mrs. kennedy. it does remind me of when c-span came into the white house in 2008 and did a similar walk and talk with laura bush and went through all the restoration she did, including a very extensive one to the lincoln bedroom, which was so important. almost every room in the white house was touched by laura ush. beyond the white house she had an enormous impact on the presidential retreat at camp david. >> i don't want to leave out edith roosevelt, teddy roosevelt wife, who had an enormous impact in redoing the physical space of the white house. she was the one who can be credited with building the west wing, which has become so famous in the 20th century. she also had a large and active family, and the living quarters had been so crowded, the same as caroline harrison. it hadn't change since harrison's time. she didn't really feel she had enough room for her family, and she wanted all the presidential offices out of the white house, and oversaw the restoration that was done. a lot of it was bas

mrs. kennedy. the one who was brought back more art and antiques to the white house than any other first lady. >> we will talk a little more about that. the program and samaria -- many areas. we hope you will be with us later on. the college has been for a couple of decades of doing a historian survey of first ladies and their influence. we partner with them this year because of the series and the results have been just released over the weekend. you might've seen reporting about it. survey,a clip of the don leavy research institution about the ball -- poll. let's watch. >> for the fifth time since 1982, the siena research institute has released a survey on the first ladies. here are the results of the top 10. number one, eleanor roosevelt appeared number two, abigail adams. dolly madison, four. michelle obama is in fifth place followed by the hillary clinton, lady bird johnson. leavy is the director of the siena research institute. dr. leavy what do you see in this top 10 list? >> what is most ama

ball was candid with kennedy about vietnam in particular. and he told him at one point, mr. president, if you put two 300 ground troops into the jungles of vietnam you'll never hear from them again. and he said you're crazy as hell. of course, we'll never know exactly what kennedy would have done about vietnam. on the other hand when ball was sort of told to defend the administration speak for it, that was his job. you know, sort of like a vice president. you don't go out on the hustings and give speeches that are in contradiction with what the president is saying and so he pretty much defended. but behind the scenes he was candid with kennedy and was one of those who was a very early critic along with gallon breath and george canon. they want kennedy against -- and i don't think kennedy ever would have done what lyndon johnson did in vietnam. i don't think he would have put 545,000 troops. >> here's an audio recording of john kennedy right before he was assassinated talking about the xiem coup. e was the president of south vietnam. listen to this and get you to interpret thi

sort of a democrats forever turned against him, but shortly after that kennedy spoke to kids at harvard and said i'm really glad mrs. douglas lost, i wouldn't have wanted to work with her in the senate. nixon supported kennedy's membership application to the burning tree country club. the kennedys, jack and jackie invited the nixons to their wedding. when jack kennedy was laid up with a bad back injury, nixon sort of help protect him, and mrs. kennedy wrote to him and said, thank you, jack thinks you're one of the most wonderful people. so i won't call them friends, they were politicians who -- no one's really friends in this business. >> well, tip o'neill and ronald reagan must have been friends. >> yeah, right. [laughter] >> but they were friendly. they were colleagues, they were roughly the same age, and suddenty kennedy -- suddenly, kennedy was really playing rough. nothing was held back, and he felt he was being roughed up by the kennedys. they were saying terrible things about him, it was a really rough campaign, and furthermore, he thought -- when it was all over, he thought it had been stolen. he thought he

mrs. kennedy she wrote back, such a sweet thing. she had that side of him and then he had this other side. he completely baffled me. >> host: what struck me is how mean dwight eisenhower was to richmond nixon. it's amazingly -- amazing how mean. you should give us some examples. >> guest: i think a lot of it -- eisenhower wasn't aware of it. he regarded almost everybody who worked for him as staff, and nix wonas lieutenant commander in the navy and eisenhower was a five-star general. to try to get a sense of that today, we don't have any. we have four stars, like david petraeus, but it's a different sort between sort of leading the expeditioner in force in the invasion of normandy or running the surge in iraq. it's a different magnitude. and eisenhower was so big, both parties wanted him to run. jimmy roosevelt, fdrs son, wanted him to run as a democrat. and was talk he could run for both parties and have different vice presidents. he was so beloved. and i -- eisenhower was oblivious to his effect on people, and in some cases there

