the university as well as a postgraduate degree from harvard and is an associate professor at oxford university. he is married, has two sons. mr. president, thank you for coming to the wilson center and we look forward to your comments. after he speaks, there will be an opportunity for questions and answers. [applause] >> my government, ambassadors, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, this is a great honor for my colleagues in for me to be here this morning in this very important think-tank. i want to express my gratitude for this invitation. every day, by a repeat before my fellow citizens one very simple frame. i do my best to repeat, morning by morning, evening by evening, because i understand that every government has a duty to convince the fellow citizens of the necessity to have important and at the same time simple goals. the goal we are looking for in columbia is to convert columbia into a country with the highest level of confidence. confidence is leading our country. when we support confidence, -- we support confidence on three pillars. investment with social responsibility, and socia

i went to oxford university on scholarship for one year. one day on assignment in montana, i saw my opportunity. you can imagine how the end of the world affects house prices. i was covering a cult which at that time about 3,000 people strong in a county that only had 10,000. people were literally selling their houses foregoing underground and riding out a nuclear hole owe cost. >> i was betting against that  hall cost. >> it's no aspen. it's a down on its heals railroad town. a lot of hippy, intellectual artists settled there. it was an easy life and sort of misbehave out of the limelight. it has attracted a few celebrities. a lot of these places out west, they come in on their private jets, take a car to their ranch and get out. that's not true of brokaw. some other folks, you'll never see their face. it gives the place a representation. it's a low-earning, hard earning town. your ex-wife was margo kiter's daughter. >> yes. we have now divorced. we have two kids. 10 and 7. where are they now? >> they are in livingston. charlie is in the

and we went to oxford university together to give a lecture. and michael came with a cast. he has a broken foot suddenly. he always had some ailment, some bodily ailment. people will famously remember he was bit by a spider. and that would mean that a doctor had to accompany him. that was always odd, we always wondered who are these doctors. where do they practice? they never gave good answers. and michael was protective of their being around. i used to say to michael all the time, you know this is poison and this is going to kill you. he knew. once he came out very light headed and woozy, the next night he was having dinner at our home, friday night chabat dinner, and michael decides to stand during dinner. i said, why are you standing? he said, i took your advice and decided not to have the medication because i know it's bad for me. he always knew this was bad. there were always two michael jacksons. the outpouring of love you see, there was a soft, gentle side to him. he was a celebrity and he was a little bit different. he could be gentle and exhibit that spirit. if you

. >> oxford university press in 2009 has several new titles coming out. the senior editor with oxford, susan what are some of the new titles? >> would be thrilled for the we have a range of new books and i think i will talk more about political ones than the ones that have applications. real enemies i know there's a lot of talk about conspiracy theories see them all the time on the internet. this is the author who spends time saying what does that mean for american democracy and how does the fact there have been a conspiracy theories over a long period of time what does that mean about americans and what they think about their government and do they trust government? it looks at pearl harbor, the fear of using government and what happened after the kennedy assassination and there is huge literature and it comes up to 9/11. unfortunately it will never go away so the author spent a lot of time and internet sites and to set for research. >> host: what comes naturally? >> has won two awards it has worked for 20 years on this a book on i miscegenation lot. she

i went to oxford university on scholarship. i lived in london for a year. came back to new york city and worked for a magazine. one day on an assignment in montana, i saw my opportunity. you can imagine what the end of the world has an effect on real-estate prices. houses were very cheap in livingston, montana, and this was a big call. i got a price at a fire sale price. >> what year was that? >> 1990. i was covering a call called the church universal and triumphant. at that time it was about 300,000 strong. people were literally selling their house is in preparation for going underground and riding out a nuclear holocaust. >> so you got a good deal? >> i got a good deal. this is no aspin. it is a rare road town. a lot of hippie, intellectual artist settled there. through the years it has attracted several movie stars. tom brokaw has a ranch nearby. jeff bridges, michael keaton. they do not affect the society of the town, because like a lot of places out west, they come in on their private jets, take a car to their splendid ranch, and get out. that is not t

the book is "almost a miracle" published by oxford university press. you can learn more about this library, download the audio podcast by visiting us at pritzker military library.org. i'm a traci. thanks for joining us. [applause] >> and we are back for the webcast part of the program. john, step back up your. i have one question to follow up and we will get to a couple others as we go. you said that georgia was the first falling state in the revolutionary war. is there any repercussions today because you're from atlanta. you live in atlanta. is there any repercussions of georgia today for that? i mean do you see anything different in georgia that you see in any other southern states? >> no, actually i think borst georgians are aware that there was a revolutionary war. the revolutionary war was consumed by the civil war in the south. . . in front of the courthouse there is a statute of a soldier, not a revolutionary war soldier, a confederate soldier and he is facing north to protect the south against what some old-line seveners always referred to as t

this is abraham lincoln by james mcpherson published by oxford university press. i wish i had -- i should have brought my copy to show you all. i wish i had with me because you'd be amazed and i will tell you why in just a second. i can't begin to imagine how many pages have been written about the president of the united states and the bicentennial year of his birth many more millions of pages will be written so how could and author hope to capture the essence of lincoln from birth through his legacy and 65 short pages? and its loss 65 did pages, its 65 small pages. as mcpherson points out in the book of lincoln could deliver the greatest speech at gettysburg using only 272 words and speaking for just two minutes perhaps it is possible for a book that can easily be read in one sitting to help those of us who are not lincoln scholars better understand his life and legacy. mcpherson brings credentials to the effort. he's in a emeritus professor of history and won the pulitzer prize for battle cry freedom. he spent a lifetime studying the civil war and individuals as

