shears currently at the hoover institution. she's taught at west point, johns hopkins, the national defense university. how did you get interested in this line of work? [laughter] >> guest: i was a student of condi rice's here at stanford. [laughter] yeah, i had grand idea about writing my ph.d. on the renaissance as a latin american novel in the 1970s and what this dells us about the role of -- the tells us about the role of literature and art in repressive societies. and i did not do that. and congress -- condi rice is the reason i did not do that. >> host: one of the recommendations you have is for the state department to reconsider universal the city. >> yeah. so we have american embassies in every country that we have diplomatic relations in. and that makes a certain amount of sense. but if you try to reenvision how to spend our resources on diplomacy, it's not entirely clear to me that luxembourg would these ap -- an embassy of its own when belgium is next door, and the european union does a lot of its diplomatic work thi

>>> memo on book tv david in davenport at the hoover institution argues that the data over the new deal in the 1930's led the groundwork for today's conservative movement. this program is 45 minutes. >> it is my pleasure to introduce the fifth davenport -- david davenport. [applause] >> it's great to be with you today. this is familiar territory accept so long ago i worked in senator bob dole's office that i suppose predates me and this is a new building from my time and the hollow halls and something about the work you do. thank you for taking a break to be here today. you are brave to come and listen to me in particular. now an academic a group not known for its clarity of speech, so as i said you are brave to come out on a friday to hear what i had to say. i thought i would begin with the 2012 election. many people proclaimed the death of the modern conservatism and the american conservatism and the other one deserved that the conservative arguments we heard are going to be relics in a museum very shortly. lots of people said that conservatism needed to change both its message and it

she is a scholar at the hoover institution and working on a biography of lou henry hoover. what inspired you to spend several years of your life looking at this woman? >> i was at the national first ladies library in canton, ohio. i realized that this was a story that has not been told. there are so many layers to her. some activities that she was involved in. the legacy that she left for women is something that i want people to know about. >> she was born in waterloo, iowa. the story i heard is that her father wanted a boy. >> so they say. the name lou is not short for anything. she was raised as a tomboy. one of the earliest pictures of her is her fishing in a stream. we have a picture of her carrying a rifle. a lot of her diary talks about her joy of being able to hunt, fish, and be outdoors. >> how did that translate into her grown-up life? >> she was somebody who was totally fascinated with the outdoors. obviously, she studied geology at stanford university. even as late as her 60s, we have material from her going on camping trips at the age of 63. at 67, she rode hors

to see the complete episode, you can visit the website of the hoover institution and library at hoover.org. here now is governor ronald reagan on "firing line" in 1967. >> ladies and gentlemen, my name is c. dickerman williams. i shall act as chairman of the discussion between governor reagan and mr. buckley. the subject of the discussion is, "is it possible to be a good governor"? governor reagan, would you answer mr. buckley's questions? has not the federal government preempted the principal sources of taxation? >> this is a great problem facing the states and endangering the very federal system of a federation of sovereign states. the federal government has preempted so much of the tax source, the state find itself hard put to find sources without upsetting the economic balance that can keep our economy moving and then in turn the state in its desperation for money, reduces the local community. people must depend every day are furnished. education, police protection, maintenance of the streets. sewage, garbage disposal, all of the services. your local communities are more desperate than

and, author, scholar at the hoover institution and working on a biography of lou henry hoover. tot interested you enough spend several years of your life at this woman? >> when i first started looking at lou, i realize this was the woman whose story has not been completely told. there has been a legacy she has left, for women even today, that i would like to see people know about. let's start with her growing up years. she was born in waterloo, iowa. her father really wanted a boy. >> so they say and so the name lou, which is not short for louise or any other type of genuinely female name -- he pretty much raised her as a tomboy. one of the early pictures of her with her father is of her fishing in a stream. we have a picture that we will show later of her carrying a rifle. a lot of the diary talks about her shoe -- joy of being able to hunt, fish, and be outdoors. >> how did that translate into her grown-up life? >> or does -- her decision to study geology at stanford university was an outgrowth of that. on camping trips at the age of 63 and 67. she ran horseback -- rode horse

