it put him on the path to winning in iowa. >> host: the guest is richard wolffe. the book is "renegade." door is on the democratic line. >> caller: good morning. i would like to ask richard, first i would like to say i watch him on msnbc. >> guest: thank you prieta >> caller: i would like to ask two questions. what does he think about the president's cabinet and what does he think about all of the flip-flops' he has done? >> guest: that is a good question. you know, the most striking thing about the cabinet is frankly hillary clinton's presence would and given the bitterness there was between the two individuals come naturally in many ways there was more bitterness of on the people and they are working together have a staff level i think it was quite an extraordinary move to bring hillary and as he told me in the oval office this was a decision he made before the primaries were over so when ceilings were still high the wones hadn't healed so any cabinet is a mixed bag and he has a number of republicans and they've been smart about pulling in the republicans again

richard's father was very lucky. the doctors cleared him of cancer, however, the medical bills were so high that richard's parents lost their home. remarkably after all of his family has been through, richard feels fortunate that at least his father was covered for part of his treatment. but he udged us to fix this old and broken system. for these rhode islanders and for millions more americans silently suffering through their own personal catastrophes all over the country, we now have to be a voice. we must improve the quality of our health care. we must develop our nation's health information infrastructure. and we must invest in preventing disease. we must protect existing coverage where it is good and improve it when it is not. as the president said, if you like your health plan, you get to keep. it we -- keep it. we must dial down the paperwork wars an dial up better information for american health care consumers. and we must speak for the 46 million americans, 9 million of whom are children, who right now as i

this may be a question for richard. we've received some reports recently through cybersecurity experts testifying on the hill china has developed its own secure operating system and it's been in development in the past six years and they just started deploying it in 2007. is this something that the dod is doing? the reason i ask is it seems like we are kind of on the reactive instead of the pro-active if the dot has spent over $100 million apparently the last six months on cleaning up cybersecurity issues and what do you think going forward recon partnership with some of these entities where their focus may be more on the business development and not security in some of the products should be developing our own security software like the chinese have done? >> so this is another old guy question. back in the system the dot did make the decision that the current models for operating systems in particular were not sufficient for this problem of both handling multiple classifications and a single machine but also just from

any reaction from richard nixon and your own dealings with him from the late 1970's? guest: in fact, i do not think there has been any major revelation in the last 30 years contradicting what has been in the nixon interviews. but there is this interesting stuff coming out. i missed some of it on the plane yesterday, but it is amazing that it is still coming out, and it is an indication, and i guess the movie was even more of an indication in the abiding fascination with richard nixon because he was such an enigma, so difficult to read and understand. he was the most fascinating press that we have had, really, for all of reasons. host: let me share one of the excerpts of the covers is from january, 1973. >> they are not to have any advance information, is that clear? the message is not to be from me, is that clear? my name is not to be mentioned. there is no appreciation, there is to be no response to anything he says, saying that we grant that this thing is over. i want no response as to anybody, either individual or governmentally. is that clear? >> fully clear, mr.

finally, richard reeves who probably needs no introduction to any of you. richard is the senior lecturer at the annenberg school of communication at usc. he's probably best known for his presidential biographies of john kennedy, richard nixon and ronald reagan. his latest book, however, was a biography of new zealand physicist ernest rutherford in which he repeated the experiments that lead to the atom. he describes that as a labor of love designed to show his graduates that he was not as dumb as he thought he was. [laughter] >> so to begin, i wanted to invite each of our panelists to make some -- to offer some opening thoughts. and sort of thought we'd start with the question of, you know -- we're here today to talk about biography and history and i wonder if you would each talk about some of the challenges of telling history through the development of characters. paula, you're award winner. you want to go first? >> thanks a lot. [laughter] >> well, i think the greatest challenge -- it took me a long time to write this book. and for many reasons, of course

