[laughter] well, mark twain is a pretty good writer.t, you know, i am a boy from northern wisconsin, who viewed the other people of the world as very different from me growing up, and then i went to university in japan. i went across asia and europe. i had traveled in 23 countries by the time i was 21 years old. i have lived over a decade overseas, and that just came to realize that there aren't so many differences. everywhere i go, people tend to sleep that night. and they are up during the day. they eat about three meals. mothers their young, so now i kind of tend to see the similarities rather than the differences. >> i like that. [laughter] i would like to switch now to flight of our fathers because there is a big interest here in the audience. the person said there are two versions of "flags of our fathers." one was on this graphic and the other was published later. it is what i call the sanitized version. wide the difference? feed what is the sanitized version? my book? >> it said there are two different versions of your book, fla

the twain of 2008 was -- the campaign of 2008 was about change we could believe in. and i really do believe that one of the reasons president obama won is because he convinced young people in this country that if i get to be president this, country's going to change for the better. we're going to do things differently. and that resonated with people because, quite frankly, when we were in charge as republicans, we let people down. you know, we let things get out of control on our watch. some of our people wound up going to jail. the iraq war was not popular. so you've got this new young, exciting, very articulate figure come along and promise a new way of doing business. that's what hurt so much about this bill. the special deals you just mentioned reminds us all of why congress is in such low standing. the 60th vote, how did they get it? did they negotiate the 60th vote on c-span in a transparent manner promised in the campaign, that we would have negotiations on c-span so you the american people could watch what was being given and what was being taken and there wo

mark twain said and not an editor of a newspaper. alistair to do right and be good. harold evans is 14 year tenure as the editor of the times and then for a year as the editor of the times of london produced work of really extraordinary defined standards. in 2001 journalists named in the greatest british newspaper editor of all times. he championed the review of the book in the new york times, a crusading style of journalism in which he afflicted the guilty and championed the innocent. and people of my generation got interested in national and international policy and very often did so because of the sunday times time because of its flair, cultural, and investigative zeal. but it is also a trans-atlantic story. i read the other day during the second world war in manchester. 1956 began a lifelong association. tee and tina have the cure for nearly 30 years. we were her contemporaries. she had a knack of stopping the traffic just as she has done here ever since. perry's american carrier to a camp to u.s. news when world report. a number of other top publications. publis

mark twain who was still kicking around said about your former senator of clark of montana.the most disgusting creature that the republic has yet to produce. so clark spends his one time in the united states senate mostly living in his 106-room palace in manhattan and he has one great passion in the senate. do you know what it is? stop the national forests. so he's one of roosevelt's villains, too. these are the people he's fighting against. clark is a democrat, by the way, roosevelt is a republican. so the parties have flipped in many ways. clark's little asterisk is he cofounds las vegas. but that's who he was. so that's what they're up against. let's talk about the forest service itself for just a moment here. pinchot wanted these men to be the finest people in public service. so he endows the school in yale with this pinchot money, the yale school of forestry. not everyone came from yale but a lot of them came out of yale and they were just full of inspiration. they were fighting for what they called the great crusade. this dream of conservation. they thought, you know -

[laughter] mark twain was the one trying to knock down. [laughter] welcome still it didn't happen. in his desk drawer he says there lies an manuscript still unfinished about the happenings on a derrick barge on the mississippi. there is a captain cone is his name and i think as we have walter here this evening we ought to commit if he would just get out that manuscript and polish it off we will come to hear you've read from your book. i feel his new book american sketches is about a personal question but i felt like it was about the mission of the aspen institute of which he is the president and ceo and part of that mission is in certain points of our lives many of us feel the need to reflect what it takes to lead a life as good, useful, worthy and meaningful. we have passed through a period and the 1990's when we saw the consequences in both the business and personal irina's of becoming unhinged from our underlying values, and so this is what is at the heart of american sketches. this quest to discover what there are in the lives of some dozens of people included in this booklet t

before that mark twain was writing. >> guest: right. >> host: where does he fall into this google book settlement? >> guest: sure. so if you go to your local bookstore, you'll probably see that penguin, i don't know exactly, simon & schuster or somebody, is still printing that book. so it's actually in print and does not fall under the settlement. these are only for books that are not being printed anymore. so it could be that, that that book by an author in the 1940s like, that was really never well known or addressed -- i'm trying to think, john steinbeck, for example. that's post-1923, i believe. he might have written something that was not a huge hit like some of his other big title. the les, and that book is out of print now. but who is to protect that book, and who can, you know, have rights over that is part of what is at issue in this case. >> host: cecilia kang is the tech reporter and writes a progress on technical issues, intel communications issues for "the washington post". we're talking about the google book settlement, and there was just some action taken in new york on

