joyce smith was this devastated widow, but joyce carol oates was this professional person and i took it as a matter of pride that i wasn't going to cancel. i went way out to the wilds of some place in ohio where it was a terrible snowstorm just a couple weeks after ray died. i didn't want to start quitting and cutting back. i think looking back on it now i probably should have canceled because it was maybe a silly thing to do that. >> brown: you know, i picked up your latest collection of short stories and there was a... there's several stories there which... in which the main character is a woman recently widowed. and i was... so that made me wonder. you wrote it out in a memoir but you also sort of get it out in fiction form, which is the way most of us know your work. >> that's right. that's subsequent. at first i wrote the notes for the memoir but i didn't think it would be a memoir. it's going to be maybe a widow's handbook. and then i took maybe... let's say i had 600 pages of all these notes and handwriting and i took about 300 or 400 pages for the memoir and then i wrote shor

he threw 12 altovise and she gave it to joyce. and it is framed. [laughter] [applause] >> but what happened was afterwards sammy said to joyce in the cut, were going back to the dressing room. now, i'm not the type who hangs around las vegas dressing rooms. and you go in this place and its large, here are all these, sam is getting dressed and he's walking around and all of the showgirls are there, and there are very attractive women with trays selling cigarettes and western jewelry and turquoise and what have you, and all the hangers on and step in everyone, and they're all milling around. and joyce gets carried away and she's talking to somebody and she couldn't find me. and she finally looked around the rim, and way off in the corner ellis presley had me cornered. i was against the corner, and he's a big. he was like this and i was kind of hidden right behind him. he was talking about the united states army. if you remember, there was a draft during that period and some other people did not go in the draft. they went to canada or they refused. an

[laughter] he threw one to us how joyce got it. it is framed. [laughter] but afterwards sammy said we will go back to the dressing room. i am not the type who hangs around las vegas dressing rooms. [laughter] you go into this place and it is large and all of these people and the cme is getting dressed all of the showgirls. very attractive women with trade selling the cigarettes and jewelry and turquoise and all of the staff and a all are around dan joyce gets carried away talking to somebody and could not find me. she finally looked around the room way off in the corner of elvis presley had me cornered he is big and like this and i was hidden behind him. he was talking about the united states army. if you remember, there was a draft during that period and some people did not go in the draft they went to canada but he went in and served in the united states are many -- army and in germany and wanted to talk about it. he loved the army and valued his time serving and was sitting there going back and forth with me and i found it fascinating here wa

his wife of 56 years, joyce, who had been his sweetheart in high school. he remembered, once, during all the upheaval in baghdad, a medical mistake nearly cost her life. >> she was dying. i remember looking at joyce in the hospital bed and she looked just like her mother, who died in her 90s. and she was that bad. so i would, trying to think, i would charge in there, 6:00 in the morning, break through the hospital hours. go to work, come back, you know, 10:00 or so at night, see her. it was terrible. just terrible. hard. but she's fine. >> reporter: today, at the age of 78, donald rumsfeld notes he's been alive a third of american history. >> signed by gerald ford back in 1965. >> reporter: his office, a staggering museum of the convulsive events he has seen. and his favorite personal code, still the one he pledged as a little kid in chicago. when he sent away for the badge of an unlikely philosopher on a horse. how much can you do of, a fiery horse with the speed of light -- >> isn't that wonderful? >> the lone ranger! >> it still makes sense today. absol

a talked to joyce. she's gained. something like 100 volunteers helping. people running around with things on their cars and earrings and buttons and bumper stickers and sure enough i was fortunate one of the things that might have helped is that president kennedy had an elected two years before. he was so young, running for congress at 29, served in the senate for part of a term and then ran for president. he was a young president and had been elected and was so attractive and charming and humorous. >> he posed for a picture with eisenhower during the campaign. >> the fact that we have such an attractive young president had an appeal in the district that made a kid of 29 years old running for congress looking like maybe he could actually be a congressman. >> you came to washington, and write about it in the book. you attended a briefing by lyndon johnson. tell us about that. he spoke up about that briefing. >> just a wonderfully energetic and appealing person he had just come back from vietnam. had not been when i ran in 62, but by then it was 64, 66, 65.

