a newly released video shows eyewitness testimony of the 1975 assassination attempt on gerald ford. ford answering attorney questions. a jury convicted a manson family member concerning the attempted assassination. the gun was never fired. it was the first time a sitting president gave oral testimony in a criminal trial. >> she was three to four feet from me when i first noticed her. she appeared to want to come forward. i had the impression she did come forward. i didn't see the precise movement. i stopped because i had the impression she wanted to speak to me or shake my hand, and as i moved to either shake hands or speak to her, i then noticed the gun in her hand, and she was approximately two feet from me. >> she was sentenced to life in prison but released on parole in 2009. she now lives in upstate new york. >>> on main street your home prices keep going up. prices increased by more than 2% in june. that would normally be considered a strong jump, but sit down slightly from may, signalling some moderation in the housing market. >>> americans apparently are like american cars a

he thought that gerald ford was a good man. and he also said that he didn't think that ford was, obviously, not in the presidency long enough to issue sort of a fair judgment of ford's presidency or at least apply the same standards to ford's presidency as he would apply to the others. c-span: here's a quote about gerald ford from the book: "poor gerald ford. you won't even believe why he called me. he was concerned about some presidential photos and about having me sign them. imagine. he calls me for that. of course, he's busy making speeches for big money like the rest of them. you know, i have never taken a dime for a speech since 1952. of course, no one gives me credit for that. ford was really the first to take money. roosevelt and kennedy died. truman, eisenhower, johnson and i never did. but since ford, they are out there accumulating a fortune by selling the office or their experiences in office anyway. i know it's tempting, but it's just not right. besides, when ford talks, does anybody pay any attention?" >> guest: wel

. >> this chilling flashback as former president gerald ford recounts an assassination attempt on hise 30 years ago. ♪ theme >> syria's foreign minister says a potential u.s. strike on syria would serve the interest of groups there in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed 355 people last week in damascus. in a speech moments ago, assad's second in command telling secretary of state john kerr we his regime has not gone against the u.n. investigation. >> it has said that the government used a chemical agent. i categorically deny to mr. kerry, i reiterate there is no single country in the world that may use a weapon of mass destruction against their own people. if those who are using our armored forces are in position of any piece of evidence that we have used this chemical weapon, i dare them to bring it forward to the public opinion. >> and for its part, the white house has postponed, put off a wednesday meeting with russia, instead the obama administration now said to be weighing its response to the attack. there will be no u.n. inspection of the site of that alleged weapo

gerald ford promised today to help clinton out with republicans. >> we've got a few thing where is wee similar views. >> now with bill clinton in hot pursuit of a few birdies and a few votes in congress, it looks bipartisan. >> no word on whether obama has invited any former presidents to the vineyard for a round of golf. next, just when the bob filner scandal couldn't get any creepier, a new woman comes forward. his latest accuser is a 67-year-old grandmother from the senior citizens service desk at san diego's city hall. and then there's this from ut tv, a mash-up of the mayor and robin thicke's blurred lines. ♪ if you can't tell we're a different age, maybe it's time you left, maybe you should resign ♪ >>> and in other news, there is this sight. this hot dog truck has been spotted around new york city. it's the latest homage to merrill candidate anthony weiner, and it's dispensing free hot dogs. if weiner doesn't become mayor, maybe he has a future in marketing. >>> up next, how do we tackle climate change when the right wing in this country even denies it's happening? that's ahead

newly released video showing eye-witness testimony to the 1975 assassination attempt on president gerald ford now the testimony is coming from the former president himself. the videotape shows ford answering questions from an attorney. the gun in the case was never fired, and this is the first time a sitting president gave oral testimony in a criminal trial. >> she was three to four feet from me when i first noticed her. she appeared to want to come forward. i had the impression that she did come forward. i zipe th didn't see the precis. i got the impression that she wanted to speak to me or shake my hand. as i moved to shake hands or speak to her, i noticed the gun. as i indicated, it was in her hand, and approximately two feet from her. >> and fou she was sentenced toe in prison. she was released to parole in 2009 and now lives in up state new york. the white house says it won't negotiate with the government over its ability to pay its bills. the president said it's vital to avoid a repeat of 2011 when congress' bickering led to possible default. >>> on home prices increased 2% from june, b

