of alabama who was a slave owner and search stiffener of slavery.an n indoctrinating the and james buchananith a romantic notion of the slave cars being good.bun he brings that attitude into the presidency in 18 it.he ♪er and does nothing as a southern which states began to secede. he encourages them. engrams lincoln is eye for the huge mass. go american that has to get through a civil war. >> host: will then make it tougher? >> guest: we are doing and that expert. i think the key things, we're going to have to do a buck. their views have been good, but preliminary sales, we are very>h pleased. >> host: i know you are under way to a panel at the los angeles festival books. we have to wrap up. thank you for being with us. appreciate. >> guest: thank-you. >> that was part of the 2011 los angeles times festival books. for more information visit events dot l.a. times test com / festival of bucks. what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. >> low, i am reading ulysses. started on january 1st. it is a new year's resolution a mind to plow through that book by june 16th. that is boom

>> you know, bill, i think president obama is the worst president since james buchanan in the 1850s.r is fair. by dumb luck or planning or whatever he got libya just about right. i give him a strong b plus maybe a minus. are we there yet? why did it take so long? pretty quick for this sort of thing. casualties very low. nato had none. this is about as good as war gets. it's not a video game. >> bill: mccain and rove both say that if america had taken the lead in the air power situation, it would have been cut down from six to two months. thereby saving civilian lives and other lives in the conflict. what do you think? >> well, if we would have had the atomic bomb in 1942 -- >> bill: didn't have the ability to do that though. we didn't have the atomic bomb in '42. >> i think that was wanton criticism of obama, who is not my favorite guy. the rebels were disorganized mob in the beginning. they had to to slowly figure out how to be a semi organized mob. we saw in the last weeks and months, we saw as qaddafi's guy capability the rebels were increasing capability. so, i am not surprised i

is he turning into james buchanan. a man who knew exactly what the big challenges were facing the country. proved incapable of doing anything about them or unwilling to do anything about them which i think this president is unwilling to do them. >> he was the president before abram lincoln knew the union was desolving and southern states might succeed and basically went to lunch every day with his niece who ran the white house for him as mr. -- >> impressive. very impressive, mr. o'reilly. >> bill: what do you think 15 years on the air here, 13 as number one. you are looking at -- what do you think? >> this is a man who makes a practice of self-educating outside of his professional responsibility. >> bill: read my book coming up is a good chance to plug it "killing lincoln" going to shock you in september. going to shock even you mr. rove. thanks for the analysis. we appreciate it next on the run down juan and mary katharine will weigh in on whether president obama is done. finished, out of here. bernie goldberg angry

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. >> james buchanan, the president who had a 32-year love affair with the senator of alabama, the slave owner who indoctrinates with a romantic notion of the slave owners being good. james brings that into the presidency in 1856 and does nothing. he encourages him with his pesttivety. and when lincoln takes over, the americans have to go through a civil war that costs over 600,000. >> host:w

the only president distinguished james buchanan. adam also had the wonderful theme it is new year's day in 1861 at the buchanan whitehouse. what was that they like, both in the white house and maybe you could give us a brief assessment of president buchanan? >> well, you know buchanan of course has been vilified by many generations starting with his own generation. he was seen as sort of a loser and a misfit and disastrous president before he had ever led -- left the white house. not that this resonates with anything in our own time of course. [laughter] >> democrats you can take that as you will and republicans you can take that as you will and insert face here. but buchanan, actually i love these characters from history who have been sort of push to the margins because for me in many ways they end up being more interesting than the heroes. it is so it easy to celebrate the people who were on the right side of history but in my book i also try to sort of get into the hearts and minds of people who ended up being on but we think of

the only president distinguished james buchanan. adam also had the wonderful theme it is new year's day in 1861 at the buchanan whitehouse. what was that they like, both in the white house and maybe you could give us a brief assessment of president buchanan? >> well, you know buchanan of course has been vilified by many generations starting with his own generation. he was seen as sort of a loser and a misfit and disastrous president before he had ever led -- left the white house. not that this resonates with anything in our own time of course. [laughter] >> democrats you can take that as you will and republicans you can take that as you will and insert face here. but buchanan, actually i love these characters from history who have been sort of push to the margins because for me in many ways they end up being more interesting than the heroes. it is so it easy to celebrate the people who were on the right side of history but in my book i also try to sort of get into the hearts and minds of people who ended up being on but we think of