>> now on booktv david davenport research fellow at the hoover institution argues that the debate over the new deal in the 1930s laid the groundwork or today's conservative movement. this program is 45 minutes. >> it is my pleasure to introduce david davenport. [applause] >> thank you. it's great to be with you today. this is somewhat familiar territory to me. not long ago i worked in senator bob dole's office which i suppose dates may and this is a newer building then my time. the hallowed halls and something about the work that you do so thank you for taking a break to be here today. you are brave to come and listen to me in particular. in an earlier career i was an attorney which is a group known not only for its brevity of speech and now for a long time i've been an academic which is a group not known for its clarity of speech so as i said you are brave to come on a friday to hear what i have to say. i thought i would begin with the 2012 election and as i'm sure you are aware after that election many people proclaimed the death of modern american absolutism. one commentator said th

weld like to thank the hoover institution library and ar archives for making this possible.or more showings of firing line or seeing this visit their website hoover.org. thank you for being with us. good night. website, hoover.org. thank you for being with us. good night. >>> tonight, rush limbaugh goes on the record, and in a rare interview, rush tells us, president obama likes scandals, so why did the president spend so much time this year calling very real scandals phony? everything from the irs scandal to the benghazi attack? and now our one-hour interview with rush limbaugh. >> talking about the scandals, president obama says the scandals are phony. why do you think he says they're phony? because he believe it is or is there a strategy? >> no, there's a strategy. i've been troubled by something with the obama, you know, i call it the regime as i kno i

but to see the complete episode you can visit the web site of the hoover institution and library and hoover.org. here now is governor ronald reagan on firing liern in -- firing line in 1967. >> i will act as chairman of this discussion between governor reagan and mr. buckley. the subject of the discussion is, is it possible to be a good governor? governor reagan would you answer mr. buckley's question? not the federal government preefrp presidented the sources of faxatitaxation? >> this is one of the great problems endangering the federal system -- well the system of a federation of sovereign states. the federal government has preefrp presidentmpted so much source they find sources without upsetting the economic balance that can keep our economy moving around then in turn the state in its desperation for money reduces the local community where the real basic services the people must depend on every day are furnished. education, the police protection, the maintenance of the streets, sewer, garbage disposal and local communities are more desperate than the states. the states end up tax

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. >> the hoover institute fellow wrote about north korea in his book, america and the rogue states. he is not sure if newman will be released especially if the regime considers him a war criminal. but he thinks newman is being used. >> there is a real possibility that the confession will be used you to extract something from the united states. >> like in 2009 when kim jong-il demanded a meeting with president bill clinton before releasing two american journalists. but the released of this video has shaken those back home in palo alto. >> i saw the video. i think it is terrible. i think it is awful. i feel bad for him. >> newman's family would not comment on the videotape, but they did say the swedish ambassador told them, quote, meryl reports he is being well treated and that the food is good. in aloe alto, lisa amin gulezian, abc news. >> the u.s. state department reviewed the state report and video and in a statement released they said given mr. newman's advanced age and health conditions we urge the dprk to released mr. newman so he may return home and reunite with his family. th

. >> for example, "politico" had a piece by hoover institution fellow who said white house records showedo meeting between president obama and sebelius for three years and the white house said a lot of meetings were not in the records and maybe you went too fast on that. >> no, i don't think so. we had accurate opinion piece, by the way, not done by one of our "politico" reporters, but it was label as such, and that opinion writer looked at the public record and tried to draw some conclusions from it. the white house had a push back on't think i the piece was, in some way, not something that we stand behind. >> "politico" has capital new york under your colleague jim, and adding staff. how do you become a player if a competitive media market like new york. >> you look at the history, precisely that question was asked about "politico" 15 years ago. and a last people cover politics we do think there is a niche and we aim to do something that our competitors at the moment are not doing which is speaking directly to high per -- hyperand but engaged audience, and a fast and immediate level. in