happy yang, joyce sung. >> i am with the chinese progressive association. some of our families came all the way from chinatown. i want to ask them from -- ask them to stand up. they came through the rain and the wet today to attend. these are the real folks who trudged and battled the crowds. it is because of families like these that our organizations are out here. we know that with the budget cuts coming up this is just one tiny victory that might be a hopeful sign for the upcoming budget fight. also, this $1.4 million -- there is no question that it should be distributed now. it was not distributed last year. i know i am preaching to the choir, but the supervisors support the resolution with the community. to me, we should not even have to be asking for this. it should be assumed that this will be distributed to the families that need it in san francisco. i know there is strong community support here. we will show the mta next month that this is the only position they can take on this. there is no other alternative. it is an important first step to creati

bay area, john grey back to talk about men from marwomen from venus and president of the pres city joyce rosen burg foundation celebrating 75 years of philanthropy let me remind you to visit our facebook, twitter and youtube sites. >> let's start off with a musical fair we have actress lisa johan son from avenue q on its north america tour and on the stage in san francisco welcome to bay sunday lisa. >> thanks so much. >> let's get a quick clip so people can see what avenue q is all about. ♪ we are together, here on avenue q, we live on avenue q, q makes our dreams come true, we live on avenue q ♪ >> this is real life. >> we live on avenue q. >> you are going to love it. >> here is the keys. >> welcome to avenue q. >>> ,

. >> she was dying, i remember looking at joyce in the hospital bed and she looked just like her mother died in her 90s and she was that bad. so i would -- trying to think i'd charge in there, 6:00 in the morning, break through the hospital hours, go to work, come back, you know, 10 or so at night and see her. it was terrible. just terrible. hard. but she's fine. >> reporter: as the war escalated the violent insurgency, ied casualties and we all remember the soldier in kuwait who tried to tell rumsfeld that the armer was so bad on his vehicles, the troops were forced to use trash metal to try to do it themselves. >> we do not have proper armament vehicles. >> as you know, you go to war with the army you have and not the army you might want. >> reporter: insensitive is the word used. >> oh, by some journalists. was it sensitive, no. go back and read the whole thing. i cared deeply about the troops and the answer reflects it. >> when i was asked if i had confidence in rumsfeld, i said i did not. >> reporter: but from mccain to lindsey graham, he was being challenged. >> what do you say to

i wanted to include, and they did include, joyce carol oates wonderful short story golden gloves andi wanted to include it in part because it was a short story about a woman writer, about a boxer. i wanted the anthology to include counterintuitive examples of women's writing. women write about everything. they are not limited to feminine subjects. and i wrote a way and after many months of silence, i appealed to joyce or self who is an old friend and a supporter of this anthology and women's writing in general. she was really very glad that i wanted to reprint the story. it has never been anthologized before. but it turns out that the copyright on golden gloves is held by a former publisher. she had left many many years ago, and the rights have never reverted to her. she appealed to them to be merciful, which is to say that if you will charge me a low sum for the story but of course they didn't. they charged a whopping fee, which we paid and in many cases i have had the experience of myself as an academic writer and so has my husband and a lot of people i know who are literary writer

i wanted to include and i did include joyce carol oates wonderful short story golden gulfs and i wanted to include it in part because it's a short story by a woman by a boxer. i wanted the anthology to include counterintuitive examples of women. women write about everything. they are not limited to feminine subjects and i wrote a way to find out who had the copyright and after many months of silence i appealed to joyce herself who is an old friend and a supporter of this anthology and of woman's writing in general. she was really very glad that i wanted to reprint this story. it has never been analthoughized before but it turns out the copyright by golden gloves was held by a former publisher. she had left many, many years ago and the rights had never reverted to her. she appealed to them to be merciful which is to say, you know, charge me a very low sum for this story but, of course, they didn't. they charged a whopping fee which we paid. and in many cases i've had this experience myself is an academic writer and so did my husband and a lot of people i know and a lot of literary writer

i wrote a way and to find out who had the copyright and after many months of silence i appealed to joyce results and in the women's writing in general. she was very glad i wanted to reprint the story. it's never been anthologized before. but it turns out the copyright on the golden gloves was told by a former publisher she had left many years ago and their rights never reverted to her. she appealed to them to be merciful which is to say charge me a very low sum for the story, but of course they didn't. they charged a whopping fee which we paid, and in many cases i had this experience myself as an academic writer and i husband and other people and a lot of literary writers and i know the writers themselves never get paid on these copyright royalties from the publisher. so there's a kind of limbo land and in some cases with of the royalties who is in control of the rights. in addition to the financial tackle, many of these agent secretaries and other representatives of the writers insisted they should look at my head notes to the selection of the writer and wanted to critique it and make s

