it is also my privilege and honor to introduce governor robert erlich. as senior counsel and public policy group where he advises clients on policy it matters in interactions the federal government and served as the first republican governor in 36 years steve mckinney republican u.s. served as governor and also to be served as a congressman it and author the chesapeake bay restoration act. calling the most important buyer mental achievement in 20 years. he also created the first cabinet level department disability they keep a ward - - about highest secretary of health and human services award. he served four terms of the house and also served in the maryland house of delegates and 86394 representing baltimore county. the we will begin with the overview of the books and start with mr. al from. >> i do remember it -- another republican governor but we will not mention that [laughter] fast-forward june 2000 in berlin leaders of countries with the center-left governments led by bill clinton and tony blair resigned if progressive declaration to define their c

now, you know, governor erlich, i don't think governors get to travel quite as well as presidents, but everybody thinks -- >> southwest for us. >> right. southwest. clinton just did a bock partner in new york for me and thanked me for putting him in all of these unsafe airplanes. what we did was we certainly didn't have airforce one. we had five people in the travelling party and hopped on anything we could. sometimes we had -- we were treated not like this was going to be the president of the united states. we were down in north carolina, actually we had flown into raleigh and learned that north carolina was playing the university of kentucky in basketball and clinton wanted to go to the game. got tickets and went and the state police told us to park near the main interest and went in and watched them play and when we got out the campus police towed the car. for two and a half hours the next president of the united states sat in chapel hill, north carolina trying to get his car back at a police station. >> it is a red state. >> it was jim martin -- probably the most harrowing of the e

hursday, the conversation with erlich and friday, in depth. on american history tv on c-span 3, an entire week on the civil war. monday a look at the overland campaign in virginia. on tuesday, the war's only battle in washington, d.c., the battle of fort stevens. wednesday night, the 150th anniversary of the union defeat at the battle of the crater and thursday, the capture of atlanta and general sherman's march to the sea and on friday, a look at hollywood's portrayal of slavery. find our television schedule one c-span.org nce at and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> up next on c-span, a sixth circuit court of appeals oral argument on ohio's same-sex marriage ban. after that, two discussions on the freedom of the press from the national association of black journalists and the institute for public accuracy. a three-judge panel in the sixth circuit court of appeals recently heard oral argument on whether ohio must recognize same-sex couples

it has been our pleasure to have governor erlich and al from with us. we will be next door signing books. ... tag printers or appeared without further ado comic is a great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug foster. >> thank you and thank you for coming. it's great to meet you and have a chance to talk about the wonderful book. i wanted to start with the wonderful essay from the great t denyer bnca >> >> i avoid having the african characters laugh to educate their kids. and to eliminate something and african characters should be careful and exotic them larger than life. budget savings to me your book is precisely what he is advocating instead say that is the portrayal of africans as people with their own agency. with the sense of destiny. for you just fed up with the way africa was being reported god called poverty pour? >> yes. that is the short answer. i am glad you chose this particular essay that has a lot of residents and write-in about fiction and then to replicate even the most recent weeks with a story set has cut our

. >> they give for being with us today it is our pleasure to have governor robert erlich with the san al from we will be next door and thank you for coming to this session. [applause] [inaudible conversations] tag pd without further ado comic is a great pleasure to introduce her moderator for the conversation, doug >> is great to meet you to talk about this wonderful book and i want to start with that wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist who wrote that mind pulling lee could s.a. how to rise about africa that he meant how we write about the continent should stop representing it and said the following broad brushstrokes are good avoid having the african characters laugh or struggle to educate their kids or under mundane circumstances aluminate something about europe or america and african characters should be colorful and exotic and larger than life but empty inside with no conflicts or resolutions but none to confuse the cause but perhaps we could look at what he is advocating with those idiosyncracies. so what inspired that in the first place? for you fed up the way that af