"the first of man" came out 1988 and now is out of printed, but it is coming back in print, oxford university press has purchased the rights to it, and on president's day, in february, they are going to issue it and my biography, of john adams in paper back edition, so 21 years, separate these two books on washington. >> host: is that viewer's theory or description of forest mcdonald similar to your experience in did your view of journal washington change in that time period? >> guest: i think, yeah, my view of washington has been an evolving view. i think as i have grown older, there are things about washington that i appreciate that i didn't appreciate when i was younger. and there are some things about him that i have grown to question. somewhat, i probably didn't question when i wrote the biography and the -- in the '80s i've more laudatory of washington as a military commander in the revolutionary war than i am now but on the other hand, i think as i have grown older and hopefully a bit more experienced, with the revolution, i have come to understand some of the political problems that w

guest: "the first of men" came out in 1998, it's now out of prints but coming back in print, oxford university press has purchased the rights to it and on president's day in february, they're going to issue it and my biography of john adams in paper book ear digs, so 21 years -- edition, so 21 years separate these two books on washington. >> host: and is that viewer theory or description of mcdonald similar to your experience, did your view of george washington change in that time period? >> guest: my view of washington has been an evolving soup. i think, as -- view. i think as i've grown older, there are things about washington that i appreciate, that i didn't appreciate when i was younger, and there are some things about him that i've grown to question somewhat that i probably didn't question. when i wrote the biography in the 1980's, i was probably more laudetory of washington as a military commander in the revolutionary war than i am now, but on the other hand, i think as i've grown older and hopefully a bit more experienced with the revolution, i've come to understand some of the politica

>> guest: the first came out in 1988 and is now out of print but it's coming back in print oxford university press purchased the rights and on president's day in february they are going to issue eight and my biography of john adams in paperback edition. so 21 years separate these books on washington. >> host: and is the viewer's theory or description of forest mcdonald similar to your experience? to your view of george washington change in that time period? >> guest: i think my view of washington has been an evolving view. i as i have grown older there are things about washington on a appreciate that i didn't appreciate when i was younger and there are some things about him i have grown to question somewhat that i didn't question when i wrote the biography in ca these i was probably more of laudatory of washington as a military commander in the revolutionary war maxxam i am now. but on the other hand, i think as i have grown older and hopefully a bit more experience with the revolution i've come to understand some of the political problems that washington encountered. there was a conference,

the university of mississippi and oxford is third. e fourth party school is the university of georgia in athens. fifth, ohio university. by the way, the annual rankings also highlighthe country's most sober schools. brigham young university in utah topped that list for the 12th straight year. all we can hope is that there's a lot of learning going on. >> yes, in addition to partying. and recovering from those parties. >>> coming up on "news4 at 4," the price of being overweight. the toll obesity is putting on our health. >>> and new information about what may have led to the disastrous wrong-way crash that killed eight people. >>> here's some of the top stories making news on the web this week. >>> the driver of a minivan that barrels down the wrong side of a new york parkway and slam understood an suv apparently wasn't feeling well before the crash. eight people were killed in that accident and a young child is still in the hospital tonight. it happened yesterday in westchester county. the van's driver was killed along with four child

his second year at jackson state university filed a lawsuit to gain admission to the university of mississippi in oxford. 9 year later, a federal court order, showing he wasn't just a paper hero, after bobby kennedy ordered his admission, ordered a court order enforced by u.s. marshals, 16 the u.s. marshals were injured, including 28 who reinjured by gunshot in the riots that took place in oxford. nonetheless, james meredith attended, graduated, became the first african-american to graduate from ole miss. 1965 was the passage of the act, as it is arraigned in mississippi. in 1966, james meredith decided he was going to initiate the walk against fear. he couldn't get the backing of any major civil rights organizations, so he started out by himself with two friends who he controlled into accompanying him, walking from memphis, tenn. to jackson, mississippi. 2-1/2 days in to what he was shot in the leg. at that point, martin luther king and other leaders of the movement sought a right property to step in, pick up the walk. james meredith rejoined the walk 20 days later, walking into jackson, mississippi, w

all of philosophy, but for example at the 640 page oxford book of free will, for example, by oxford university press. i think at this directly. i used the maxwell brothers again as an example of that because incidentally to summarize things, very briefly that are very huge and complex. eminence is now streaming in, a variety of different fields, psychology, sociology and so forth, genetics, that are showing that we don't have the free will that normally we have thought that we had. we don't. we are creatures who are in pinched upon by forces, especially as things affect our identity. in other words, what you can do for a job or could never do for a job for you. who could you stand to live with as a spouse or could ever stand to live with as your spouse. those kind of things. expressions of who you are, those are really -- you are a product of force is driving you. let me read this little section, and elliott or rick can comment on it. from the book, from the middle of the book. ed maxwell was lynched, one of the brothers is ledge, one is gets away. it is ledge sets off a nationwide discussion.