mr. kennedy, thanks for coming on. >> all right, let's get the old-- obviously everybody knows the familys in the house in rhode island's first district. you were co-author and lead sponsor of the mental health parity and a gixs equality act. now leading project sam what is sam. >> i came to this because i was a sponsor of this mental health bill that said the brain was part of the body. that was a big piece of legislation you just cited that i sponsored. >> stephen: the brain is part of the body then why do women want to know if we want them for their body or their brain? (laughter) can't have both, can't have it both ways. anyway-- go ahead, go ahead. >> so just like women are discriminated against because if they have a baby they are higher costs, you know, we were trying to make sure that you couldn't discriminate against the brain and mental illness which insurance companies traditionally do. they impose higher costs on you as a consumer if you have a brain illness. but if you have diabetes or asthma or cardiovascular disease, they don't charge you more or discriminate against you mo

mrs. kennedy's flight.in fact, if you go to youtube, you can see actual footage of jack ruby told down the hallway and reporter shouts out jack, jack, how could this have? if at the stevenson were vice president cummins never would've happened. what do you mean? sorties they? look at the man in here now. the man at the top of the mets lyndon. senator barry goldwater note was lyndon johnson. robert kennedy knew it was lyndon johnson. robert kennedy sent an emissary, an artist whose a friend. one of the first openly men in america. she goes to the soviet union, give him a message from the kennedys. they say we know jack kennedy -- john kennedy was killed by domestic conspiracy. two, they said dallas was the perfect place for the crime and three, the elevation of lyndon johnson is unfortunate a grievous problem. robert kennedy tells his assistant, i know exactly what happened, but there's nothing i can do about it now, which is true because despite the fact he still has the title of attorney general, the power

mrs. kennedy. arm was caked. >> i say that they don't come out too often. i do want to thank all of you for your friendship and your loyal support. >> the equal rights amendment when ratified will not be an instant solution to women's problems. of ill not alter the fabric the constitution or force women away from their families. it will help knock down those restrictions that have locked women in. >> this morning in venezuela, the president said to me that the speech and my visit to latin america had opened new paths in inter-american relations instead of the fraternalism that has characterized the past. >> i had antennas that went up when someone had their own agenda. and then i tell him. may not agree with me, but i tell him. >> the difference between the vice president's wife and the president's wife is huge, because the vice president's wife can say anything, nobody cares. the minute you say one thing as the president's wife, you have made the news. >> the expectations and the demands have changed and i'm trying to find my way through it and trying to f

mr. kennedy were interviewed for the arb. a new book, biography of mrs.ted former cia director david petroleum showed the benghazi attack showed mrs. clinton's strength under pressure adding she would make a splendid president. lawmakers squaring off on sunday shows on the issue. >> she should have known security was not taken care of. she called it her greatest regret in time of secretary of state. that will be an issue. >> the only thing republicans are obsessed with obama care more, is benghazi. this is completely a political game they're playing. hillary clinton, joe biden, all great candidates far better than what our friends will put up. >> reporter: some lawmakers accuse general petraeus providing misleading testimony before congress after the benghazi attempt where he put emphasis on anti-islam video initially and later claimed he believed it was terrorism from day one, jenna. jenna: catherine herridge live in d.c. thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jon: a breakthrough that could help millions of americans who rely on prosthetic limbs. we'll

pact as a result of the brand that case the direct sale of the anti war cause the coalition kennedy's divine mrs bain stance on iran will work. united states and nato and the eu together using the combined forces the signal these demonstrators that we are with you and of course that involved them and john kerry and eu and nato leadership in the bombing the station are neck deep in now planned to carry on regime change in this extremely important part of europe trying to integrate a former soviet republic into the eu and of course in tomato ultimately i think the united states government this flame a dirty game another dirty game. they're trying to do what they've been doing for the last twenty years which is to incorporate all of the former socialist countries in the eastern and so she and central european bloc those that were aligned the soviet union into an american western nato sphere of influence and you can see it it's going to systematically in ukraine is a big prize is a big country with a very big military and its raid on russia's border. black ice it happens in kiev and will be keeping

