i'd like to ask mr. dean if he could comment on the family of secrets by russ baker where he reiterates the charges that were in the lawsuit as a copyright 2009 book, if the he's going to bring suit against him too? >> guest: i'm still looking at mr. baker. he's somebody i hold in minimum high respect because he's not a terribly solid journalist. so i'll just leave it at that. >> host: next is marion from erie, colorado. go ahead, please. >> caller: hi, good morning. this is a wonderful program and thanks to you both. i have a specific question, and it has today with the watergate tapes and specifically a moment -- and i've only read the transcripts, so i'm asking mr. dean to flesh out this moment. where my picture, at least, is that president nixon is sitting on one side of the desk and mr. dean is sitting on the other. and the president twice says, you realize that if one person tells this story, the whole thing could come down. and mr. dean says, yes, i know that. and the president reiterates this, and mr.

building. >> host: charles from illinois, welcomed to the program. >> caller: i would like to ask mr. dean to comment on family secrets by russell baker where he reiterates the charges in the lawsuit. copyright 2009 book that he is going to bring suit against him too. >> guest: mr. baker is someone i hold in minimum high respect because he is not a terribly solid journalist so i will leave it at that. >> caller: this is a wonderful program. i have a specific question that has to do with the watergate tapes and specifically a moment to read the transcripts and i am asking mr. dean to flesh out this moment. and president nixon is on one side of the desk and the president twice said you don't realize if one person tells this story the whole thing could come down and mr. deane says yes, i know that and the president reiterated this and mr. deane says again i am aware of that. or words to that effect. i am wondering in that moment of conversation whether you had the sense that he knew it was you or whether you knew and he didn't that it was going to be you. it is such a shakespearean dramatic m

go ahead, please. >> caller: yeah, thank you, mr. deaning on c-span and also the time you spend going on the randy rhodes show, i really appreciate that. but my question relates to your book, "conservatives without conscious," which is a fantastic book, and i really appreciate you writing it. i often ask my friends like you say you hear defending, you know, why don't they take the republican party back? and i wonder, you know, it seems that they have narrowed their focus on who can participate in their politics the point to where, you know, i worry about them going away which i think we need a conservative party even though i'm a liberal myself. i appreciate the values and hold some of those myself. but i just wonder what your perception is of where it's going, and then the last thing

hi, mr. dean. happy easter.ve, you do a wonderful job with the interviewing both here and on washington journal,nd, mr. dean, i've read several of your books and enjoyed them very much. a quick story and a question. i'm usually successful in striking up conversations with seat mates on plane rides, but about six years ago a beautiful woman sat down next to me, obviously, very wealthy, and i was unable to get much of a conversation going with her. she was courteous but quite distant, and i put that down later to the fact that i had a book on my lap which i'd read a little bit of, and that book, of course, was "worse than watergate." [laughter] so -- >> host: paul, who was your seat mate? >> caller: i don't -- she was, obviously, a wealthy young woman from seattle. might have been a microsoft millionaire's wife or somebody like that. >> guest: those are my readers. [laughter] >> caller: but, well, this one, i don't think she appreciated the book. it was just a guess on my part, but i think an educated guess. in an

mr. dean, i wanted to know if thought that what happened in the 1960 election in illinois and west virginia had a major impact on president nixon's attitudes towards the powers that be in the media and what have you. and did you have any conversations regarding -- i believe his top lawyers at the time wanted him to challenge the electoral count in all of illinois which would have given him the presidency but from what i've known -- i had an indirect conversation -- a second party conversation with the president back around 1966. his reasoning for not challenging that election, i believe, was it would have torn the country apart in a time in the '60s when we had a very serious problem with nuclear confrontation with the russians. if you would please give me your thoughts -- any conversations and maybe that made him a little bitter to the press and what have you because of the stolen election. >> host: thank you, john. >> guest: yes. that's a good summary of the situation. and nixon's position w

mr. dean, i have to comment and question. first of all, you are right. it is difficult to define the conservative movement. i once read a quote from that once you think you have us figured out we changed like chameleons and go in a different direction. my second comment is recently eight right-leaning supreme court ruled that large corporations could contribute to campaign advertising with no limitation. it's a known fact that during the 2008 campaign, most of obama's donations came from lower to middle-class people like myself who gave more than usual and in larger numbers. so my question is, wasn't the supreme court ruling a way to put more corporate money into the 2002 republican campaign, and how to donation made by average income americans? >> guest: yes, you're talking about a case called citizens united versus the federal elections commission. a very troubling decision. very troubling decision for me for a lot of reasons. first of all it wasn't a case they have to decide. it's one that there was obviously a majority of the justices realize they ha

