the attack strom thurmond's father and strom -- in front of the young strom thurmond calling him pussyfoot bill for the way he went behind peoples backs and did not confront his political enemies planned to man in that kind of thing. simpkins rutted a man whose candidacy for prosecuting attorney was pleasantly cut short. as well as the schoolmaster whose dismissal of stoops quietly engineered despite visiting the man before he left town to tell them how greedy he was. stupas is by slightly different pre. he was only half students. the other was stone and it was from his mother side of the family that he was said to have inherited a penchant for acts of wild folly prepared an uncle on his mother site who is galt possessed of an energy so maniacal that he dissipated a fortune in numerous foolish enterprises. stone black his deceptiveness simpkins wrote what his father achieved by an direction stone pursued openly and in the process attracted enemies. characteristics of hog and stone students and simpkins memoirs provide context for the defining event in the lives of will and strom thurmond.

who was the strom thurmond? and what role -- that's also with trent lott, right, and will grow as he played? it what's interesting about that is how othe the republicans andr conservatives responding to that issue. in responding to the controversy. so that's part of the analysis. they are interpreting thurmond. a lot of national conservative readers are doing are trying to keep thurmond as a crazy old uncle of the conservative revolution. the guy who is not really important to this conservative movement that's been going on in the last 50 years or so. and what my book is are you is thurmond was there all along, a key figure, and the people did taken series of. it's not just like republican strategists thought he was a kook. they didn't think he was a kook. goldwater didn't think he was a cook when is trying to get thurmond to switch parties and adores him in 19 safety for. richard nixon didn't think he was a kook when thurmond helped him carry key states in the south. so that's an important, you know, that contr

i guess because the small talk one made with strom strom thurmond. get him to his flight and shook his hand again. that was it. i thought about that story a lot as i have written this book. that story really the metaphor for the difficulty i had in writing about this -- the challenge i faced in writing about this very controversial figure. there's no easier or straightforward way to write about a figure as controversial as strom thurmond. sometimes as i've been reading the book we wondered if some of the stuff in the book is not another effort on my part to carry strom thurmond's back age. -- the challenge i had in the weak was to fight the urge not kind of, you know, simply walk away and not meet the man face to face, you know, and present him as a kind of three dimensional contract. a living breathing human being. that's the challenge i fashion. what i wanted to do, really, is write a book about -- write a history of strom thur monday's america in a way that critical but dissipation gnat wait. that would shed light on some of the issues that shape

we remember -- a lot of us remember who strom thurmond was, strom their mound was the 1948 dixiecrat presidential candidate. he was one of the lead authors of the 1956 southern manifesto. the protest of the supreme court's decision in the brown vs. board of education decision. strom thurmond is the record holder to this day of the longest one man filibuster. 24 hours and 18 minutes. he spoke against then 1957 civil rights bill. we remember strom thurmond as one of the last of the jim crow demagogues, and he was one that. but what we forget about thurmond, he was also one of the first of the sunbelt conservatives. what do i mean by that? what's a sunbelt conserve? the sun belt is one of the big stories -- one of the major stories in the history of 20th 20th century american politics, and that is the flow of jobs, of industries, of resources, and population, from the states of the northeast and the midwest to the south and the southwest, in the post-world war ii period. southern straights were recruiting industries, passing right to work law, receiving funding from the federal governme

at 8:00, joseph crepino talks about strom thurmond. at 8:45 eastern on the eleventh anniversary of september eleventh members of the first post 9/11 graduating class talk about their experiences in iraq and afghanistan. we wrap up tonight's programming with our weekly afterwards program. this week marguerite bluesman's latest book the invisible wounds of war. she discusses the high rate of post-traumatic stress disorder and veterans reintegration into society with democracy's amy goodman. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. diana carlin, theodore gutgold and nichola discuss olympia snowe, barbara mikulski and of elizabeth dole and why they have not been considered contenders for the presidency. this is just over an hour. >> thank you for coming out tonight. great to have you back. great to have you here as new friends. let me start tonight and ask you about your book on nine women. how did you select those nine women? >> the best answer is we could have looked at more, but within the confines of the vote yo

