. >> mr. haley did some writing here. he did the alex haley figurines while he was here and did some writing. although after the success of roots, i think that kind of scared him out of writing. it was really hard for him to finish books that publishing companies were requesting that he finish. he just really had a hard time with it because "roots" took a lot out of mr. haley. the emotion that was in the story, the things that he had found out about his family and all was very, very emotional for him. and i think the reason, you know, he said he just really didn't ever want anything like the success of "roots" to happen to him again because it was so overwhelming to him. he had no idea that when he embarked upon this adventure to research his roots what the, how it was going to effect, actually, the entire world. mr. haley's first visit came to east tennessee was in 1982. he came here to visit the world's fair. while here, this was his first visit, and he just absolutely fell in love with the area and the people. he became

although i think that kind of scared mrs. haley. so much that it was really hard for him to finish folks the publishing companies were requesting that the finish. he just really had a hard time with it. it really took a lot out of him. the emotion that was in the story, the things he had found out about his family. very, very emotional for him. he just really didn't want anything like the success to happen to him again because it was so overwhelming to have. he had no idea that when he embarked upon this venture to researches routes, how was going to affect. his first visit came in 1982. he came here to visit the welfare of. his first visit to east tennessee. he absolutely fellow love with this area and his people. mr. wynn is the museum owner in our area who specializes in the urban history. upon his departure from the world fair he asked mr. one if some property came up for sale if you would please let him know and he would be interested in coming this way. at that time he lived in california. six or eight months of so after his d

mr. haley and his team have been working with the department of the environment to take the lessons learned here to make sure that everyone of our divisions and facilities is performing as well as presidio. modeling great behavior, falling good policy to save money in the process. [applause] so, we have one more recognition. this one is technically an mta employee. now the chief dudley has left the room, i can say that we consider to be an employee. when she returns, i will ask her to step up to the podium. this is not an employee award. we are acknowledging her, as we just heard yesterday, making the recipient the community service award winner. a dinner on saturday night, being a tireless advocate for belgae bt equality -- lgbt equality. we feel very lucky to have her serving there now. one aspect of the career is that she served as the longtime president of the police officers and a vocal advocate for gbt members. we could not be more proud to have our qualified-employee here for recognition

frankly, from my personal experience, compliments to mr. haley, the issues that we have been experiencing and had experienced over the last few months are getting better. the one thing that we had talked about was some sort of reporting on when there are actually delays, so that the public can tune in and find out why they sat in a bus or train for a certain amount of time, getting some reports on what is being done about it. i think that that is still something that we should pursue. something that we should continue to pursue. the one issue that i heard a fair amount about, regarding service, and maybe this is something that you can report back on, it had to do with the recent confluence of events in the city. fleet week, the bluegrass festival, and so on. i had heard an enormous amount of concern that those events had not been properly planned for. that some of our lines were very crowded. i do not mean to suggest that there is an entirely new problem, but as we get ready for the america's cup, i wonder if we as a board could get a report back

mr. john haley to introduce them. we have frank lem, an electronic minutes system supervisor, here for 21 years. the able leader at the presidio. wun wong, with 18 years of service. douglas glee, electronic trances it -- assistant supervisor of the 21 years. ms. peterson, 21 years of service. more years than i have days. [laughter] myra tellabs and nim lem, with years of service given to the people of san francisco, it is all extraordinary. the work that they did to drive down the generation of waste is what we are recognizing today. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you. i will actually turn the microphone over and i will say only two things. one, you do not get the kinds of results that they got by not being passionate at the job. please make sure that you dispose of your waist before you leave. [laughter] i will say that the extraordinary effort described started but a banana peel. -- with a banana peel. [laughter] >> that afternoon, all. i was asked by my supervisor to be the zero waste coordinator. i found

