it was -- >> it was, there was a particular character in oxford at the time who was much disliked figure on-- on the students because he seems to represent everything, everything that was wrong with oxford. he was the ward end of all souls, his name was john sparrow. and christopher seeing john sparrow, christopher was just, he was going to charm john sparrow. and he and he jolly did. >> he charmed the spar owe out of him. >> he was the biggest flirt in the history of flirting. i mean he really was. >> rose: coflirt. >> he could flirt. and flirting with men was absolutely, you know, as much as flirting with women. >> at that time when he has to leave a party early, and about 20 people there, both sexes. and he said i will just make a brief pass at everyone here and then be on my way. (laughter) >> that double life extended to the books. you think of his taste in poetry, passionate about chesterton. >> kip ling as well as nonrevolutionary poets. >> yes. in fact that last piece he was trying to write as he was dying was on a biography of chesterton. >> he did write it. now, and it's sort o

i was also speaking social society, which was what was going on in society. me, to my grandmother, i was like feeling. too close to say something indefinitely. yes, why did i do the men like that? because i work around it sex. i saw that what was showing, it was the men in this world where the woman was strong. then have to be equal of the men. and i wanted to show it. there was some interest in like a blazer, a jacket, double- breasted. you have the men's jacket with the inside pocket. it is a pocket for the wallet. the women did not have that. why? because the men pay at the restaurant. but can the woman they, too? i think there was a lot of stupid things -- not stupid, but the things that were intelligent but one time that changed and was changing. and the vision of the woman about the man was changing, too. some men were not accepting their femininity. does not mean that they were gay or whatever, no. it just means that men can be sensible, but they have been traumatized by their education that wanted to make them as a john wayne, you know? apparently. it

was that for a reason? >> well, it was always -- it was his nature. don't forget that he's a quaker, who grew up in a quaker family and a quaker community and went to a quaker college. and he came in as a wartime president. he inherited what i've often described as the second most disastrous decade in american history, second only to the 1860s and the nearest thing to a civil war since then. and we had when we came in there were half a million troops still in vietnam, deaths 300 a week, and he came in hoping to reshape the relationships among the great powers, you could really have a lasting peace. this is really what he was after. this was his number one goal. and so it was not a trivial thing for him, it was really central to why -- what he wanted to do with his presidency. >> abroad, the shift from old policies to new has not been a retreat from our responsibilities but a better way to peace. and at home, the shift from old policies to new will not be a retreat from our responsibilities but a better way to progress. abroad and at home, the key to t

he was a really loveable guy. >> it was interesting too when mike was first hired, he was hired in 19623 b3 by dixon. >> rose: wasn't there a story that the president of cbs news looking for a job and was about to go accept a job somewhere in local news as an anchor and he said if you're that serious come to work for us. >> precisely. he actually charmed solant into hiring him. he wasn't crazy about the idea because of mike's previous jobs. >> this was after his son peter was killed and died. >> yes. in 63. the other correspondence corress there was charles coinberg, and borrow debtborrowborroburdett -. >> radio guys. >> radio and they were just making the transition. they would say mike, they thought he was crass and brassy. they took the same attitude by the way to walter cronkite because he was merely a wire service guy. i think with mike, there was no way mike wasn't going to whip these guys. he was determined -- >> rose: to get the story. >> to get the story. to get the attention. and sure enough he did. and i must say that ultimately few of those guys anyway, really respected him.

>> i was in washington. i was in my office. i can't exactly remember what was happening, but i remember we all ran to the television and watched his resignation and getting on the plane and the bravado. i mean it was sad, but it was also sad that he really did not acooj i don't think he ever really acknowledged what he'd done to the country and what he'd done that was wrong. >> tell us about the experience of questioning president ford about the pardon. >> well, as surprising as the resignation was, the ford pardon really came as a very sad surprise to me. and i was very upset by it because i thought that here we were on the house judiciary committee trying to establish that the rule of law was really the most important thing. and a president couldn't take the law into his own hands. and here we are in early september. that decision had been made in july. president nixon resigned in the face of that. in essence acknowledge iing tha how the congress felt. and then you had president ford issuing a full and fair pardon under highl

he was gentle. he was kind. he was smart. he was revolutionary in music. for example, even as he aged, most people get older. you and i -- not saying you're old -- we could not name the billboard top ten. >> right. but he could. >> he could have named it probably yesterday. >> let me bring in connie francis. you've appeared on many top tens in your years. you've known him since you were 19 years old. what was dick's importance to you and your career and life? >> well, there would have been no career without dick clark so he impacted my life greatly. i would have probably been a doctor, would have been a different -- for a different life. but the interesting thing, piers, that i did not discussion with the woman i discussed the show with this afternoon was the last two weeks of dick's life and where his head was during that period of time. how little the acquisition of money had become to him. because he was worth well over $1 billion. it really was how my it desire to help veterans, wanted it to become his desire, too. and finally he was going to join with