to do so gives a history of was strom thurmond america looks like. not only going it on in the south with the national conservative from. it helped us think history of modern conservatism of. mitt all may remember as the cartoonist ratio at -- racist figure from the south. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. on location in las vegas at bally's hotel four freedomfest. of the annual event organized by this off there. mark, what is freedomfest? how did it come about? >> it is a renaissance gathering talk politics, philosophy, econom ics, science, technology, re ligion, healthy living. we get to a wide group, an investment conference conference, investors comment concerned citizens with a focus on political, economic and financial freedom. it is growing. we're bigger every year. 2,000 people are here. we're growing next year we will move to caesars palace with a larger facility and this team is are we roehm? it will be a controversial topic. >> host: is is sponsored by the libertarian party? are you libertarian? >> guest: i a hate labels i say treat ev

edwards and i asked him if i could interview him about his relationship to strom thurmond, what work he did in the kind of thing. and he said it was 40 years ago, you know. any interview would be a wasted your time and money. so my only thing i can do is he was sitting at the time to write a criticism of the book once it came out. and he got a number of other things wrong. he quoted goldwater speaking with thurmond and talk about the importance of equal rights in columbus after lunch a few days before the presidential campaign in 1964. what he didn't say is that he began by everybody singing dixie. there were many confederate flags and american flags, and as the new york times reported in that meeting that a considerable section in his speech was devoted to denouncing the 1964 civil rights act. and any review that said that the only key issues in thurmond's career or constitutionalism and national security, i don't think you will be taken, i don't think that passes the laugh test of a we all know about strom thurmond and his career. so i was disappointed that "the wall street journal

i was trying to make conversation with strom. and so i told him about the people i met that summer and he said nice things eat the various colleagues i had met. the difficulty i had in writing about the change i faced in writing about this very controversial figure. i wondered if some of the stuff in the book is not another effort in my part to carry his bags. carry his back age and goodness know he has baggage that needs carrying. the other challenge i had, the real challenge i had in the book was to fight the urge to not walk away and not meet the man face to face and present him as three i dimensional character a living and breathing human being. so that's the challenge i face. what i wanted to do really is to write a book about history of strom's america. in the way that would critical but dissipation nate way that would shed light on the issue that shaped each of our own america's today. i hope in doing so you can add a sense of measure of reason and dissipation to these issues that embroil our politics today and divide us.

strom and was shot in november 2010. it had the most contact with anthony anderson during last week's encounter. he died of blunt force trauma injury. henderson's family says those results -- support criminal consequences. >> they said he was faking because he did not want to go to jail and that is not true. toney suffered on that lot. he was handcuffed and suffered a and he died. we want these officers fired. we want them arrested. and we want them convicted. because if it was a normal citizen the committed homicide, they would be behind bars. >> officer boyd has been sued and found liable for using excessive force in the past. all three officers have been suspended. president obama and mitt romney are back on the campaign trail talking to voters listen 24 hours after the first presidential debate. >> last night, mitt romney was energetic and on the offensive. meanwhile president obama seemed subdued and played defensive. republican mitt romney may have secured exactly what he needed out of his first presidential debate

i think doing gives us a history of what strom's america thinks like. and rethink not only what was going on in the south but what was going on in the national conservative political realm. we thinking strom thurmond helps us rethink the history of modern conservative. a history that thurmond is left out of. we only remember him as cartoonish racist fig you from the deep south. . . read the book and i have got parts to argue with on that question, men are in trouble. give us the premise of the disaster. >> host: men are having a harder time adapting to the economy and women are adapting wisely. i can tell you why. just to say to this period entry, then as education and credentials of the kami is fast-changing and who knows what it's going to throw at us. women seems to get getting those credentials at a faster rate than men are and they tend to be more nimble and that filters down into our society so in the book i talk about how that changes marriage and fatherhood in what manner he can and can't do in families and how young people have and make decisio

