and elias, through chris souter, through this carney of precounts, -- recounts, tells volunteers and they have thousands of volunteers, to make sure you record the call at the table. what do i mean by the call at the table? this is the back of the book and i know you can't really see it, but these are ballots here amped and -- and some ballots people will write in i want him anyway. and then we have the lizard people vote, then we've got brett favre and the flying spaghetti monsters and all of those people. so when you -- when the votes are recounted, there are volunteers at the table and they can challenge these votes about voter intent saying it doesn't look like it's for coleman, it doesn't look like it's for franken. ultimately, all this voter intent stuff is determined by the state canvassing board down the road and it would be in this case too, to supreme court justices, to district court justices, secretary of state, but in the trenches, it's the two parties that challenge the ballots, local officials, average hard working, well-meaning people, saying i think the vote was for

>> souter: yeah.ne that the majority of the american people would probably disagree with you on these opinions. >> stevens: that may very well be true. you know, it's a part of our job to write opinions, from time to time, that are not popular, and you know at the time they're not going to be popular. >> pelley: stevens took us on a tour of the hidden supreme court. this is the library that's usually open only to lawyers. its not used much now that there's an internet. and this was extremely rare-- network television has never been in the justices' robing room. it looks like a locker room. >> stevens: well, it is. it is a locker room. >> pelley: it's here that all nine justices slip into their gear and, by tradition, shake hands at the start of the new term. we were with stevens in june as he was preparing to hang up his robe for the last time, and it was then that stevens told us he was worried about the direction of the court. the supreme court is supposed to uphold the constitution, but throughout

>> souter: yeah. of the american

. >> well, you mentioned -- was it souter who took his spot? >> souter, yes. >> oh, souter. i remembered hearing some folks say that there were statements by eisenhower later that the biggest mistakes he ever made were warren and brennan. was there any -- did he ever -- >> the answer is yes and no. there's substantial evidence that eisenhower thought that. >> uh-huh. >> there is no evidence that he actually ever said the words publicly even though they are attributed to him in dozens of history books. i actually had a bizarre experience early in this process of tracing those words and their, you know, you go from one book to the next and the next book cites another one, and you go to the other one and you go to another one, and eventually i came to the end of the line, and there was no source. it was actually a miscitation, and the words had been said about somebody else. but having done that, i also found that there were several places where privately eisenhower expressed that sentiment, so i think he felt it. although i'm not sure he said the famous words that are attribut

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they would give me the books they just read that they highly recommended and one is my name is mary souter, historical fiction about the civil war. out in his very excellent beer, then another is cutting for stone, a texas book festival, i'm not sure if he has been a national book festival writer or not it is historical fiction also about to ethiopia during the time of fascinating story about twins. my twin -- my twins are reading it. jann know when to ethiopia with care on a trip there. she wanted to read that especially around her trip. >> what is the present rating? >> he is reading in excellent biography of of bon hopper that i am an anxious to get my hands on. >> we got that at booktv and will cover that at some point. laura bush is the founder of the national book festival and the author of "spoken from the heart". she was first lady for eight years as well. thank you for being at national book festival. >> now back to robin who is out and about here. >> i'm holding the the sense and no -- "the essential engineer: why science alone will not solve ou global problems" henry petroski, w

they would give me the books they just read that they highly recommended and one is my name is mary souter historical fiction about the civil war. out in his very excellent beer, then another is cutting for stone, a texas book festival, i'm not sure if he has been a national book festival writer or not it is historical fiction also about to ethiopia during the time of fascinating story about twins. my twin -- my twins are reading it. jann know when to ethiopia with care on a trip there. she wanted to read that especially around her trip. >> what is the present rating? >> he is reading in excellent biography of of bon hopper that i am an anxious to get my hands on. >> we got that at booktv and will cover that at some point. .th . the national book festival and the author of "spoken from the heart". she was first lady for eight

one of them is my name is mary souter. it's historical fiction art the war. excellent.is "cutting for stone" by abram geese. i'm not sure if he's a national book festival writer or not. it's historical fiction also about ethiopia during the time of holly scilas and a fascinating story about twins. my twins, barbara and jenna are reading it right now. barbara went on a trip there. she wanted to read that around his trip. >> do you know what the president is reading? >> she's reading an excellent biography of bonhoper. i'm anxious to get my hands on it. >> we just got it at booktv. we will be covering that. laura bush, the founder of the book festival and author of "spoken from the heart." by the way she was first lady for eight years. >> thank you so much. thank you for covering the national book festival. >> every weekend everytv brings you 48 hours of history, biography, and public affairs. here's a portion of one of our programs. >> i'm in charge of globalization. i was born at a time when large numbers of african countries had just gotten their independence, were get

one of them is "my name is mary souter." it's historical fiction about the civil war. another one is by abraham. it's been a texas book festival. i'm not sure if he's been a national book festival writer or not. it's historical fiction also, really, about ethiopia during the time of holly and then a really fascinating story about twins. my twins, have been reading it. jenna took a trip to ethiopia. >> what's the president reading? >> she's reading a new biography of bonhoper. >> we just got that at booktv. we will be covering that at some point. laura bush is the founder of the national book festival and the author of spoken from the heart. by the way, she was first lady for eight years as well. >> thank you so much. thank you for covering the national book festival. >> next former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove talks about his memoir "courage and consequence: my life as a conservative in the fight." he spoke about it in austin. >> thank you, brian. [applause] [applause] >> first he said i didn't need an introduction. then he gave me a hell of an introduct