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this account by the president himself, gerald ford answers questions on video about the day a woman namedpointed a loaded pistol at him outside the state capitol. the weapon didn't fire and she was arrested. the video of ford's testimony has just been released. check it out. >> as i indicated a moment ago, i noticed this lady, brightly colored dress, who wanted to apparently move closer toward me and i assumed to shake hands and so i hesitated. instead of keeping -- moving as i normally do and as i stopped, i saw a hand come through a crowd in the first row and that was the only active gesture that i saw. in the hand was a weapon. >> john berman, tell us where this video came from and why are we only seeing it now. >> this is a fascinating piece of american history, brianna. this tape -- this video taken of president ford has been in a vault sealed in a federal court house in sacramento since 1975. the tape was made here in washington about two months after the assassination attempt. it was a deposition for the assassination attempt trial of squeaky from. president gerald ford gave this t

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. >>> we're seeing rare footage tonight of former president gerald ford calmly and carefully rememberingthe attempt on his life in september of 1975 in a park in sacramento. it's largely unseen footage from the trial of charles manson follower lynnette "squeaky" froome. ford remembers seeing froome pushing her way through the crowd. >> as i stopped, i saw a hand come through the crowd in the first row. and that was the only active gesture that i saw. but in the hand was a weapon. >> the gun, you'll recall, was never fired and ford was not hurt. froome was released from prison in 2009. >>> tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the march on washington and martin luther king's landmark "i have a dream" speech. dr. king's youngest daughter bernice was just 5 months old that day in 1963. we sat down with her recently at historic ebenezer baptist church in atlanta where her father was pastor. she talked about the speech and memories of her father. here's bernice king in her own words. >> him lifting me up is exactly what i remember growing up with my father. you know, as i grew up, i had a ra

facilities will reopen washington has also issued a worldwide travel alert author and historian gerald ford says america's regional policies have backfired. i think that what this alert basically reflects is the fact that the united states' policy in that part of the world has backfired for example in syria united states has basically encouraged if not supported a war against the damascus based regime of all assad this is involved a number of u.s. nationals and european nationals going into syria to fight with the so-called jihad or this is given to shut me armed to our. back forces as such as they were from and syria which is tied to al qaida in iraq which in the last smoke has been engaged in a spate of car bombings in baghdad in the surrounding region so it seems to me the state department alert basically reflects a failure of u.s. policy more news of to a short break zante live in moscow. live . live. stream. her. live live. live. live good lists. that at least. he continues here not see a minute since she had his group affiliated with al qaeda is holding some two hundred civilians host

president gerald ford testifying about the 1975 attempt on his life by manson follower lynette "squeakyomme. ford said he saw her sneaking towards him and assumed she wanted to shake hands. >> as soon as i stopped, i saw a hand come through the crowd in the first row and that was the only active gesture that i saw. but in the hand was a weapon. >> pelley: a secret service agent grabbed the gun. it never w fromme was sentenced to life in prison but was released four years ago. the ford testimony was recorded in washington and played in her trial in sacramento. whatever became of dr. martin luther king's copy of the i have a dream speech? the story is next. next. ♪ that comes with ra. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don't start taking xeljanz if you have any kind of infection, unless ok with your doctor. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tes

. >>> new this morning, we're hearing former president gerald ford for the first time ever about the 1975 assassination attempt against him. it happened in sacramento, while ford was shaking hands near the california statehouse. ford testified behind closed doors. and his testimony was used in the case against the would-be assassin, lynnette squeaky fromme. he talked about seeing a gun in the crowd. >> the weapon was large. it covered all or most of her hand, as far as i could see. and i only saw it instantaneously because almost automatically, one of the secret service agents lunged, grabbed the hand and the weapon. >> ford's testimony was released yesterday but a federal court. the gun never fired. she was convicted and served 30 years in prison. >>> something new at the golden arches. wait until you hear what mcdonald's is going to add to the menu. >>> also, the greatest woman beats man match in sports history. but was it all a setup? this morning, the explosive report claiming the battle of the sexes match is a fraud. >>> an nba player posts a picture of a new tattoo on social me