2016, win and go again in the year 2022, and if i'm up for election in 2028, i'll be younger than strom thurman was. >> serving as a republican in the 2010 primary, specter did the unthinkable. >> as the republican party has moved farther and farther to the right, i have found myself increasingly at odds with the republican philosophy. >> he switched parties, becoming a democrat. he won president obama's endorsement. >> i'm thrilled to have arlen in the democratic caucus. >> incurring the wrath of many home state voters. >> i consider senator specter a traitor, quite honestly. >> the senator tried to explain, taking crowds back to his childhood. >> i became a jfk democrat. >> it sounded as if he wanted us to believe he had never really been a republican. >> i probably voted more often on the big issues with the democrats than with the republicans. >> do you regret ever having become a republican? >> i did my best for a long time to moderate the republican party. and the great day when they refused to talk about the stimulus which was necessary to avoid a depression. >> he, nonetheless,

what we all know about strom thurmond and his career. i would support "the wall street journal" who thought that this menu at a close relationship had been employed by thurmond. he had written that in the review and they thought he was the best person to evaluate the book for their readers. >> you have no knowledge of that being done at the time, that lee edwards was going to be -- they didn't tell you that he was going to be the person? >> no, no. >> did he have any other favors like "the new york times" or anything? >> "the washington post" and the "washington monthly." if you google strom thurmond's america you can find them, and you should. [laughter] >> what is next? >> i don't know. i just finished this one. i'm still trying to figure it out. that would be fascinating. thank you all for coming out. it's been a real pleasure. [applause] >> now on booktv members of the first post-9/11 u.s. naval academy graduating class talk about their experience in serving in iraq and afghanistan. this event held on september 11, 2012, was hosted b

reagan did best with college students, the people that were not born when strom thurmond was running. we want the south when the democrats died out. host: here's a question on twitter. guest: it is not about black people. it is a book about white liberals and how they lie. even when advances are made, they are back to demagogy white people and patronizing black people. host: ricardo, good morning. caller: how can your that cross around your neck after euratom abortion as a teenage girl? guest: what? do you have a call screener? host: there is a story about abortion in the paper and i thought i would bring it to the table. this is from "usa today" this morning. guest: well, i was not alive and in the argument back when the pill was being introduced. i do understand there were arguments mostly made by conservatives and christians with the wide availability of birth control and what have an increase in premarital sex which leads to venereal diseases and unwanted pregnancies. once you are 30 years down that road, the difference from 2008 to 2012 is really irrelevant. what the the narrow d

main strom, the power of the weather. lucky lad, kind of a leprechaun. now, who fights the terrific ten? >> i can't imagine. >> jimmy: the terrible ten. dr. bolt, moleculus. fowltus. bleach master. >> bleach master? >> jimmy: this guy right here. he's got his core-ax. he's a box of bleach with an ax. >> right. >> jimmy: now, i drew a whole comic. i was 11 when i drew this. kimmel comics presents the terrific ten. look at dr. bolt. he's stepping on muscle man. this is a powerful image here. you want me to read you through this? >> sure, why not? let's go for it. >> jimmy: did you meet the rats? he's funny. he's kind of like the thing. he has all of the powers of the rainbow. and muscle man says, i see them in the field below. marvel at the awesome -- >> marvel. i like it. >> jimmy: at the awesome power -- did i talk about the guy with the bleach powers. >> i like it. >> jimmy: red, green, blue, yellow, attack. imagine fighting a bag of skittles. and what appears is a dragon. >> that was a curve ball. i didn't see that coming. >> jimmy: he would have a cro

i was an aide for senator strom thurmond. i work in south carolina. right now i am very confused. i just feel very disappointed in the whole issue of the debates. if i go to one party and i will talk about -- the republican party right now is very confused. i had a lot more respect for them. i feel like they changed their platform, which is where i was leaning one month ago to were the republican party. i feel like the change the platform a guiding their party. i do not know why. i do know if it was because of the readings. is really making me feel as though they are going towards a platform now or towards the votes and not towards their own convictions, which is weighing me a little bit towards the middle. as we look at the factual information and we compare the two sites, i am sitting here now and looking at all of the things president obama or the democratic party have done for their side. he thinks women should have access to free preventative care and stuff like that, equality for all people, promoting and investing in clean energy, he thinks billionaires and millionaires sho

