[applause] nataliegranados, 18, has been a leader in the grenada movement where she had been in the budget crisis and have bravely spoken at the bourse supervisors. she has advocated for sense of participation and funding to be restored to our city's quality youth programs. [applause] [applause] roblin bonner, 18, is an outspoken member of the youth leadership. roblin graduated from downtown high where she was a passionate role model and advocated for youth to be more engaged in the political process. [applause] [applause] -- 17, pawlenty first single occupancy sro in the chinatown development center. he also wrote a grant proposal to create a bilingual fire safety and emergency preparedness curriculum along with emergency kits for each participating sro unit. [applause] [applause] valerie clinker is a voice of community change in front and behind the camera. she was a guest youth analyst at the third anniversary women's pioneer awards ceremony and presented gina davis with the woman pioneer award. she was also named valedictorian of the changing program. [applause] last but not least, a n

as you know, they went into grenada.ne of the seven called my father and said, minute, i thought we voted on this, it was 7-3, why did we go into grenada? my father said because my one vote was bigger than your seven. megyn: why didn't vice president cheney, you know, he obviously wasn't happy about the way colin powell behaved. he had some criticism for condoleezza rice, recalled her discussion of what was happening in north korea as, quote, utterly misleading. do you think it's just the vice president, you know, telling it like it is, this is what happened, or do you think there's an element of complaining that he shouldn't be doing? >> i think there's an element of complaining he shouldn't be doing. he knows as well as anybody this is the way things happen in washington. he knows about leaks. there's leakers in every administration. i think david was the designated leaker in the ronald reagan administration. you have designated leakers in every administration, that's what happens. he's mad because there's a leak, and

a word about it because fortunately for president reagan there was another tiny one, successful, grenada that took place at exactly the same time. here is the essence of a republican tough-guy who reacted to vietnam and reacted in the fashion that would have done any liberal democratic pride. >> absolutely. and i have to tell you that when i approached the research on that chapter and was thinking about ronald reagan, i approached it with memories that i carried with me even at the time that i was covering, which was that this is a hollywood -- he's an actor, there's no great depth, and i have to tell you that reading his diary and reading the letters that he broke, thousands of letters over a lifetime in politics, if you have any fairness within you, you have to judge him in a totally different way and that is one of the things i learned by the way in researching the chapter. i just had a different sense of him than i had before and that is one of the wonderful things about doing a book of this sort where you can have a buddy like that at my side as you sort of discover the whole new wo

states beautifully in a time of crisis going up against the soviet union, obviously the invasion of grenada, and he was perfectly normal. his idea of, you know, being wild was to put two different flavored jelly beans in his mouth at the same time. (laughter) >> stephen: do you see anything in reagan, was there anything in his past that would suggest the kind of creative opportunity that a mental illness might bring? >> i would agree with you that reagan was perfectly normal. i'm not sure i would agree with you about his great leadership. i think we have had-- . >> stephen: you he personally kicked down the berlin wall, sir. >> did he? (laughter) in the list of normal average leaders who we've have had who many people would say have to the been very successful, the ones that i think there would be little debate about would be people like general george mcclellan and neville chamberlain in world war ii and maybe in recent times a lot of our recent presidents including reagan, and others who have maybe some successes. but more recently maybe george w. bush here, maybe tony blair in england,--

was born in the men's four hundred meters kelly james who comes from a small caribbean nation of grenada was just today shy of his nineteenth birthday at every turn professional a month ago but he pulled off a super of final spurs to overwhelming the race favorite bands defending champion the short marriage of the usa i three hundreds of the second inning with a personal best time of forty four point six zero seconds of flinching grenade his first ever world championship medal. and it's now in the russian contingent of the u.s. open has been dealt a major blow off of their top man because usually stumbled at the first hurdle the world number fifteen was humbled by his own as the goober is in straight sets and was joined on the sidelines by contact with igor and the day of the unseated russian did take the first set of this the predator but it was all the spine he had after that eagle comedian is through following a comparable high when the journey's not is marking why it was a straightforward victory for eleven's the struggle for the song that the french was too strong for. from chinese