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. >> host: baton rouge on the independent line with richard wolffe. good morning. >> caller: good morning. how are you this morning? well, i have heard a lot, and the only thing i hear is how great he is, which may be he is, i don't know but there was a lot of it with the reason that mccain lost was because of the media. the media was square behind obama and they never denied it for crying out loud. everything, they pour palin , everything that came up the media went after. >> host: let me do my for you right now, number one, if you think the media was always in love with him and only gave positive coverage you must have forgotten the two month period for basically all the way through the pennsylvania primary and beyond which was dominated by one man called jeremiah wright and i assure you remember him. it was compounded by candidate obama singing people were bitter in small towns in america and this was two months of the worst coverage of any candidate in any election. so i guess if you set that aside and say well, that never happened, then you could

they met at a richard mel fundraiser. patti mel, dick mel, told me had just broken up with a boyfriend and she was kind of moping around the house. so her father said, well, come to my fundraiser we're having. there was a great german restaurant on the north side. there was the fundraiser. and that's where they met. and patti said afterwards -- she told her father, you know, fink if anything out with him, i'm going to have the time of my life. [laughter] >> she was right about that one. [laughter] >> and that launched his political career. >> what was it about -- do you think -- do you think that when he was a storefront lawyer with his mother as a receptionist, did he still have political dreams or had he always had political dreams or did dick mel give him political dreams? >> i think he always had some political dreams. you know, the one subject that he always loved was history. and he had a fascination with politics, with american presidents. to this day rod blagojevich can name you every president forwards and backwa

you know, richard jefferson gives them now four solid players who can score the basketball. if manu ginobili and tony parker and tim duncan can be healthy, then i think this improves them a great deal. motivation in getting the veteran trio? >> the bucks, it's financial. many of those guys if not all of them may even be cut by the bucks because they simply traded them to get rid of richard jefferson's long-term contract, two years left on that one at big money and to get these expiring contracts. and it also clears up some room for them to resign their free agent charlie villanueva and sessions. for the bucks it was about money and staying young and resigning their bright young players. >> all right, chris. the other big news today, yahoo! sports reporting on the for three players. what can you tell us about boston swapping players around? >> that's the surprising thing. detroit did not consider that trade at all, but the issue that boston is shopping a rajon rob doe is the big story. it boils down to he's been headache for coach doc rivers. he's very hard to coach, and he's

caller: sir richard dalton, it is great to speak with you. i have maybe an interesting perspective about iran. i have heard that roughly 1,500 iranians are becoming christians daily, and maybe the protestors, some of those are christians, and also one could point -- the number one independent movie in the country right now is "the craw" about a guy named arthur blessette who went to every nation on the planet. he is in the guinness book of world records. he went to every island group, every territory and went to ant antartica carrying a 12-foot cross and people would show up. he went to belfast during the terrorist uprising in '69. it took him 40 years. he started in '68 or '69. host: we will leave it there. any spops to the first half of the question? guest: i haven't heard that figure before. the overwhelming majority of iranians are muslim faith and have been calling muslim chapters from the roofs at night to indicate they see themselves in the mainstream of iranian identity and iranian activity. host: in the first part of this unrest, we

you never hear of the thought that richard nixon was carefree. that was never the word. but that day, for 20 minutes, all those screens that he had around him to block out the rest of the world and intimacy with people were up for 20 minutes, and that was an extraordinary experience. he called me david, and he had not said david in a whole month. he said to my girlfriend, come on, i will show you around the house. "that was where brezhnev's slept." for 20 minutes, when did see a difference. just at the end, but still very affable, the walls closed in around him again. for 20 minutes of carefreeness, it was extraordinary. but other than that, no further contact. host: debbie is on the phone from west palm beach. good morning. caller: mr. frost, obviously you are renowned for your interview with nixon, and that was absolutely fantastic and thank you for that. but my questions today are on a two. . the first being, what are your thoughts about the wiretapping under the bush administration and the cell phone companies having immunity? the second point is, you're famous inter

this may be a question for richard. we have received some supports after cyber security experts that china has developed its own secure operating system in the past six years and they started deploying it in 2007. is this something that the dod is doing. it seems like we are on the reactive rather than the product. dod has spent $100 million on the cleaning up cyber security issues. do you think we can continue to partnership with some of these private entities where their focus may be more on business not being more about security? should we be developing a our own security software like the chinese have done? >> this is another old guy question. back in the system i was in, dod did make the decision the current operating systems were not capable. also for general resistance to cyber attack. we wrote a guidebook on how to have been operating a system that was more resistant and how it had access control based on the labels. we had a public, private partnership going. we had a really great one. every operating system in