kennedy. mr. oswald was able to buy that gun legally by ordering it through the mail.used a coupon that he clipped out of "american riflemen" magazine, the magazine of the nra. lee harvey oswald was able to buy that gun he later used to kill the president because the bill that then-senator john f. kennedy introduced that would have banned the sale of that gun, that bill was defeated in a concerted effort led by the nra. lee harvey oswald bought the gun in march 1963. he killed president kennedy with it that november. in 1963, following the assassination of the president, there was a big push immediately to try to reform gun laws around the country. gallup polling following the president's death showed more than 80% of the country wanted congress to enact the strictest possible gun restrictions, but then nothing happened. the new president lyndon johnson tried to get gun reform passed in the wake of the jfk assassination but wasn't able to get anything through congress even as he was able to get so much more through congress. it was not only martin luther king jr. and r

kennedy center. the president and mrs. clinton had made the presidential box available, that we could see the phantom of the opera. so we thought, we'll just dine up on top of the kennedy center. my gosh, they ordered the equivalent of shirley temples, non-alcoholic drinks, and had an over-ambitious waiter who kept pushing more and more $10 shirley temples on them. i got the bill -- $379 -- and about $78 of it was due to the 17-year-old boy who ate everything in sight. but it was a grand evening, and then the marvelous thing was that the next morning i had this call from mrs. clinton's office saying, "come to the white house tonight to dinner and bring the children." i said, "bring the children?" she said yes and that they would be up with chelsea in the solarium and with a number of other kids, and they'd have a pizza party. my grandson les carpenter from seattle, says, "it's the first time i ever had pizza on white house china." but it was such a gracious thing to do, and, of course, it made a wonderful chapter in the boo

mrs. clinton under secretary patrick kennedy who is blamed to blocking additional requests. they were not interviewed. while legally permissible. this compromised the report's independence and impartiality. a new document documenting her time secretary of state. there was an endorsement from general petrasus. and law makers taking up this issue on the sunday talk shoes. >> it was on her watch, she should have known security was not taken care of. she calls it her greatest regret as secretary of state. >> the only thing, the republicans are obsessed with obama care more is benghazi. hillary clinton, and joe biden are great candidates and far greater than what our friends will put up. >> some law makers accuse general petraeus of providing false information to congress. and later he, too, believed he thought it was terrorism. >> more on this now. >> for more, we'll go to someone who is written in the book, john bolton. and ambassador to the united nations and you are laughing in anticipation of the passage. i know you haven't had a chance to read the book. but we'll go through

mr. president. president kennedy, from the presiding officer's home state, said, if i could paraphrase just a bit, said a nation reveals itself not only by the men and women it produces, but also by the men and women whom it honors, the men and women it remembers. it is our duty to take care of those who served in uniform, and today this nation's revealed itself and the image is shameful. this body failed to consider the important veterans legislation of this congress, the most important veterans legislation of this congress, the comprehensive veterans health and benefits and military retirement pay restoration act of 2014. i sit on the senate veterans' committee. i'm the first senator from my state ever to sit on that committee for a full term. i consider that an honor. i consider it a privilege to serve those who served us in this nation. i've worked alongside republicans and democrats, as chairman sanders and ranking member senator burr. we've produced good legislation here, next to the 9/11 g.i. bill which senator webb worked on four or five years ago, it's the most important advancement in veteran

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college question, did you have people in the room talking pros and cons, and kennedy said, well, there thea meeting, but -- homework, mrident, kind of answer, and reaching out to his predecessor was kind of an acknowledgment. obama's decision to escalate the true global's in afghanistan. that was widely reported. of the meetings and all the contemplation, because he does not want to repeat the mistakes of george bush, so each president is learning from what his predecessor did, both the good and the bad. >> lyndon johnson, it was reported at the time that he was reading about the escalation in vietnam. >> why did johnson have such a withtime coming to grips vietnam, when he was saying and expressing all of his private doubts to people like richard russell? >> you know, part of it is something that doris -- that he could not stand to admit defeat. he had to win. all of his life. they said, and as far as i know, this is a true statement, when he was senate majority leader, he never lost an important vote, because he would not call that vote until he knew he had the necessary votes to win. his life, had to be the winner.

