>> this summer, i moderated a debate at the greenbrier. that is a huge, great estate in west virginia and it's the treasurer of the state state that has a lot of economic struggles. this is the wealthy bastion and they take a lot of pride in it. i was talking to someone i that worked there and there was a strange thing going on. there are a lot of new orleans saints fans there. >> a lot fewer fans in west virginia as well. >> the reason there are saints fans is because the saints do their summer workout at the greenbrier. a lot of west virginians have adopted them because they've acknowledged that the greenbrier is there and it is a forgotten state. as i continued to walk around they had a video that you could watch in your hotel room and it's like all these luminaries , presidents they have , photographs of movie stars everywhere you go. it donned on me i think the last president that stated there was eisenhower. a few days later i thought what if president obama had come here to play golf? it's his favorite activity and he could have gon

>> i might go anecdotal, but this summer i moderated a state at the greenbrier that is a huge luxurious complex in west virginia and it's the treasurer of the state that has a lot of economic struggles this is the wealthy bastion and they take a lot of pride and i was talking to someone i that worked there -- someone who worked there. and there was a strange thing going on in west virginia. there are a lot of new orleans saints fans. there are also steelers fans. i confirm that. [laughter] >> the reason is because they do the summer workout so they have adopted them because they've -- the saints have acknowledged that the greenbrier is there and west virginia is there and it's a forgotten state and as i continued to walk around they had a video that you could watch in your hotel room and it's like all these luminaries tuesday -- who have stayed there, all of these presidents. and they have photographs of movie stars everywhere you go ned on me i think the last president that stated there was eisenhower and a few days later i thought what if president obama had come here to play golf? it

>> this summer i moderated a state at the greenbrier that is a huge cost lax in west virginia and it'sthe treasurer of the state state that has a lot of economic struggles this is the wealthy bastion and they take a lot of pride and i was talking to someone i that worked there and there was a strange thing going on. the reason is because they do the summer workout so they have adopted them because they've acknowledged that the greenbrier is there and it's a forgotten state and as i continued to walk around they had a video that you could watch in your hotel room and it's like all these luminaries tuesday they have photographs of movie stars everywhere you go and it donned on me i think the last president that stated there was eisenhower and a few days later i thought what if president obama had come here to play golf. it's his favorite activity and he could have gone to play golf and i don't think anything would make west virginia like president obama. he held them to the end of the race but it was 22% and i just thought if president obama had come and play golf it might have made it a

back,' and rushed off, and then decided she was going to be a playwright, took herself off to the greenbrier hotel in west virginia and wrote "the women" in three days, which was her biggest broadway hit. yeah. c-span: you were saying the book "the woman"--"the women" is still available? >> guest: "the women" was made into a very successful movie by--directed by george cukor, you know, who was first on "gone with the wind" and many other--"philadelphia story," many other hit films. and it's still shown on television quite often, that film, and in art--art movie houses, and the play has never made her, she said at the end of her life, less than $7,000 a year ever since she wrote it over 50 years ago. whe--funny, when i went with her to london for the 50th anniversary of production of "the women," they put it on at the old vic theater and we went there together for the rehearsals before it--opening night. and one night we were having dinner at carriages and--after the rehearsal and she said, 'you know, there are very few plays that are put on after 50 years,' and then there was a pause, and sh

they have a video of the greenbrier you can watch in your hotel room. it is all these luminaries that stay there, all these presidents. they have photos of movie stars everywhere you go. it dawned on me, and i could be wrong in this historical fact -- i think the last president who stayed there was eisenhower. thought,s later, i what if president obama had come here to play golf? it is his favorite activity. it is probably a 40 five minute flight. he could have played golf. i do not think anything would make west virginia like president obama. he is reviled there. end rahall -- at the very of the debate, i heard from both sides that president obama's approval rating in nick rahall's district was 27%. if he were to come and play golf there, they would hate him less, and it might have made it easier for nick rahall to be there. mandate saying he had a to do that. but if there have had been some kind of outreach just a little beenif president obama had the first president in 60 years to say, as is a great golf course, it would have brought a little pride t