host ho hostess house.t was first thought of by an army nurse and she realized there was no place for families or friends to come and visit the veterans there, particularly ones in the hospital and they out to have a place. so she started out to find some funding. and she made it. and by 1952, they had their first guests in an eight unit hostess house. >> and you're doing a great job renovating this facility. how badly does it need renovation? >> it's not up to par by government regulations. and more importantly, the town of yountville has nothing but very high he said hotels and restaurants. out of the reach of most people. so the people who want to visit their loved ones are an bliged to either spend money they can't afford to spend or stay at the hostess house. and that's how it serves. >> tell us the experience of these families who are able to say there on the grounds of their loved ones as they're going new whatever they're going through. >> they appreciate the fact that takes low cost housing. we kee

. >> reporter: you probably wouldn't expect a talk show hostess to choke up. >> the verdict in the casey

had some evidence about richard nixon and some woman who was a hostess at a bar in hong kong?>> yes. >> rose: this is the j. edgar hoover kind of deal. >> it's a very uncertain story. what i clear-- and i found the woman--. >> rose: and she denies it. >> she was a bar hostess. well, hers what she told me. i tracked her down. >> rose: (laughs) you're good! >> and she said that one night she was hostess at this famous bar in the hilton in hong kong and one night nixon said to her "what are you doing after the show" sort of thing and she and a girlfriend went to his hotel room, she says, and there was baby remember bow sew who was nixon's great pal andraveling companion and what mariana lu says, she's the hostess, is that all she did is have a drink there and, you know, a soft drink, she says i don't drink hard liquor, and stayed far while an then left. now the problem is that she also told different stories previous she told me she'd only seen him once. she told the "new york times" she'd seen him ever time he went to hong kong. rose: so when you told her that the "new york time

it's headlined, i felt very guilty to have missed my hostess. washington has bloomed in the week since i've been away, and it seems much more like spring here than it did in new york state. at 10:30 this morning i went out to the university of maryland to give a talk. because this ises a land grant college, they have a large military force. i drew up to the front of the auditorium mainly because i was impressed by the number of boys in uniform standing outside the door. does that sound much like a political pundit today? what does it sound like that we hear a lot about? i bet you can tell me from the internet. >> blogs. >> blog. exactly. and it was written like that. it was a very perm kind of thing. personal kind of thing. so eleanor was communicating with people, she was making the job of the first lady a bully pulpit, and in my opinion, she was -- and i have studied this -- she was drawing from, in some degree, certainly from the personal relationships that she had with some remarkable but not the kinds of folks you would expect an aristocrat

but she continues to play her official role as white house hostess. here she is entertaining the first lady of china. and we know the end of the story of eleanor's first lady. fdr dies in 1945 unexpectedly. guess who's with him when he dice? -- dies? lucy mercer. eleanor is appointed u.s. delegate -- i'm sorry. is appointed u.s. delegate to the united nations by president truman and she is instrumental in the creation of this document, one of the most important documents of the 20th century, universal declaration of human rights. we would not have that document if it had not been for eleanor's genius in dealing with the communists and with the other political players at the united nations. so let me just conclude by saying i personally thank and try to make the case in the book that eleanor's ability to turn the relative passive role of first lady into a vibrant one of activism stems in part for the close relationship she has with people who are outside of the normal aristocratic circle of an upper class woman. these people, and other people, too, the

still woman bishkek two hundred kilometers from here the weather is already cool of the comfort of hostess this is the site of kurdistan's most successful industrial. giant trucks bring tons of fall from an open pit several hundred meters deep. they said giant caterpillar can carry one hundred seventy tons. we now have thirteen. medium size come trucks i'm serious he made ones. yeah you can see some of the big one step behind me going on. thousands of tons of rock will go through a long treatment process to yield several kilograms of and restore. it will then go to the most important place in the factory the smelting furnace there cold will be extracted from me or. the focus because the residue is dried and rio agents are added to it. and then it goes into this open where the temperature is one thousand five hundred degrees celsius to see if the gold is melted in two and a half to three hours we still cold every two days. today will produce four bars weighing about one thousand five hundred ounces all together it's. a computer pitch belongs to a canadian firm for that reason the production