mr. brunson green. >> i'm just having fun and enjoying tonight. >> the honorable patrick f kennedy and ms. m. elizabeth swope. vic torry ofble new and and dr. robert kagan. and dr.ria nuland robert kagan. mr. raymond mcguire. ms. crystal mccleary. mr. bruce mosler. i will announce you. rummlerrable kathleen and justice elena kagan. mr. and mrs. stephen colbert air -- colbert. the honorable jay carney and ms. claire shipman. the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling. greet french president hollande is her life coverage of the state visit continues. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and so the guest of honor has arrived. french president francois hollande greeted by the president of first lady from the north entrance of the white house. this is the seventh state dinner or official visit for the obama administration the first of the second term and later we will take you to the south on pavilion. it has turned into a springlike display of french culture and flowers and arts. but first we will take a look inside the state dinner as part of our coverage here

mr. brunson green. >> i am just hanging out and having fun. thank you. >> the honorable patrick f kennedy and ms. izabeth swope. >> the honorable victoria newland. and dr. robert kagan. >> mr. raymond maguire. ms. rachel mccreary. >> mr. bruce muller. -- mosler. >> the honorable kathy rummler. justice elena kagan. and mrs. stephen cole there. -- colbert. the honorable jay carney and ms. claire shipman. the honorable gene sperling. mr. rick sperling.

kennedy was right, mr. speaker. we must never negotiate out of fear, and we are not, but neither should we fear to negotiate and we are. and our objective is clear. the iranian regime did not resume negotiations last year because it somehow had a change of heart. iran altered its approach because the sanctions passed by congress, enforced by the administration and supported by our allies are having a ofound affect on the iranian -- effect on the iranian economy. they signaled a stop to the confrontation to the west which was undermining their economic well-being. the joint plan of action that was signed in november of last year is the result of those sanctions and that election, but the authors of the policies pursued by iran over the last four decades, the mullahs, remain. iran agreed to the joint plan of action, not because it wanted to give up its nuclear ambitions, as it said, but concluded that its national interests were better served by temporarily halting its progress towards a nurke weapons capability -- nu

. >> i'm at the kennedy honors thing, who else is up to me? snoop dogg, mr. marijuana and bad poster boy for the kids. snoop dogg puts out his ring encrusted hand to shake my hand. okay? you know what i did? i shook his hand. >> you didn't shake his hand. >> no, i did. but i kind of went back like this. i shook his hand, all right, and i said nice to meet you. that was it. it wasn't a move in. it wasn't an embrace. >> how would you like it, bill, if some crazies, you know, in some values, culture, organization said bill o'reilly shook hands with that vulgar rapper snoop dogg. >> i wouldn't care because i knew i was doing the right thing. and i didn't criticize obama for shaking castro's hand. you have to do that. it's protocol. i think we're wandering a bit. i think the mistake costas made was that he read stuff out of context. 20 seconds. >> and why we're not wandering is because that is a piece of a bigger more depressing puzzle. and that puzzle is a constant need for controversy and it goes on and on and on and it is bad for this country. it polarizes us.

mr. olli heinonen. senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school of government. prior to this position he served for 27 years at the international atomic energy agency, including deputy director general. he led the agency's efforts to identify and dismantle nuclear proliferation networks including overseeing efforts to contain iran's nuclear program. he has led nuclear program investigations around the world including to south africa, iraq, north korea and syria. welcome. last, but not least, we welcome mr. david albright founder and president of the nonprofit institute for science and international security. mr. albright has written numerous assessments on nuclear programs throughout the world. your statements in full will be made part of the record and feel free to summarize them. we will start with you, mr. ambassador. >> thank you, chairman. members of the joint subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you once again. i'm honored to sit here on the panel with a group of very distinguished and committed colleagues. we hope that a comprehen

mrs. obama fifth on the list of best first ladies. eleanor roosevelt, abigail adams, jacqueline kennedyolly madison come before her. the first ladies were evaluated on 10 characteristics including courage and integrity. >>> george zimmerman is speaking out since being acquitted in the shooting death of trayvon martin. zimmerman today cnn he acted within the law and others exploited the case for their benefit. >> you don't think it was about the law? >> i wasn't it wasn't, yes. >> what does that make you? >> like a scapegoat. >> a scapegoat for? >> the government, the president, the other than general. >> zimmerman says he gets -- the attorney general. >> zimmerman says he gets death threat, lives in constant fear and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. >>> trendingw, no e brycharper could be the face of major league baseball. >> plus a cool invention from back to the future will soon be a reality. >> and do football helmets really make the game safer? coming up at 6:15 a brand-new report on their effectiveness in preventing brain injury. >> don't forget we're always on at www.w