two years later when i did an in depth thing with henry kissinger on his memoir and that was that richard nixon and henry kissinger both wanted to credit for the things that went right in foreign policy and they didn't want debit for the things that went wrong. they wanted to grab all the credit as far as they could from themselves and they couldn't talk because the judgment of history nixon and kissinger would have an umbilical cord, so what happened was nixon making his bid for the maximum credit would say in the interviews things like henry, henry kissinger is just a brilliant mind, brilliant mind. like most intellectuals of course unreliable sometimes and doesn't follow through with things so he would be saying he's very intellectual and in order to say that it needed a father figure, had a figure when he was weak or changed his mind. meanwhile henry's line on that was to say president nixon was one of the greatest presidents we have ever had above all he was a great delegator and he delegated all of the important things to me. so they both had this sort of trying to claim the credit

richard fall brook -- richard holbrooke proceeded to attend that meeting. she was examined and they determined that it was appropriate for her to go to the hospital. >> why did it take until 1255. -- until 12:55 p.m. to report it? >> she proceeded down the street to george washington hospital. she got back to her house at roughly 10:00 p.m. she took a call from the president shortly thereafter. we started to work on a statement some time in the next hour and put it out as quickly as we could. >> it was 11:55 p.m. >> yes, sir. >> obviously, we knew she had fallen. we thought it appropriate to get complete facts before we informed the public and the media. >> [unintelligible] >> cheryl mills is a very close confidant and counselor for the secretary. with all the was the most appropriate person to comment. >> is it likely that she will likely not be in attendance because of surgery? >> will it will be able to address that later appeared >> was a bad break? >> i am sure it was painful. i am not a physician. i do not think it was a severe break. that is why i th

>> sure, richard. i agree with you completely. one of the reasons dod exercises and practice is so much is because the idea is that one is not in the more normally. so you want to train and practice to what you were going to do. in some ways cybersecurity is a little different because one is always in that environment. everyone of us, all of us are always under attack. so, we are in a slightly different place and even a happen all the time. for example telecom companies get caught all the time because of a back hoe that dropped somewhere. so what they need to do and we all need to do is to be able to scale rapidly to address situations that could be much more severe than what we do on a day-to-day basis and in cases where it is a really uptick maybe that is a difference of kind and not like, so we actually do need to even if we didn't want to we do need to exercise to plan for that. we have done a series of exercises over time, burst from one and cyber storm two and three is in planning plus there are some exercises in government

. >> what we're going to see is an associated press photographer named richard grew -- richard drew telling the story of one of the most disturbing put far -- photographs published in the aftermath of 9/11. it is a photograph that, just out of respect for people's sensitivity, a few newspapers publish any more. i will won the audience that your about to see it again. this is richard telling the story of his photograph from 9/11. >> clearly this is disturbing subject matter. this is one of the most gut- wrenching scenes we saw that day. >> this is a pastry chef. this was his last day on the job. they saw my photograph. he was going around, looking at all the posters that were put up of all the missing people. it occurred to him that he had seen my photograph in color. he thought that this person resembled this person that he had seen the poster from. he went and found the family, and found out that it was mr. hernandez, a pastry chef. it was his last day on the job. he got a job at a fifth avenue restaurant. he was there early in the morning to get ready for lunch, i guess. >> what is going

did you ever talk to him about richard nixon? >> guest: not very much. i was interested in the war in the years that he was still alive. remember, he died in 1969. nixon had only been president for less than a year when eisenhower died. eisenhower was ambivalent about nixon, as most people who knew nixon were. he admired certain things about nixon; he regretted quite a lot about nixon. he found it amazing that nixon could live a life without any personal friends. he used to shake his head at that. "i don't understand how he could do that." he used to say that nixon spends too much time trying to look like a nice guy instead of just being one. for myself, i began as a nixon-hater. i went to the university of wisconsin. i was a liberal, and i thought nixon was just the worst of the worst -- a man without character, a man who everything he did was contrived. there was no spontaneity to the man, as far as i could see. everything was done on the basis of, will this hurt or help dick nixon politically. so i was right up there with the nixon-haters until i bega

one of his attorneys, republican attorney general richard thornberg, testified before our committee that as a result of this kind of selective prosecution, the confidence of the american people in the fairness of our justice system was truly being shaken. but that wasn't all. in addition you have the other side of the point, instances of genuine activity that was extremely troubling, that was undertaken by republican affiliated organizations and individuals that was not prosecuted in an aggressive, vigorous way. the most clear example being an example of a republican or a voter registration firm who in nevada and other places conducted voter registration all right, but then tore up voter registrations of people who registered democrat. that case was never prosecuted under the prior administration. we issued aomprehensive report on that subject, which is also available on our website entitled "allegations of selective prosecutions in

