flamingos gone. they thought that added to the charm of american life. he tooked with the jackson turner."s back to doug brinkley, when did you start writing the first chapter? i started writing my proloug and how we started saving. >> i have been collecting my files i had people take me to watch sea turtles. at night with the great turtle expedition it will get like the birth of mankind. it was like biblical. i was trying to experience some of the wild life there wouldn't be manete in florida today if it wasn't for roosevelt. gerald ford is a very small book. this book was the book i was going to live and die by. i was putting everything i had as for my childhood experience at national parks to my knowledge of theodore roosevelt. many women have written great books recently on t.r. kathleen dalton. there's great literature out there. i've been going to t.r. conferences really since the 1980s. my hobby was less t.r. than the sites that he saved. when happened with the reagan diaries is i wasn't expecting it. about our rangers and d. day. peat wilson, the

jacket off for the flamingo on 4. jacket off for the double bogie on 5.ut jacket on for the birdie at 6. >> exotic dancers have changed clothes less. you had to feel for his caddy, stevie williams. not only was he having to work the umbrella, the towel, the divot, the ball, the head cover, and the clubs, he also had the job of wardrobe guy. he was carrying a walking closet. then again, if it keeps raining as bib lickcly has it has at bethpage. everybody is eventually going to need a life jacket. >> appreciate rick putting a smile on faces that have been wearing frowns much of the day. and the significance of the next shot tiger faces, i think, it's fairly interesting. because he's got a lengthy par putt. how important is it? >> trust me, that will be a thought of his for a lot of hours over the in exevening. but the case is if he's got that 6, 7, 8-footer to save par, it could be a huge putt. it's going to give him a lot of momentum going into the rest of the round. and he's in a stretch of holes that are the most difficult on the golf course. >> and you'

flamingos gone from america. you have to go to bahamas to save them. roosevelt wanted to save them because he felt that added to the charm of american life that in many ways he hooked up with frederick jackson turner's frontier thesis and believed what made american was space and wilderness and that as soon as we lost that, we would lose our american character. >> go back to doug brinkley for a moment. this book, when did you start writing it? when did you write the first chapter? >> boy, i started writing my pro log about four years ago on pelican island, florida, and about how he started saving wild florida -- >> that would have been in 2005? >> yeah, even before that. i started actually writing, but i have been collecting on this for my files and going to these places since the 1990's. >> so you wrote the prologue there on pelican island? >> i did. i visited with a guy that works for u.s. fish and wild life that took me on the boat. one of the neat things with u.s. efficient and wildlife, when i visit places, they were so excited that i was interest