kearns goodwin. we're honored you are here. [ applause ] and so the other thing that impressed me about doris kearns goodwin, she raised a son who became a united states marine. volunteered to be a united states marine after september the 11th. i have the honor of introducing the best first lady ever. mom, would you take a tie? obviously, i don't mind being surrounded by strong women. i was raised by one, i married one, and i believe we're raising two. welcome former first ladies, barbara and laura bush. >> thank you very much. >> i thought it was me. [ applause ] >> well, for me, this is such a great honor. you can imagine having spent my life trying to bring presidents and first lady who's were no longer alive to life? i got live ones here. much more fun. >> we hope. >> i always worry -- i worry that in the -- >> careful. >> i worry that someday -- i worry that someday in the afterlife there will be a panel of presidents that i ever studied and everyone will tell me everything i got wrong. and the first person to yell out will be lbj, how come that book on the kennedys was twice as long as mine. wh

at 9:00, barbara and laura bush will talk with historian and biographer doris kearns goodwin. a and we'll hear from the women who served as the right hand of the first ladies from lady bird johnson to laura bush. that's american tv in primetime all week here on c-span3. over on c-span2 book tv's on primetime. tonight you can get a glimpse of the lives of current and former u.s. senators starting tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern with arlen speck for and his book, life among the cannibals. at 9:25, richard j. luger statesman of the senate. at 10:00 a book party with allen simpson and donald hardy. a biography of the wyoming senator. book tv in primetime all week on c-span2. >> four years ago i was a washington outsider. four years later, i'm at this dinner. four years ago, i looked like this. today i look like this. and four years from now, i will look like this. [ applause ] that's not even funny. >> mr. president, you remember -- you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow. that was hilarious. that was your best one yet. but honestly, it's a thri

eastern, barbara and laura bush talk with doris kearns goodwin. at 10:00 p.m., we'll hear from several women who served as right hands from first ladies from lady byrd johnson to laura bush. watch the role and influence of america's first ladies tonight on c-span3. >>> the aclu has believed for some time that police departments around the country are tracking people's cell phones on a routine basis, often without getting a warrant based on probable cause. >> should tracking a cell phone require a warrant? tonight, american civil liberties union attorney katherine crump on police use of technology for surveillance purposes and whether current law adequately protects an individual's right to privacy, at 8:00 p.m., on "the communicators," on c-span2. >>> four years ago, i was a washington outsider. four years later, i'm at this dinner. four years ago, i looked like this. today i look like this. and four years from now,ly look like this. [ applause ] that's not even funny. >> mr. president, you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of

and doris kearns goodwin, talk about what it is like being a red sox fan, the agony, the anguish, thefering. the tradition. >> and once in a while a few good things. >> i'll tell you, it has been so much a part of my life that i can't imagine how irrational i am. i wake up in the morning sad when they've lost. i can't sleep at night when they are not doing well. >> it's been a rough couple of weeks for you. >> but then i keep remembering, the great thing about of the had, i push my mind back and i remember 2004, i remember 2007. i remember carlton fisk. i remember when i first walked in here, and i so loved the brooklyn dodgers. they moved to los angeles. my boyfriend takes me here, and i see the same kind of little park, the same team that almost wins, but then loses ultimately. and i fell irrationally in love. >> i grew up a braves fan, but out of nowhere, suddenly these two guys explode on the scene. not the guy behind me, but two guys explode on the scene. mike barnicle. >> hi, mike. >> fred lynn, jim rice, and of course '75, the same year, that amazing game six home run by carlto