james emerson. he is the pastor of calvary presbyterian church here into the cisco where he served until 1990 and has just turned 85 years old, so we are delighted to help celebrate her birthday and bringing him to you. we want to get toward your book, which is forgiveness, the key to the creative life. it's a great contribution, honestly, into people who simply want to get in. you are talking about forgiveness long, long ago. we will come back to that, but start us off. you are a pencil boy. >> my dad taught at stanford. i have a great fondness for cal. i grew up there, the only child of my parents. dad was sick most of his days. he had tuberculosis from world war i. i also got it from him, so i really started out as being a consequence of the trances of world war i. that is where she got tv, and ultimately when i caught it, i got it from him. i didn't start school until the 3rd grade. i had to be homeschooled. i went to princeton for seminary. in a that was very, very serious in those days. in a v

>> the other riders are ralph waldo emerson, washington irving, author of "rick van winkle," thomas macaulay, who is famous work was the history of england from james second. american novelist nathaniel hawthorne, who published a book with a scarlet letter," in 1950. and sir walter scott, whose works included idaho, rob roy, and a lady of the lake. standing in front of the building in the evening, you can see the bus back lit from the lights in the great hall. and from the inside, the western evening sky of washington, as well as the washington monument serve as the backdrop. >> congress has always needed information. when they were in philadelphia and new york, there were libraries that they could go to. philadelphia had wonderful collections. but when they got to washington, d.c. in 1800, there were tobacco fields here. no libraries, no urban life. they still needed information. what they needed to do was create a library. the actual creation came in a bill signed by president john adams. the first books were ordered from england. >> when the capital expanded in the 18 20s, when they built the rotunda, they built the library of congress along the