former secretary of defense robert lee talks list with his memoir. followed by malcolm gladwell's david and quiet. and the recount of the fight for women's rights in pakistan. these three authors recently appeared on booktv in the programs can be viewed anytime at booktv.orb. scott stossel chronicles his struggles with anxiety and charles krauthammer presents a collection of his political column. three decades of politics. watch the syndicated columnist program from the george w. bush presidential library at our website at booktv.org. sixth on the "l.a. times" bestseller list. followed by a short guide to a long life by david angus. including promised land and a ninth place the memoir will failure. and wrapping up the list is the muriel sherman's profile in the loudest voice in the room. look for the germans on booktv's author program afterwards on booktv on c-span2. and that is the top 10 best-selling books list according to the "los angeles times." >> next, history from pre-civil war to preconstruction. and we are automating large part of the boule

>> i was in my class at robert e. lee high school. was in a philosophy class and you had to have certain scores and grades to be able to take. it was just one class that a history professor taught. he came in and told us that president kennedy had been shot. i went home for lunch that day and i went home to where my parents were. i was with them then. after that, the funeral that followed, i remember just lying on the couch with my mother and dad and we were watching that. i was amazed, really, at her strength. she was very young, really young. i think she was only 32, if i am not mistaken. she really had such strength. not only did she have the strength to be able to withstand it with such grace and poise, but she was also able to plan a state funeral after the most unexpected thing that could ever happen to a first lady, in a way. i think our whole country was so beautifully and so memorably planned that i think it helped in a lot of ways, everyone in our country, as he watched. and she did too with her strength. >> did you find you

somehow, i did not think robert e. lee fit in that group of texas heroes, but who knows. , that is what my school was named. and we were segregated. george washington carver was the name of the high school. reunion, myed the high school reunion at the white -- not kids, kids they were six years old by then, -- they were 60 years old by high school and george washington carver. that was the first time we met the students that were our age. you when youprise first became first lady at the platform you are given and the voice you had? >> i knew that intellectually because i had seen my mother in law and the platform that she had to talk about literacy, which was her interest. johnson andady bird how she influenced me at home in texas because of her interest in native plants. until it really know it made the presidential radio address in the fall of 2001 after the terrorist attack to talk about the way women and children were treated by the taliban in afghanistan. >> good morning. i am laura bush. i am delivering this week's r

on may 9, 1865, just weeks after robert lee surrenders at appomattox, black virginians meet at a carpenter's house in richmond. start their pushing for black rights. henry allen predicted something and goes all the way down to convention in norfolk, virginia. they then hold conventions in new orleans, in nashville across the river here in alexandria, virginia, in mobile, alabama, and again this is a national movement in faraway sacramento. every convention began with a speech praising the no martyred abraham lincoln, but if these activists admired lincoln, they weren't so sure about his party. in most books on reconstruction, sort of the big story, big narrative is a snap between the so-called moderate lincoln and the more radical progressives like cat stevens, 1863, the radicals in congress passed a bill called the way davisville supposed to be the progressive reconstruction response to lincoln. lincoln pocket because it. it doesn't mention black voting rights to the 1866 in response to rising tide of white violence, the radicals in congress passed the civil rights act. and it doesn't menti

listening to cantor it sounded to me like robert e. leeg grant if he could write a more complicated surrender document. >> let me ask you briefly -- >> let's a long way -- >> i thought of that just sitting here actually. >> let me ask you briefly david and bob, about this contention prfrom the proceed he can use executive power, use it to transform the country if congress won't move along with him. but the first two examples sort of glorified passbook savings october and a minimum wage for future federal contractors seems extremely small and almost seems to prove the point that his executive authority is actually very limited. >> i think you're absolutely right. there's a quota tributed to churchill. he says make little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood. that's exactly what's going on the here. this is small boar stuff. he didn't move his numbers. and i think he's got to find some way to mobilize the country. he's right about trying to create jobs. he's right about trying to deal with the unemployment and this subnormal situatio

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>>> joining me around the table, democratic strategist peggy lee, robert costa and national review'sso this week we have seen a candidate for governor in texas, greg abbott, get tied to ted nugent who he happened to be campaigning with him and ted nugent just said some horrible -- i'm not going to repeat thungs aboings about the president that he should never have said. he seems misogynist. he's written songs about jail bait. he's written of having sexual relationed with underage -- i mean so this is not exactly what you want your campaign to be cloaked in. the question is, has greg abbott, the gubernatorial candidate, been damaged. wendy davis, the democratic -- who is a democratic gubernatorial candidate, said this isn't about some raging rock star way past his prime who simply needs to go away. this is about greg abbott. it is about his character, his judgment, his values when he stands on a stage next to someone like that and refers to him as his blood brother. any damage here to abbott's campaign? >> i don't think so. i think what happened -- this is texas. i think this is good

