we at america online and prodigy and compuserve. and we would take the magazine and not dump it on a a while or prodigy, that would make deals with aol and prodigy that we would form communities, social networks on everything from politics to health, and our journalism would either but so what journalist and would have taverns in discussions and bulletin boards. and that was a sense of community. and we got paid for it. aol would bid a million dollars at the end of the her to say okay but are on iowa. compuserve would try to match it or go higher. and each year we were making money by creating communities online. from the world wide web came along and in some ways it was bad. because a couple things happened. first of all of the web we said wow this is great. we are no longer in this walled garden of online services. we can control everything. as we took the entire magazine and put it online. but we would let people drive by and surf by and read the magazine. we weren't creating a community. at the very most of it was a sort of comm

the conceptual innovator is the prodigy, right? and the person who works through trial and error is the late bloomer. he was dignifying the late bloomer. i had the devil of a time finding the right story to illustrate that point. sometimes you have to be persistent. >> and you focused on two people. >> i ended up choosing this novelist, ben fountain, who had written a collection of short stories. magical. he was my late bloomer. he published that in his late 40's, after spending 20 years sitting at a kitchen table in dallas writing stories and being rejected. and my prodigy, the brightest of the young novelists. >> he is on the nonfiction best-seller list. >> an interesting book about vegetarianism. and there's such fascinating contrasts. they beautifully illustrate what i think david ellison was talking about. i don't know why it took me so long to find -- but sometimes finding the right story is really difficult. if you rush into print with something that does not quite work, you throw away that idea. that is something you should

the conceptual innovator is the prodigy.person who worked through trial and error is the late bloomer. i love that summit because he was dignifying a late bloomer. i had a devil of a time finding the right story to illustrate that point. when i have an academic argument, i like to find narratives' to complete it. this was hard to find the right ones. sometimes you have to be persistent. >> you focused on two people? >> i ended up choosing a novelist from dallasc3v who wroa collection of short stories and which is magical. he was my late bloomer. he published that book in his late-40's effort sitting as kitchen table in dallas and writing. my prodigy was jonathan saffron fours. he wrote a book about vegetarianism. they are contrast and the beautifully illustrated what the economist was talking about. i don't know why it took me so long. sometimes, finding the right story is really difficult. if you rush into print with something that does not quite work, you throw away a good idea. that is something you should never do. >> 1

he was a child prodigy and went on to virginia university where he met martin luther king jr.. that sparked a friendship that lasted until king's assassination. he represented king. he was a washington bureau chief. he was a founding member of the congressional black caucus. toward the end of 2009, we're just recently celebrating the 25th anniversary of the free south africa movement. he was a prime mover in that. he is still someone that is traveling around the world. he just retired this year after 50 years as pastor of the church where i was christened and married and around the corner from where i live right now. my wife and i and our two kids live in the house that my father and his family grew up in. >> i read that you wrote that walter fauntroy met martin luther king when martin luther king was 22. martin luther king would today be 80 and your uncle is 76. what has your father done? >> my father has been retired. he was at the department of justice for years as a program analyst. he graduated central state college in may of 1957. he was born in 1935. he swam and played f

>> no, i knew that he was one of the prodigious >> in that era. >> he said that this is a refreshing challenge to the new conventional wisdom. polk was certainly an expansionist, but in this he merely reflected the passionate desire to push the country ever westward. >> when word filtered through the country that texas annexation was a possibility, that this expansion this dream really exploded on america. think about this, brian. there had never been a country that dominated an entire continent and positioned itself to dominate two and oceans. and the idea of texas -- we had the louisiana purchase, and now texas moving us toward the pacific, and there was the oregon territory of bear, occupied by the briton and americans -- the territory of oregon up there, occupied by the british and the americans. and if we could get california and those four states, utah, arizona, nevada, and mexico -- that would be a country of vast designs. and i think that what john is saying is that polk is the instrument of the sentiment that emerge. and i make the point that he emerged very powerfully in am

i certainly knew his reputation, and i knew that he was one of the truly prodigious scholars of that era, so i was very pleased to get good words from him. >> he says that, "robert w. merry's book is a refreshing challenge to the new conventional wisdom. "polk in merry's view certainly was an ambitious expansionist, but in this he merely reflected the electorate's passionate desire to push the country ever westward." >> i believe that when word filtered through the country that texas annexation was a possibility that this expansionist dream, this vision really exploded on the american scene. think about this, brian, there'd never really been a country that dominated an entire continent and positioned itself to dominate two oceans, to straddle an entire continent. and with the idea of texas, you know, we had the louisiana purchase, and now texas are moving us toward the pacific, and there was oregon territory up there which was jointly occupied by the british and the americans and that had to be settled somehow. and we had an opportunity to get a significant expanse of land up in the

in fact the better business bureau of california as well as other numerous people had the prodigy lawgroup as a known as gemmer. as well as we debate this issue not only must we deal with this before us and we are doing but we have to find a way to put these predatory beasts that are prebon people who are already in bad conditions out of business. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman yields back. mr. hensarling is recognized for three minutes that actually i think a little bit more than that. i'm not sure exactly how much time is left. three and a half. >> thank you, mr. chairman. by any standard of measurement the foreclosure mitigation programs of this administration and this congress have been abject failures. hope for homeowners $300 billion authorized at least as of some of the latest data available 1,000 applications, 50 loans closed by july. , affordable modification programs 75 billion-dollar cost supposed to help three to 4 million homeowners, 650,000 modifications' trial modifications. home affordable refinance program supposed to help four to 5 million home

in fact the better business bureau of california as well as other numerous people had the prodigy law group as a known as gemmer. as well as we debate this issue not only must we deal with this before us and we are doing but we have to find a way to put these predatory beasts that are prebon people who are already in bad conditions out of business. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman yields back. mr. hensarling is recognized for three minutes that actually i think a little bit more than that. i'm not sure exactly how much time is left. three and a half. >> thank you, mr. chairman. by any standard of measurement the foreclosure mitigation programs of this administration and this congress have been abject failures. hope for homeowners $300 billion authorized at least as of some of the latest data available 1,000 applications, 50 loans closed by july. , affordable modification programs 75 billion-dollar cost supposed to help three to 4 million homeowners, 650,000 modifications' trial modifications. home affordable refinance program supposed to help four to 5 million hom

in fact the better business bureau of california as well as other numerous people had the prodigy lawy must we deal with this before us and we are doing but we have to find a way to put these predatory beasts that are prebon people who are already in bad conditions out of business. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman yields back. mr. hensarling is recognized for three minutes that actually i think a little bit more than that. i'm not sure exactly how much time is left. three and a half. >> thank you, mr. chairman. by any standard of measurement the foreclosure mitigation programs of this administration and this congress have been abject failures. hope for homeowners $300 billion authorized at least as of some of the latest data available 1,000 applications, 50 loans closed by july. , affordable modification programs 75 billion-dollar cost supposed to help three to 4 million homeowners, 650,000 modifications' trial modifications. home affordable refinance program supposed to help four to 5 million homeowners, the latest numbers available 116,500. yet, we know that for