. >> there is a letter from henry james to oliver wendell holmes, oliver wendell holmes wants to join henry james in north conway. james writes back to say it is great except we stretched a bed for you where there isn't one so you simply have to share a bed with me with only one bed at the beginning and then he said i don't mind if you don't mind. as the woman said when the puppy dogs licked her face. if i am a biographer and i come to that, there is very little i can do. there was perhaps -- may be changed by the time oliver wendell holmes went up there with no evidence of what happened after that as regards to the puppy dog. if you are the sort of of biographer who can take sigmund freud and read carefully this remark, very interesting, what an odd thing to say. perhaps they were being playful. maybe it was a joke they had between them. of biography has to be careful with that. don't judge that. i think i know what happened when he arrived, only one bed or perhaps -- if you army and you are a novelist you realize oh, look what i have now. in away there is that difference. the idea o

its own in transit merits, quite apart from any purpose but i'm in my article, i think it is oliver wendell holmes, at one point or another i've heard come out of the mouths of many i kennedy, i think it's a person is involved in the action and passion of, at the peril of being judged, not to have lived. and this guy has a zest for life that is palpable. now he is president. he has won the election, and one of the first crises of course is the desegregation of southern university, university of alabama initially. this is from what was going on 50 years ago almost to the day. i was just upstairs skyping with a forum at old miss, which is marking the 50th anniversary of their rough week. if you've ever been to the civil rights museum in memphis, tennessee, they have these recordings, but this is the president talking with one of the principal faces of segregation at the time, governor ross barnett. the safety of james meredith, the student in question gives him some guy. someone has been killed at this point in the right that is unfolding on the campus. and they are doing an elaborate dance where pr

i salute the teachers and students in the whole school community and is a great tourist, oliver wendell holmesaid when describing what there is to that action, feeling begets feeling a great feeling begets great feeling. you were alarmed. researchers sought to action and it dream is the outcome. that was 212 and affect both 2011 and 2012 were remarkable. you did great things. you wanted renewable energy mandate, farmer circus comes tatian reorganization of state government protecting our forests and strengthening timbering industry, reforming welfare system and what the nation first taste ecosystem. would of course governing never ends. we have promises to keep in the most important days of no limit to the people that proposition 30 past the victory jealousy and money temporarily made available. this means living within our means and not spending but we don't have. fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our good intentions, but the basis for releasing them. it's cool to lead people on bikes and a good programs only to cut them back the funding disappears. this isn't progress. it's not even prog

guest: oliver wendell holmes enjoyed paying taxes, enjoyed buying freedom. host: on twitter -- "there should be eight two-year tax holiday on all taxes if for no other reason than people would suddenly realize how much they take." do you want to show us what we are talking about in terms of what we need to think about when doing taxes? guest: this is the first volume of the code. it would have been about this high or more. we have to contrast it to the revenue code when it was first enacted in 1913, only a few pages. it is exponential growth, and it will continue. host: let's hear from maxine in ohio. where are you calling from? caller: chillicothe. thank you for letting me in to talk to you. i would like to talk about this governor we have up here that the brothers play here. he has taken away our estate taxes. chillicothe, the city i live in, and all over the state ohio, is suffering from that. i went to write a letter to him that he should come to our soup kitchen and bring his own suit. why does he want to privatize everything? he has taken are estate ta

as the great jurist, oliver wendell holmes, once said when describing what stirs people to action -- "feeling begets feeling and great feeling begets great feeling." you were alarmed, you stirred yourselves to action and victory was the outcome. that was 2012 and what a year! in fact, both 2011 and 2012 were remarkable. you did great things -- your 1/3 renewable energy mandate -- the reform of workers compensation -- the reorganization of state government -- protecting our forests and strengthening our timber industry -- reforming our welfare system -- and launching the nation's first high speed rail system. but, of course, governing never ends. we have promises to keep. and the most important is the one we made to the voters if proposition 30 passed -- that we would guard jealously the money temporarily made available. this means living within our means and not spending what we do not have. fiscal discipline is not the enemy of our good intentions but the basis for realizing them. it is cruel to lead people on by expanding good programs, only to cut them back when the funding disapp