here she was in 1991 on this program talking about winston churchill, the official biographer. ideo clip] >> in 1900 after a battle, many british people claimed victory in south africa. he wrote a piece about a, a journalistic piece and ended his man would seern the face of war more often, ordinary folk would see it hardly." mr. lamb: he went on to lead one of the worst wars in the history of the world. language is good but what does it mean? ms. millard: one of the things that is interesting to me, this story, the part of churchill's life is that when we think of winston churchill we think the older man sending young men into war, but no one knew better, and if you knew as well the realities of war, the terror and the devastation and he said to his mother after the second war, he had dearly been killed many times. a horse standing next to him was killed. the father was shot off of the top of his hat. he had watched his friends mutilated, sliced to ribbons. he absolutely new the disaster --knew the disaster that war was. he founded exhilarating but he was incredibly clear eyed a

jonathan is at work on the biography and david maraniss has written many books and if not the official authorized biographer of clinton and jonathan alter wrote on president reagan and somehow david remnick miraculously wrote a book about obama while doing his day job and i know they will bring considerable because they're most journalist hopes and now biographers.t man so the guy that i will call that man that is what the fdr enemies call him. on tuesday can we talk about something else? so i will hold you to that.how t me but i am sure that is somehow that will play out i was that a phone day a couple weeks ago class today were voting for i am it is supposed to be democrats who he said no this year we trump it. so to preside over theheinvite scottish architect i invited my hero leslie stahl and getting people to talk hervery n so i feel very confident this will turn out wellank yo thanks for coming. [applause] hot. >> can you hear me? i will start evening by asking each member for to say something very briefly about their book each one has been assigned a president and by the way we will hold off on trump

i have two official biographers who chose the speeches and the audibles that are not look. they started writing about me in 2003 and still a work in progress so i said let's lift the order. let's go the -- do the articles. this was done with my writings and in introduction by mary hoffman and quinn official biographers. they came to me in 2000. nsaid like it or not people are going to write about you, so you might as well. >> so far you still trust them? >> yes. you read some of those italicized introductions. they are very good. they are both very good. >> i saw in one of them, i can't remember which one of the books the advice he got from your future mother-in-law about marriage. >> from martin's mother. he was the best advice i have ever received. it was on my wedding day and we were married in the home. his mother took me aside and said dear i would like to tell you the secret of a happy marriage. and the secret was, it helps sometimes to be a little tough. [laughter] and with that she handed me a pair of earplugs which were the best earplugs. that advice i followed thr

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and david maaniss has written many books and is the authorized it november officially authorized biographer of clinton, jacob wrote a book on reagan, and david miraculously managed to write a 600 page book about obama while tending to a day job. and they, i hope dish know -- will bring considerable depth to this discussion because they're both journalists, writer and now biographers. in terms of. the guy that i will call that man, that's what fdr's enemies used to call him. that man. i wrote each of the participants and said, why don't we just sort of play off and try to talk about something else, and david wrote back and said, yes, of course,ll be focusing my remarks on polk and buchanan tonight. i'll told you to that. and -- but i'm sure not how it will turn out. was at a phone bank a couple weeks ago i won't say for which candidate because this is new york -- so who knows -- but i asked who they were voting for, the first question, and they were supposed to be democrat us bus the guy said, no, man, this year we're trumping it. so i guess we'll be trumping it a little bit. and to preside

be and david maraniss has written many books and is the, i would say, authorized if not officially authorized biographer of clinton. and jacob wrote a book on reagan, and david remnick somehow miraculously managed to write a 600-page book about obama while tending to his day job. and they, i hope -- i know -- will bring considerable depth to this constitution because they're both journalists, writers and now biographers. now, in terms of the guy that i will call "that man," that's what fdr's enemies used to call him, "that man." i wrote to each of the participants tonight and said why don't we just sort of lay off and try to talk about something else. and david remnick wrote back and be said, yes, of course. i'm going to be focusing my remarks on polk and buchanan tonight. [laughter] so i'm going to hold you to that. but i'm sure that's not how it will turn out. [laughter] i was at a phone bank a couple weeks ago -- i won't say for which candidate because this is -- [laughter] new york, so who knows. but i asked who they were voting for. that's the first question we would ask. they were supposed to be d

the speeches first. they said this is done with my writing in an introduction to each section bye-bye official biographers. they came to me in 2003 and said like it or not people are going to write about you so you might as well select people that you trust. and we volunteered. and so far you still trust them? >> yes. until you have read some of those italicize introductions, they are very good. they're both very good. them, i >> ice on one of them i can't remember which one of the books, the advice advice that you got from your future mother-in-law about mary. >> from his mother, yes yes it was the best advice i ever received. it was on my wedding day and we were married marty's home. his mother took me aside anduldl said, dear, i would like to tell you the secret of a happy marriage. and the secret was, it helps, sometimes to be a little deafau and with that she handed me the para maxi earplugs which were the best earplugs. that advice i followed through 56 years of a wonderful marriage. and in every workplace including my current job something thoughtless or unkind is said, you just to know. >> it work

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biographer, while the two were having an extramarital affair. trump is also scheduled to meet with tennessee senator bob corker today. yesterday michigan certified its election results making trump the official winner of the state. >>> it's been three weeks since the election but some races are still too close to call in the bay area. kpix 5's anne makovec is live in santa clara county to tell us more about the recount process. >> reporter: big operation in san jose for 10 election contests that are still up for grabs here throughout santa clara county. a couple of big ones. the police chief of the city of santa clara michael sellers, versus sergeant pat nikolai. sell assister ahead by 68 votes. another race for city council district in san jose district 8 the person to succeed vice mayor rose herrera. right now sylvia arenas is ahead of jim nguyen by 88 votes. this is the first year of a pilot program in santa clara county that requires recounts when the margin of victory is within a .5% of the total number of ballots cast or 25 votes for the candidate or ballot measure. so they will have a lot of people at the registrar's office to count for another week. anne makovec, kpix 5. >>> let's ch

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