mark twain was the one he was trying to knock down. well, still it didn't happen, but in his store he says in his desk drawer there lies a manuscript, still unfinished, about the happenings on a derrick barge on the mississippi as a captain tune as his name is and i think that since we have walter here this evening we ought to welcome it to him that if he can just get out that manuscript and polish it off will all come to hear you read some of your book. i feel that is new but, "american sketches," is really a comment if a personal quest, but i felt that it was very much like the quest or the mission of the aspen institute, which he is the president and ceo. and it's part of that mission is that in certain points of our lives, many feel the need to reflect on what it takes to lead a life that is good, useful, worthy, and meaningful. we passed three. and i team 90 when we saw the consequences in both the business of personal dreamiest of becoming unhinged from our underlying value. and so in america this is what is the hardest. at the h

and the -- in the narrative by mark twain. so no one wanted to take on bill. they were men. there were about a dozen ships' captains that would be the law in that era. ned blakely went and arrested him and planned to hang him in the morning. and when the other captains found out about it, they came to see ned blakely, captain blakely, and said to him, you can't hang this man. he has to have a trial. and captain blakely said, fine. let's have the trial. i'll help you with the trial. i'll help you prosecute the man. how soon do you think you can do it? they said, well, we think we can have the trial in the morning. but captain blakely said, well, i'm going to be a little busy in the morning with the hanging and burying, so let's do the trial in the afternoon. that's how mark twain described this first -- first we'll hang him and then we'll bury him and try him. that's about the message that's come from the president of the united states and the attorney general of the united states who essentially declared khalid shaikh mohammed and his four other come patriots to be -- compat

>> i may miss "this but i think it was mark twain his said america will always eventually do the right thing but only after exhausting all the alternatives. [laughter] i think that is what we have got here but i do think, we are sort of doomed to have this incremental approach to health care reform. we are not single-payer or some of the more sweeping reforms. they just haven't been on the table and won't be in the foreseeable future but i do think that this public option, which is in both the house and senate version, can grow and we can eventually get to a place where a public medicare like plan begins to dominate the health care system. we are a long way from that but i do think that is a possibility in the future, to rationalize the system. >> other people want to add to that? >> yeah i just want to add one thing about the public plan because it is not well understand it may very well growth if it gets a foothold this time. right now the public plan is rather limited in who can use it and the cbo said that the house bill would only have about 6 million people in it and i guess the

last chance for auburn, twain read misses inside, brendan knocks inside for the put-back.purpose up by one. one desperation shot coming up here for virginia. landsburg shot too strong, they paul 68-67. >>> as we told you earlier, mike london introduces the new head football coach at uva. london was the wahoo's choice all along. he had great support from current and former players including many high school coaches in the state of virginia. earlier tonight coach london spent some one on one time with ivan carter on "washington post live." >> you got to go after the best players in your state because everyone else is coming in trying to take the players and you know, there is a rival school doing a great job about it. in reality is it that we have to do better? and i am from the, as the players would say, the 757 area, and i know there is a lot of good players down in that area, i spent my high school years down there, my brother paul went to school down in that area, so there's some great, great high school talent in that area, we have to make sure we not only recruit that

and seldom do the twain meet and seldom do the twin communicates all too frequently.and so we need to understand what nonprofits have grown to understand, which is that oftentimes you need place-based approaches to problem-solving. you need to go into a community with an interdisciplinary team of civil rights lawyers and investigators to look at the entire range of problems and challenges confronting a community. and that's precisely what we are beginning to do in communities across this country that are regrettably facing multiple problems of the civil rights dimension. and if the solution is we've got to bring in our sister agency hide or we have to bring in somebody else from another agency that's precisely what we'll do because we are the department of justice civil rights division, the nation's problem solvers, not simply the nation litigators. so that's what we are going to do. we have a very broad, a very ambitious vision. it's a very exciting vision and i wake up every morning with a hop in my step because i am so excited to be here. you may be asking and i'll

as mark twain, a great nevadan, said, "if you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." so, mr. president, i appreciate, especially do i appreciate my friend, the assistant leader, my friend of decades, senator durbin, for his brilliant statements on the floor during the last several weeks on this health care issue. i so admire his spunk, his intelligence and his ability to deliver a message. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will resumption of h.r. 3590, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 175, h.r. 3590, an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to modify the firsttime home buyers credit in the case of members of the armed forces and certain other federal employees, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the time until 11:30 will be equally divided with alternating blocks of time, with republicans controlling the first 30 minutes and the majority controlling the second 30 minutes. mr. enzi: mr. president? the presiding offic