kate tummarello is a technology reporter with "the hill." this has been "the communicators" on c-span. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a public service by your television provider. >> booktv continues with historian will swift. mr. swift recounts the relationship between president richard nixon and his wife, pat. the author utilized recently-released correspondences between the nixons and interviewed trends and family members to examine the couple's marriage amidst richard nixon's political career and presidential tenure. this is about half an hour. >> first of all, thank you all for coming, and thank you so much to sandy and the foundation for inviting me. the book, "pat and dick," literally came out on

so i'm looking forward to working with them on it. >> kate tummarello? >> a.t.p. announced its sponsor data plan which they say when will help consumers because they won't have to take data away from their data cap. how do you perceive that argument? is that treading on the ground of that new centralty policy, at least if not in spirit, in the letter of the law? >> well, i think it does. why? because it affects the consumer. it starts splitting up an audience. it's as if you're breaking down different groups and users and segmenting them. that's not what the internet has been about and i believe if it had begun that way that it would not be what we know it to be. so i understand a company's interest. i mean, they have to have -- they have a bottom line. they have to perform for their shareholders. i understand that. but i think overall in terms of consumers, it's not the track that is attractive to me, let me put it that way. >> on the topic of wire lescare yers, there are rumors about a sprint-t-mobile merger. i know you talked about the importance of competition