star was born in the men's four hundred meters kalani he comes from the school virgin nation and grenada is just today show i was ninety one and only time professional a month ago but he pulled off a c. fine but the only three right like i'm defending champion through merit of the usa by three hundreds of a second winning with a personal best on the forty four point six zero seconds in clinching granade his first ever world championship match. so this is how the mental state is looking after day of the four days that russia now with three goals there after yesterday success can you have three and it is the united states has lead the way with four goals. first go to football and russia coach take africa has every confidence in standing keep at the fair head of two crucial euro qualifies but host macedonia on friday and then island four days later and victory in age would put russia top of group a with two games left to play well only the group is a guaranteed a place at next summer's european championships and is currently a very tight group at the top russia have thirteen points along wi

there is never a war in our generation that he supported vietnam, five deferments but, you know, grenadaan the panama invasion, the invasion of panama, he rewrote the plan for the first gulf war. and push et had president into enter iraq. he is going to be unapologetic and i don't know he has it rewrite it because he has nothing to apologize for. >> matthew, he is rewriting history on water boarding. he is saying that water boarding is justified. he is standing by it. i mean, you are an expert in this area. how do you respond to what he is saying and continues it say about water boarding? >> al, he certainly is trying to rewrite history in respect to water boarding and torture. what we are probably not seeing in this book or even this book is the fact that torture and water boarding inflated the ranks of al qaeda and led to the deaths of americans in iraq. when ways there overseeing interrogations of foreign fighters, we heard it all the time and statistics, number one foreign fighters came to fight in iraq, is because of water boarding and torturing the prisoners in american custody. th

. >> brian: when you were secretary of defense, it's hard to -- grenada happens.e pentagon, he has to use his credit card number to call back to washington to get word to get to a ship in order to get air cover and that's when you realized we need a way to lace together all the armed forces and get our chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. correct? >> right. but that happened, the grenada happened while i was in congress, before i became secretary of defense. it led directly to decisions by members of congress, barry goldwater was part of it, bill nichols from alabama, we passed the goldwater-nichols act that did a much better job of dealing with this problem of conflict between the services. >> gretchen: the book is "in my time," a collaboration with your daughter, liz cheney, the former vice president, dick cheney. so honored that you would sit on the curvy couch with us. thanks so much. >> it's nice to be here. >> brian: thank you for your service to the country. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, are the teachers unions to blame for the trouble with our sc

he was think of grenada. everybody had forgetten in 1983. why did we do that? no body remembers. have we agreed to so many wars we can't escape from silence. if we can't lift, we allowed others who are ourselves to rob the house. we'd listen to the great criers, poe and douglass, and now we are silent as spar rows in the little bushing. then robert pauses to say it's a bad pun, but i left it in. we're sold as the sparrows. some masters say our life only lasts seven days. where are we in the week? is it thursday yesterday? hurry. cry now. soon sunday night will come. thank you, robert. [applause] [applause] >> thank you bill moyers. >> thank you. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. >> from frankfort, kentucky, cook tv talks with connie crowe, manager of the kentucky book fair. >> kentucky book fair was started 30 years ago by carl west and ellen heller, two of the founding members still involved today. we're nonprofit and our purposes are to provide grants to public schools and libraries, to bring readers together in a lit

no, he said, and grenada almost stunningly.ot to edit read it is to appear as it is written with a tail true as i can tell it. i shall take passages from it and published as i go along in the atlantic and elsewhere but i should not limit myself as to space and what every age i'm writing about even define an infant and an idea comes to me about myself when i'm 40i should put it in. it amazes me to see how clearly he knew what he wanted to at least 30 years before he actually started doing it. there are in the papers roughly two dozen false starts and isolate it chapters between 1870 and 1904 a period with 35 years, and we see him in those drafts and chapters to give up to relinquish a chronological organization, something you and i would assume what for an autobiography. mark twain was struggling to leave that behind him. in any case, these beginnings committee's draft that we have come each seemed she abandoned them and stopped writing more schechter's but did not throw them away. but in 1904 shortly towards his wife's death he