. >> first baby is mason robert lee.ry 3rd. her dad is a major with the u.s. marine corps. we thank him for his service. this little guy -- the father arrived home just in time to see his little girl arrive. thank god. okay. only five days later, he had to return to active duty overseas, hoping to come back and see how much she's grown in april. that's great. congratulations to all of our babies. >> if you want to submit your baby to be a johnson's baby of the week, all the details are on klgandhoda.com. >> now, do we want to give a little love to andy cohen? >> oh, yes. >> from last -- >> we don't have time. thank you, andy cohen. >> a gracious host. >> he was. >> thank you for all your tweets. very sweet about it. thank you. >>> we want a quick shoutout, whether dating or married, you probably wonder how compatible you and your partner are. >> if you want to know, don't you think you innately know? go to klgandhoda.com, pick our couples compatibility test and on monday we're going it talk about the results and tell you

cases could let john roberts destroy voting rights act." michael lee is an attorney who specializing in election law and texas redistricting. good to see both of you. the voting rights act prohibits racial discrimination, including laws that have the effect, the effect, of discriminating. as you've written, how could this section fall apart because of voter i.d. challenges? >> well, if this case, the challenge against texas's voter i.d. law, goes to the supreme court and if the justice department wins in the first round, it's very likely that it would. john roberts and his allies on the court could say, we don't agree that section 2 should bar laws that have the effect of discriminating, we think that's too law. it should only bar intentional discrimination and the problem is it's rare, difficult to improve intentional discrimination, so that would narrow what the voting rights act can do. >> are these the chance that this particular court has been looking for? >> they could well be. i mean, there's been, for decades, since john roberts was a lawyer in

. >> our next johnson's baby is benjamin lee ludwig born in eerie, pennsylvania, on december 18th. parents jennifer and robert say their son is very animated and likes to make funny faces. >> that's called gas. and finally jordan lynn cunningham was born in columbia, south carolina. she was due new year's eve but decided to come a little early, made her grand entrance on christmas eve. our great congratulations to all of our babies and their families. >> if you want to submit your baby to be a johnson baby of the week, go to klgandhoda.com for details. >> and press the connect button. >> today is a sad day. i'm sorry. >> bittersweet. >> it is mainly sad. >> yeah, it is. we're really sad about this. >> our very, very good friend donna richards is our head wardrobe stylist, miss everything. >> with the whip. >> is leaving the "today" show. donna, will you step out here? she is leaving the "today" show after all these years. >> she's not leaving nbc, though. >> you're going to seth. >> seth meyers. >> she's going across the street. you don't understand, what donna talks to you, she doesn't look you in the eye, s

lee! >> your alma mater orel roberts university wanted to give you a shoutout all the way from tulsa, oklahoma't graduate, i am one of those -- i did leave a semester shy of graduating college, but i did later go on to get a ph.d. from marymount university which i didn't earn at all. >> did you get one of those free ones? >> all the work i did in battling labor abuses, so in a way i did earn that one, yeah, yeah. but thank you, that's very nice. >> it is olympic time. you guys, the united states is tied for first with russia. >> uh-oh. >> okay. we actually have, i think we have more bronze. they have more silver, so technically maybe they're a smidge ahead of us. >> us about as of yesterd >> but as of yesterday we have another gold. >> of the 19 shots, five of them are vodka and the rest are water. that means roughly, and i'll round off, one in four chance of picking the prize. who is going to do it this time? >> should we wait and talk about the olympics a little bit or do it now? >> i think we need to do it. >> okay. >> how can we check to see which one i cannot have a redo of yesterday for

robert durando. he was asked whether there was a formal written memorandum of understanding with ft. leeer, wildstein has requested the chief traffic engineer rivera has prepared a mock-up of three different traffic scenarios including cutting down ft. lee's lanes from three to two. chief engineer peter zip forwards it to wildstein noting it could be to merge down to only one lane. that's, quote, if needed. and friday, september 6, according to testimony from both durando and fulton, the director of the bridges, tunnels, and terminals department, wildstein directs them to go ahead with the test. he has a condition that they not inform officials in ft. lee. supposedly because talking to them about the sudden change would taint the experiment. on sunday, september 8, wildstein e-mails him to say he will be right there at the bridge. he will be there to view this new lane test. the traffic monday morning was predictably slow and jammed. the initial reaction from the locals was swift. matthew bell e-mails baroni that ft. lee mayor mark sokolich is calling about, quote, an urgent matter of pu