all of these very deeply kristian kind of things. it is moving to me. i can be moved to tears but i don't feel like i can embrace it. tavis: my mother and all those folks the on veronese as we speak, praying for you, that god will show you a lie. the light. >> i will take all the pressures i can get. tavis: it is one thing for us to pray for you and you welcome the players, but the question is whether or not they should feel sorry for you. >> if they want to, they can feel compassion for me, but it is not necessary. my father was dying and valid doing the job for the old ross perot company. there were women that want to pray for my father and i was very touched by this. atheists will say that they don't need your prayers and would have been dismissive about it. these were kind women and the couple met and that felt attached to me and concerned for me and didn't even know how my father. this was very moving and i thing -- who knows what the power of prayer is. the of them are convincing to my skeptical mind, but they say it can move mountains. they can h

to get them out of turkey before it that he agreed to a deal to take those missiles and he told kristian of and could say nothing and did anyone of the american media suspected ideal to ask if there was a deal, a kennedy would have to live but khrushchev should understand the deal was still on. of course, the media quickly picked up the possibility there was a deal and ast kennedy and his lieutenants about it and they lied. it was smart because kennedy ended the cuban-- cuban missile crisis given the gravity of the situation it was imperative he bring it to an end without the possibility of war. he felt the only way he could do that was to tell a lie. >> host: did fdr lie to get into world 42? >> he tried in the late summer of 1941 there was unable incident involving the uss career hat and involved with a british aircraft running into a german submarine. what roosevelt did is told a series of lies about that incident for the purposes of getting into world war ii because at the time he was desperate to get into the war having great difficulty doing it dealing with isolationist america so

. >> linda ronstadt, way lon nelson, kristian stoferson, joe cocker.there. >> and he had a few big songs in there, songs that dominated the charts back then and are considered classics today. ♪ didn't we >> do you remember first song you wrote? here's how precocious jimmy webb was. his first song, which he wrote when he was 12... ♪ it's someone else i've known it all the time ♪ >> was later recorded by art garfunkel. ♪ webb wrote that song growing up in oklahoma. his father was baptist preacher. jimmy played piano in church. when he was 18, his family moved to southern california. a year later his mother died and his father decided to return to the midwest. but as he told an audience at new york university, jimmy informed his dad he wasn't going back. >> he had $44 in his pocket and he said, i can't believe you're doing this to me, son, and he handed me all his monoand got in the car and drove off. >> young jimmy made the rounds of the l.a. music industry. his sheet music shoved in a paper bag. his first sale to motown records was a christmas song. >>

and a the kristian believes a and the idea of being kristian instead of being a he then. >> host: another reoccurring relatedt themes in your work, 99, is native americans who crossed over to live the european lifestyle. >> it happens all the time. >> host: is that a bad thing? >> i think it is a matter ofh choice but sometimes for people who have doneher that, there is a longing for home, there is a long 84 what is lost to them. >>> host: the next call from them this tennessee. >> caller: hello. once saying that i don't think that you are giving justice to characterization of the chickasaw nation ist most historians believe that they were about the most belligerent, warlike and filing group of people who i were ever in the eastern part of the united states.y ifwe they were hardly ace- peace-loving group of people.p not just to against the against thet other people of the southeast if it was never a a group of conquest it was of the chickasaw.o as a member of the creek nation, you have not done justice to present your tribe for what it was. you mated generalnu discussion >> guest: i never