hostess let. each year the conference brings together christian and jewish leaders for prayer. speeches we stand up and say no more no more hatred no more demonizing israel not my helen thomas is not more to scholarship no more misrepresentations we can set the limit on one thing and a celebration of the special bond between israel and the united states when ever we kind of stiff israel something bad happens here we we pushed people out of gaza and so forth and then we had to train over here where people were pushed into different states because of a storm and people see almost a parallel between rough treatment to israel. and judgment happening to america to fight a tough stance by defending israel and some participants say they want to see more than sanctions used against iran it has really slowed. their nuclear advances and i don't know that america that we can do anything we hope that the israelis should be preemptive other participants say god will intervene i don't care how much the iranians get their bomb together tonight israel it will fizzle. it will this will it will

this story is told of winston churchill at a dinner which he clearly did not enjoy returning to his hostess to say about the desert, madam, this pudding has no theme. debbie, what is the theme of your book? >> i think there is a number of themes but the main one is that vietnam's does not go away in every president has to do with it. it is there every time i have to make a decision and it is there in the politics of in terms of what happens what they serve your didn't serve it does not go away in that is the theme that carries through the book. >> but yet to be a non clearly has affected different presidents in the diametrically opposed fashion? >> sometimes. that there are two levels. on one level you have to imagine what are the major influences of all the presidents when they have to decide about sending troops to fight? the vietnam coast is there all the time. each president operates in his own environment and his own time. so while the overall ghost is there you will get a different response. for example,, 1983, 241 american marines are murdered in beirut lebanon. by a terrorist group

she liked, for example -- she was the hostess of the family, of course. one of the senior officials, they head of the reichsbank, she was always willing to fill an empty seat at the table. she let some of the higher-ups, but she was unhappy with all of the trappings and the kind of malevolence in the regime. >> you write a blog that anyone can look at. >> if anyone would like to spend a boring afternoon, they can go to my blog. i started my website in january of this year. i started it because i felt that i wanted to communicate information about this book as the launch approached. also, i wanted people to know that i had written more than one book. >> in july, you wrote this -- "once again, i am stranded in the dark country of new ideas, as a friend of mine once described it -- i wanted to go to the dark as before this book. how did you get out of it? >> that may explain what that means. whenever i finish a book, i do not know why this is the case, i do not have a bad ideas to go back to. i do not know why that is. i have a blank slate. for many writers,

she is a terrible hostess. >> she is a woman. >> by the way, she has like eight nests around her housewould your mom say if there were all of those nests you apparently don't care about. >> bill would tell the story to my mom. that's crazy. birds uh tanging you? -- attacking you? nonsense. >> we did get another one of those, see, i told you i didn't talk like that. >> any upcoming shows? >> yes, bridge street theater august 6th in connecticut. and i hate you. >> okay. remy, any big forel weekend plans? >> friends, family, barbecues and maybe seeing you circus anals this weekend. good times. >> excellent. >> back to you, gregy. >> thank you, andy-y.

. >> reporter: you probably wouldn't expect a talk show hostess to choke up. >> the verdict in the caseyy? >> help me unite here. >> if you think human hosts were shocked. >> stunning blows. >> reporter: imagine how the animal kingdom reacted to the casey anthony verdict from dogs to alpacas. >> jay learned that a murder trial joke can bomb like a closing argument. you know what this means? president obama's economic team is only the second most clueless people in america. did the mike go off? >> no, you're good. >> some folks shot themselves reacting to the verdict as it was handed down. >> oh, here we go. >> parking themselves in front of their tv's and posting their reactions on youtube. so tense they chewed on remotes. took breaths as if at a lamasse class. >> first degree -- >> there was something creepy about watching the verdict with a toddler. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. >> these viewers made nancy grace seem zen. >> oh! >> what? ! >> what? >> leave it to your toddler to lay