[applause] >>> memo on book tv david in davenport at the hoover institution argues that the data over the new deal in the 1930's led the groundwork for today's conservative movement. this program is 45 minutes.

john cochran, university of chicago school of business professor and hoover institute fellow.nk the next act for obamacare? the president says just glitches in the website are a problem. once we get those fixed everything will be smooth sailing. i doesn't think you agree, do you? >> no. i think we're in another year or two at least entertainment with things going steadily wrong here and there, other places. david: not entertainment for -@those folks going through it. i understand you're being facetious but real people are having real serious troubles here. some folks on republican side, let's sit back and watch obama care fail. you say no, that is not necessary? >> not necessary and not wise. as you said, these are real people with real problems. sitting back and watching it fail is not the right answer. we need to be clear about what the alternative is. there are plenty of people who have written down serious alternatives. the idea there is no alternative is absolutely false. i wrote one down which is why you brought me on and talk about what to do instead. david: you're piec

for an exclusive interview, edward lazear, former council of economic advisors chairman and hoover instituted developer of field of personal economics. i could go on but we don't have enough time. good to see you ed? >> great, thank you. david: how does the economy look to you? >> well, it looks better. one thing i would say don't pay too much attention to the high gdp report. one of the things i found in some analyses that i've done, by far the best predictor where we're going next year is not past gdp but rather the stock market. so the good news is that the s&p has been up and up pretty dramatically over the past quarter. that bodes well for next year's gdp growth. in fact, if i were looking at gdp growth next year i would say, we would be somewhere between 2.25 and 2.5, based on what we've seen in the stock market. but that is really the better predictor. not so much gdp numbers. david: even though you don't credit gdp numbers as much, let me push you on that. >> sure. david: is it conceivable this 4.1% annual growth rate we saw in the third quarter, could be continued through 2014? >> i

has done since he left the senate, you know, obviously the work your the marshall fund, the hoover institute, the hoover center, excuse me, the engine shipper ramsey is working on. i think the press sometimes the mother is a narrative about people who leave congress and all they want to do is become lobbyists and cash in. think there are a lot of people like the senator who do wonderful things when they leave the senate and we don't focus on that enough. so in this article i'm going to just focus of the great things he has done since leaving the senate. that will be fun to do. well, today when i would like to talk about is senator john f. kennedy. and i want to do it in the following way first to give you a sense of how he came to write this book. there were some 40,000 bucks allegedly on jfk. so you sort of have to ask yourself, is there really a need for another book? and that was sort of the first threshold that i had to cross. and i will explain to you why i thought that there was intelligence to write this book. secondly i want to just describe what kind of senator john f. kennedy was.

has done since he left the senate, you know, obviously the work your the marshall fund, the hoover institute, the hoover center, excuse me, the engine shipper ramsey is working on. i think the press sometimes the mother is a narrative about people who leave congress and all they want to do is become lobbyists and cash in. think there are a lot of people like the senator who do wonderful things when they leave the senate and we don't focus on that enough. so in this article i'm going to just focus of the great things he has done since leaving the senate. that will be fun to do. well, today when i would like to talk about is senator john f. kennedy. and i want to do it in the following way first to give you a sense of how he came to write this book. there were some 40,000 bucks allegedly on jfk. so you sort of have to ask yourself, is there really a need for another book? and that was sort of the first threshold that i had to cross. and i will explain to you why i thought that there was intelligence to write this book. secondly i want to just describe what kind of senator john f. kennedy was.

