. >> ut austin. >> yes, sir, ut austin. i wasn't sleeping that well at night with the idea of going to law school. i was sitting there going, well, i graduate, 22 i'm out, go until i'm 24. i'm not really making a mark. i have a chance to make a mark on society until i'm 30. i said i don't want to spend my 20s just getting educated, and i had been writing a lot. always kept a diary. and i would share my diary with a good friend of mine, rob benler, who was at film school at nyu at the time. and he said to me, he goes, well, what do you -- you know, i've been reading your writings for a long time, man, and you've got a lot of character as a guy, plus you're a good-looking guy, what about acting? i was like, no, no, no, not acting. but the story-telling side, i can get my hand around that a little bit. >> sure. >> that married with the fact that a book found me called "the greatest salesman in the world." you know this book? >> i know the book. >> i've got it back out in front of me here. >> i've got the text here. >> and that

the center at ut austin holds his papers and also those of such revered public service figures as former house speaker sam rayburn and former vice president john garner. they were contemporaries and in some cases good friends of president truman and each embodied his same spirit and commitment to public service. so, that will be the subject of our first panel, and we have four distinguish historians with us. h.w. brands is a history professor and professor of government at the university this university of texas, austin. he has written books including a bestseller on franklin roosevelt. mark updegrove is the director of the lyndon johnson library and museum at the university of texas next to the center. he is the author of four books and is an expert on lbj and the presidency. nancy beck young is the professor of history at the university of houston. she is also an expert on the presidency and presidential congressional relations in the 20th century. she is currently writing a biography of john nance garner. finally, we have an author who has written books on many of the leading public f

he was recruited out of ut austin.is working at a company that is referred to by its employees as mother exxon. i believe he is deeply, deeply tied to this company. i believe he is not happy about the fact he left exxonmobil in worse shape than when he came on. and one of the biggest deals he accomplished as ceo was this huge russia deal. it exxon can't enjoy its russia deal while the sanctions are in place. rights issuesan were repeatedly raised during tillerson's confirmation hearing wednesday. in this clip, senator marco rubio questions tillerson on the drugug war in the philippines. since president duterte took office, "the l.a. times" report 6200 people have been killed in the philippines by police and vigilantes and alleged drug rates. is this a way to campaign? >> the people of the philippines have a long-standing friendship with u.s. and i think it is important we keep that in perspective in engaging with the government of the philippines that that long-standing friendship come and they have been an ally and we

whole voter id law and the state of texas, if you are at ut austin, that id doesn't count. but if you have your concealed carry license, that counts. that is wrong. the voter id law in texas was simply put there to make it harder for african-americans and latinos to vote. period. and the story. we have to play offense and defense. that is exactly what i am calling for. , vote byay offense mail. we should have same-day registration. we should have universal voter registration when you turn 18 years old. that is what we should be doing day and and day out. we must make sure, in addition moreat, i couldn't agree that if we take that $10 million tv budget and cut it to $6 million and put the $4 million into organizing, we would have one arizona. instead, there was a $3 million late ad by in october that didn't move the needle at all. if they had been spending that for a year in florida, your public and for four years in organizing. they turned out about 100 20 or 130,000 voters. the margin of victory was about 110,000 or 115,000. when we do that, we succeed. >> i'm going to go

if you're at the ut austin and you know, that id doesn't count but if you got your concealed carry license that counts. that is wrong, the voter id law in texas was simply put there to make it harder for african americans and latinos to vote. period. end of story. what we have to do is play offense and defense and that's exactly what i'm calling for. oregon played offense. vote by mail. we should have same day registration. we should have universal voter registration when you turn 18 years old. that's what we should be doing day in and out. and we must make sure to get back to the original question. i couldn't agree more and i think there is unanimity among this group. if we take that $10 million tv budget and cut it to six and put that four into organizers and make sure it's a 12-month enterprise, we would have arizona. one instead there was a $3 buy in october that didn't move the needle and if they spend that for a year in florida. the republicans invested for four years in organizing, they turned out 120, 130,000 more voters and what was the margin of victory for them? it was about 110

ut. austin to make a decision about the jefferson statue. we looked broadly at other places on campus, buildings, places named after confederate generals. i just got back from yale. they were talking about their university controversies. and so i do think this is part of that moment i think that tubman on the $20 bill comes in that setting. i want to add, though, a question to this, how come nobody was up in arms when black people were put on stamps? we actually celebrated -- people collect the stamps. they had the whole black african-american stamp collection and i never saw anybody get outraged at all about harriet tubman. marion anderson. haddy mcdaniels. no one was upset and a stamp is a form of money, right? so why aren't we outraged by the images, representation and the people selected for stamps when we are with the $20 bill? >> there are even african-american portraits where there are no images, there are artists representations on stamps which is an interesting -- you do have this image. and also the idea earlier was, you know, we d

in the state of texas if you are at ut austin that id doesn't count but if you've got your concealed carry license, that counts. that is wrong. the voter id law in texas was simply put there to make it harder for african-americans and latinos to vote. period, end of story. and so what we have to do is play offense and play defense. that is exactly what i'm calling for. oregon played offense, vote by mail. we should have same-day registration. we should have a universal voter registration when you turn 18 years old. that's what we should be doing day in and day out. and we must make sure in addition to that to get back to your original question, i couldn't agree more. the unanimity among this group, that if we take that $10 million tv budget and cut it to six and put that 4 million into organizing and make sure it's a 12 month enterprise, we would have one arizona. but instead there was a $3 million late ad buy in october that didn't move the needle at all. if they been spending that for a year in florida, the republicans invested for four years in organizing. they turned out about 12

a graduate of the ut law school, he now lives in austin. his latest book, "the fleet at flood tide" is published just in time for the 75th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. it is the extraordinary story of the most consequential campaign at the pacific war. the u.s. fifth fleet seizure of the mariana islands. this relentless deployment open the path to total victory over japan and establish a new state of the art and warfare. here to give you the details on this extraordinary historical event is james hornfischer. [applause] >> thank you, brenda. i appreciate it. i've always been very happy and proud that my hometown of austin, texas, is home to one of the greatest independent bookstores in america, bookpeople, here. it's a community center, events such as these are salons if you will, bring such a diversity of authors and to give so much vibrancy to the community that i have called home for 23 years so i'm proud to be here for the third time i think, and especially happy that c-span is here to turn our discussion and the presentat