. >> you heard the name john erlich. for his work in washington, he later served a year and a half in prison. and then moved to santa fe, new mexico, grew a beard and wrote three novels. when he was interviewed in 1982 about the tapes from the nixon presidency, he says he wished a team of historians would be able to listen to them in their entirety. and only then, not just from fractions, only then come out with an assessment. richard nixon had so many characters inside his singular, unusual and capacious mind. that's an astute observation. and, tonight, we will hear from nixon, the statesman, nixon the thug, nixon the historian, nixon the big olt, the sentimental father, the vengeful bombing commander and that's just for a start. i'm shelby kauffe, the vice president of the museum. we'd like to welcome you to this that will fulfill the wish on the night before the 40th anniversary of the president's resignation. first, we will have the tireless dr. luke nichter from texas a&m. he has spent over a decade digitizing the 3

thursday night, a discussion about the future of politics with former maryland governor robert erlich. and on friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, in depth with writer and religious scholar rez reza azlan. on c-span3, an entire week on the civil war. tonight, a look at the overland campaign in virginia. on tuesday, the war's only battle in washington, d.c., the battle of ft. stevens. wednesday night, the 150th anniversary of the union defeat at the battle of the crater. thursday, the capture of atlanta and general sherman's march to the sea. on friday, a look at hollywood's portrayal of slavery. find our television schedule one week in advance at c-span.org. and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400 or e-mail us at comments@cspan.org. >>> now, the history of racial equality in professional sports. former basketball player bill russell and former football player jim brown talk about their struggles. they also discuss the role of african-americans in college and professional sports today. this panel from the lyndon johnson presidential library su

future of politics but i want to make sure we have time for people in the audience but governor robert erlichave us an exciting picture of his political thinking a few moments ago and as of this and the phrase european socialist government it makes me wonder if there's still a role for moderates in the republican party? so will the republicans return to power by appealing to the center of the spectrum are those to have polities -- policies? >> and the reality is both parties are more idiological for a couple of reasons that people may not have thought of but because of the courts and politics state legislatures are drawing lines around the country. so clever northern liberal republicans and southern democrats did exist but are wiped out now because of reapportionment and texas is on the flip side is the blues state. i'm linden leased chaplin was a member of congress and came home one day and went to bet i woke up and was in congress but no longer lived in my own district so they drew the new lines because they had so much in common. and in texas republican's stated to democrats so now's texas

ehrlichman, his chief of staff, bob haldeman, his top domestic adviser for white house counsel don erlich men. and your reporting in the "washington post" as well as others. the post is the only paper that's covering it. >> host: time and time again he read those articles and he's angry about them. he wonders how information is getting out. >> guest: did you always wonder how he felt about that? and now you know. >> host: he said that's a story in the post. where's that going? is that coming from here? is that coming from the committee to reelect, coming from the fbi and so forth. just to step back for somebody. what do we learn about nixon that we didn't know? because when you about the criminality. we knew about the abuse of power. we knew about the smallmindedness that everything seemed to be about nixon. what is added transfer what i did as you know is i follow it day by day to try to understand how this thing fell apart. i pull away to a wide angle companies a combination of two things. character, the man's character and -- >> host: which is? >> guest: he had no hesitation to break t

syndicated radio host joins us as well as jessica erlich attorney and former democratic national candidatethank you both for joining us. do you believe cooler heads are prevailing or people getting tired of protesting? >> i hope and believe people are actually having a little more sense of calm particularly since we have the attorney general eric holder was just there yesterday speaking with people. the grand jury investigation n now. that is giving people a little bit more of a sense of calm. hopefully the community is coming together and i'm hoping we will continue to see more peaceful demonstration. >> you have clergy and other mediators on scene trying to encourage people to keep it peaceful. do you think people might be starting to realize there might be more of a story beyond the headlines cap shoot an unarmed teen? >> yes, that is what i have been noticing. i have to fault the media for badly reporting this. what we have had is a strong arm robbery suspect stopped by a cop who doesn't know he is a robbery suspect but the robbery suspect does. the robbery suspect assaults the cup, br

. >> but i've got good news for the folks in clove erlich, if mitch mcdonnell doesn't know where your, it just makes it harder for you to ship your job overseas. >> we can't afford a leader who thinks the west bank is a hollywood fund-raiser. >> while senator rand paul isn't up for re-election until 2016, he took advantage of a home state crowd with national press attention to attack alison grimes with a poem. >> there once was a woman from kentucky who thought in politics she'd be lucky. so she flew to l.a. for a hollywood bash. she came home in a flash with buckets of cash. >> joining us from louisville, kentucky, kentucky native, nbc news senior political reporter peter bacon who was there yesterday. try to do this justice for people who weren't there. set the scene for us. every state has a tradition where the candidates come and speak. this is so much more free wheeling in terms of what they say and in terms of how the crowd reacts. set the scene for what it was like to be there yesterday. >> this was totally different. you're in the small town. the town is called fancy farms, ke