important writer cannot always control copyright permission, i wanted to include and i did include joyce carol oates' wonderful short story, "golden gloves." it is a short story by a woman writer about a boxer. i wanted the anthology to include counterintuitive examples of women's writing. women write about everything, they are not limited to feminine subjects. and i wrote away to try and find out who had the copyright, and after many months of silence, i appealed to joyce hearse who was an old -- herself who was an old friend and a supporter of this anthology. she was really very glad i wanted to reprint this story. it has never been an thol eyesed before. but it turns out that the copyright on "golden gloves" was held by a former publisher she had left many, many years ago, and the rights had never reverted to her. she appealed to them to be merciful which is to say, you know, charge me a very low sum for the story. but, of course, they didn't. they charged a whopping fee which we paid, and in many cases i've had this experience myself as an academic writer and so has my husband and ot

in particular, and joyce hicks from the -- going into the model, the commission finance the about the last week, it is called the crisis intervention teams. it is an innovative first responder model of police-based police-based intervention with police and attkisson partnerships. developed by the memphis police department in 1988, the memphis model is recognized as the best breakfast by the u.s. department of justice and also by the u.s. department of health and human services. in addition to the partnership among law enforcement, mental health providers, and community advocates, the memphis model relies on specially trained cit officers, while continuing their duty as regular officers in their district, there also dispatched as first responders to mental health calls. a good parallel would be the swat team, gang task force. this is a particular, specialized unit to deal with mental health crisis because it is a special live population with its own needs and requires training and planning to address these needs. it makes perfect sense to the commission and department why you need spec

plans over joyce hockey now where the last games of the regular season were held on sunday sixteen teams now remain in the hunt for the coveted guarin cup currently in the hands of back to back wins act boss western conference champions lost on the post television not enough to qualify for the playoffs for the first time well done moscow open their campaign against the latvian to number in the russian capital sparked back travel north to star studded scarse in petersburg and finally moscow region side of a lot of this at the start. and while i have a nice i'm going to see regular season champions of god starting from if they he make the team they lost to the same station last year some of those to be with you see fear while another new come like you got our other two. finally teatime garden can't win this type of loss because it's on to face back east the playoffs begin this wednesday with the final series taking place in the. finals over an avid sports coming up in less than two hours we join me again that. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice

forum being held in russia's east siberia with how to further attract capital a hot topic can you on joyce of the founder of terra capital says however that generating the necessary funds is not difficult once proper management and skilled labor allocation is addressed the soonest raised the consideration of the management of governmental affairs of the brain syncrude she would see i am absolutely sure that you're doing sure from a. professional investor will come there because in a way to set your server to pull me money's not the key resource didn't just want you to research brissie which is the number one. russia's investment company basic element in china's tang shan chemical fiber plans to invest for a hundred billion dollars in modernizing and expanding a pulp and paper mill in russia's period this comes as asians begin is becoming one of the top priority regions for the russian businesses that can provide huge sources of demand and capital. shows the first evolving markets in northern asia china korea and japan are making is reconsider our plans we're now paying more attention to de

her husband and said he wrote finley and's wake and everyone at the table either thought i was james joyce orr fan again. they were delighted to have the author here at the table. i rest my case. the culture smog is in decline. >> host: when did you begin writing and why? >> guest: 67. that is an interesting question. i found the american spectator. the reason i founded the american spectator, the first revelation by me, hy found -- founded the american spectator so no one would ever reject my prose ever again. ever since i founded the american spectator i have known at least one place where i can write and be accepted and that is the american spectator. opening up the american spectator to other ideas and people, first and foremost, entertain myself. >> host: your first book, "public nuisances" published in 1977, why did you write about visiting a house of prostitution in terre haute, indiana. >> guest: it was funny. i have fought about that. i did not avail myself to the professional offices of these women. and what my friends upstairs, a very old man cooked chicken for the checks. our w