strom thurman said, i have sex almost every night. we almost have sex on monday.t have sex on tuesday. i don't know if this is fit for cnn. it reminds me of a comment pat moynihan made about malcolm wallach. >> remind of malcolm wallach. >> he was a senator by wyoming. >> by the way, in the future when i say remind me, it means i don't have a clue. just so you know. >> i thought you knew everything and had made that comment to inform the audience as to who malcolm wallach was. joe biden is a good talker for humor becae he talks so much. there's a picture of joe biden and me over here. you know how much it costs to buy a seat in the united states senate? $30 million. so when you pay $30 million for a seat, you like to sit in it. >> specter, the former prosecutor, studied his comedy performances with a critical eye taking careful notes on which punch lines worked and which fell flat. >> you're clearly tuned in to the audience because you were pausing. >> there's a cadence to it. and the audience gets into the cadence. when you pause, they laugh -- if you pause, they

strom thurmon said, in his deep south carolinian accent, we have sex almost every night, we almost havesday -- i don't know if this is fit for cnn. >> it reminds me of a comment at moynihan at about malcolm wallop. >> malcolm wallop was a center from wyoming. >> by the way, in the future when i say, remind me, that means i don't have a clue, just so you know. >> oh. i thought you knew everything and had made that comment to inform the audience who malcolm wall republican was joe biden. you know how much it costs to buy a seat in the united states senate, $30 million. so when you pay $30 million for a seat, you like to sit in it. >> spector, the former prosecutor, studied his comedy performances with a critical aye, taking careful notes on which punch lines worked, and which fell flat. >> clearly, you're clearly tuned in to the audience because you were pausing. >> there's a cadence to it and the audience get into the cadence to it. when you pause they laugh. the last time i pause they laugh again. sometimes they laugh automatically. >> in the end, between his long senate career and his

northern california 3 day fundraiser is now under way for the family of highway patrol officer young stromas shot and killed during a traffic stop on interstate 6 80 in alamo last month. now through wednesday night 20 percent of the sales that california pizza kitchen restaurants will go to benefit fund for his wife and 4 school age children. >>> l bay area native actor and native american activist has died. >> one day there will be no the where left. >> that was russell means. he acted in several movie and tv role however he's mostly known for histiveism. he helped stop racist mascot and returning stolen land with the violent take over of the city wounded knee in 1973. >> have no voice. we are a people out of sight out of min mind. okay. only when we stand up for ourselves do people begin to hear and liste listen. >>reporter: he suffered from throat cancer. he died at his ranch in south dakota today. he was 72 years old. >>> p uc is on the hot seat tonight. people living in san bruno who lost relatives and homes in the explosion back in 2010 step up prurt to have him removed from the job.

. >> today a reporter asked romney campaign senior adviser eric fern strom why the campaign has not asked mourdock to pull the television afd. he said that's his decision. today in wisconsin vice president joe biden had to say about mitt romney and paul ryan. >> they can't even get up the gumgs to condemn the stalts made by two of their candidates in the united states senate. it's not enough to tell me you don't agree. it's not to stand up to say what they said was wrong. simply wrong. >> today mitt romney did not address what his campaign national cochair john sununu said last night about colin powell's endorsement of president obama. >> we have to wonder whether that's an endorsement based on issues or whether he's got a slightly different reason for preferring president obama. >> what reason would that be? >> well, i think when you have somebody of your own race that you're proud of being president of the united states, i applaud colin for standing with him. >> what reason would that be was the question and john sununu issued this lie today. colin powell is a friend and i respect the e