but the kennedy steel computation, most their markets are induced by recessions. the case for a recession does not seem to be a credible case. >> mrcooperman, what are you buying question and --? >> generating a fair amount of excess capital, nine times the earning, we think it grows in line with the market with book value in the 60's. we think that they will do the job we think they can do on book value with market rice crossing. the stock is now 46, 47, discount to book value. correction trading under a times, eight percent grower, sallie mae buying back stock, yielding three percent, splitting up into two companies shortly, which we think will could great value as it be a prime takeover candidate. paying a times earnings, again, on half the market. we like some of the energy companies. we have been high on sandwich energy. people are waiting around for high style people -- for hostile people to show up for these companies. are these investors to come who do not value the asset they sits where we consume catalysts for change. >> sandwiches and name where we have seen the investors getting involved. >> that is my point. did a lot

mrs. bush at 10:30. next, q and a with author and historian robert dallek. on the about his book kennedy white house.live at 7:00 a.m., "washington journal." ♪ >> this week on "q&a," author and historian robert dallek discusses his latest historical narrative titled "camelot's court: inside the kennedy white house." >> robert dallek, in your recent book, "camelot's court: inside the kennedy white house," the last paragraph of your entire book -- i cannot resist saying, thank you to president obama -- is graciously hosted for dinners for presidential historians -- what is your insight into president barack obama because of four dinners with them? -- with him? >> he is a highly intelligent man. he is keenly interested in history and the way in which the presidential institution has evolved. and what he could take away from past presidential performances to make his a more compelling and more successful administration. i wish we had some extraordinary answers to provide him, but of course the nature of history is that it is an imperfect humanistic enterprise. he understood this. but we talked a great va

mr. smokey robinson. thank you for being here. >> thank you, joy. congratulations on your show. >> you received a lot of awards. you have been kennedyinee, grammy living legend award. what makes this special that's coming up tonight? >> well, especially for me because barry gordy is my best friend. he's getting the award. i'm very happy that i was there to present it to him. and when he gets an award i think all the awards that he could possibly get are long overdue because he changed the face of the world with music. and then aretha franklin happens to be my longest living friend. i have known aretha since i was 8 years old. it was just a wonderful night. and i was very happy to be a part of that. >> yeah. barry gordy, aretha, you were talking about a time when there was so much civil up heaval. was it it like making music in that turbulent time of the civil rights era? >> i think it was just something so beautiful to see what music could do. during that time we were trying to pass legislation. we were marching, sitting in, doing all the things we needed to do to bring about equality. and to bring about integration. and the music w

mr for joining us here this year national to discuss the situation in ukraine and around in law as renault victorian own plans that you need both of the garment and ukrainian opposition to what spurred kennedy think i enjoy your visits and ukraine quite clearly her agenda is regime change. because the claim that she's coming to ukraine to a team that ukrainians in overcoming the price of the crisis. he's really nice and all the time for external assistance the socialist bloc. that was the essence of the version of doctor in mecca in the nineteen sixties specifically in nineteen sixty eight. we get a patient of czechoslovakia. but the place where that will enable image but as yet the boulder on the socialist bloc mark the end of the doctrine itself the doctrine of limited sovereignty with the united states so called benevolent global contaminate. there is no bold yet honey milk and cranny of the world. eve's fault of the world is a legitimate targets for the new orleans. this will come and need to be. she came in the center that can be seen difficulties told the demonstrators. and that can be imagined as your previous interviews said russian foreign ministry official. coming to the united st

and kennedy sort of says, well, there was a meeting, but, blah, blah, blah, you know, sort of the dog ate my homework, mr. president kind of answer. and that moment where he reached out to his predecessor was also an acknowledgment that -- >> and modern presidents learn from this too. there was obama's decision to escalate the troop levels in afghanistan and that has been widely reported. >> rose: bob yates. >> yes all the meetings and all the contemplation, because he doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of george bush. so each president is learning from what his predecessor did, both the good and the bad. >> or lyndon johnson and reported at the time he was reading accounts of the escalation of vietnam. >> why did johnson have such a hard time coming to grips with vietnam when he was saying and expressing all of his private doubts to people like richard russell? >> you know, part of it is something that doris said that he couldn't stand to admit defeat, he had to win, all through his life when he was in the senate and this is as far as i know a true statement when he was senate majority leader he never

