for nike and titleist and rolex and wheaties and american express. his father was a green beret.has a new book out. you rarely see criticism except for the john finestein book. how have you reacted to that where he has made it since you have too much too quick and are now above it? >> i don't know, because he doesn't know me. >> larry: you never met him? >> i know him now, but i wouldn't call him a good friend or anything. i know him through an acquaintance. it's very interesting. this is a guy who observes from the outside, never has a chance to get to know me, and takes shots at me. kind of interesting. >> larry: he never sat down and did an interview with you? >> he did an article from "newsweek" from his home or somewhere on the east coast. i don't know where it is. >> larry: it was on the east coast. >> did his article from there, and never actually went to milwaukee when i turned pro to write the article. >> larry: he wrote it elevated you to fame that people that knew nothing about golf stopped to watch tiger. he blew off the president of the united states and rachel robin

what i tell people, i could have a timex, a rolex, but the timex will tell me i'm late for the meeting. we know our kids are late. the current assessments we have do a good enough job to know we have a huge problem and we need to begin to solve them. so the federal government should expect big progress and know it doesn't measure everything, they need to be successful beyond high school. just because they don't measure everything doesn't mean the things they do measure does not matter. we expect them to raise the standards and close the gaps. when i was walking in, congressman scott was saying, and he was so right, that a big problem with nclb, enormous problem with nclb, what it did was identify schools in trouble and pretty much said fix it yourself. that is wrong. that is just wrong. what nclb did not do was put pressure on the school districts. the school districts are the appropriate first responders to schools. when we've looked at the data, what we've seen is struggling schools tend to cluster. there are school districts that can't or won't improve their schools and pay the atte

what i tell people, i could have a timex, a rolex, but the timex will tell me i'm late for the meeting know our kids are late. the current assessments we have do a good enough job to know we have a huge problem and we need to begin to solve them. so the federal government should expect big progress and know it doesn't measure everything, they need to be successful beyond high school. just because they don't measure everything doesn't mean the things they do measure does not matter. we expect them to raise the standards and close the gaps. when i was walking in, congressman scott was saying, and he was so right, that a big problem with nclb, enormous problem with nclb, what it did was identify schools in trouble and pretty much said fix it yourself. that is wrong. that is just wrong. what nclb did not do was put pressure on the school districts. the school districts are the appropriate first responders to schools. when we've looked at the data, what we've seen is struggling schools tend to cluster. there are school districts that can't or won't improve their schools and pay the attentio