that was strom thurmond and he's the only one whose name you know.y. this is -- this lie is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it were one state. no, the outer southern states and the dixiecrat states in the middle. republicans -- and the southern strategy is this idea that republicans had a secretly appealed to the democratic segregationists and the dixiecrats and suddenly we swept the south. no. republicans swept the south when the dixiecrats died out. something that's provable by looking at the history. republicans had been winning the outer southern states. texas. tennessee. kentucky. west virginia. virginia. north carolina. and florida. since the 1920's. warren harding did pretty well there. her better hoover won most of those states. eisenhower twice. nixon in 1960. all of this you will know, this is before 1964. even when reagan won landslide elections, he did worse or actually lost the dixiecrat states and who did reagan do best with in the south? college students. the people in the south who weren't even born when strom thurmond

had retaken controls of the united states, so the chairman of the judiciary committee was no longer strom thurmond, but was instead a young senator from delaware named joseph biden. and biden engineered a really meticulous examination of orcs record. and bork to his credit, perhaps to his regret, engaged the senators in discussion of how he felt about the issues, and it became clear he felt the civil rights act, a thomas just think, he thought there was no such thing as a right to privacy to the constitution, and the senate by a vote of 58-42 said to conservative and he was voted down. ronald reagan nominated instead to that seat anthony kennedy, who was serving a liberal but was certainly no robert bork either. and he has had a long and distinguished career as, now the swing vote on the court. and that really, that set, that really set up the rehnquist years. accord which i wrote about in my last book, "the nine," and when i started looking at the supreme court in a serious way as a writer, i was inspired by book that i'm sure is familiar to many of you called the brethren by scott armst

how much do stroms impact costs overall in the long term because of insurance across the board?> right. obviously, this going to -- this particular event is going to have a huge impact, on the east coast. insurers -- all models are actuarial models. this is unprecedented and it could change the models. >> we have to leave it there. to reiterate, this is going to be what you're seeing here on 157th with the partial crane collapse. it was going to be manhattan's tallest residential building when completed. we'll reiterate cops have cordoned off the area. robert frank will call in after this quick break to give us more on this. he has covered this particular building extensively. stay tuned. all energy development comes with some risk, but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprin

madeleine turn strom, "today" diet and nutrition editor. are we ready? when you're awake and watching tv? >> true. [ ding ] >> really? 100 bucks. okay. tell us, tell us, how much do you burn? >> you're going to burn twice as much when you're asleep as when watching tv, about 25 calories an hour watching tv. >> why? >> because sleep is actually active it is a state of active sleep. people thrash around. you know that feeling. so people -- you burn calories like that. twice as much when you are sleeping. don't call it couch potato for nothing. >> back across to kath. >> student on a school trip from rochester, which of these foods has more calories, a chocolate frosted denut or a whole wheat bagel? >> chocolate frosted doughnut? >> these are tricky. you got watch madeleine turn strom. >> this seems crazy, a bagel has more than a sweet doughnut. >> the dough smut smaller, 270 calories, the bagel, bigger, bagels the size of your head, 350 calories without cream cheese or butter. up in are good choice. august about going smaller. >> you can get the flagles. >

>> eric snored strom, both are security professionals providing realtime relays back to the departmentate, which consequently would go into the white house as well. and then you are going to have charlene lam in charge of the physical infrastructure. the embassies across the globe. she was critical about what security they would get and not get. even going back to potentially ambassador kennedy who also might be a witness tomorrow. he laid out in a december 2011 memorandum what he thought the security would look like. we didn't even reach the goals laid out in the december 11 memo. we are talking about five people here. six people there. in baghdad president obama has 15,000 private security personnel in baghdad. 15,000. it's president obama's own private army yet we couldn't get two dozen people on the ground to guard our consequence lawsuit and embassy? megyn: president obama enjoyed a wave of support and cash from wall street back in 2008. but now comes word his biggest wall street donors may all but turned their back on the president's campaign. the bottom line on that after this b