>> the hostess pours the tea for everybody. >> reporter: her nannies would know that.nd up at dinner with royalty. >> they always sasa thank goodness we learned how to eat properly. >> a claw to the eyes is effective. >> reporter: she runs the school with her son who instructs the women in the all-important art of self-defense. to protect themselves and those famous kiddies from dangerous celebrity stalkers and the 24/7 prying eyes of the paparazzi. when i may use all these eagles and tigers? >> hopefully never. but in the event you have to use this, you can call on it. somebody's on top of you, you punch them, what damage are you going to do? maybe. >> reporter: though attending the school costs each student $10,000, each nanny stands to make that back almost immediately. how much money can one of your nannies or governesses make a year? >> unlimited. i have people making huge salaries. >> reporter: give me a number. >> quarter of a million dollars. >> reporter: on top of that? all the perks thato along with living life alongside a mega-famous star. >> there's been st

the ambassador of great britain on his arm, and then the ambassador would come with the president's hostess on his arm, a wife if there was a wife. jefferson had the rule: he who is next to the door goes in first. this created a diplomatic flap because the ambassador of great britain was just outraged at this. c-span: again, you--you're writing about people who were born between 1776 and 1800. >> guest: yes. c-span: so the focus--the years that you're really focused of them being old enough to be involved, would be what? >> guest: well, i would say really the first three decades of the 19th century. c-span: 1800 to 1830? >> guest: mm-hmm. mm-hmm. i have material on the 1790s because it's a very tumultuous decade and it's important, and there are some of them who, by that time, are in their 20s. but, yes, most of the action. c-span: give us a profile on what the united states looked like in those 30 years: people, where they had come from, what their religion was. >> guest: well, to give a profile of a country that was as rambunctious as american society in those decades is going to be very

when abraham lincoln died elizabeth keckley was hostess to mary lincoln. they were sisters but mary lincoln didn't buy any more gloves because she had no more money. so she fired our sister, the former slave who then wrote an autobiography and told stories no one wanted her to tell. she was clear about the fact she needed to make a living. sisters need to be clear about these issues. multiple income stream. how do you make a living? how do you put yourself out there? what do you do? surviving and thriving is about that. i want to say a little bit about this book from the perspective that nobody wanted to publish it. nobody wanted -- i had a lovely lunch with a young sister. send me a lobster salad and a glass of white wine and told me nobody wanted to hear about black people in congress. it was a lovely conversation. >> reminds me of a story talking with a television executive about the life story of lena horne and what was said was it is not interesting enough. there wasn't enough -- not enough -- [talking over each other] >> long story short, i give him

post presidential years in new york city in a library in our small apartment, which tricia been the hostess. never accepted an honorarium. he gave up his secret service because they were an impediment to his moving around freely, and he did not feel the government should pay for it. for a living, he wrote books, but he wrote books like the one i showed you, he did not make any money on it. he made speeches for impact, not for the money that was involved. as a result he did have impact. his biggest one was his trip to china, and i had my interest back in the 1960's, singapore, one word, tricia. in the process i interacted with mr. nixon as he was campaigning for the presidency, and i was in the library, in february of 1968, and the discussion then in the newspaper was "nixon's secret plan for peace." that was rockefeller pushing nixon to expose what his plan was. i was in the library, waiting -- i was in the library, waiting for tricia to change. i asked him, i am almost a member of the family, mr. nixon, what is your plan? i'm going to peaking, i'm going to moscow, and that is how we are go

post presidential years in new york city in a library in our small apartment, which tricia been the hostess. never accepted an honorarium. he gave up his secret service because they were an impediment to his moving around freely, and he did not feel the government should pay for it. for a living, he wrote books, but he wrote books like the one i showed you, he did not make any money on it. he made speeches for impact, not for the money that was involved. as a result he did have impact. his biggest one was his trip to china, and i had my interest back in the 1960's, singapore, one word, tricia. in the process i interacted with mr. nixon as he was campaigning for the presidency, and i was in the library, in february of 1968, and the discussion then in the newspaper was "nixon's secret plan for peace." that was rockefeller pushing nixon to expose what his plan was. i was in the library, waiting -- i was in the library, waiting for tricia to change. i asked him, i am almost a member of the family, mr. nixon, what is your plan? i'm going to peaking, i'm going to moscow, and that is how we are go