not only worried about their health but the students and the faculty here are grieving. 43-year-old joyce flap died suddenly over the weekend. on friday he had a cold, he came to school, felt good enough to work. on sunday he died. the health department sent a letter to all the parents telling them about the possible risk of infection. parents were given antibiotics for the kids just in case. the entire situation is shocking to the community here at this school. >> it seems like it's fate, and you can't believe it. just kind of hard. >> we're shocked. nobody anticipated this at all. he wasn't ill that you would have been worried about his health. >> flap was a popular teacher here at hoover, but it is unlikely that any of his students will be infected. the bacteria is only transmitted through close prolonged contact. health officials don't even know if it killed him. they're waiting for lab results that could take a few days. >> cities throughout california may have new ammunition in the controversial debate over installing more red light cameras. an influential traffic safety group says

joyce and i decided we would give some money each year, and we have spotters around the country at 12 or 15 different universities to make recommendations to us, and then we select them and provide the funds they need, tuition and stipends they need, particularly people who are interested in public service. they are studying things like economics our government or international affairs, things that relate to government, with the thought that maybe someday they will participate in helping to guide and direct our country. >> go back to the book itself. how much did you personally right? >> i wrote a lot. i don't know quite how to answer, because what i would do is dictate and then it would be transcribed. then our team of people would fact check and recast it. i suppose i have been over every word in its somewhere between 15 and 20 times, editing and editing, which is what i do. we took some of the material, things i dictated years ago, cable sent memoranda and the like. >> are you tired of this? writing and talking about it? i have seen you on fox several times, abc, cbs, i have read a

>> well, joyce has an unusual sense of humor and one night i got home and i went to the icebox and there was little sign that said he tackled the job that couldn't be done he tackled the job that couldn't be done and didn't do it. [laughter] >> you laugh. at 10:00 at night when i was reaching for a pop that slows you down i will tell you. [laughter] >> so you did that and went on to the nixon white house and you write in the book he wanted to leave washington after the election of 72. did you see watergate coming >> no, i didn't at all. i ended up going to nato as the ambassador right after the 1972 deflection and the pundits in washington couldn't couldn't believe i would leave the power. i was a member of cabinet in the white house and suddenly i'm going off to brussels belgium. it looked like syria. proximity to power is considered in washington what one would want and i did the opposite. thousands of miles and the other direction. someone wrote in a magazine in washington after watergate broke who is the smartest man in washington? answer, donald rumsfeld. but he's not in washington.

"and everyone at the table either thought i was james joyce or thought i was finnigan, but at any rate, they were just delighted to have the author of "finnigan's wake" at the table. i rest my case. the culture smog is in decline. >> host: r. emmett bob tyrrell is our guest. when did you begin writing and why? >> guest: '67. >> host: why? >> guest: that's an interesting question. in '67 i found "the american spectator." and on c-span for books today i'll tell you why i founded "the american spectator." this is a first, first revelation by e me. i founded "the american spectator" so that no editor would ever reject my prose ever again. and ever since i've founded "the american spectator," i've known at least one place where i can write and i'll be accepted, and that's in "the american spectator." now, we've gone out and opened up "the american spectator" to other ideas and other people, but first and foremost it's the place for me to entertain myself. >> host: your first book, "public nuisances," published in 1977 originally, why did you feel -- or why did you write about visiting a hou

american presidents and they get people sort of -- well, sometimes people who actually fit someone like joyce appleby did thomas jefferson, of course, she is a great jefferson scholar but gary hart did a book, george mcgovern did lincoln, i think. there's sort of a mix of historians and nonhistorians looking at these presidencies, telling the basic story but also giving your own sort of individual spin on it. and he asked me to do this -- do the johnson book and i guess he figured i would put my individual spin on it. i agreed to do it because arthur asked me to do and i had great respect for him. i knew him from the papers of thomas jefferson. we were both on the advisory committee on that. and also because paul who's the editor and who's the general series editor for the series was my editor for the book i did with vernon jordan. vernon can read. and this is two friends and you know how when friends ask you to do things who asked me to do this. i said sure and i put aside my misgivings. i knew it's a fascinating topic. there's so much material, very, very rich but i wondered if i would be a