it's a long lost tape of president gerald ford testifying, describing the moment back in 1975 when that strange woman in red, a member of the manson family called squeaky fromme emerged from a crowd in sacramento. he says he looked at her face. he described it as weathered and then he says he saw the gun. here are his words. >> i had the impression she wanted to speak to me or shake my hand and as i moved to either shake hands or speak to her, i then noticed the gun. >> squeaky fromme wore a kind of nun's red robe that day. she said she only wanted to get ford's attention to discuss red wood trees with him. she didn't fire a shot, served 34 years in prison and is now out on parole living in upstate new york. >>> and from washington tonight, the government program spending billions of dollars in taxpayer money so everyone can work faster online. but what about the $1 million we found going to waste in just one closet. enough money to pay for dozens of teachers. our watch dog, david kerley, back on the case of the costly program. >> reporter: speed, we crave it on the internet. a fast con

because that means you've had gerald ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, h.w. bush, w.t obama and bill clinton, that's seven, you've been here. >> are you going to check out my next motion picture? >> i've seen you in about -- >> you've saw me in "skyfall." but this saturday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern. on our sister network. hbo, the new larry david film, "clear history" you'll see wolf blitzer in that film. >> i got my popcorn ready. >> i think you'll enjoy it. >> if you like larry david, and who doesn't. >> exactly. >> all right good. want to make sure you're watching. it was thrilling to interview oprah, wasn't it? >> it absolutely was thrilling and she was lovely and she kind of put herself out there. one of the things that really actually made me give me pause was because i didn't expect her to say it when i asked her flat-out, if she still experienced racism. i expected her to say no. but she didn't, she said she does. >> you did a good job, nischelle, help all of us here at cnn. >>> emotions were high when the washington nationals took on the rival atlanta braves.

president gerald ford never said those exact words, but the sentiment behind them was very real.given a speech in which he said he would deny new york federal assistance to save the city from bankruptcy. even if he does not actually say drop dead, in reality, president ford was still telling new york to drop dead. even suggesting the second largest city in the world at the time should drop dead was a very unpopular thing to do. he travelled to an economic summit in europe, where the president of france and the chance lower of germany told him that a new york city bankruptcy would be seen by the rest of the world as the same thing as the bankruptcy of america itself. the dollar would crash, the stock market would suffer and the entire thing was unthinkable. president ford reconsidered. he provided legislation that provided new york with loans that were paid back with interest. in 1970s new york, dug itself out of its financial mess. it did not go bankrupt. and times square over the coming decades went from looking like this to looking like this. an example of how even when they ar

into a crowd armed with a colt .45 pistol and pointed that weapon within two feet of president gerald fordr the first time we're hearing the former president recall what happened in his own words. it is absolutely fascinating and "the lead"'s erin mcpike is here with the story. >> reporter: a nonprofit filed a motion with the federal court and got this videotape released just yesterday because this nonprofit thought it was such an important moment in history that all americans should see. september 1975, sacramento, 26-year-old lynnette pointed a cold .45 pistol at president ford. but from had a genteel past. she danced at the white house and took drama classes. she wrote a book about what joined her to join a cult. >> whenever she talks about anything manson related, it's like talking about someone from another planet. >> reporter: she felt guilty that other members of the manson family went to prison for life and wanted to prove herself to them. that led her to become the first person in american history sentenced with the crime of attempting to assassinate a u.s. president. in a decade'

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>> he is a gerald ford republican. your home state of new jersey is still a financial disaster. is he better than the democrats that preceded him? yes, who is it? i'm all for that but he didn't sign on to challenge obamacare. why not? he didn't have to pay a cent to do that. he is weak on immigration reform, an amnesty go, a greeny when it comes to the epa. just signed ten out of 15 gun control laws. >> neil: cut millionaire taxeses. >> he hasn't done enough and if we keep nominating republicans, moderates from the northeast. we'll keep getting our lunch handed to us. what is our example of a great victorious president, solid conservative president. the most conservative we ever nominated to run for president, ronald reagan, wins in a landslide and the republican party is trying to figure out how to not dish. >> neil: moderate is not the way to go. >> why support a moderate when we have obamacare, dodd frank, all these other things being done that are truly ripping at the heart of the nation, hollowing another the military. what does moderate mean? what does the republican part