eric in order strom, who you saw his picture, regional security officer, and ambassador patrick kennedy'll continue to monitor the developments in & all that is said during that hearing throughout the afternoon. in the meantime, we have a follow-up on a story we brought you yesterday about a 14-year-old pakistani girl who was shot by the taliban. they were trying to silence the teenager because she has been speaking out in favor of educating girls. her name is malala, and today doctors removed a bullet from her shoulder. they say she is in stable condition. cnn's re sfwl a saya got an interview with the teen type offist a year ago. listen. >> so why do you risk your life to raise your voice? >> because i thought that my people need me, and i shall raise my voice because if i didn't raise my voice, when will i raise my voice? >> some people might say you're 14. you don't have any rights. you just have to listen to mom and dad. >> i have rights. i have the right of education. i have the right to play. i have the right to sing. i have the right to traumati i have the right to go to market.

strom thurman said nancy and i have sex almost every night. we almost have sex on monday.on tuesday. i don't know if this is fit for cnn. how much it cost to buy a seat in the united states senate? $30 million. so when you pay $30 million for a seat, you like to sit in it. >> reporter: in the end between his long senate career and his short but determined effort at stand-up comedy and his multiple battles with life-threatening illness, arlen specter demonstrated a few things about power. the power of sitting down, the power of standing up, and the power of never giving in. michael shoulder, cnn. >>> they are boning up on the facts, but do they have the flare to win tomorrow night as well? we'll hear what hollywood acting coaches think that president obama and mitt romney need to do to make that kind of an impression at their next debate. but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] dayquil doesn't treat that. huh? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief to all your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you! [ male announcer

some letters, this one from strom thurmond who at that time was secretary pro tiem of the senate, congratulatingell on his quote re-election although it was really his first election. we continue to get materials from senator mitchell's office. he now has a law firm in new york city and is still getting awards and generating material through his career. so these things come to us over time. in 1990, having just been elected to the senate majority leader mitchell was involved in 1990 in the clean air act in this was a letter from george h. w. bush thanking him for his collaboration and succeeding in getting that legislation passed. the 1990 amendment was important for us today. we pay $4 a gallon for gas. it was the amendment that discussed the composition of gas and the introduction of chemicals during certain seasons of the year in order to make cleaner air. and then a sample of mitchell's writing style. there are their researchers to come because they are interested in particular topics but there are also people who come because they are interested in particular techniques or purchase. some pe

reagan did best with college students, the people that were not born when strom thurmond was running. we want the south when the democrats died out. host: here's a question on twitter. guest: it is not about black people. it is a book about white liberals and how they lie. even when advances are made, they are back to demagogy white people and patronizing black people. host: ricardo, good morning. caller: how can you wear that cross around your neck after your abortion as a teenage girl? guest: what? do you have a call screener? host: there is a story about abortion in the paper and i thought i would bring it to the table. this is from "usa today" this morning. guest: well, i was not alive and in the argument back when the pill was being introduced. i do understand there were arguments mostly made by conservatives and christians with the wide availability of birth control and what have an increase in premarital sex which leads to venereal diseases and unwanted pregnancies. once you are 30 years down that road, the difference from 2008 to 2012 is really irrelevant. what the venereal di

that was strom thurmond. he's the only one whose name you know.trategy this lie is pulled off by describing the entire south as if it were one state. no, there are the outer southern states and the dixie craft states in the middle. i guess i should say the southern strategy is this idea that republicans secretly appealed the democratic segregation for the dixie kratz and suddenly we swept the south. republicans of the south when the dixiecrats died out, something that's proveable by looking at the history, republicans were winning the outer southern states, texas, tennessee, kentucky, west virginia, virginia, north carolina and florida since the 1920's. warren harding did pretty well there. herbert hoover won most of those states. eisenhower twice. in this case snon 1960 all of this you'll notice is before 1964. even when regan -- nixon in 1960. all of this, you'll notice is before 1964. even when regan won, he did best with the college students in the south. the people in the south who weren't even born when strom thurmond was running and who wer

one of the reasons why we have the kind of faux filibusters now instead of the good old-fashioned strom thurmond speaks for 24-hour filibusters of our youth -- david and i were in grad school together quite a while ago -- is that congress didn't do that much in the good old days, that, i mean, it is just remarkable to see what wasn't on the congressional agenda in the late '50s or even '60s. they didn't have to worry about national education policy, national energy policy except for the oil depletion allowance. terrorism policy. you just go down a whole litany of things that the modern congress -- which incidentally has consisted the same number of people as in 1959 when hawaii entered the union. so you have more people trying -- or the same number of people trying to do so much more than they ever did, that filibusters of any kind just kind of destroy the institution. but i think that's one reason why the idea of returning to the old-fashioned filibuster won't work. let me say one final thing, though, about watergate. watergate is a tribute to the upside of politically-divided governme

