mine is a uniquely american story. it doesn't get toldas often as we'd like, but it gets told more often in this country. >> rose: and the telling means something. "a reason toelieve: lessons from an improbableife." the state, sir, in many ways they've seen some incredible challenges. >> they are. we are. but we faced up to our decisions. i told you, we've had to... we've invested in education significantly. we've encouraged those innovation industries where we're getting our highest growth and we've also done the unglamorous work of rebuilding the infrastructure. and at the same time our budgets have been responsible, balanced, and on time every year i've been in office. our bond rating has gotn stronger. our unemployment rate is well below the national average. we've moved up to fifth best place in the nation in which to business do business. young people are moving in for the first time 20 years. i'm not ready to declare victory because we've got so much more to do. but we have... we've been making choices based on

to write a book about her life which i highly recommend to anyone for an inspiring story a uniquely american story of a woman who had a vision at a time when women that looked like her weren't supposed to have a vision. ms. freeman will become the 96th recipient of the spingarn medal this july when she is honored during the naacp national convention in los angeles. passed spingarn medalists include maya angelou and dr. martin luther king jr. this impressive list of exceptional americans gives you a sense of the caliber of the person attorney freeman really is. there is no doubt that attorney frankie freeman is deserving of this distinction. i am so proud of her for being honored with this recognition of her life long dedication to justice and civil rights. she is such an inspiration to me and she has been an inspiration to thousands of young people during her life and to so many americans, regardless of race, an inspiration for what she stands for and what she has accomplished in her lifetime. i am so grateful to call her my friend and i thank her for all that she has done for the people of st. lo

our story is not particularly unique. it is a story that many americans have faced.of someone else can lead people out of grief. for me, it was my father who led me, and that is what makes him so special in my life. the best man i have ever known, and may god have mercy on the poor soul of my future husband, whoever that may be. he has enormous shoes to fill. >> lindy and tim groover, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> welcome. did you have any idea your daughter was writing this to us? >> first of all my daughter carly and wife, beth, usually your goal is to have your kids something just above idiot and so any time a child shows appreciation to a parent i think it's special and this just, there's no words. >> no words. >> no tworwords for how you fel when you found she had written this letter. >> i'm not normally but i was. >> i know you talked about it in your e-mail but tell us something else about your dad. >> i would say the traditions he makes with our family. we have stuff like we'll have breakfast in bed for our birthdays and he'll give us calls at nigh

american citizens who have been abandoned in the 21st century? what do you say to brook in seattle? >> well, what i would say to brook is that her story is certainly not unique. the president gets these stories like this in letters every day. they're tragic. and people like brook and people he thinks about when he gets up every morning and when he he's going to bed every night. if there was something we could do, wave a magic wand that would fix this, we would do it. what we need to do are several things. one is we need to keep growing the economy. that's going to include doing things like investing in infrastructure, investing in education, research and development, high-tech jobs in the future like biosigns, and things like that. and it also means doing some things that are sitting in congress right now that could help people including passing an infrastructure bill, the infrastructure bank which has bipartisan support which leverages private capital to get infrastructure things done. it requires making sure that when we're going to have a pending fight on unemployment benefits in this country that we work together to ensure that the republicans who have b