thank you mr. deanoming onto c-span and also when you are on the road but my question relates to your book which is fantastic and i appreciate that. i often ask my friends like you said why don't they take the republican party back? i wonder that it seems they narrow their focus on who can participate in their politics to the point* where i worry about them even though i appreciate the values i want tow

wondered if you could say, mr. dean could say a little about why white supremacy, white racism is such an important component in this american conservativism? i mean, you've mentioned barry goldwater's 1964 campaign and his trips to the south. clearly, with white spremmists and his interactions down there. so i'm wondering why this is, why they have, why the american conservative movement has allowed white supremacy to be such an important component in their development and rise in america? >> guest: well, i think it's a rather new phenomenon. as a matter of fact, if there is anybody who was not a supremacist or a race cyst, it's barry goldwater. he's the man who integrated the arizona national guard long before truman had even done so with the, with the armed services. he's somebody who, for example, there were black and white theaters in the phoenix that he as a member of the city council eliminated. he's somebody who voted against the '64 civil rights bill much to his later chagrin on the advice of two lawyers who he

. >> mr. deani saw you down here a couple years ago when you were doing your last book signing and wondering if you were coming back again but my primary question was incidentally, i went to the military academy with you. my question was you are obviously aware of the watergate break-in before it happened. did you forewarn the president that it would come to nobody's interest and possibly the democrat party? >> guest: i was asked because the head of the reelection committee was not terribly familiar with michel, asked me to see what gordon liddy's plans for political intelligence might be. two of the most amazing meetings i ever it attended in government. he was there to make a pitch. he had easels set up in the attorney general's office planning to run the campaign and i listened to this pitch. it was all in code names. mr. president, i have plans to deal with the anti-war demonstrators which was one of our real problems. my office got anti-war demonstration information because it was classified i

if you did a great job for america and i want to pick up on what mr. dean said before i ask my question about what role will send. if it were not for guinn beck, most of many americans who did not know before would not know what a miserable man but for wilson was, how he brought segregation into the federal government both in washington, d.c. specifically and throughout the civil service and the armed forces. he was a horrible man. now what i originally called to ask and find a

mr. dean, i saw you a couple of years ago when you were doing your last book signing and i wonder if you were coming back again. but by primary question was incidentally of the understand he went to military academy with you. you are aware of the watergate break before it happened. did you for war and the president that it would come to nobody's interest and it can't possibly the democrats' party? >> guest: let me tell you about that. what happened is i was asked because the head of the reelection committee was not terribly familiar with mitchell and cost me to come over and your record in leedy's plans for political intelligence might be. two of the most amazing meetings i had ever attended in government, liddy was there to make a pitch and set up in the attorney general's office and mitchell planned to come over to run the campaign. and i've listened to the pitch for example he set it all in code names and mr. president, i have plans for example to deal with the antiwar demonstrators which w

mr. dean, i saw you down here a couple years ago when you were doing your last book signing, and i wondered if you're coming back again. but my primary question was -- oh, incidentally, i've gone to stanton military academy with you. >> guest: aha. >> caller: and my question was, you were, obviously, aware of the watergate break-in before it happened. did you forewarn the president that it would come to nobody's interest except possibly the democratic party's? >> guest: well, let me tell you about that. what had happened was that i was asked because jeb ma griewder, the head of the re-election committee, was not terribly familiar with mitchell asked me to come over and hear what gordon liddy's plans for political intelligence might be. two of the most amazing meetings i've ever attended in government. liddy was over there to make a pitch. he had easels set up in the attorney general's office. the attorney general mitchell planning to come over to run the campaign. and i listened to this pitch,

. >> what was it like interviewing senator frist and mr. dean? >> that was the most memorable part. both have great medical perspective but they came from different sides of the argument. you can hear that in their answers. >> what was something that you learned while producing the video? >> i learned about the medicare doughnut hole, that medicare is expected to go bankrupt by 2017. that can be difficult for seniors. that can make them a bit uneasy. i learned a lot about how medicare works, how it will affect me and all americans. >> how long did it take to produce, what was the most difficult parts? >> my teacher introduced this project to us on the first day of school in august. until mid-january when the video was submitted, we had to chosose a topic and then we had all of the interviews. this was about a six-month project. during that, the most challenging part was definitely the editing. sometimes people would say things in an interview that you did not really want to cut out, but it is an eight-minute video, and you want to have the best part, and sometimes that is hard. >> t