jackson state university he filed a lawsuit to gain admission to the university of mississippi otherwise known as old miss and oxford mississippi. a year later when a federal court order admitting him to the university and showing he a paper hero, after bobby kennedy ordered his admission, ordered the court order enforced by a u.s. marshals, 160 u.s. marshals were injured including 28 injured by a gunshot in their lights that took place in oxford. nonetheless, james meredith attended graduated, became the first african-american to graduate from old myths. in 1964 the same year as freedom summer, goodman and, sorry, sherman, and of course 1965 was the passage of the voting rights act but still citizens council swain mississippi. so somewhere in 1966 james meredith decided he was going to initiate what he called the block against fear. he couldn't get the backing of any of the major civil-rights organizations, so he started out by himself with two friends who controlled into accompanying him walking from memphis tennessee to jacksonville. two and half days and to what he was shot in the leg and at that point, martin l

rounding out the top three -- the university of mississippi, down and oxford, mississippi.t shepard went to a party school? he is very well connected in oxford, mississippi. rock on. byrd the attorney general is announcing federal funding in the city of philadelphia for law enforcement. they are up an arm because the big apple is not on the list. rick leventhal has a full report on this from new york. thousands of local agencies applied for aid, about 1000 were approved. why the disparity? >> there was not enough money to go around for all the people who needed it. philadelphia getting enough money to create or keep 50 law enforcement jobs, so they are a big winner. rochester, n.y., 630 jobs, and kalamazoo, mich., gets to cover the 30 officers. seattle, whose department was tested in 1999, making almost 600 arrests, and new york city, considered the no. 1 terrorist target in america, gets nothing from the program, sparking outrage from commissioners to mayors and other officials. bill: we have been the target of international terrorism twice. why would we not get the money?

from the university of oxford. most recently, he is the author of a new book on greek and latin. his new book is entitled "thomas jefferson and classical education." [applause] >> thank you to the hauenstein center, and this conference has been about lessons and the lesson i am taking rain now is if you have as a speaker no audiovisual aids, do not follow someone who has. [laughter] lessons for president obama. i would like to start with a suggestion, which is he should get rid of the teleprompter. instead of having those awkward pieces of glass in front of him, instead, he should have this unit in front of the lectern two grecian of vases with shrubbery in them. [laughter] i would like to set aside my classical trading -- training for a bed, and talk about what has been touched in at these talks -- classical human some. let's look at one of the founders, thomas jefferson, who exemplified that ideal most perfectly. i always have to begin any talked about humanism by doing a little reformation on the word itself. we usually hear it today with that barnacle attached -- secular. it

templeton foundation with an oxford doctorate on cosmology and time, chuck pushes boundaries in science and theology. >>in looking at a question like, "what is the cause of the universe, it is probably wise to deal with it more complexity than we are accustomed to. we can take a lesson from aristotle a long time ago. aristotle taught that there are multiple causes to say...take an example of a table - he would say that there is a material cause, that is often wood. the wood is the cause of the table. knock on it and that is the material cause. but there is also a cause which would be what he would call the efficient cause, what causes the table to come into existence. that would be a factory. the people that made the table at a certain time and a certain place. that is the efficient cause. then there is the formal cause of the table. what causes the form to be. at the factory there is a...there are settings, there are blueprints, there are plans for the creation of the table and then there is the purpose for the table. that is that we would have conviviate over dinner. so in dealing with a question like the ultimate cause of the universe, we might say, "well, what is

talked-about issue in all of philosophy you look for example let the 640 page oxford book of the free will fix it will buy the university press and i take this up directly i use the maxwell brothers again as an example of that because incidently to summarize things very briefly that are very hugely complex evidence is from a variety of different fields of psychology, sociology and so forth, genetics showing that we don't have the free will that normally we have flopped. we don't. we are creatures who are in pinched upon by forces especially as things affect our identity in other words what you can do for a job or could never do for a job who you can stand to live with as a spouse or could never stand to live with as your spouse and those kinds of things, expression of who you are, those are in that sense you are a product of forces. let me read you this little section and then eliot or rick can comment from the book, from the middle of the book. and maxwell has lynched one of the brothers, one of them gets it is lynched touching off a nationwide discussion in and 1881. ed maxwell didn't create or want the psychological