monroe was reluctant to leave george wythe. wythe encouraged him to go. jefferson than mentor monroe. john marshall, at that time, his students with keep notebooks and most of the notebooks were about 30 or 35 pages. john marshall's and notebook was 240 pages of notes on things that he listened to from george wythe. in the margins of many of these pages, he would write the name of his girlfriend. he would have all these notes about philosophy in world politics and then he would write i love polly ambler. >> this is like your to seventh book? -- 27th book? >> i started out writing about baseball. >> why did you start out that way? >> my son was a fan when he was eight or nine. he was very interested in baseball. he started collecting baseball cards and sports memorabilia. i began writing a column for the new york daily news. somebody read my column and ask if we wrote a book on baseball cards. we did. that started a series of books on baseball history that i did. there are about 50 or 16 of -- 15 or 16 of them. in 1994, the baseball strike came in that was

he was 16. >> george wythe dies in 18 06. we're past the constitution convention and the original congress, who is still alive that he mentored? what's a lot of the people that he mentored were still alive. john marshall was the chief justice of the supreme court. jefferson had been reelected easily as president in 18 04 and had just concluded the lewis and clark expedition monroe would go on to be the fifth president of the united states later. other proteges have become governors, senators, and congressman. clay, at that time, was in his early 20s and thinking of running for congress. >> once george wythe died, what was the reaction from all these people that he mentored. >> shock, absolute shock. they all had letters from his friends that they had been poisoned -- that he had been poisoned and there were very angry about that. in the city of richmond, people were aghast that the poisoning took place. he had lived there for the last 16 years and on and off a few years before that. his funeral was the largest funeral in the

. >> george wythe signed a declaration of independence. he was also murdered. tonight, bruce chadwick on "i am murdered." >> minnesota gov. temple it was the keynote speaker -- minnesota gov. tim pawlenty discussing his vision for the republican party. >> thank you for the honor of being with you today. that is very nice. thank you. it is a delight to be with you today. speaking as one voice about the challenges facing our great nation and our party, and looking forward to doing that in a moment. i want to thank my friend and our leader, chairman steele. your passion and can-do attitude and halt all optimistic attitude is exactly what we need right now. thank you for your tremendous leadership in your service. [applause] i also want to thank the members of the minnesota are in see who are here today. many of you may know about minnesota politics. it is challenging. if you are a republican and minnesota, it's like being a polar bear in miami. it is a tough place to be a republican but there is steadfast leadership and commitment to our principles. that is making

. >> george wythe signed the declaration of independence, and he was also murdered.the killings that shocked the nation. at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. >> now homeland's security secretary janice napolitano talking about the obama administration's efforts to engage the public at large. it is about an hour. >> a good morning. i am paul steiger, welcome to today's council on foreign relations. participants are viewing this meeting via live webcast on www.cfr.org. for those of you in the room, please turn off -- and not just put on vibrate, your cellphones, blackberrys, and anything else you have so as to not interfere with the sound system. the secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano, leads the department of 225,000 people. the deal with disasters resulting in acts of god or acts of man. she has led the federal response to the swine flu, and the obama administration oppose the efforts to contain drug cartel violence along the southwest border, among other things. -- the obama administration's efforts to contain drug cartel violence. homeland secur