>> the picture shows president william howard taft and his wife helen herron taft in a limousine. the task were one of the first presidential amnesty is the automobile. i was chosen to illustrate how close and loving this couple was and why president tapped wrote her one of 13 letters while he was in the white house. >> who is now a? >> nellie was her name, her affectionate name within her family and then by the president. he always addressed her as my dear nellie or my dearest nellie. that's how her intimate new herb. >> where did they need and how did they meet? how long were they married, et cetera? >> they both grew up in cincinnati. and knew each other early on, but they didn't really start dating, they got to know each other in the 1880s after taft had come back from yale, was at the cincinnati law school and then he and nellie began keeping company and he proposed in 1884 and they were married june 1886. they had longer engages in those days, more than just a weekend. >> was she well known in cincinnati? did she come up from a family of renowned speakers yes, her family liv

when he edited, my dearest nellie -- "my dearest nellie: the letters of william howard taft to helen herron taft, 1909-1912" while he was in the presidency, and this just coming out from oxford university press, theodore roosevelt. professor gould, thank you for being a booktv. >> thank you for having me. >> is there a nonfiction author a book you would like to see featured a booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> and now robert auerbach talk to booktv about his book, "deception and abuse at the fed." this interview, part of booktv's college series was recorded at the university of texas at austin. >> welcome on your screen out is professor of robert auerbach. is a professor of public affairs at the university of texas lbj school. professor gould is also the author of this book, deception and abuse at the fed, henry b. gonzalez battles alan greenspan's bank. first of all, or faster auerbach, who was henry gonzalez, for those who may not don't? >> he was the first mexican-american to be elected from texas to the u.s. congress. he was also in the sena