glad our respective ivy league institutions often meeting in equidistance meeting points between newhaven and princeton. over the years to regroup, throat academic shed and minister each other through the up process. after five years and five winters on the east coast we both ended up in sunny los angeles and as usual got each other through the first initial years of the ten year track. now in my figures ucla i can said of a large measure of my success to my good friend should these past 13 plus years and specifically her constant support. it is with great pleasure that i introduced her for the stock today. [applause] >> that was wonderful. and me set why watch so i don't go over like that do with my classes. thank you so much for coming and hearing the speak between the al gore of noon and 1:00 p.m. about my book project. on want to thank the center for the invitation to talk today about my book. i really appreciate it. it is especially great to be at ucla where i think a lot of exciting work around african-american studies is being done and this is a really exciting place. one of the mo

when he got out of prison, wheat -- i was living in newhaven. my mother and sister came, my father was -- got out of prison on the new york new haven hartford railroad, stopped in newhaven. we were joining him. as it turned out we were going to new york to live with another family, their friends, in not very small apartment that they had two children also until my father got a job. that was the circumstance, when the train came in my father was standing -- in the same suit he wore when he went to tulsa, now a size and have too large. i have that image clear in my head. then i got on the train with my mother's sister and for a while my mother and father were sitting together, my sister and i together and my father and i came and sat with me and while he was with me, he said you are going to be bar mitzvahed next year. i am going to take you and your mother and sister for a trip around the world. we will be gone a year. you know my father. and i believed him, of course. when i think about all of these circumstances, we will be gone year, it gets m

preston spoke at yale university in newhaven, connecticut. guides >> today it is my pleasure to introduce our speaker richard preston did his undergraduate work in english and got his ph.d. in english from princeton university, studied nineteenth century american nonfiction writing. he is the author of nine books on a variety of topics including fixes disease. .. >> i'm also sure that "the hot zone" inspired many of its readers to consider and pursue careers in epidemiology, vie rolling and public health. that fascination fuels curiosity and a lot of what we know today. the most recent mass i outbreak of ebola occurring in west africa has once again propelled "the hot zone" back onto the national bestseller list, 20 years after its publication. i have always had a particular fascination for the insidious ingenuity of infectious disease and for the dynamics of epidemic infection. and so it's a pleasure to bring this element to the program and to discuss it today, and i'm happy we have the opportunity and the foresight to bring richard preston

only 6,000 votes between them in 2010, without running up huge margins in places like hartford and newhavend bridgeport. dan malloy never could have won. if the voting is screwed up dan malloy won't win for technical reasons, let alone whatever else happens in the state. >> and you never know if it's strategic efforts to keep down the vote in key areas. >> throughout the night we'll be talking with with robert gibbs and steve schmidt, thank you for wearing matching ties and being here tonight. [ laughter ] in terms of whether or not this election is about president obama, is that -- was that necessarily always going to be bad news for democrats? did they have a choice in how to handle this? republicans did what they wanted. democrats seem like they never did. >> i think one thing that's interesting, and you both have talked about this there's the six-year itch problem. in 1986 ronald reagan was at 63% and lost nine senate seats. there's a six-year history problem that affects republicans and democrats. i think what will be interesting to see at the end of the night, did republicans national

preston spoke at yale university in newhaven, connecticut. guides >> today it is