a message, something like, richard, nice going, congratulations. rick, thanks.me i learned every contributor of every issue from national review got such a card from william f. buckley, jr. did not diminish its value, rather than the reverse. it was a courtesy and profession that often skipped courtesies. over the years i saved many such cards, a fraction of all the ones i was sent. since they are undated, i can't tell now which one came first. no matter, they were a beam of attention from the top. and then i go on a little bit to give the back-story of big and the back-story of me taking us up to 1970 and the introduction ends at 44, bill's age when he accepted my article, he was conscious of the passage of time. in the early '60s, william rickenbacker a younger colleague sat in on one of his interviews. bill was in fine form like a jet with a switchblade. door, bill smartly knocked it aside. when the door closed, he turned to rickenbacker and grinned i can keep this crap up until i'm 40. [laughter] >> he kept it up much longer. but even there is senses where h

my late friend richard cobb said the police are writing what they want their superiors to hear so youhave to kind of crosscheck everything. and another one went to london. i had british police also. i worked out there. yes, it's all there. it's all there. gets harder in modern period, but now the vichy syndrome now we can find out about collaboration and vichy was before you couldn't because of these types of laws. >> i was wondering if you look into sort of if there was any different reaction his actions as to more normal and arcus action like shooting mccammon or something? >> the debate isn't who you shoot but if you shoot anyone. they said we will organize, we will grow in strength or we will be numerous. those people are influenced. i believe a single spark, that's what the deed was. it will ignite this revolution. it wasn't her you were going to shoot but if you're going to shoot anybody at all. a very major major figure, a noble geographer prints, he came up along with the term with another man who became a socialist. and then he ended up in the bin actually, in an asylum. they

. >> richard is annika -- host: richard is on the phone from newport. caller: i would like to ask a couple of things, really, but first, when are you going to stand up as a conservative, get some cuts in the republican party of there and stand up to these stupid people for wasting your money up there? and second,ç when are you going to pass a bill that at the end of your first term you do not get a full retirement or whatever you have been getting up there while the rest of those people out here have to work 30, 40 years just to get half of what we were getting when we were paid? guest: richard, i have been standing up and i would be glad to provide you a record of that. i fought against the stimulus package and i fought against this budget that is simply out of control but i also will continue to provide alternatives to the american people in the path and direction i think we should go. for example, with healthcare, i think we should remove the employer provided tax benefits to employees and give every family a $5,000 refundable tax credit, rather tha

. >> host: we are spending an hour with general richard myers on book for and we are pleased to have him with us this morning with his new book "eyes on the horizon: serving on the front lines of national security" published by simon and schuster and you can find it at your favorite book seller. from georgetown, mass. stand on the independent line. >> caller: thanks for having me on. sorry to go back and rehash old events, but i truly think this is the giant gorilla in the room. recently, physical evidence has been analyzed under electron microscope that's very high-tech explosives were used in new york city on 9/11. it is a material that is very finely ground down to a very small size to work has an explosive which, depending on how you detonate it, can be used in several ways. i am wondering, with this new information that has come out, in a peer reviewed paper basically saying there was a significant amount of this material, they found significant amounts of unexploded material, with much physical evidence showing this type of thing, and the fact, i don't think most americans are

[laughter] i was listening to richard and gail. it's a pleasure, i've never met richard before. but back when i won the national book award, there was about, i think it was about a week and a half people were paying attention to what i said. [laughter] and i got asked a lot, and i had never passed up the chance to say, you know, you've got -- richard hasn't won the pulitzer and i said, you know, you've got to read this guy's novels about new york because they are just -- "the new york times" asked me a year ago or something for my best book the last 25 years and i said "st mant." that's not -- the guy at "new york times" laughed and i said no, i'm serious. to me the first thing an awful should do is to entertain. and that's mostly and entertaining book ever written as far as i'm concerned. [applause] it can still bring tears to my eyes. and if strangely enough life find myself of here with gail collins. now there's another columnist for the times named maureen dowd. i've got that right, right? okay. maureen dowd you know, when she started a column i was still doing a little of t

good morning, richard. >> caller: good morning, sir. thank you, senator mccabe, for your -- mccain, for your service. i would like to ask one thing -- a couple things, really, but first, when are you going to stand up as a conservative, get some guts in a republican party up there and stand up to these stupid people for wasting our money up there? and second, when are you going to pass a bill that at the end of your first term you don't get a full retirement or whatever you've been getting up there while the rest of us people out here have to work 30, 40 years just to get a half of what we were getting when we were paid? >> guest: well, richard, i have been standing up, my friend, i'd be glad to provide you with a record of that. i've fought against the stimulus package, i fought against this budget which is simply out of control, and i will continue. but also i will continue to provide alternatives to the american people in the path and direction that i think we should go. for example, on health care i still think we should remove the