, everybody was partying it was at night, it was fun. >> greta: one of those other men was 22-year-oldwatson. he picked up hitchhiking dennis wilson and sunset boulevard. when the beach boy invited him into his mansion. watson came face-to-face with manson. >> if he didn't have the long hair and rough look you could confuse him as -- from texas, he an a tphafrpblg high school, football, basketball and track star. >> one of the sweetest guys i've ever met. he was a sweet heart loved to smoke weed was always out for a good time. >> greta: for the family, life with the beach boy was good. but they were beginning to wear out their welcome. >> plan son -- manson was always hitting wilson up for money. they appropriated his wardrobe. did a lot of damage to the house. the highest gonorrhea bill in beverly hills history. >> it was a continual party and dennis was paying for everything. charlie and the girls would stay there, they didn't lee. it was getting old for dennis he to get out of there. >> greta: hear how -- >> greta: hear how -- [ inaudible ] what's withou? trouble with a car insuranc

after jim hodson was ploeted to secretary and i was promoted to undersecretary, i was given largely the responsibility by the white house and jim to shepherd the occupational safety and health bill through the congress. >> to what extent was the white house interested in this bill? >> very. very. george schultz, of course, had gone over his own mb director, and the president i think was reasonably concerned and interested about this. >> in working on this, did you ever interact with john ur urlachman? >> he was starting out as assistant to the president for dixz affairs next year, and i did interact with him on this. and ed morgan, who was his associate dealing with the labor department. but not as much as i did with respect to another initiative. that is related to the picture i showed you in the other office, and that was the legislation we introduced to deal with national emergency strikes. are you familiar with that? >> no. >> this is one of the initiatives that i'm most proud of. some of my initiatives i think were miss taktaken, but think o think was right. there used to be a terr

i think it was good to go in, because my life was not with ermez. it was for my own company. so we changed. we pushed. spanish rudes, perfume routes. sounds very good to my ears. i am a quite truthful person >. >> is there always going to be a controversial side of jean paul gaultier? there was a time when you were inspired by rabbis. i believe you're in new york, there were a bunch of rabbis he saw walking by the public library, you turned it into a collection. you must have known this was dramatic and would be alarming to people. >> i should say that in some way, i think i have a kind of innocence. like that is not that big part of me. when it is beautiful, i believe in it. i saw it was beautiful. i wanted to show it. for me, it was so strong, the impression. it was beautiful. and with a lot of meaning for me. it was meaning for people like a minority can come together strong and impact. at the same time, visually and spiritually. i wanted to show that beauty. after my time there, michael was to show the beauty seinfield. -- my goal was to show the beauty i felt. i should m

>> i was 11 or 12 in a school that was mixed. there were boys and girls. there was one girl i remember that was coming from the french colony. she was in algeria and came back to france. she had a very white skin. very, very white with speckles? >> freckles. >> freckles. more glamorous. glittering. but she was glamorous for me, sparkles -- no, freckles. sorry, i cannot say. [laughter] but she has beautiful red hair, light afro type but red hair. to me, i was like, oh, my god, she is so beautiful. for me, if i want to be friends with someone that i admire, i have to be like him or her, cannot have the red hair. so i say, i also come from nigeria and i am like you. [laughter] i do not think she believed me so i was inventing names. anyway. so she influenced me. she had white skin. you could see her veins. she was very strange but beautiful for me. i was always attracted by different beauty that i saw everywhere. i remember some movies called guess who's coming to have dinner tonight with sydney party. i remember i said to my parents -- i was 12. if i come wi

>> this was taken when he was 2827. when i met him a couple of years before that, i swear he looked like he was a teenager. i saw him yesterday and he has a youthful look. >> how has he changed since you started talking to them? >> he has become a lesswary, less suspicious and a little more at peace with himself because he has told the truth about the betrayal of his mother. yesterday, we were talking of a human rights convention and he talked about selling out his mother and why he did it and what he hopes will, the truth but he told. he wants people to know that this is the kind of human beings they are trying to raise in these camps. the human rights abuse of shooting and starving people and there is also raising children to be little monsters. >> have you seen him get mad at you? >> he got mad at me because he did not want to talk about all this stuff journalists just want to keep drilling. in the book, i say it was like being a dentist and not using anesthetics and it was painful and miserable for him and sometimes

i am trying to get somewhere. >> there was no hearing when it was issued. there was a request for information. the information that we obtained determined that the determination was wrong. it was sitting in the planning department's files. we did not even know about it. >> you might be answering the next question. it was going to go towards why were you on able before this board to demonstrate that this business had been operating as a tourist hotel since 1957? >> the city did not bother to look at its zoning file. this happened in a 30-day period. we were in court with the tenderloin housing clinic. we were defending ourselves against a whole array of claims. by the end of the day, at those records turned up in discovery in the litigation with the city. could we have found it? perhaps i should have been more diligent. the zoning administrator, when he issues a decision that was shut down a small business an intact family, should have looked at is on file. >> you are going beyond the question. the next question has to do with -- never mind, i will wait. >>