he of course, gerald ford lost the election. he went on to become mayor. there was a massive investigation in the early 1980s. he had characters like buckles and slap jack and bogle were running around the city double -- public works of augustine and hold covers, sitting -- stealing city asphalt, selling city trucks the private owners. and that's where, then there was massive corruption. several people inside the administration went to prison and never got to buddy because his top aides never read them out. but buddy was kind of in a personal marital dispute the he went through a nasty divorce. he basically suspected this businessman had been a friend of his of sleeping with his wife. invited them into his house one night and with the state police bodyguard, held the men prisoner for several hours, tortured him with a lit cigarette, tried to hit him with fireplace logs, and was charged with assault in that episode and that forced his resignation in 1984. and that seemed like that was the end of one promising political career but it was only the first act.

for the first time, the public can see then president gerald ford describe an attempt on his life.happened in sacramento, california in september,%th 197. two months later, mr. ford%fr would be assassin, lynette "squeaky" fromme, a follower of charles manson. yesterday, a federal court released the videotaped deposition and the sacramento bee newspaper posted it on-line. in it the president calmly tells how fromme tried and failed to shoot him. >> the weapon was large, covered all or most of her hand as far as i could see. and i only saw it intaniously because almost automatically one of the secret service agents lunged, grabbed the hand and the weapon and then i was pushed off by the secret service detail. >> fromme was convictedsf releaseed from federal prison in 2009. mr. ford passed away in 2006. his testimony was made public at the request of a sacramento historical group. a philadelphia hospital today released sarah murnaghan, the child who sparked a national debate about the organ transplant system. she suffers from cystic fibrosis and was at the bottom of the priority list

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the bit you just played with george herbette wa ettert walke calling, ronald reagan dialed in, gerald ford, most of them trying to buck up nixon's spirits a little bit. he was susceptible to flattery, being told that he'll be able to hang in there, don't let the bad g guys, the press, the commentators, get you down. it's a remarkable release here. it's supposedly the end of the tapes being released, chris but i think there's a lot more going to be coming out in the coming years, because some people have put some for national security reasons, on hold. >> by the way, when i went over fo to the archives, the annex in college park, i tell you, they are amazingly interesting. you never are told where the treasure is. you have to go looking for it. h.r. hald h.r. haldeman. >> i'm never going to discuss this [ bleep ] watergate thing again, never, never, never, never. don't you agree? >> yes, sir. you've done it now and you've laid out our position, you've taken your steps. >> interesting thing, we haven't heard -- the only cabinet officer that has called, and this is 50 minutes after the thing

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. >> schieffer: gerald ford's press secretary was former nbc news correspondent ron nesn and when nesneft his white house job he wrote a book called "it sure looks different from the inside." i ran across the book the other day and my first thought was "too bad that title is already taken, it would very perfect for president obama's white house memoir." scott wilson wrote in the "washington post" "candidate obama promised to implement a foreign policy different in both tone and substance from that of his predecessor. a policy based on openness, the rule of law and the promotion of democratic values, especially the middle east. but since coming to office, he has found a new appreciation for the need for secrecy, the controversial drone program which critics call illegal and the difficulty of closing the prison at guantanamo. when egypt's generals toppled the country's first elected president, the united states didn't do much, probably because there was not much we could do. so much for promoting democratic values. the president is learning what those before him have learned: things that

it was compared to state funerals, literally, gerald ford, ronald reagan, the aftermath of their death. he was the center. he lived at the nexus of media, politics, money. you needed tim russert. when he died in june of 2008, i saw it as an inflex point, sort of in media, in politics, in the country a little bit. the dawn of ane campaign. the economy was about to crash. twitter -- the first campaign that was fully acted out in the on-line -- in cyberspace. and politico was this new force gaining traction in that election. and in a sense, tim russert's death left a vacuum. in this space, there's a anarchy in the peanut gallery with the new media coming in. in a sense, the center isn't replaced since tim died. he was a consummate american figure. >> how can one man be that important in a city with all of these stars? >> meet the press was a franchise when he was there it was the place where politicians had to go prove their mettle. it was interesting, you had someone like sarah palin bursting on the scene a few months after tim's death and you wonder if tim was still there, would they ha