>> well, you have to remember that his real hero was richard nixon and this is primarily because his -- he's a son of a serbian immigrant, and most serbian immigrants at that point were republicans when they came to the united states. number one, because they were very angry at roosevelt -- roosevelt and -- well, actually eisenhower -- i'll continue -- anyway, because what happened at yalta, in essence, they felt the many serbs felt yugoslavia had been given away to the iron curtain by the democratic leadership. so -- and they really loved general dwight d. eisenhower because he had liberated the prison camp, german prison camp. so many serbs including roddi blagojevich were staunch republicans and that affected him for dwight d. eisenhower passed it on to richard nixon so in this blagojevich home where only serbian were spoken, the republicans were the party of choice except his mother was second -- first generation. she had been born in the united states and her parents were from bosn bosnia. they lived in thomas keen's ward out on the northwest side and she had a job as a ctia tic

ask anyone in this room who served richard branson is and he will be defined many different ways. a flamboyant rish on to partner with a seemingly insatiable appetite for starting new businesses. a magnet for controversy such as his region stant as a glasco train cleaning worker in a tv ad for his virgin train or $8 billion philanthropist attempting to save mother earth. no matter, he has a gift for making people pause and take notice. his high profile adventures include developing personal spaceflight, and in 1986 crossing the atlantic in his virgin atlantic to offshore racing boat in record time. a year later he set another record crossing the atlantic in his virgin atlantic flyer. not only the first hot air balloon to cross the atlantic, but also the largest ever at 2.3 million cubic feet. clearly, this is a man who likes challenge, whether it's in business or in sport. and while many would be satisfied after being knighted by the queen of england for services to entrepreneurship, he has not. sir richard branson, founder of a pint sized record business in 1970 now rules an empi

ask anyone in this room who sir richard branson is and he will be defined different ways: a flamboyant en43 pren newer with an appetite for starting new buses, a magnet for controversy, such as his recent stint as a glass xo cleaning worker in a tv ad for his virgin trains. or a billion dollar philanthropist attempting to save mother earth. no matter, he is a gift for making people pause and take notice. his high profile adventures cloud developing personal space flight and in 1986, crossing the atlantic in his plane offshore racing boat in racing time. a year later, he set another record crossing the atlantic in his virgin atlantic flier, not only the first hot air balance lon to cross the atlantic but also the largest ever at 2.3 million cubic feet. clearly, this is a man who likes a challenge. whether it's in business or in sport. and while many would be satisfied after being knighted by the queen of england for services to entrepreneurship, he's not. sir richard branson, founder of a pint-sized record business in 1970 now rules an empire that rivals the gross domestic product of ma

another one that is closely related is by richard beeman, delancy new book out on the constitutional convention and the men of the constitutional convention, so those of the two books i would read simultaneously right now. >> rett perlstein author of nixonland, what are you reading? >> i am reading the culture of narcissism which is a classic of the came out in 1979, a surprise bestseller even though it was the dense piece of intellectual argumentation sapota insley read by president carter. supposedly informed a speech he gave in which argued that america was suffering this crisis of confidence, and i'm reading it because i'm doing research on the 1970's for my next book. >> what are you learning from it? >> a lot about psychoanalysis and abject relations theory and there is like melody klein. it is the very tense and difficult work. i can imagine two people of-- to many people have read it.

attorney richard thompson to stay on the job, to finish his duty once opr recommended him. because they wanted him to finish dusting off my father. but if you can't get an audience with the judge to conduct a hearing it doesn't mean anything. this is a problem. people died fighting for their civil rights. people were hosed down. democrats have civil rights. moveon.org, democrats now, all the organizations out there, we need you. this is not just about my father. it is about justice for all. for more information, you can reach out to politi politicalprosecution.org. go to info@politicalprosecution.org. i would give a phone number out. 706-951-2671. >> while that may sound some what vague, isn't what tha what financial institutions, capitol market and financial regulationsre