forces were storming back, rumsfeld's wife joyce nearly died. >> she ended up with a perforated apenout her in the book you thought you might lose her. how does that work? 15 hours a day secretary of defense, war going on. >> people were risking their lives. you simply have to pay attention and i did. early in the morning i would see her. >> reporter: you would see her early in the morning. >> very early. >> reporter: how long did that go on? >> days. >> reporter: do you think it affected any of your decisions? >> i don't know. i don't know. look at the view. spectacular sight. >> reporter: the rumsfelds now spend much of their time on their ranch near taos new mexico. they began dating in high school but went their separate ways in college until he launched a pre-emptive strike. >> i just simpley didn't want to get married but i didn't want her to marry someone else. it was one of those things so i caved in and asked her to marry me. fortunately she said yes. that was 56 years ago. >> reporter: 56 years of high pressure, high profile jobs. as a congressman, white house chief of staf

neither one is a preferred joyce, but these are our choices. we follow the path of conventional wisdom. it may be one week from now or six months from now or 12 months from now, but we will wake up and the headline will not be egypt, it will not be iran, it will be the west bank or gaza. and some catastrophic event has occurred and the israelis will exercise their right of self- defense. we will spiral into a catastrophic situation in one of the most emotional spots on earth. we can follow that path and hope it will be two years or that i am just totally wrong. or we can take a different path that requires -- if any of us are waiting for prime minister netanyahu or president abbas to make a bold move, i wish that were the case. i wish both gentlemen concluded it was in their self interest to do so but i am afraid neither gentleman will do so. the decision rests here in washington. it rests with the obama administration. i would suggest the administration in its reconfiguration of american choices conclude that now is the best time -- i would no

next week, we will find out what joyce president obama makes when he releases his budget.nfortunately, early indications are that he and his capitol hill allies are not taking the nation spending crisis with the seriousness it deserves. our massive debt must be confronted immediately. america cannot afford to kick this can down the road any longer. this challenge cannot be solved with higher taxes that will only result in lower economic growth and less opportunity for our children and grandchildren. host: senator orrin hatch with the republican response to the president was weekly address. we are focusing on the president's budget which is coming out tomorrow. the president is traveling to baltimore to focus on education. he will travel out was to or dead later this week to visit the intel factory. caller: i have suggestions that would help the budget. number one is,if the4 99'ers and the ones drawn unemployment, if they went to some kind of school or they can find out what is going on these factors, that is number one. the country will not survive if we continue with the

the first amendment privileges that "the new york times" and joyce? >> those are two questions.will more or less answer them in part because i'm not a lawyer and i think somebody that has a job like mine should be a little humble about deciding who gets to call themselves a journalist or who doesn't. wikileaks is not in my ball park journalism, they do not practice the kind of journalism that we practice at "the new york times" or the post series of news organizations, they are an advocacy group for vigilante group or whatever. the question of whether they are entitled to first amendment protection is a different question because that first amendment protections are not only afforded to the press, and it's a very tricky question for lawyers and i am not a lawyer. what is the difference between somebody that takes a lot of raw material and publishes it on the web site and somebody like us who massages it and ships into the store and publishes it in the newspaper. >> in a way "the new york times" became the enablers of wikileaks by publishing ally of stories based on the cables th

neither one is a prerred joyce, but these are our choices. we follow the path of conventional wisdom. it may be one week from now or six months from now or 12 months from now, but we will wake up and the headline will not be egypt, it will not be iran, it will be the west bank or gaza. and some catastrophic event has occurred and the israelis will exercise their right of self- defense. we will spiral into a catastrophic situation in one of t most emotional spots on earth. we can follow that path and hope it will be two years or that i am just totally wrong. or we can take a different path th requires -- if any of us are waing for prime minister netanyahu or president abbas to make a bold move, i wish that were the case. i wish both gentlemen concluded it was in their self interest to do so but i am afraid neither gentleman will do so. the decision rests here in washington. it rests with the obama administration. i would suggest the administration in its reconfiguration of american choices conclude that now is the best time -- i would not have

remained always faithful to god and country to his hometown of johnstown, and most of all to his wife joyce, his children and his grandchildren. patriot, champion, hero, giant, jack murtha. we will never see his like again. again, i hope it is a comfort to his family that this one year later so many of us remember jack murtha and pray for their -- pray for his family. i yield back the balance of my time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the yealt yields back. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk receives the following message from the secretary of the senate on january 26, 2011, at 4:50 p.m. that the senate passed without amendment h r. 366, appointment, ronald reagan centennial commission, with best wishes, i am, signed sincerery, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pur