift through, whether it's propaganda or otherwise. but yet you still, every day, 7:00 in the morning, there you inform us, go with the topics -- host: you're very, very kind. what's the other statement you wanted to make? caller: i do apologize for the length. c-span like to request to please bring back the 2010 cam winners.t it was a bunch of young children, young girls and ladies, they wer

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it is always changing. >> first lady michelle obama, tonight live on c-span and , also on c-span radio and c-span.org. we bring public affairs offense to washington directly to you, putting you directly in the room at congressional hearings, briefings and conferences and offering complete gavel to gavel publice all as a service. c-span -- created by the cable industry 35 years ago and funded by your local provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. deputy chief u.s. of mission in israel says current efforts to resolve the conflict are the most serious he has seen since the carter administration. comments came during comments at the release institute on friday. he and two other ambassadors recently returned from the region. this is just over one hour. the trip was sponsored by the foundation for released piece which was established in 1979 to promote a just solution to the israeli-palestinian conflict. the wilcox led the trip and it whouded two board members between them have decades and decades of experience working on this very thorny issue of the arab-isra

eastern on c-span 3.ou can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> is this a technique you hope will improve jobs -- [indiscernible] >> i don't think that is any of your business. [laughter] >> i think the glamour of reagan had less to do with his hollywood roots per se. the glamour of hollywood exactly, but it did have something to do with the skill and the grace he acquired as an actor, the fact that he always hit his mark. made beingike -- he out there, fielding those questions look effortless. that is another aspect of glamour. people who were likely to support him politically could see in him, sort of the ideal representation of their views because he didn't make them -- they weren't waiting for him to fail. as he got older, that became more of an issue. in those early days, he had this kind of -- a word i use in the it comes from a 16th century book of the courtier. >> defining and using glamour, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> a senate judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on t

you may have been wondering, you'll be pay mouse because this is c-span filming us today, and so i don't know when it airs, but stay tuned. thank you, again, for coming out. >> thank you, willie. [inaudible conversations] >> he was someone who was growing in the office, badly burned by the bay of pig experience. pee had listened to the experts, you see? the cia. joint chiefs of staff. he went to see france, did the trip in may, june of 61, and he said to him, you should surround yourself with the smartest possible people, listen to them, hear what they have to say, but at the end of the day, you have to make up your own mind, and kennedy remembered what harry truman said, the buck stops here, and i think after that bay of pigs, he was absolutely determined to make up his own mind hear what they had to say, read what they told him, but at the end of the day, make the judgment, and he was the responsible party, and you see that abun adaptly clear when you listen to all those and read transcripts of the tapes during the cuban missile crisis. he was his own man, making up his own mind, held

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c-span is covering the event. those are some the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> i was in a car wreck that i wrote about extensively in my book. the whole time i was in the hospital, not injured really -- i had a cut on my leg and a broken ankle -- i was praying that the other person in the car would be ok, and that -- and the other person in the car was one of my best friends. which i didn't know, i didn't really recognize that at the site of the crash but i think that because i prayed over and over and over for him to be ok and he wasn't, i thought that was not listening, my prayer wasn't answered. i went through a long time of not believing and not believing that prayers could be answered i didn't need a lot of time and growing up to come back to face -- i did need a lot of time and growing up to come back to faith. ,> first lady laura bush tonight at 9:00 p.m. on c-span. with the interview first lady in dallas at 10:30. journal"ll street health care policy reporter louise radnofsky talks about an effort b

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the hash tag is c-span chat. it will diminish over the years due to obamacare job loss that could be 5 million, not 2 million. what is so bad with the affordable care act that gave some workers the choice not to work? most people would be happy with that. our democrat line, what do you hear in that testimony from doug elmendorf? >> caller: what i hear is a good many people who will receive health insurance under the affordable care act will actually have the ability to go out and start their own businesses. some may pay less. however, some may pay more. the good thing is millions and millions of people will not have to worry about being bankrupt or losing their home because of an illness. their families will benefit. younger children will benefit. and as we know the growth of this economy is based on individual entrepreneurs like mark zetterberg or many others. however, what the cbo report does not address is the fact that many people will want to work more because they will increase their income more and pay the

i'm glad to be on c-span.first comment is yes, the price will go up slightly in all the fast food places. all the workers and shoppers are still biting their donuts and french fries and pizza for lunch. but come the evening, if they can afford it, then let them cook at home and be at home with the family. that is what they should do. i would like to comment on mr. madland's comment earlier in the program when he spoke about the infrastructure. the slide is always who is going to pay for it, who is going to pay for it. vehicles are price on horsepower, so a little toyota, withant to buy a ferrari 500 horsepower, it is $500 more. manufacturer that lands the vehicle in the u.s. or makes it here should pay the money, get the money in here, get this if the structure going. mr. madland, you are absolutely right and i'm glad you brought that up. that will get things going. host: all right, let's hear from david madland. infrastructure, i think, is a key piece of the failing of our country right now. the country's eco

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