, richard sarnoff who is co-chairman of bertelsmann and president of bertelsmann digital media investment. joining in the questioning, greg piper of washington internet daily. mr. senate if you could start off by giving us a brief snapshot of the bertelsmann companies. >> guest: the bertelsmann is the major media company based in germany. our key divisions are in television, broadcast television and television production. we are the largest broadcaster in europe with brands like rto, channel 5 in great britain. we are very active in magazine field. we are the largest magazine publisher in europe as well. brand, the umbrella brand. we have a theory and large services company, which provides all kinds of media services from the reproductions of ddp's all the way to printing of books, to electronic payment services for google and microsoft and others. and then, last but not least in the weslia business such as random house, which is the world's largest consumer book publisher based here in new york actually and you'll vaudeville has a number of printing and servicing concerns here in the u.s

gates of the 21st century although paul bridges the 19th and 20th centuries than paul's work and richard has rescind a book that spans the 21st century rather than standing at the gates but with that let me make a recommendation that i will open it to the panel and i will reserve some time at the end for some questions. first to my right paula giddings author of when and where i am sure, also in search of the sisterhood, and the editor and writing from the nation. her most recent book, at "ida: a sword among lions" ida b. wells and the campaign against lynching was called the best book of the year with "the washington post" did "chicago tribune" although a final choice for the critics both juries award i am happy to report as of 9:30 p.m. it is the winner for the "l.a. times" [applause] she also holds the chair at the african-american studies at the college board also urge journalist who has been published in the near times, "washington post" broke among others. robert roper we are here to talk about biography related topics of most of his publish books are novels or story collections so

have to read richard's book. i do know with the whitman's i do trace them back they lived in very modest homes they were a family of

john talbott discusses the recession and jay richards about why capitalism is the best way. and the end of overeating, former f.d.a. commissioner, david kessler. and on "after words," from the garden of eden to today. recollection of 600 stories and talks to a are columbia university professor. we have the entire schedule and great new features and streaming videos, archives and simple ways to share your favorite programs. booktv.org. >> president obama was the featured speaker at last night's radio and tv correspondents' dinner. it was held at the washington, d.c. convention center and lasts about 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much. thanks to all of you. have a seat. before i get started as the father of two girls, can i just say how incredibly impressive those three young ladies were. dad would be proud. to heather and all the others who have made this evening possible, thank you so much. it is wonderful to be here. i want to express my appreciation for the opportunity to tell jokes that weren't funny enough for me to use when we did this five weeks ago. [laughter

host: richard on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: hello? host: go ahead.ler: good morning. guest: good morning. caller: i'm an african-american male here in south carolina. i have predominantly had good associations with different caucasian males and females in charleston, south carolina. and about the schooling system, the way that i feel about it is that there is seems to be a confusion in the details. we need to work together bipartisan across the board, with each other, republicans and democrats, quit bickering. president obama cannot fix the whole world by himself. he can't do everything by himself. that is ridiculous. one person can build a house, but if you have many people building a house together you can build it better and faster. that is what we need to do. also, about the charter schools. if the people who are in these scientific institutions and these different upper level colleges like princeton and yale and what have you, if they were so much more intelligent than everyone else, then why do we have global warming? host: hard to argue any of

[applause] >> richard brook hires is a senior editor of national review. the author of several books, including, what would the founders do, and george washington, on leadership. mr. brookhiser was the recipient of the national humanities medal in 2008. for more information, visit the author's web site at richard brookhiser.com. >> this summer, book tv is asking, what are you reading? >> congressman cullberson, what are you reading this summer? >> i always have two or three books going at the same time. one person who i always read on a regular basis is thomas jefferson. frankly, a day doesn't go by i don't read something he has written. i will continue to work my way through his letters, in particular, mr. jefferson wrote so much that although i probably spent the last -- my gosh -- 30 years reading through this works i've only made it maybe about halfway through. so i will continue to work on reading thomas jefferson's letters. i always had a particular fascination with history so i will continue to read works by a number of different authors. one i'm wo

attorney richard thompson to stay on the job, to finish his duty once opr recommended him. because they wanted him to finish dusting off my father. but if you can't get an audience with the judge to conduct a hearing it doesn't mean anything. this is a problem. people died fighting for their civil rights. people were hosed down. democrats have civil rights. moveon.org, democrats now, all the organizations out there, we need you. this is not just about my father. it is about justice for all. for more information, you can reach out to politi politicalprosecution.org. go to info@politicalprosecution.org. i would give a phone number out. 706-951-2671. i offer myself a discussion on the economy and employment and world financial markets and later, a director and producer talks about a film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> conservation was a battle. there were two sides. just like they are now. >> historian douglas brinkley on teddy roosevelt and his role in the early days of the conservation movement. >> h

