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"q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> i don't think the president could have gotten away with it. >> pulitzer prize winning reporter and author tim weinert reveals the fbi's 100-year hidden history and j. edgar hoover's war against spies and terrorists. >> he stands alone like a statue encased in grime. as one of the most powerful men who ever served in washington in the tw20th century. 11 presidents, 48 years. from woodrow wilson to richard nixon. there's no one like him. and a great deal of what we k w know, what we think we know is myth and legend. >> a history of the fbi sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q and a." >>> ernest hemingway is considered one of the great american writers and his work still influence readers today, but not many people know of his work as a spy during world war ii. >> there were a couple of instances that he was aware of when german submarines approaching fishing boats and saying, hey, we'll take your catch and your fresh food. so, ernest says, well, i'll wait for them to come alongside and

"q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> i was quite a radical as a young person and i was the one that thought that, you know, the -- sing we shall overcome was really not a very effective way of gaining civil rights and i think that i thought that more confrontation was needed. >> economics professor, columnist and substitute host for rush limbaugh, walter williams, on being a radical. >> i believe that a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical. and i've always been a person who believed that people should not interfere with me. i should be able to do my own thing without -- so long as i don't violate the rights of the people. >> more with walter williams on c-span's "q and a." >>> james madison, the fourth president of the united states, often referred to as the father of the constitution, owned about 100 slaves at montpelier, his 4,600-acre estate in orange county, virginia. "american history tv" traveled 90 miles south of the nation's capital to learn about an archaeologica

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"q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> each week "american history tv's" "american artifacts" takes viewers behind the scenes at archives, museums, and historic sites. in 1215, a group of nobelmen confronted the king of england demadding that their rights be recognized, written down and confirmed by royal seal. king john agreed, binding himself and his heirs to the magna carta or the great charter, granting fundamental legal rights to the noblemen, including trial by jury, habeas corpus and no taxation without representation. the 1297 version is still a law on the books in england and wales and that version was the first to apply these rights to all english free men. the charter was later cited in the writings of some of the founding fathers as they sought the same political writes leading up to the american revolution. in 2007, philanthropist david rubenstein purchased for $21 million one of only four original 1297 magna cartas and the only original copy in the united states. in 2009 mr. rubenstein permanently loaned the document to the national archives as a gift

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i would like to welcome c-span and our public radio audience during our lunches are also featured in our weekly podcastm the national press club, available on itunes. you can follow the action on twitter, using the cash tagged -- hashtag npc lunch. it is time to introduce our guest, and i would ask each of you to stand up briefly as your name is announced. jennifer, time warner cable, julio, dave nicholson, tsa acting chief of staff, michael boldin, washington post, tsa deputy administrator, alison fitzgerald, freelance journalist. andrew stone, huffington post and speaker committee member who organize today's event. chris mclaughlin, office of security operations, rachel oswalt, global security news wire, nagin hurts of roll-call. hertz. and hnathan >> he is the unwitting face of everything americans hate about airport security in a post-911 carroll. every time we are asked to take off our shoes at the airport, pull up our laptop, or submit to an uncomfortable pat down, we have this agency to blame. he spent most of his career chasing the bad guys in the fbi, and he can take it. he said, my hope is th