spent the write longhand? computer? >> i start with longhand. i like to write and i go to the computer and organize. computer is perfect for organizing and moving chapters and paragraphs around, positioning and repositioning. that's perfect. >> do you save your drafts? >> i save many of my dress, yes, i did get my archives are mammoth, like the grand canyon. they are filled with all this paper. >> why are your archives at syracuse when you teach at princeton? >> this is where i graduated. >> how long have you been at princeton? >> since 1978. >> are you teaching this semester? >> i'm teaching at this very minute. i'll be teaching and a couple of days, yes. >> what are you teaching? >> i'm teaching to writing workshops and type two students i advise. >> do you pick those students? >> to some extent i pick them. basically they apply to the program, and then i choose my thesis students. >> on the first day of class, what do you assign? >> oh, the first day of class we made it over in great detail a short story, a classic story. we may go over a hem

. >> host: write longhand, computer? >> guest: i start off in longhand, and i like to write, and then i go to the computer and organize. computer is perfect for organizing and moving chapters and paragraphs around and positioning and repositioning. that's perfect. >> host: do you save your drafts? >> guest: i save many of my drafts, yes, i do. my archives are at syracuse university, and they're mammoth. it's like the grand canyon, you know? it's filled with all in this paper. >> host: now, why are your archives at syracuse when you teach at princeton? >> guest: syracuse is where i graduated. and my ba's from syracuse. >> host: how long have you been at princeton university? >> guest: since 1978. >> host: are you teaching this semester? >> guest: i'm teaching at in this very minute. i'll be teaching in a couple days, yes. >> host: and what are you teaching? >> guest: i'm teaching two writing workshops, and i have two students who i advise and do three -- theses. >> host: do you pick those students? >> guest: to some exten

. >> host: write longhand or computer? >> guest: i start in longhand and i like to write.or organizing and moving chapters and paragraphs around. positioning and repositioning. that's perfect. >> host: do you save your drafts? >> guest: i save many of my drafts, yes. i do. my archives at syracuse university. they are huge. it's like the grand canyon. it's filled with all the paper. >> host: why are your archives at syracuse when you teach at princeton. >> guest: syracuse is where i graduated. my b. a. is at syracuse. >> host: how long have you been there? >> since 1978. >> host: are you teaching in the semester? >> guest: i'm teaching now. >> host: what are you teaching? >> guest: two writing workshops, and i have two students who are doing though sis. >> host: do you pick the students? >> guest: to some extent. basically they are -- they apply to the program. and that i choose my thesis on. >> host: on the first day in class what do you assign? >> guest: oh, the first day of class we may go over in great detail a short story, a classic story. we may go over a hemmingway s

. >> lady bird johnson's entire diary entry from that day is written out, longhand, and it has sinceeen completely digitized and it is now available at the lbj library website along with the corresponding audio. lyndon johnson, of course, rose to the presidency in the wake of president kennedy's assassination, and once lbj became president, one of his first orders of business in 1963 was to appoint a high-level commission to investigate the assassination. that, of course, was the warren commission, named after supreme court justice earl warren. thanks to all the stuff now being digitized, we can now hear the process of how that commission came to be, as it was happening, and it turns out it was a fascinating thing. the two men that president johnson wanted to head up that commission were chief justice earl warren, but also, senator richard russell of georgia, who was a democrat. he was a segregationist dixiecrat. the problem was that senate russell hated earl warren. senator russell was a southern segregationist and earl warren was a pro-civil rights progressive on the supreme court,