mr. carter, you're the dean of this group. where will he broadcast from?uld bet not from the nbc studios. but not because he wouldn't like it. i think nbc might feel, and i think that i've already heard that they're not that comfortable with the idea. frankly, if no one else rents it, they would be silly not to rent it to him. i bet he would look for space elsewhere. that would be my expectation. >> larry: so bill, in television circles, would you call this a major surprise? >> yeah, i would. and i did write it that way. i feel like, you know, it's very hard these days to keep anything quiet at all. and all we heard was that fox was still talking to him. and they were. and tbs very quietly came in around the side door. and as i said, i didn't really expect that because, when the possibilities were laid out, it didn't seem that this is where he would wind up. and tbs, you know, tbs has not had a real hit show of its own before. and now they have a guy who's basically been the signature star of people under four, let's say in late night for the last ten year

mrs. gallo's husband, dean, who the cancer what. it was aggressive and spread. differentiating those coming up with a much more targeted approach both in her lifestyle decisions because it's one of the challenges apparently we don't know what makes us more likely than here p.m. or african people of our same dna mix but in other countries the fact that we can't measure or predicted but no court could be more demonstrative of the people who would most likely about does it agree -- i would like utilities dollars, the federal dollars where would you have to spend more dollars if we only had a very limited amount? what we put in three, four, 500 million more into trying to get these better tests first? >> well mai? >> of course. it's the leading question that knowing -- >> i've educated and i'm the lucky one who survived. i'm one of the lucky ones finding that cancer and prostate. for those who have doctors and access to the best it's still like winning the lottery. on the other side when men have mammograms and make the science much more successful we need to catch

. >> dean lloyd, mr. president, mrs. obama, mr.at we needed it. in her soon to be published book, "living with purpose," a book that she just finished, two months ago, she wanted to have it out for her 98th birthday. that was going to be her gift to us. but, in the opening pages of that book, she wrote, that a reporter asked her in january what she considered her greatest accomplishment to be. and she responded, by saying, my greatest accomplishment is that i started on a journey and i'm still on it. we'll see, she said... where i end up. [applause]. >> we know that she ended that journey very much the way she began her journey, and she taught us lessons in her transition. the same lessons that she had been teaching us, all of her life. to keep fighting. and to never take yourself out of the game. because she didn't take herself out of it. you know, at the very end, she had no less than 3 curtain calls in her final month of hospitalization, at howard university. and, each week, each week, we gave her up. but, each week, she rallied

mr. delahunt: yes, madam speaker. i now yield -- madam speaker, i now yield a minute to the dean of the house, chairman john dingell. he speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for a minute. mr. dingell: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dingell: madam speaker, i commend, congratulate and thank my good friends on the committee for their kindness, and i thank my good friend from massachusetts for yielding this time to me. i rise in strong support of the resolution expressing the sympathy of the united states for the people of poland in the aftermath of the tragic plane crash that killed the country's president. the first lady and 94 other poles. my thoughts and prayers are with the polish people at this difficult time. as an american of polish descent, proud of my heritage, i grieve at this loss and what a sad time it occurs when the poles were going to smolensk, russia, to commemorate the killing of 20,000 polish officers and intelligence under the direct orders of the soviet dictator, josef stalin. and i am g

mr. delahunt: yes, madam speaker. i now yield -- madam speaker, i now yield a minute to the dean of the house, chairman john dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for a minute. mr. dingell: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dingell: madam speaker, i commend, congratulate and thank my good friends on the committee for their kindness, and i thank my good friend from massachusetts for yielding this time to me. i rise in strong support of the resolution expressing the sympathy of the united states for the people of poland in the aftermath of the tragic plane crash that killed the country's president. the first lady and 94 other poles. my thoughts and prayers are with the polish people at this difficult time. as an american of polish descent, proud of my heritage, i grieve at this loss and what a sad time it occurs when the poles were going to smolensk, russia, to commemorate the killing of 20,000 polish officers and intelligence under the direct orders of the soviet dictator, josef stalin. and i am

now i'd like to recognize my colleague, the dean of the virginia delegation, congressman frank woeful. mr. woeful: madam speaker,s that sad o-- mr. weavel: -- mr. wolf: madam speaker, this is a sad day. i had the privilege of serving for 10 years of his 12 years. he had many legislative accomplishment the people in northern west virginia, including to what my colleague, mr. moran, said, i think many would agree one of the most significant was to transfer dulles international airport from the f.a.a. to the regional airport authority which eventually led to two of the finest airports in the region. he was not only an outstanding member of congress but a korean war hero. someone said if you wanted to understand stan parrish, read the back "the right stuff." he was a pilot, he'd been shot down in the korean war, his airplane landed on power lines and was rescued in north korea, received a distinguished flying cross. the purple heart, and the air medal. was also a state legislator and local legislator and attorney. he recently made his home in matthews, virginia, with his wife marty and to mar