. >> rose: gerald ford is here. good athlete. >> oh, yeah. >> rose: played football. >> and he was a great guy. >> rose: he loved golf. >> you can tell by the laugh. this is a conference that nixon called of all of his friends to talk about how to negotiate the war. >> rose: you were considered among a friend. >> kissinger, the whole ground. >> rose: how to negotiate the end of the vietnam war? >> yeah. >> rose: wow! this is george bush 41. >> he's a great guy. >> rose: but he played fast golf. >> very. >> rose: her is ronald reagan. >> these are are like white house dinners. >> rose: here again with the bushes. here again with -- who's the lady in white? >> oh, she happens to be the queen. (laughter). >> rose: and so here we go with some trophies. >> various ryder cup. >> rose: what is the ryder cup. >> it's a great international competition. >>> rose: there's more enthusiasm for it than -- >> well, i hope so. i've always been a big thinker that the more international competition we can create through sports the be

. >> unique view of history in testimony from former president gerald ford and the september 1975 assassinationis week. in it ford talks about the moments before he encountered a charles manson disciple, lynette squeaky frohm. >> i had the impression she wanted to speak to me or shake my hand. and as i moved to either shake hands or speak to her, i then noticed the gun. >> reporter: at that point, frohm was taken into custody, was eventually tried, convicted and spent 34 years in prison. she was released four years ago and lives in upstate new york. ford died in 2006. >> army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 in the shooting rampage at ft. hood could find out if he will live or die. closing arguments with expect today in the sentencing phase of major nidal hasan's trial, jurors sat through emotional testimony yesterday hearing how parents, husbands and wives of those who died are struggling to cope. >> former patriots star aaron hernandez may have a big pay day coming his way as he sits in jail accused of murder. nfl players' association is trying to force the patriots to make good on a prev

. >> marla, listen, chevy chase made a whole career out of portraying gerald ford as being a clumsy klutzh you. everybody agrees that the presidents get mocked, but it was a piece about health care was brought up, and she said, you know, he should have -- about the president, she said he should have the press office issue a release that says his reaction to finding out a rodeo clown was so what? he loves free speech including inevitably the decision -- >> yes. martha: and he also said -- the president should stand up and say don't fire this guy, don't be ridiculous, right? jehmu, why doesn't the president do that? >> he's too narcissistic to do that. >> i -- lars, come on now. >> he is. >> the president is in martha's vineyard, and he's looking at this situation, and he thinks it's ridiculous. but this president is also the most threatened president in the history of this country. >> oh, he is not, bush was -- martha: thank you, we're about to get caught off, guys. we'll see you next time. we'll be right back. martha: continue the saga of the clown no doubt in coming days as well. a lot o

it's available at gerald ford's library where some state department official was tasked with keeping notes. and he, i mean, it reveals these discussions where, for instance, the german premier who was a social democrat, so-called socialist, says to the americans, the italians, japanese, others i am a great friend of the union head of the -- [inaudible] union in germany. we're great friends. he helped me get elected, essential essentially, but we're going to have to let the textile sector go. we cannot maintain the textile sector any longer in germany. some scandalous things that they talk about quite openly. so it's not a conspiracy theory. you know, i'm not, i'm not manufacturing stuff. so these guys collude with each other to fix certain -- they see themselves as managers of the globe. so they collude with each other to fix certain problems in the interest of capital. in those meetings they talk a lot about how to sort out the commodity issue, and the way to sort it out is to make sure a dynamic that has been developing in the third world project has to be sidelined. and it was a s

he, of course, gerald ford the election, and he went on to become mayor and get ensnared in some corruption. there was a massive investigation in the early 1980s. he had characters like bug -- buckles and blackjack and bow bow stealing manhole covers, stealing city asphalt, cutting all kinds of crooked deals selling city trucks to private owners. and that sort of thing. and then there was massive corruption, and several people in buddy's administration went to prison. they never got to buddy because his top aide never ratted him out. he went to prison instead himself. but buddy was caught up in a perm marital -- personal marital dispute. he went through a nasty divorce. he, basically, suspected this businessman who had been a friend of his of sleeping with his wife, invited the man to his house and with his city police bodyguard, held the man prisoner for several hours, tortured him with a lit cigarette, try today hit him with a fireplace log, threw an ashtray at him at one point and ultimately was charged with assault in that episode, and that forced his resignation in 1984. and that seems