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you can mention him in the same breath as ted kennedy, strom thurmond and others. >> that says a lot.ntegrity and president obama says that he was a fighter whose toughness and determination helped to inspire others. arlen specter, 82 years old, services are being held in pennsylvania tomorrow. >> steve: all right. thank you very much. born in wichita, kansas and grew up in russell, kansas, the home of bob dole. >> brian: he's been on this couch a couple of times and on the radio for a while. >> steve: 25 minutes before the top of the morning. she did not throw her hat in the ring this time around, but former alaska governor sarah palin won't rule out running for president some day. >> we have a good track record, having served in the past local, state level of government, really engaging in the reentwhistleless reform that's needed, clean up ethics and reining in the growth of government. i think i could put some of that experience to good use on a national level. >> steve: asked if she would consider an all female ticket, palin said, quote, wouldn't that be cool? it would be. >> bri

so the chairman of the judiciary committee was no longer strom think hand, but was instead a young senator from delaware named joseph biden. and biden engineered a really meticulous examination of bork's record. and bork, to his credit, perhaps to his regret, engaged the senators in the discussions of how he felt about the issues. and it became clear that he thought the civil rights act was a monstrous thing, invading individual choice. he thought there was no such thing as a right to privacy in the constitution, and the senate by a vote of 58-42 said too conservative, and he was voted down, and ronald reagan nominated instead to that seat anthony kennedy. who was certainly no liberal, but he's certainly no robert bork either. and he has had a long, um, and distinguished career as now the swing vote on the court. and that really, that set the -- that really set up the rehnquist years. the court, which i wrote about in my last book "the nine," and, you know, when i started looking at the supreme court in a serious way as a writer, um, i was inspired by a book that i'm sure is familiar to ma

one of the reasons why we have the kind of faux filibusters now instead of the good old-fashioned strom thurmond speaks for 24-hour filibusters of our youth -- david and i were in grad school together quite a while ago -- is that congress didn't do that much in the good old days, that, i mean, it is just remarkable to see what wasn't on the congressional agenda in the late '50s or even '60s. they didn't have to worry about national education policy, national energy policy except for the oil depletion allowance. terrorism policy. you just go down a whole litany of things that the modern congress -- which incidentally has consisted the same number of people as in 1959 when hawaii entered the union. so you have more people trying -- or the same number of people trying to do so much more than they ever did, that filibusters of any kind just kind of destroy the institution. but i think that's one reason why the idea of returning to the old-fashioned filibuster won't work. let me say one final thing, though, about watergate. watergate is a tribute to the upside of politically-divided governme

so the chairman of the judiciary committee was no longer strom think hand, but was instead a young senator from delaware named joseph biden. and biden engineered a really meticulous examination of bork's record. and bork, to his credit, perhaps to his regret, engaged the senators in the discussions of how he felt about the issues. and it became clear that he thought the civil rights act was a monstrous thing, invading individual choice. he thought there was no such thing as a right to privacy in the constitution, and the senate by a vote of 58-42 said too conservative, and he was voted down, and ronald reagan nominated instead to that seat anthony kennedy. who was certainly no liberal, but he's certainly no robert bork either. and he has had a long, um, and distinguished career as now the swing vote on the court. and that really, that set the -- that really set up the rehnquist years. the court, which i wrote about in my last book "the nine," and, you know, when i started looking at the supreme court in a serious way as a writer, um, i was inspired by a book that i'm sure is familiar to ma