yield to my distinguished colleague from florida, the dean of the florida delegation, congressman young. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. young: madam speaker, i thank my friend and colleague from florida for yielding the time to me. and i just want to say on behalf of the republican members of the florida delegation, the great delegation here in the congress, congressman, welcome. congratulations, you will be serving in the people's house, your oath of office that you have just sworn to uphold the constitution is something that will you find very challenging as you go through your career here. but just rest assured that those of us in the florida delegation on both sides of the aisle will be here to be helpful to you as you carry out your important activities. i again welcome, congratulations. the speaker: without objection, the newest member of congress of the house of representatives, congressman ted deutch, is recognized. mr. deutch: thank you, speaker pelosi. this is a truly humbling day and the honor of a lifetime. my constituents -- constituents are extraordinary collection of americans, seniors who served our n

mr. en sign to resign, this coming a day after representative dean hemmer, a republican from northern nevada, also saying that the ethics inquiries were causing "real problems" for party members around the state. if you want to read the piece from the former chair of the clark county republican party and also the former treasurer of the clark county republican party, they have posted also their claims that senator john ensign should leave office. he is up for re-election in 2012. in this mid-term election, the current senator, current democratic leader, harry reid, is up for rehe collection in what is a close race and some polls showing harry reid behind. but again, on the republican side of the aisle, more and more republicans, including congressman heller, calling for senator john ensign to resign because of the ethics inquiry into his marital infidelity the and some of the payoffs by his family that even senator ensign has quermed are accurate. we're going to take a short break on this friday morning. when we come back, we're going to turn our attention to the economy and also to mine saf

we also have this ditty gallo, widow of a former congressman dean gallo why served with who die from prostate cancer and we have with us also mr. thomas farrington, tin your prostate cancer survivor who has done a lot of work in this area as well. there's a high degree of public awareness of the need for regular screens for certain kinds of cancer. notably breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer. however this widespread belief is now being debated. a few months ago "the new york times" devoted some scientists have concluded the benefits of the cancer especially breast and prostate cancer have been overstated and that regular screening might not do as much parma -- might do as much harm as good. this has caused widespread confusion which we hope to correct today. to help us do that we have some of the leading medical experts in the country to discuss the latest thinking on screening and treatment of prostate cancer. i look forward to your testimony today because this is a very important issue and again i thank my colleague, elijah cummings, for making certain that we move forward with this discussion. malae jeal to the

mr. brown, thank you. well, now we take our first question of the night. it comes from may dean. >> we know there are going to be spending cuts. why captain you be honest and tell us? 15 billion pouns worth of savings up from down payments to deal with this huge black hole we have in our public funds. we were talking about things like scrapping, the new generation of public passports. saying the top 20% of tax credits shouldn't receive those. the multibillion pound euro typhoon project. a defense project. those are the kinds of a big degrees. you can't -- force you into thinking the savings are enough. you can't fill the black hole by a few savings on paper clips. >> gordon brown? >> we set out a four-year reduction deficit plan. it is designed to have tax rise s that arefair and spending cuts that are equitable and at the same time growth in the economy that is essential for recovery a our four-year plan includes a rise in the top rate of tax above 100,000. and a national insurance rise but it also includes spending cuts in key areas. but we have one principle that we're adopti

mr. conyers: madam speaker, in recognizing solomon ortiz of texas, we also recognize him to be the dean of the hispanic caucus, and i thank him for bringing the attention of this really great texan and american to our attention and yield him as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. ortiz: thank you, chairman conyers, for giving out a beautiful description of my good friend, dr. hector garcia, and thank you for bringing this to the floor. and i want to thank my good friend from texas, mr. smith, for bringing this resolution to the floor. madam speaker, i rise in honor and to honor an american hero who very well respected in the community. today, we honor the life and work of dr. hector garcia, a recognized leader for better health care for all texans, a legendary civil rights advocate and promotor of education for hispanics. my resolution 222 honors the lifetime of extraordinary achievements of dr. hector garcia, who lived in my congressional district of corpus christi for many years. his family i

dean levy of duke law school. i ask consent to include those letters in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: chris schroeder is well known to many of us in the senate. he served in many positions, including chief counsel for the judiciary committee, when the chairman was then-senator joe biden. he spent years in private practice as a professor, including for the last ten years as director for the program public law at duke university law school. he's extraordinarily well prepared for the position he's been nominated to. in fact, in my nearly 36 years here, it's hard to think of somebody more well qualified. he graduated -- he served a number of high ranking positions at the justice. he graduated from princeton university, received his master of divinity from yale definitive school before earning his law degree from the university of california berkeley in 1974. there's no question he's well qualified to run the office of legal policy. and it shouldn't require somebody who's going to be confirmed easily, it shouldn't be necessary for the majority leader to have to file cloture in order