when he bid everyone goodbye, it was the last time that samuel clemens overcame back.erception of him being the talented batboy with the passage of time is going to modify. in 1866 there were still people who wanted to play a little bit. by the time he came bckheec figure. of course then he never comes at pnt. but he is embracing himself as a great american writer. he had spent time here and i think that probably what was the critical publication, because nevada territory through his eyes brought attention to this area. they appreciated the fact that he was part of their experience. arguably mark twain played a role in the nevada writers hall of fame. i consider him in terms of stature, the greatest american writer that ever found his way through nevada. but when you look at great writers anything of mark twain -- you think that this is where the man was born. the man mark twain grew to maturity here and the people of nevada embraced him as much as the people in connecticut and new york and missouri. without the carson city experience in the nevada experience, samuel c

samuel clemens came with his brother on august 14, 1861.is brother been appointed by president abraham lincoln as secretary of nevada territory, and sam, looking for some opportunities and maybe getting away from the civil war, saw the chance for which is perhaps. certainly a job, his brother suggested he might have a job for them so they boarded a stagecoach in st. joseph missouri and found a way to carson city, nevada. when they arrived here, it wasn't too long before sam discovered it was a much in way of a job opportunity. and this is where he began to explore nevada territory. he went up to lake tahoe. and what he was doing there was try to establish what's called timber claims. he's looking at money but if you can get money selling timber, he's going to do. unfortunately, he starts a fight up with a link. he would go to aurora in what was then esmeralda county to begin mining, come back, hang around carson city with his brother a little bit. then he would go up to later in the year after his first territorial session wher we foud some

he bid everybody good-bye including his editor, joe goodman, it was the last time mark twain, samuel clemens, ever came back to nevada territory. the perception of sam clemens/mark twain is the infanter terrible, the bad boy. with the passage of time, it's going to modify because his stock's going to go up in the country. in 1866 he was, memories weren't that short, and there were still people that wanted to do to him what he had done to others. by the time he came back in 1868, he's becoming a national figure. and then, of course, he never comes back after 1868, but he's embraced, he's now the great american writer. oh, he's one of us. people forgot his sins, his many, many sins because they were so proud that he had spent time here, and i think probably what was the critical publication that changed it was "roughing it." ..

i'm very much--i mean, "hey," you know, "samuel clemens." let's hear it for mark twain. he's wonderful. i can't stand the thought that people are going to throw out huckleberry finn and put nappy hair in. you know, that's not the way. let me ask-- one of the things people who work in the area of fighting off censorship, we tend to demonize people who want to censor. there is a sense that, you know, "these are the people who walk into walls, "and they're not well-read, "and they-- they're just determined to shut out the world." but are there times when a parent could go to a school administrator and say, "look, my son or daughter is reading this in the fourth grade, and it's really not appropriate"? would that always be wrong? i think a thoughtful-- a thoughtful parent coming into school to talk about something is always welcome. it's the zealot that we all jump away from. thoughtfulness is appreciated always. is it--is it, then, that teacher's job to change the book? i don't know. (mannino) well, i'm hoping that the decision-- people make bad decisions. i mean, not every

never could've been mark twain. >> more about samuel clemens is booktv and american history tv look at the history of array life of carson city, nevada. saturday at noon eastern on c-span2 and sunday at five on c-span3. >> lawmakers and agency heads met this week to talk about some of the current challenges facing the federal budget process. we will hear from former senate budget committee chairman kent conrad and don nickles. also joined the discussion, david obey to lead the house appropriations committee. and former wisconsin governor tommy thompson, republican. the bipartisan policy center and george mason university hosted this event. >> okay, good morning. welcome to the session which we're calling "budgeting on the brink," cosponsored by the bipartisan policy center and george mason university center on public service. i'm paul posner, director of the programs at george mason. this session is part of the longer-term multimedia project which we are undertaking at george mason to probe the history and federal budget over the past 40 years. the past decades have not been unevent

. >> more about samuel clemens as booktv and american history tv look at the history of literary life of carson city, nev.. and sunday at 5:00 on c-span2. >> up next, jeffrey sachs, director of the institute at columbia in a recipe recount president kennedy's pursuit of a reduction of nuclear arms and greater relationship with the soviet union following the cuban missile crisis. this program is 90 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much that kind introduction and thank you for joining us today for this discussion with professor geoffrey sax on his important