gerald ford loves to the set and would use to serve breakfast. >> we will spend a little time, but let'salk a little bit about how they got together in the first place. how did the hayes meet? and those important years of the civil war. >> they first met when lucy was only 15 and rutherford was 24. they met at the sulfur springs at the ohio university in delaware, ohio. at that point, president hayes' mother knew lucy and thought they would be a good match. she was a bit too young at that point. in 1850 when rutherford moved to cincinnati to start law practice down there, he met lucy again when she was about to graduate from the wesley female college and that is when they struck up their relationship. a year and a half later, they were married in cincinnati. >> he was 40 years old at the time the civil war broke out. what was the decision by the family for him to volunteer? >> he signed up for a three-year stint, and she was very supportive of him. it was never a really serious discussion about him not going. it was always a question of going to preserve the union, and also because loose

the founders of america first included gerald ford, future presidents of the united states, potter stewart, a future supreme court justice, sargent shriver, future head of the peace corps and key members, future president of yale, u.s. ambassador to great britain. that is ironic since america first was founded one of its key points was not to give aid to britain. america first organizing to let britain go down. three examples of america first supporters at this time included harvard senior named john f. kennedy, a cornell university student named kurt vonnegut and a precocious student named gore vidal who founded a chapter of america first. their opposition isn't all that surprising if you think about it. they didn't know they were going to be the greatest generation in a few years. they didn't think of this as a good war back then. they knew that if we got into the war they were going to be among the first to fight ends millions of them revolted against the very thought of american participation in another bloody european conflict. remember it was only 20 years since world war i had ended

squeaky fromm took a shot at gerald ford. how long do you think it took them to change 200 years of protocol? whose life to that save when they did? george h.w. bush, because about 20 years later, a woman showed up to one of his rallies with a pistol in her purse, and they were doing something they had done for the last 20 years that they had not done the 200 years before then. they were checking purses, too, and they found that. then you say to yourself, maybe what we need, maybe what we need is a racial squeaky fromm, and you start searching through the history books, you find out we had one.in 1901. raise your hand if you remember who was president before theodore roosevelt. no one remembered.a few guys, thank you. put those guys on "jeopardy!" most people forget when roosevelt came into the administration he was vice president and was somewhat who is this guy, this showboat guy from -- fighting wars in cuba. hat elevated him was that he was a very popular vice president for a popular president. it was mckinley.he was kill

then he was presented with the medal of honor in march -- excuse me -- honored by president gerald ford in 1976. in all, as i said, over 70 medals. every medal available to him. a combat medal from each field he served in, each war, each theater. he was the only person ever to have been awarded both the medal of honor and the air force cross. and then bud day retired from active duty in 1977, resumed practicing law in florida. one of the issues that he took on was tricare, and in the 1990's he saw that the clinton administration was starting to back away from the commitment that if you served 20 years in the armed forces you would receive half your pay as your pension for life and midcal care for life. that was the deal. that was the agreement. and he was appalled that the federal government was starting to move away from that agreement. so bud day, ever the fighter, ever the scrapper, ever the lawyer, went to court and put together a class action lawsuit to force the federal government to keep their word with our warriors. and most of that was designed to benefit america's greatest gen

. >> tonight on c-span3 american history in primetime features president gerald ford. >> see it starting at 8 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span3. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> right now i'm reading "where did you go, bernadette" by maria semple. it's a novel that is told in the form of largely e-mails as a daughter tries to piece together clues about why her mother disappeared. the mother is quite eccentric, and the story is set in seattle with some really interesting, quirky tetris. it's a lot of fun. i don't know where it's going but i'm really looking forward to finishing it. after that i'm going to be doing something of a book club with my son, miles, who is 16. this is something we did a couple of summers ago. we take a couple of books and we read them, and then we go to our local diner to discuss them and have breakfast. and this summer we have picked two books so far. we are reading a biography of bruce springsteen, which i think should be a lot of fun. we are both springsteen fans come and interested to look a little bit more about his b