dr. connie's book.is there a moment where you met someone or you felt that connection in that community that was forged because you were telling stories? >> oh, absolutely. i've done 20 cities now, and invariably somebody will come up and say thank you for writing this book because they were having difficulty at work and it gave them the courage to speak up as this woman was doing, or, you know, i awz always i was an underdog and nobody believes in me, and now i know somebody who never even spoke the language when they came here. so you're rooting for the underdog and not underestimating yourself. >> yeah. similarly, actually just yesterday i received an e-mail from a woman who was at a breakfast, just a breakfast gathering in the home of one of her friends. and it wasn't even a formal book event, the just one of those things that just was happenstance. and she e-mailed to tell me that as a consequence, she had decided to start a new company with the express intent of designing everything from a woman's

dr. connie mariano and gloria feldt to the festival and we will begina with the presentation from dr. marianota and thank you cup lapse deny this is a challenge because i'd like to be p limited and i am limited physically but we will do this the best that we can. bes in 12 minutes a want to share with you my journey that i outline that i encourage you to take a look l atoo that one of the stories of being the first to get the attention to be the first senior field but alsor the sadness that you have to be the first bet the other is the hope that other people will follow so you are not the first and you will not be the last.y.d in we will talk about leadership and in a lot of ways, am i storey and turney is one of finding that i am a leader and becoming a leader.dale i live in arizona, scottsdale after leaving the white house buthe before that i was in washington d.c. where lived and worked.e i was there all the time. a nice piece of government property on 1600 pennsylvania ave. you paid for it. 18 18 acres of the what housefo and nine years i was a on call where i spent wonderful and

dr. connie mariano and gloria feldt to share with us and i hope you can continue the conversation at the tent for you can buy both of their books. go to the signing area and books are available for purchase. thank you for coming to the festival. please go to the website as a friend of the festival. . . i noticed on your web site it identified me as writing for the washington post had not the washington times. i am not offended. maybe they are. just wanted to point that out. i am happy to talk about my tet offensive project and current events. i would like to address tet. my book "this time we win: revisiting the tet offensive". the question i frequently get is where did you get that title? actually it came from a vietnam veteran. i would talk to them about what i was doing about the tet offensive and many times they would say did we win this time? had the title and a one. along with the other old cliche that we were winning when i left, they say. part of the reason i wrote the book was to get the truth out about what happened in vietnam and to honor the men and women who won that war for