from the american enterprise institute here in washington, she's joined by richard pildes of new york university law and michael carvin. this is about two hours. >> thank you very much for joining us at today's event. i'm henry olson. i'm vice president at the american enterprise institute and director of its national research initiative. the nri is an entity with aei that financially supports original research and writing on questions of domestic public policy. and is the proud sponsor of the book that's the subject of today's event. voting rights and wrongs, the elusive quest for racially fair elections available for purchase at www.aei.org, i might add. the five most important words in american political history are all men are created equal. ultimately, virtually every political question is how to apply these words to the question at hand and every one of those applications requires americans to answer three questions. who are men? what does it mean to be created equal? and does being created equal imply an inequality of fact in light of the circumstances and the question at hand.

. >> what we are about to see is an associated press photographer named richard drew telling the story of one of the most disturbing photographs published in the aftermath of 9/11. it is a photograph that, out of respect for people's sensitivity, a few newspapers publish any more. i will warn the audience that you are about to see it again. this is richard drew telling the story of his photograph from 9/11. >> this is disturbing subject matter. this is one of the most got reject a wrenching scenes was of that day. white cells with the says barry >> >> this is a pastry chef at the windows of the world. this was his last day on the job. a reporter saw my photograph. he was going around and looking at all the posters that were put up afterwards for all the missing people. it collects to him that he had seen my photograph in ""the new york times." he thought this person resembled another person. he sought out the family and found out that his name was n orberto hernandez. it was his last day on the job. he was there early in the morning. >> what is going to your head when you see that? >>

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host: thanks for your call, richard.esterday president obama called on "the huffington post " reporter concerning iran. >> since we're talking about iran i know that nico is here from "the huffington post" and i know that you and others have seen reports coming directly iran on the internet. another might be questions from people there who are communicating by the internet. >> if yes, i want to take the option to ask the question directly from someone in iran. from some one courageous enough to communicate online one wanted to ask you this -- under which conditions would you accept the election of ahmadinejad, and if you do accept it without any significant changes in the conditions there, isn't that a betrayal of what the demonstrators there are working for? >> look, we did not have international observers on the ground. we cannot say definitively what exactly happened at polling places throughout the country. what we know is that a sizable percentage of the iranian people themselves, spanning that society, consider thi

it was richard nixon who spoke out most eloquently on behalf of wild horses, and was really not since u.s. grant was something of a horse whisperer himself. he used to dress down salters and you his command in the civil war for mistreating horses. it was not since u.s. grant that a president had spoken out on behalf of wild horses. so since 19 is it 1, that bill has been the law that protects our wild horses, but people have been trying to unravel it since then. and something i discovered after i began looking into the massacre that i mentioned earlier, is that in the american west, a bizarre war is under foot. it is a variation of the old range wars of the 19t 19th century, and it is waged by stockman and sage brush rebels, with copies of the second amendment tucked into their back pocket and it is backed by republicans and democrats and a federal agency that circumvent the wild free roaming horses and burrows act of 1971. along with small town officials who march to the great american battle cry, don't tread on me. their target is the wild horse, and the war rages most intensely in

host: our guest is richard woof. caller: my question this morning would be, barack, he is doing pretty much the best he can. it's going to take a long time to correct what's gone on in the last eight years. he isn't going to be make everybody happy. but as long as he is doing what's best for the united states and for the people. how long do you think it's going to take america to get right? guest: how much time do you have? >> that's a great question. we just don't know how long things are going to take to turn around. and that's going to be the key question. if this presidency really comes to an end, it's going to be because the economy doesn't turn around quick enough and it has to turn around quick enough to make a difference in the mid-term elections. so there really isn't much time here for them to show some progress, because otherwise he is looking at a repeat of the clinton era. and if he loses authority or even majority in congress, then weakened presidency can go on for a very long time and severely curtail

