. >> 1973, you're writing in longhand or by typewriter. are you losing your rough drafts today because of computers? >> i save them to send to columbia, but i -- we write so many times that i have so many drafts. the current novel i'm just finishing has so many drafts. i save them all. i mean, i rewrite on the computer, but i often write first draft on yellow legal pads as i always did. because i feel freer writing by longhand, and i don't feel as comfortable with a computer. if i write a book review, if i write a short piece, i may write on the computer so i keep the note -- you know, i keep in my mind the length. there's a limit. but when i'm writing a novel or poem, i often write longhand. >> erica jong, this is forty years since "fear of flying" came out. will people be reading it forty years from now? >> a that i can't tell you. i don't know. i hope so. but i can tell you that many of the people who have received this copy and reread the book have told me that it's still very timely and current and very readable. so i hope we'll find

little symbol that you put in your book when s--when he wrote--when either one of them wrote in longhand. >> guest: that's right. well, no, no, no. can i just correct you there to say that all the letters in that book are handwritten except for where it's stated at the top of the letter, where it says 'typewritten.' the little pen symbol is where my father usually, or my mother, has annotated a typewritten letter in their own hand, made a typewritten--made a handwritten insertion. it's rather sad that in the sort of printed book, of course, you don't see visually these--these differences. but it--it's quite curious. from about 1918 onwards, my father, in fact, quite a lot of his letters were dictated and typed to my mother. he was--at that time, he'd stopped completely writing, for instance, his own books in his own hand. he dictated--dictation to him was like a sort of natural function. his words flowed from him onto his paper almost regardless of the secretary sitting there. but my mother--she minded a little bit, but on the other hand, she'd rather have the letters. c-span: we have a

. >> in longhand. it was lockhart and another clinton legend.at bill clinton said about barack obama. he said i've heard more from bush asking for advice than i have from obama. i have no relationship with the president. none whatsoever. obama doesn't know how to be president. he doesn't know how the world works. he's incompetent. he's an amateur. also after the election, apparently it sound like barack obama was changing his mind and thought i'm not going to endorse anybody in the next presidential round. bill clinton went ballistic. that's when they called steve kroft and they had that love-in. >> remember in 2009 president obama issued a new ethics order. you leave this administration, you can't become a lobbyist to this administration. that was an attempt to stop the revolving door of officials becoming -- >>steve: how is that working out? >> it's not gone so well. in particular, there's a lot of lobbying for and against the pipeline project. four big names, former white house officials are now lobbying against the pipeline. and one, the for

ohio that obama needs to win in to minimus collating of information that can be done, and this was longhand and i realized pretty quickly the nose couldn't serve me as they had built. i couldn't figure out the source codes and topic codes. the key here blasts. he had secret codes. rx or his doctor diary entries. that when i deduced, but others were a number assigned within a minute. i try to deduce from reading the page to a secret cargo sans and i made a lot of headway that might've had to do with family. so if i saw four or five entries about churchill's children with a number sign in at eight and a country and realize that that family. i'd be doing this for the next 20 years, so i had to find a new way -- a way to reinvent the wheel and i had a brainstorm. i called the wesleyan library amass for all the books that bill -- and as an adjunct professor there, had ever taken out and they said were sorry, that's private. how about this? any stimulus of other books overdue? [laughter] consignee bill. they said i guess we can do that in the list was 20 pages long. on it were all the diaries and