. >> reporter: he's now a fellow at the hoover institution, not exactly comedy central.ays contains a grain of truth. man in half began president's uniform shoots secretary of defense, skewers the notoriously difficult hamid karzai and the insider attacks which have been killing americans. the duffel blog took a piece of boilerplate rhetoric from the chairman of the joint chiefs our military exists to fight and win wars. and added, except in syria, afghanistan, iraq vietnam and korea. >> maybe we're getting toolgts too stuffy in america. it's good that these young men are poking a little fun at us. >> i get feedback from public affairs people military officers, and they say that we use your blog. i put it into a powerpoint presentation or something like that and the commander got a good laugh. >> reporter: commanders need to know what troops think of decisions handed down from on high. >> it's good to hear sometimes from those who are affected that maybe it's a little more absurd when it gets down to the people it impacts. so i enjoy the feedback actually. >> it used to

let me bring in lonnie chen, a research fellow at the hoover institution and former policy director forate romney care and obamacare. two guys that i need to be talking to. lonnie, really? was he right? mitt romney was right when he said that you know what? you can't do what we did in massachusetts on a national scale. was he right? >> well, good afternoon, t.j. i think governor romney's main criticism was we've got 50 separate health insurance marketplaces in america. 50 separate places where health insurance is provided at least. and it's impossible to take all of that and try to subsume it under one system. i think that criticism turns out to be very accurate. >> john, is that criticism too early? it's only couple of months in. maybe just now trying to work the way it's supposed to. is that too early to say governor romney was right? >> well, no, because in fact, romney himself in 2007, 2008, in his first presidential run, actually said that what he did he thought would be a model for the country. you can have differences and we can see that. you're see iing them give flex e flexibil

. >> when government opens again and all of the institutions are back, you can go to west branch and visit the herbert hoover presidential library there. so the question for both of you, since they were a couple that approached public life together, what should their legacy be? >> i think it is -- as the first lady, her legacy is the way in which she tried to ute lietz her role as first lady to make a call to action to the public issues that she believed in but also that dove tailed with the kind of approach and philosophy of government that her husband had. so they had a legacy in terms of presidential couples for how to -- the delicate balance between the sort of political side of what first ladies are supposed to do. >> marlin? > hello? >> your question, sir? >> i was doing the campaign of hoover and al smith. the biggest thing was repealing the 18th amendment. i grew up in a community and all of them conservative, very religious. everybody voted for hoover. also, the market crash in '29, the banks busted at the same time. i was 7 years old then and i wanted to go down and collect my money when the banks

captioning performed by national captioning institute] our year up tonight, in review looks at immigration policy. our first ladies series features the life of lou hoover. a discussion on new technology for public safety. >> from the west of front of the u.s. capitol, where one year ago , president obama was sworn in for his second term. during his address, he talked about changing immigration along and talked about a great deal on the campaign trail. over the next hour here on c- span, we will bring you more comments from president obama adhere house and senate debates on the immigration issue. and a conversation with alan gomez. he has been reporting for usa today. yearu wrote earlier this about of eight. is it fair to say it it took the lead legislative this year? >> absolutely. right after the election that the senate came together and decided they wanted to tackle the issue. mitt romney got a 27% of the hispanic vote, you saw a lot of republican senators get together and forming this coalition and a couple people drive in it came out. eight senatorsng that took the lead. >> it seem to have a lot of energy early on. what happened throughout the yea

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i wish to thank collectively my friends and colleagues at the hoover institution, the hoover institution library and archives, the hoover press, without which this book could not have been written. so, there's too many here for me to thank them individually so i'd like to thank you collectively. now to the book itself. i've said this before but it's a good way to introduce the topic. stalin is purported to have said, the death of one person is a tragedy. the death of a million is a statistic. those of us who study soviet russia fall into this trap. we think we can convince people of stalin's evil by citing the millions who died in his famine, the hundreds of thousands shot during the great terror, '37-'38, and the millions of men, women and children who sat in his concentration camp and special settlements. stalin's many admirers in today's russia, and even the west, admit that stalin may have done some bad things, but if you look at it, in its totality, maybe it's worth it. today stalin is among the most admired figures in contemporary russia, which may be hard for us to believe. my sto