and a great deal of what with know or think we know about jay edgar hoover is myth and legend. >> tim weiner, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >>> the american-israel public affairs committee held the annual policy conference in washington last week. speakers included liz cheney and former u.s. representative, jane harmon. this runs about 35 minutes. >> thank you. good morning, everybody. my name is david, i'm the founding editor of the times of israel. [ applause ] . thank you. this morning we're going to take a tour and explore the many challenges that face the united states and israel. here with us is the former deputy of state, liz cheney. [ applause ] also joining us is middle east analyst from israel's channel 2 news, international fellow of the washington institute and last but not least, former member of congress, jane harmon. [ applause ] now let's jump in with the most difficult and complicated issue, iran. in the last fewweeks, we've seen terrorist acts with ties to iran occur in georgia, thailand, jane, i know you've last seen iran as a global problem, not just a prob

and a great deal of what we know, or we think we know about jay edgar hoover is myth and legend. >> tim weiner on enemies, a history of the f.b.i. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> c-span's 2012 local content vehicle city tour takes our book tv and american history tv program on the road the first weekend of each month. march featured shreveport, louisiana, with book tv at the nole library. >> mr. nole was a local man that was born here and lived here most of his life and started accumulating books when he was a teenager and continued in his 80's. over his lifetime he accumulated over 200,000 volumes. if we have a gem in the collection, it is probably going to be this one. it's one of the books we're most proud of. it's in the original binding from 16 , and it was once owned by a very famous scientist. you can see he's written his name, i.-newton and we're not pulling it out so much because it's starting to flake away on the title page. >> then we look at american civil war. >> pioneer medicine is a long stretch from what it is today. you consider the things we take for granted

then also working to dismantle the weapons of mass destruction to read this definitely is not jay edgar hoover's the five fbi any more. counterterrorism, counterintelligence make up the substantial part of the fbi budget. just weeks ago we saw the fbi counterterrorism efforts to close up close when they arrested the man who wanted to blow up the u.s. capitol. the nation also faces a new kind of threat. that occurs in cyberspace. so we have cyber terrorists, organized crime involved in cyber, cyber is the new arena. and we look forward to getting the concrete budget on how we can keep us safe in that area and how they work with other intel agencies. i also want to know how the fbi is protecting americans from violent crime and also fraud in the communities. the fbi target's sophisticated criminal organizations who prey on the vulnerable, the child pornographer, the china for a gang of children and prostitution, the scams looking people either out of medicare or mortgage fraud. and i am concerned this budget is flat in the violent crime. i know why able and wonderful colleague senator hutchison is

[inaudible conversations] jay edgar hoover? i don't think the president could have gotten away with it. >> tim weiner details the fbi's 100 year history and hoover's fight against adversives. >> hoover stands alone. he's like the washington monument standing like a statue encased in grime. as one of the most powerful men who ever served in washington in the 20th century, 11 presidents, 48 years, from woodrow wilson and richard nixon, there's nobody like him. a great deal of what we think we know gout hoover is myth and legend. >> time weiner on enemies, a history of the fbi on sunday's q&a. >> i believe it is yet possible we'll come to admire this country not simply because we were born here, but because of the kind of great and good land that you and i wanted to be and that together we have made it. that is my hope. that is my reason for seeking the presidency of the united states. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men who ran for office and lost. visit our website to see video of the conten