kennedy, we're the party of free trade, fair trade, and we believe the global economy is here to stay and we're part of it. as mr. van hollen said, we want to export pruckses overseas, not transport jobs overseas. we have a tax code right now that rewards businesses that send jobs overseas that has to be reversed to reward businesses that create jobs in the united states. an all very much a part of economy that works for all americans. i just want to add to something that my colleagues were saying. what the -- when mr. israel was talking about the difference between democrats and republicans, we see, and what the president said in his speech, we he talked about an opportunity agenda. we have long seen an opportunity gap in our country. we have to do what we can to close that gap. and the difference, one of the differences in our approach is that we understand that the american people are not fully participating in the prosperity that some are enjoying in our country. not any part of it. we understand the republicans are indifferent. indifferent to those who need a raise in the minimum wage. indifferent to those

mr. chairman. when the interim deal was announced in november it was timed an interesting way in the same weekend when america was commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of president kennedy and i was with many of my colleagues at a security conference in nova scotia when it deal was announced in a great speech of senator kennedy's was running surmise that weekend and was discussing his career and a graduation speech that he gave at an american university a few months before he died in 1963 and he had started aggressive diplomatic efforts to try to reduce nuclear weapons between the united states and soviet unions. and he made a very aggressive cave for the fact that part of american strength is diplomacy and one of the phrases that he used in that speech and i would recommend it to anyone because it is interesting even when it was rewritten today is that with all appropriate skepticism and this is a direct quote, we can reduce tension without reducing our regard. it's needed to reduce this and it's needed to solve thorny problems and we don't have to relax our guard. and we want around have exactly the same. we want them not have nuclear weapons greatly with her for that

mr. president, i wish he were not speaking the truth, but that reality did not emerge on the house floor last week. on the house floor, the president claimed -- quote -- "if john f. kennedy and ronald reagan could negotiate with the soviet union, then surely a strong and confident america can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today. the reality is that the claim that we are negotiating with iran from a position of strength and confidence is a blinkered view of reality because it isn't even clear our president is negotiating towards actual victory. capitulation is not victory. president obama announced in the state of the union that in order to keep negotiations going, he would veto any additional sanctions congress might pass to pressure iran to actually stop pursuing nuclear weapons, a position that is supported not only by his current administration but expressly by his former secretary of state hillary clinton. iranian foreign minister jabad zariff has good reason to announce publicly that he has -- quote -- no fear of congress. when ronald reagan negotiated with the soviets, deit from a clear strategic perspective of we win, they lose. standing for u.s. nation

mr. chair. when the interim deal was announced in november, it was timed in an interesting way. it was the same weekend where america was commemorating the 50th anniversary of death of president kennedy. and i was with many of my colleagues at a security conference in nova scotia when the deal was announced. and a great speech of senator kennedy's was running through many of our minds that weekend. it was a graduation speech he gave at american university a few months before he died in the spring of 1963. he had started aggressive diplomatic efforts to try to reduce nuclear weapons and the nuclear competition between the united states and the soviet union, and he was heavily create create -- criticized as naive, foolish, a dupe for doing that. and he made a very aggressive case for the fact that part of american strength is strong diplomacy. and one of the phrases that he used in that speech -- and i would recommend the speech to anyone because it is a very interesting one that reads as if it was written today -- is that with all appropriate skepticism, and this is a direct quote: we can still reduce tension without relaxing our guard. aggressive diplomacy is needed to reduce tension

kennedy center for the performing arts where his 75 million has bought, among new pipe organ. end up at the national zoo where baobao frolicked in the panda habitat mrstein endowed, part of a $7 million gift. he stands nearly alone in shoring up institutions generally under the purview of the federal government, about 200 million of the 300 million away has been what he calls patriotic giving. this is a little bit of the "new article this morning. hugeubensteen is also a sponsor of the library of congress' national book festival every year that c-span covers and book tv covers. book tv, tomorrow, 48 hours of nonfiction books beginning at 8:00 a.m. on c-span 2. it's every weekend, 48 hours, nonfiction books. there's the website. book tv.org. tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. the monuments men will be joining us for a call-in program. so if you're interested, see the movie, if you're interested in the topic of the monuments men you can join us at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and talk with of theedsel, the author original monuments men. he's got an interesting story, background is also very interesting as well. every weekend, 48 hours of american history. so you c