okay, not a typical richard russo tone, but so what? had lost control of the short story and instead of crashing and burning, i have embraced by shifting state and come out of this whole thing with a book. how lucky was that? well, a little over a year later with galleys in hand, it feels less like luck now than it did then. now it feels more like skill. but not of the literary variety. the particular skill i refer to is self-deception, the rider's best friend. because truth and honesty will let you down every time. by counseling caution, wisdom. when what the novel industry requires is if not sheer barking lunacy, then gentle guile, purposeful deception, duplicity. novelists are not hard counters. they don't need to be reminded about the odds. but are professional liars, after all, so it shouldn't come as any surprise that they themselves often need to be lied to, and who better to lie to a novelist than himself? to 1 degree or another, self-deception is a necessary part of the novelists game. every morning when you wake up, you tell y

center for american progress, a top committee under kennedy, senate foreign relations committee under richard lugar and a variety of other internships, so these are my current crop of students and they will be alarmed and very supportive of the program in the future. [laughter] [applause] thank you. [applause] the title of the symposium this year is president verses concourse, in balance of power. conventional wisdom today seems to conclude george w. bush and dick cheney expanded power at the expense of congress and exercise of war power and prerogatives and privilege along with their use for example of executive task forces warrantless wiretapping and signing statements. purported executive overreach we are told inspired pushback from a democratic congress. is this dÉjÀ vu all over again? american history is replete with charges of presidential overreach followed by legislative reaction. during the late 1960's and early 70's, legislators and scholars condemned the imperial presidency under democrat lyndon johnson and republican richard nixon promised on the vietnam war. in the 1980's and 199

. >> richard brookhiser is a senior editor of "national review." he's the author of several books including what would the founders do and george washington on leadership. mr. brookhiser was the recipient of the national humanities medal in 2008. for more information, visit the author's website at richardbrookhiser.com. ♪ >> this summer book tv is asking, what are you reading? >> senator mitch mcconnell, what's on your summer reading list? >> well, i just finished a couple of books i would highly recommend. john mecham's biography of andrew jackson, which is fairly recently out. it's a fabulous, sort of different look at andrew jackson from previous biographies that i've read of him and i've read several. it really focuses mostly on his presidential years and also a good deal about his personal life, how important his family was. his wife died right after his election and so was never in the white house. but he had a collection of relatives who served as advisors and sort of supported him and this really delves deeply into their relationship with h

also, we will remember the man corporal, the corporal, the lance corporal, lance corporal robert richards, sapper jordan rosi, and fusilier suesue.] all of them have been killed in the service of their country, and we will not forget their sacrifice, and we must care for their families. i also join the prime minister in sending condolences to the family and friends of edwin dyer. this must simply be a terrific time for his family, and i am sure everyone in the country is thinking about it. we must never give into terrorists -- in to terrorists. this morning, the committee's secretary resigned from the cabinet. that follows yesterday's announcement that the children's minister is standing down. why does not the prime minister accept that his ability to command his cabinet has simply disappeared? >> i think the first thing that the whole house will want to do is to acknowledge the great work that is being done by both the home secretary and the committee's secretary in the cabinet. -- and the communities secretary in the cabinet. i think at a time like this, the house should come together t

>> i got the books i hope to read beginning with the emperor's new clothes, a book by richard who is a very well-known washington lawyer and an old friend of mine, he was very much involved many years ago in watergate and the 9/11 commission. the and. close i want to get through because i thank you have some good stories about what is going on in washington and certainly what happened over the past several decades. another book is by william cullen entitled house of cards, a tale of hubris and success on wall street. this is a book that basically tells the story of how the collapse on wall street occurred in, what was going on here and i've had him on my show and he's really smart and i think this is -- i have read parts of the book already but i want to get through it as a result of what i've heard directly from william cohen. there is a book coming out this summer entitled myths, listens and peace, fighting in a direction for america in the middle east by dennis ross, a longtime special middle east envoy who is now working in the obama administration on iran among other subjects an

the idea, when -- richard blumenthal. the idea, when we were looking at commodities and the market, we realized the more and closer we looked at who was regulating these agencies, it was somewhat a case of the foxes guarding the hen house. many have asked, and when they went home over the break and since the financial collapse on wall street, people have been astounded in trying to answer the question of how could it be that bernie may dauf was scamming thousands -- may doff was scamming -- ma doff was scamming thousands -- madoff was scamming thousands into giving up their money. where were the agencies, where were they when speculators were wreaking havoc on the oil markets? i can think of no sector where honesty, independence, and transparency are needed more right now than in our financial and commodity markets. yet the regulatory -- regulators of these markets have been athroud work with no oversight of what they are doing and whether they are fulfilling their mission to protect the american consumer. that's because