along with my wife, lissa muscatine. on behalf of the entire pnp staff and the staff here at gw auditorium, welcome. [applause] this is a very alert audience can i say that he caused this event sold out within hours, which the just that many of you were paying very close attention to our announcement. at politics & prose, when we can , we hold author talks, but we had a feeling that a bigger venue would be needed for this one and we are fortunate to have found it here. we at george washington university have worked together a number of years of lysol began what we were calling the news ticker series, featuring prominent authors. i'd like to thank everyone connect it was listener who helped to organize this evenings event. the guest of honor is done primarily of course for her political goals as first lady, u.s. senator from new york in the 67th secretary of state. she's also just published her fifth book and has several previous best sailors to her name. so added to the list of credits after hillary rodham clinton should

ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming hillary rodham clinton and lissa muscatine. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. great. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> well, that was very nice. it is great to have you. thank you so much. >> thanks to you and brett are running such a great bookstore, politics & prose. >> speaking up hooks, you got it out for four days now. >> is right. for. >> it's been one of the spaces that was more like when your secretary and you start your books are all over the place in doing these interviews. you keep a pretty frenetic pace. i have to ask you because her the first time i read this book and i read it several times now, i was struck by a kind of lightheartedness. it's a serious book. it deals with obviously very serious issues. but there's a lighter side that comes true. so i am wondering if i've watched you in the first four days and it has been tough interviews to me seem like you're having a good time. >> well, i am having a good time and that is in part due to the enthusiasm that i have experienced as

ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming hillary rodham clinton and lissa muscatine. [applause] >> thank you. [laughter] [applause] thank you so much. [applause] >> well that was very nice. it is great to have you. thank you so much. >> thank you and thanks to you and brad for running such a great bookstore politics and prose. [applause] speaking of books you have had it out for four days now. >> that's right. >> you probably lost count visit was probably one of these paces more like when you were secretary. you are traveling all over the place and doing all these interviews. you are keeping a pretty frenetic pace but i have to ask you the first time i read this book it and i've read it several times i was struck by a lightheartedness. it's a serious book that deals with serious issues but there is a lighter side that comes through. so i'm wondering as i've watched you in these first four days and you have had some tough interviews you seem like you are having a really good time. >> lissa i am having a good time and i think that is in part due to the enthusiasm that i

i talked to lissa and some other people and they said they'll personalize it. you say hillary. that i can do so i sat in the turn down the old movie channels because it was relaxing and just sat there inside. the ones that you are getting have all been personally signed by me. [applause] >> you mentioned beijing. the 20th anniversary this year and i want to tell a quick story and it does want to ask you about this. you almost didn't go. you almost didn't go because the chinese had arrested a naturalized citizen saying he was an american spy but we ended up going and worked really hard on this speech. i think i've told you this once but there was an amazing thing that happened personally which was that i walked up and we had gone from washington to why he. we met with the president of white and then we flew to guam and went from guam to beijing and we were on the last draft of the beach that have been closely held. i took it up to him and you obviously obviously knew this speech inside out. i will never forget this. it was very corny but a experience for me. i gave you the speec

i talked to lissa and some other people and they said they'll personalize it. you say hillary. that i can do so i sat in the turn down the old movie channels because it was relaxing and just sat there inside. the ones that you are getting have all been personally signed by me. [applause] >> you mentioned beijing. the 20th anniversary this year and i want to tell a quick story and it does want to ask you about this. you almost didn't go. you almost didn't go because the chinese had arrested a naturalized citizen saying he was an american spy but we ended up going and worked really hard on this speech. i think i've told you this once but there was an amazing thing that happened personally which was that i walked up and we had gone from washington to why he. we met with the president of white and then we flew to guam and went from guam to beijing and we were on the last draft of the beach that have been closely held. i took it up to him and you obviously obviously knew this speech inside out. i will never forget this. it was very corny but a experience for me. i gave you the speec

and as david said, brad and lissa have carried on the wondrous tradition, the ingenuity and made it keep going, and the fact that all of you have come tonight is a testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books that we all share. richard nixon's a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first -- i remember as a child on black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man. he was on the ticket with general eisenhower, and there was some problem of his taking money from a secret fund. he was talking about his daughter's dog, and i thought, hmm, he's interesting. well, he never stopped being interesting. richard nixon was never boring. and as david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. i chronicle in the book the beginning with spiro agnew, remember him being in some trouble. and i had said to my editor at the new yorker, the very lamented and justly legendary william shaun had said to me what are you thinking of writing next? i said, i don't know, i just have this feeling we're going to change vice presidents and president

to live i loved him tried to do everything not to let him down the sirens and the planes reminded lissaafa massena of seventy three years earlier. you know what i was four years old but it still remains in my head how we ran into the basement the same basement we used in one thousand nine hundred forty one is the one way use and today after their strike went out and looked at this guy all the time worrying if they're going to bomb again or not and the movement people are not hanging around to find out one of the most recent to believe this eight month old boy when the bombs hit slovyansk he couldn't be taken to the cement without the hospital patients and had to stay in the intensive care unit where nurses would cover him with mattresses to protect him from falling shrapnel and for now he's safe but millions are still it was nearly a week after the air strike that killed alexander a cloud of uncertainty hangs over lugansk the site of the attack is now a memorial where people come to light candles say a prayer and pay their respects and silently hoop that the worst is now past policy r.t