"roots" was very emotional for mr. haley. what it took from him, he gave back to all the people throughout the world. to be able to look back up on their ancestors. he said he just, he realized after he had quinn -- written "roots," that he had done it for all those who had no one to tell their story. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> next, lewis sorley recounts the story of general westmoreland. mr. sorley speaks at the national archives in washington, d.c. for about an hour. [applause] >> there are many people here who have encouraged and supported me over long years of research and writing. i would like to acknowledge one in particular, former colonel viet who has come from houston to be with us today. viet and i have been friends since 1961 when as captains we were classmates at the armor school at fort knox. viet served bravely and honorably during the long years of the vietnam war including an assignme

yesterday along former rnc chairman haley barbour, mr. establishment in the republican party was busy singing the praises of not mitt romney but mitt romney's rival herman cain on conservative talk radio. the republican party's budget guy in congress, paul ryan of kill medicare fame, he was praising herman cain's tax plan in the conservative blogosphere. and the republican party's beloved talk show host, rush limbaugh, spent yesterday essentially damning mitt romney with faint praise. >> romney is not a conservative. he's not, folks, but you can argue with me all day long an that, but he isn't. what he has going for him is that he's not obama. >> the thing that mitt romney has going for him according to rush limbaugh is the thing that 308 million other american citizens have going for them as well. their name is not barack obama. the republican establishment is not rallying behind mitt romney. not by a long shot. this election cycle has seen the lowest endorsement rate by republican establishment figures of any election in the last 30 yea

mr. president the greenis your idea. don't just throw a lot t pa in there and walk away. when you decido kill bin laden, did you say give this money to haley barbour head up a program. go situation room pick up the scramble lin call in we'll be right back. he man behind sesame street's elmow. his early life and in a chronicle new documentary being elmo a journey. >> my mom had a considerable amount of kids she was baby-sitting. i would set up a puppet stage in the backyardhe and myborhood would line a this and out here and watch me do the show.owsa.yed >> jo iapplause ) how are you sir? good to see you after so many years. >> many years. you and i, of course old pals from elmopalooza >> hanging out with david allen greer. >> jon: chris rock. >> a lot of mode that too. >> jon: my favorite part of >> i mean seriously.s a joke? hand models. my favo that whole shoot was in takese puppeteer sesame very talented people but they uppet off.have a conversation with each other. >> jon: all of a sudden it's like this.ened?n your handah. tou know instead of charact each other. that gets us.... >> jon: is it that easy. >> to make them laugh is it that

today, mississippi governor haley barbour said if the election was today in all likelihood mrs. barbour would probably vote for cain. rick perry's wife says every time she hears the 99 she wants to call 999. >> shepard: fallout over the campaign scheduling thing for when they are going to vote. you told us that one state could actually vote in early november. >> new hampshire says if nevada does not agree to hold the caucuses after january 17th they could take place as soon as december 6 of this year. former utah governor john huntsman says he will boycott, nevada, until they change their deet. how to, the boycott doesn't actually begin until wednesday because both santorum and huntsman plan to go to a big debate taking place in vegas on tuesday. after that no campaigning in nevada and participation in its caucus until they move it and look for other republican candidates to be pressured in signing that petition. there will be a lot of pressure for them to blow off, nevada. >> shepard: live free or die. carl cameron live for us in nevada waiting to see how the justice department

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mr. obama will continue to demonize former president bush putting forth that more federal spending will create jobs and that the evil republicans are blocking that job creation. in reply, mississippi governor haleyar borrow an uber republican said this. >> martin's amnesia about the fact that obama ha had the biggest democratic majorities in congress since lyndon johnson, they passed everything he wanted, including ramming health care, obama care down the country's throat and now they complain well, gee, we didn't get everything we wanted, those mean republicans? bill clinton never did that. ronald reagan never did that. >> bill: comes down to this. you, the american voter, will eventually have to make the call between the two strategies. talking points does not believe the democrats are in a strong position because the bent -- debt is too huge and blaming bush is too old. i could be wrong because there is one other thing in play here. we are becoming a nation of excuse-makers. younger americans especially have a tendency to accept excuses for bad behavior and failure no matter how outland dish those excuses are. court has shifted from personal responsibility to somebody's else's fault if i don'