d o this weekend on afterwards n c-span's booktv power and corruption on capitol hill.nce the mse t influential lobbyists in washington, jack abramoff was convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy. his story tonight at 10:00 easteropl from news for all the people, on gonzalez and joseph tour as on the wall ses theegation place i the way news was reported at 2spircy.p.m.. and marty rse s on what it take to be successful female publishewhicand author sunday a 11:15 p.m.. booktv every weekend on c-span2. d o c-span donated 801 books to george mason university located outside washington d.c.. the university is currently cataloguing the collection at the fed wick lit book notes. an hour-long program hosted by brian lamb aired from 1989 to cerac4. gm than university librarian shows us the collection entitled teeyond the book. >> in the mind of brian, this book is the genesis. all the books on this program of c-span. he decided he wanted to interview the authowhicand that gave him the idea of book notes. it would be worthwhile for him to read a lot of books and talk to the author

c-span: explain this line: "then teeter..." -- who's teeter? >> guest: bob teeter, the chairman of the president's re-election campaign. c-span: "who has the spine of jell-o when it comes to his own political prognostications." >> guest: bob teeter constantly shifted his own opinion of what issues were and were not playing with the public. one week he would tell people that education was very important; the next week he would tell them that a reform agenda was important. when speech writers tried to then reconcile his directive of the week, he would then announce that, no, in fact thus and such was more important. every single poll that came out changed his mind. it was very frustrating for these guys because they did not know exactly what line was going to be taken by the re-election campaign and, therefore, by their own. they as the speech writers were, aside from the people who were making the television commercials, the people who were putting words into the mouth of the president that were supposed to get him re-elected. they were not getting a kind of direction from the campaign or from the upper echelons of the white house on what it was that the p

c-span 2. . >> this morning, american conservative union chairman and florida republican party discusses the role of conservatives in the 2012 gop primary. then janet murguia, president and ceo o

o knox. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the conservative women's network. those of you here in washington and all of you out all around the world watching this on c-span tv, i want to welcome you all to the november conservative women's network. i amey chel easton, president of the clare boothe luce policy institute, and i'm delighted to be here with bridget wagner, our partner for many, many years from the heritage foundation in their beautiful room here. we put on conservative women's network together every month for almost ten years, and what a treat it is to work with you all. now, before i mention our speaker and introduce her, i want to mention a little something special that happens next month. those of you who have been coming for a while know that we have a tradition in december, and we have a special, a different kind of speaker. you know, conservative women's network exists to promote our great conservative women leaders. but once a year around christmas we have a special guest, a distinguished gentleman who is a leader in the conservative movement. so i wanted to let you know that in december on the 8th we are going to have from the great

c-span: who was the last gentleman? >> guest: the last gentleman was hugh tovar, t-o-v-a-r, a legendary release cia station chief and operative in indonesia laos, extraordinary individual. really cut out of the same cloth as my father. a tremendously loyal, diligent, extraordinarily intelligent, extremely well connected, just the judgment, and the sense of history. can you imagine cherry picking the very best in america to study the history, speak the language and send them in there? and they will get to know the general; they will get to know the police. actually one of my dad's friends, robert myers, former deputy chief of the far east division and publisher for the new republic and many other things in washington, a onetime told me -- i said well, what about the diplomats, told the diplomats told? and he goes diplomats aren't worth anything. the only people you really want to talk to and want to talk to in one of these countries are the military and the police. it gives you an idea of what kind of realpolitik local harsh world we are talking about. c-span: do we know today what ordered -- ordered the assassination of the d

o the nation to talk about issues that we think matter. we are delighted that we are live on c-spanfore i go any further, c-span has always been so gracious to cover these conversations now for -- i guess i lost count. 13 of 14 years we have been doing these annual symposium. please show your love for c-span for carrying us live to the nation tonight. [applause] c-span, we thank you. we appreciate it. i also want to welcome those listening live over radio in new york city on wbai. welcome to this conversation called "remaking america: from poverty to prosperity." delighted to have you turned in to this conversation, again, here on the campus of george washington university. i could say so much more about poverty, but i do not need to because to my left and my right, i am is surrounded by experts. not just experts, but i would say long distance runners on the issue of trying to reduce and eradicate poverty in this country, and i could not be more delighted to be joined by an auguste panel. let me introduce them to you right now so we can jump straightaway into this conversation. she'

c-span. there was some thought that there could be a recess appointment made by president obama today. market watch pointing out the president could use the brief seconds to recess opoint. it would have to take place in the few seconds between the end of the first session today in the beginning of the second session of congress that you just fall, but there are news reports but that is not likely to happen. stephen dennis tweedy no recess appointments from the white house today according to a senior administration official. we will keep you posted if we hear anything about up here that the president is back in washington today following a 10- day vacation in hawaii. live coverage from i what this evening, 7:00 here on c-span. -- from iowa this evening, 7:00 here on c-span. up next, our conversation from this morning's "washington journal." our next guest is the spokesperson for the ron paul campaign. who makes up the constituency in iowa? >> we had evangelical christians, home schoolers, working-class, young people here did we have probably the most diverse constituency out there. that is because he really supports liberty and freedom. the wonderful thing about fr

o busines in the state. >> next tuesday new hampshire voters go to the polls followed by primaries and south carolina and florida. we will bring you the latest events and political coverage on c-spanpan.org. /campaign2012. >> up next, president obama talks about the economy in a visit to ohio and announces the recess appointment of richard cordray. we will show you the confirmation hearing from september. michele bachmann said das but that she is suspending her presidential campaign. " tomorrow morning's washington journal," the latest on the race with kevin landrigan. also, the results of a poll of young voters with trey grayson. washington journal pecans lead at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> in a visit to go higher today, president obama announced the recess appointment of the head of the consumer protection bureau. he first nominated him in july but both some reprieve granted a confirmation in the senate. here is the appearance at shaker heights high school. [applause] >> hello, ohio. it is good to beat back in ohio. -- be back in ohio. it is good to be back in shaker heights. hall of the red raider. [applause] i love you and i am glad to be back. i am glad to be here. i want