austin goolsby has the best voice in anybody in the history of the white house although i hear james buchananeep tenor. he is an economics expert and recently left the administration. in the past, we've heard david axelrod blame president bush for the economic woes and in the past, we've heard bill burton blame republicans and tea partiers and the president saying all three at different times. but i have never quite heard this excuse for the current recession that we just can't shake. listen. >> over that 17 months, we added 2 1/2 million jobs. now, at the beginning of this year, we get earthquakes, tsunamis, revolutions in the middle east, european financial crises, now they even got earthquakes outside of washington, d.c. i mean, we've had a series of things that have put some heavy blows and slowed the economy back down again. >> the d.c. earthquake was a dud. i'm glad that guy wasn't running fema. >> right. >> it just happened. >> i know. you know, there was some damage but thankfully, did it impact the economy? kind of a funny picture of the d.c. devastation that shows some plastic resin

the only president distinguished james buchanan. adam also had the wonderful theme it is new year's day in 1861 at the buchanan whitehouse. what was that they like, both in the white house and maybe you could give us a brief assessment of president buchanan? >> well, you know buchanan of course has been vilified by many generations starting with his own generation. he was seen as sort of a loser and a misfit and disastrous president before he had ever led -- left the white house. not that this resonates with anything in our own time of course. [laughter] >> democrats you can take that as you will and republicans you can take that as you will and insert face here. but buchanan, actually i love these characters from history who have been sort of push to the margins because for me in many ways they end up being more interesting than the heroes. it is so it easy to celebrate the people who were on the right side of history but in my book i also try to sort of get into the hearts and minds of people who ended up being on but we think of

i also want to bring up james buchanan's idea of the government getting larger and larger and there is no way to stop it. mid was one way to prevent the leviathan from getting larger. we have 1 million members. i would say 20% of our members are from the tea party. they say they want a lower tax rate. i say to look at the new reality. what if we give up the mid and 5 or 10 years from now, the tax rate goes up? after thinking that over, and some people change their mind. in theory, the lower tax rate is good. but what happens in the real world? i am always cautious about international comparisons about apples to oranges, but if the mid is removed, there are appreciation and other benefits. i buy a home for my brother, my brother buys a home for me, and they get the mid and depreciation and so what happens? in a heavily populated rental area, there tends to be more rent control and economists would say to have affordable housing, rent control is the most ineffective way to go about it. that could introduce more distortion into the program. the aging population, on and i only want to ment

knowing that dean was here i also wanted to bring up his professor, james buchanan's idea of levithon. the government getting larger and larger and there is no way to stop it. is mid one way to prevent the levithon getting larger? we have one million members. we have people of all political stripes. 20% of our members are probably from the tea party. they come up to me and say i want a lower tax rate, give up mid. enthis i say, let's look at reality just as information item when if you give up the mid and lower tax rate today, who knows five years from now, 10 years from now there is different congressional makeup, tax rate goes up and you lost mid. you have higher tax rate. after thinking it over it changes some people mind about it. certainly lower tax rate is good but what happens in the real world. for renters, candidates use international comparison i'm always a little cautious is it apple to apple or apple to oranges but if, if mid is removed, let's remember more steel gets mid and depreciation and other benefits. could be the case where i buy a home for my brother and my brothe

knowing that dean was here, i also wanted to bring up his professor james buchanan's idea of government getting larger and larger and there's no way to stop it. if the m.i.d. one way to prevent the government from getting larger. we have $1 million members. we have people of all political stripes. 20% of the members i would say is probably from the tea party. they come up to me and say i want a lower tax rate, give up the m.i.d. they say let's look at the reality as an information item. what if you give up the m.i.d., lower tax rates, and who knows five years, ten years, tax rates goes up. you lost your m.i.d., and higher tax rate. after thinking that over, you know, some people changes their mind about it. i think in theory, lower tax rate is good. reality, you know, what happens in the real world. so society of renters, it's often used in the international comparison. i'm always cautious about apple to apple or apple to oranges. but if m.i.d. is is removed, let's remember, they get m.i.d. and depreciation and other benefits. it could be the case where i buy a home for my brother and m

civilians beginning with james forestall, secretary of the navy under truman, right on down to those who are with the bush administration in iraq. and that's a narrative. >> pat buchananthe end of the cold war we had all of these troops left abroad and this tremendous debt and deficit we've got going for us. mike and i were talking, 50,000 troops in germany. 28,000 in korea, maybe 50,000, japan. 100,000 afghanistan. 50,000 in iraq. isn't this deficit debt issue going to, if you will, bring down the american empire? >> pat, when i was in, based in asia as a foreign correspondent for the "wall street journal" i did cover nato. during the kosovo bombing. it became abundantly clear to me there's enormous disconnect between the nature of our military deployments overseas and the nature of the threat and this since the end of the cold war. i think you're absolutely right. we are not going to achieve any meanful deficit reduction until we have a critical look at those deployments with the idea of bringing about much needed savings. >> stephen, your contention, which i think a lot of people buy into, this buildup and constant buildup began with jim forestall, continued throug