but curtis lemay was somebody with the reputation. there was a lot of elements to this complex reputation. he had somebody who got rings done. said that was how lemay ended up running the b-29 operation. interesting thing about the air force, operated the b-29 was that willoughby said their air forces, fifth and others each had a commander. he maintained personal command of the, but his field commander is curtis lemay. when it came time -- when hap and didn't sequestered, one of the guys they brought in as part of their little group was curtis lemay. so he did have a

this field commander was curtis lemay. when it came time -- when hap and don douglas started rand, with what they brought in as part of their little group was curtis lemay. so, he did have respect for lemay's ability to cut through and get things done. >> okay. thank you again. [applause] we do have books available. i'm sure he would be happy to sign them. if you want t

i knew curtis lemay. we didn't -- i wish we would have talked more about hap, but curtis lemay was somebody with a reputation. well, there were a lot of elements to his complex reputation. but he had a reputation among other things as somebody who got things done. so that was how lemay ended up running the b-29 operation out in the marianas. interesting thing about the 20th air force that the -- that operated the b-29s. while all of these other numbered air forces, there were 15 others, each had a commander, the commander of the 20th air force was hap arnold. he maintained personal command of that. but his field commander was curtis lemay. and when it came time to, when hap and don douglas started rand, one of guys that they brought in as part of their little group to start rand was curtis lemay. so he did have a respect for lemay's ability to cut through the crap and get things done. >> okay. well, thank you again to bill yenne for -- [applause] we do have the books available this the gift shop, and i'm

he maintained personal command of the, but his field commander is curtis lemay. when it came time -- when hap and didn't sequestered, one of the guys they brought in as part of their little group was curtis lemay. so he did have a respect for the man's ability to cut through the craft and get this done. >> okay. thank you again. [inaudible] [applause] i'm sure you'd be happy to sign it. so if you want to grab those. you may have been wondering camilo be famous because it expands helping us today. i don't know when that will air, but stay tuned. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> now look at the life and political career of aaron burr with our partner cox communications. >> burrell was probably the greatest of the known alleged conspirators and it led to what i think has been running for the prowl of the century but the former vice president of the united states on trial for preaching against the united states. >> host: who was aaron burr as a person? >> guest: his grandfather was jonathan edwards, great leader of the great awakening his claim to fame was

this field commander was curtis lemay. when it came time -- when hap and don douglas started rand, with what they brought in as part of their little group was curtis lemay. so, he did have respect for lemay's ability to cut through and get things done. >> okay. thank you again. [applause] we do have books available. i'm sure he would be happy to sign them. if you want to read those. you may have been wondering. you will all be very famous because c-span is filming us today. i don't know when that will air, the state had. thank you again for coming out. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> when you look at congress in 1901, less than 2% of members came from working-class backgrounds, got into politics and eventually wound up in congress. flash forward to the present day, the average member of congress that less than 2% of their career doing manual labor jobs, service industry jobs. so this is one thing that really hasn't changed, you know, lots of different aspects of the political process of change. broadcast televis