. >> more about samuel clemens as booktv and american history tv look at the history of literary life of carson city, nev.. and sunday at 5:00 on c-span2. >> up next, jeffrey sachs, director of the institute at columbia in a recipe recount president kennedy's pursuit of a reduction of nuclear arms and greater relationship with the soviet union following the cuban missile crisis. this program is 90 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much that kind introduction and thank you for joining us today for this discussion with professor geoffrey sax on his important book "to move the world: jfk's quest for peace". i just finished reading it and that recommend it wholeheartedly. this book of history and not of fiction i hope you don't mind if i give away the ending which is-jeffrey sachs concludes this powerful book by demonstrating the parallels between kennedy's quest for peace and our generation's quest for sustainable development and that is why it is fitting we are hosting him here today at the world bank. in his book jeffrey sachs shows president kennedy's 1963 peace speech was a spring.

and samuel clemens, mark twain's publishing company ends up publishing the memoirs for grant. he completes them a few short days before he pass i away, he knowles they will bring financial comfort to julia. >> the first royalty check was $200,000. >> $200,000. >> imagine in that day, it was, what, a million, a great book, a great classic. i recommend it to anyone. >> is it still readable? >> very much. >> absolutely. >> even those of us who are not military historians. >> where mark twain and the grants' friends since he published the memoirs. >> he did become good friends. it was through twain's efforts that, as i said, grant began diligently writing the memoirs. some claims that twain had actually ghost written. but twain was very adamant that, no, it was grant that had written it word for word. >> how close was mark twain to the grants? i know twain paid for a sculptor and waited for grant to die to have a desk mask made of him. it was at the white house and how did mrs. grant relate to him? >> not at the white house. it was afterwards they developed the closer relationship

samuel clemens.ook at the history and literary life of carson city, nevada today at noon eastern on c-span 2 and sunday at 5:00 on c-span 3. >> c-span. we bring public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences and offer complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house. crmp span, created by the cable tv industry 33 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. now you can watch us in 3 d. democratic senators hosted a meeting on immigration policy in ames, iowa. this is just over an hour. [applause] >> thank you all very much for coming. i'm the director -- move along here. thank you all for being here. and for this extremely important topic. and one that we just -- i appreciate -- my good friend dick durbin, senator durbin from illinois. [applause] >> 12 years ago when we first started on the dream act. so, senator, thank you so much for your work. [ applause ] well, as i greet you th

i want you to just listen to me as i read just a few words from a book written by mark twain, samuel clemens the same guy that wrote huckleberry finn. and he was traveling in the holy land in the 1860's. now don't forget that date, 1860's, about the time of our civil war. and this is what he wrote and i'm going to read it. it's from a book that he wrote that was titled, 'the innocence abroad.' and i want to give credit for it. here it is, 'the soil is rich enough but it is given completely to weeds, a desolation.' now watch the words that mark twain uses and he wasn't knowledgeable of scripture, i'm sure of that, but it's the same kind of language. 'there's a desolation here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action.' now watch this. 'we never saw a human being on the whole route. we pressed toward jerusalem. the further we went the hotter the sun got, the more rocky and bear and repulsive and dreary the landscape became.' does that tell you what it looked like? 'there was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of

it was written by samuel clemens, also known as mark twain.hat he wrote is total abstinence is so excellent a thing it cannot be carried to too great of an extreme.in my passion for it, i carry it so far as to totally abstain from abstinence it self. it does sound like something mark twain would seay. the group also had these lovely things made of for lucy. they are beautifully embroidered. they are very large. they were basically door curtains that hung right here in the house in this doorway and they divided this room, the library parlor, from the president study. >> what were the post-white- house years like?>> they were not as long as they wanted them to be, but they enjoyed having their family back together. they only had one child married at this point. they still had teenagers at home with them. one son at college and the other working in cleveland. they hoped to have grandchildren coming in at any point.they entertained people. but the hayeses kept going with their causes. hayes was a trustee of the university. lucy was involved with t