by the time he was about 20, he decided he was going to escape. he was going to run away. in 1830, he did get away. he got -- was married to a free black woman and he got his wife to make for him an outfit that sailors wore. sailors had distinctive clothing. if you saw a man or woman walking down the streets of baltimore, you could tell he was a sailor. his wife made a sailor's outfit for him. he passed himself off as a free black man working on the ship. he made it to new york and got off at the dock. standing there and looking disoriented. a black man came up to him and said it is not safe here. you should keep going. keep moving. why don't you go to boston. it is safer there. a black man intuitive that douglass was a fugitive. he got a job working in a small town outside of boston. almost immediately within a year or two of settling in new england, he gives his first public talk against slavery. douglass turns out to be a compelling public figure and speaker. he is very tall. he is a tall, powerful man. he had a baritone voice. he spoke with great conviction. of course,

the dance was a phony. what they did was speed of the film. he was just walking. they speeded up the film to make it look as if he was demented and doing this dance in front of the railway car. the car, of course, was soon moved back to france in 1945. >> thank you. i think we have probably finished what we had to do. i appreciate you all coming. mrm to questions during this one-hour forum. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the cato institute in exile -- we are glad to have you here. in about two months, the construction on our building will be complete and we will be back in the auditorium. for now, we are glad to be over here at the auditorium to discuss this book -- fdr goes to war. a long time ago, i went to mayfield high school in mayfield, kentucky. in my senior year, i was the coeditor of the high school newspaper -- the cardinal. i think the features editor that year was my classmate anita printz. she has gone on to bigger things. she got married, for one thing to burt folsom. she worked for presidents reagan and senator mitch mcconnell in kentucky, she wa

(laughs) this was incredibly new stuff. it was amazing. it was clearly a product that was in need. we had identified a need. >> narrator: most of the members of the global derivatives group at j.p. morgan were in their 20s, including masters and duhon, but with the creation of the credit default swap market, they had made banking history. >> what in the long run this all meant was that credit, which is a vital part of the lifeblood of any economy, the global economy, became a more readily available asset. and the thinking was that that would be an unambiguously positive thing. credit helps drive growth, helps companies deploy capital, helps employment, et cetera. it wasn't any longer just an idea in a room in florida, it was the creation of an entire marketplace. >> narrator: risk could now be easily traded. it fueled a worldwide credit boom. soon other banks got excited about the money to be made writing credit derivatives. paul leblanc was a derivative salesman at morgan stanley who remembers the pressure to get more deals done. >> the volume of transactions was just exploding. i

he was very, very good. dick clark was cool. he was cool like johnny carson was cool.was very approachable, very amenable. i interviewed him several times here in new york city. he'd walk into the studio and act like he knew me. i knew who he was but he acted like he knew me. i think the kids picked that up that watched him on television, that he somehow knew them. he knew what they were about and what their lives consisted of. he was the real deal and he had that very rare chromosome that allowed him to go right through the lens of the camera and jump right out in the room with you. >> professor, you talked about the discrimination in the studio audience in your view. what was the other most significant thing you learned about dick clark in your research? >> i would echo the points that jack just made and larry king made, that he was a tremendous businessperson. his role in terms of popularizing rock 'n' roll was unprecedented and no one can match it in the 1950s. in the 1950s you could only push that racial envelope so far. >> we almost did not get to see dick clark

the top bracket was 91% and was in 1953 and was in 1961 when he left. so his principal preoccupation was with foreign affairs and the cold war. while his party would love to have seen him do more about dismantling the new deal, he never evidenced much enthusiasm. >> the 91% was at the top level. >> $400,000. >> it was a lot of money. >> but it's a very impressive structure. so you're right that not many people were paying taxes of 91%. although eisenhower wrote his biography was the first mr for saving europe in theory could have paid him that although he worked at a deal that my fellow panelists will appreciate. as far as i know, no other book author has gotten. he got the irs to sign up on the notion that if you find the book to his publisher that is her six-month study claimed it as a capital gain rather than income. [laughter] >> again -- >> is there a website? >> it helped in world war ii. >> to put on one of your modern times. is the new deal over? should it be over? is there too much? >> who said it is still the framework? i've been wrong about t

the houston plan was before i was sitting in, or if it was discussed, it was nothing discussed in my presence. i never heard about it until watergate exploded. the meetings i remember were in the summer of '71 when nixon was exploding over the papers that were being circulated through washington. not only the pentagon papers that got to the press, but some that got to the brookings institution and other places, senators offices. we got calls that senators offices had them. so i heard him in one meeting say, turn to holden, i was in the room with holden, the two of us. he turned to us, and said, bob, how many times am i going to tell you? we need a team here. people can go in and break in if necessary, get those papers back. he said, we're not going to get it done otherwise. the fbi used to do this, they're not doing a good job of it. all of this is on tape, so you've probably heard these tapes. i was sitting there listening, and this is maybe where youth becomes a disadvantage. i took him very literally. i thought, this is really what he means, and he's the president, and troops are

it was a permanent brick structure that you could just imagine what was like in july and then there was a walkway that went from the house to the senate. so that was 1800. in 1814 the british torched the whole thing, and then it was benjamin latrobe after the war of 1812 that built in the capitol and produced this. by 1825 this was done. a number -- it was shortly after that jackson took the side and said thank you very much and good wine and nothing happened except piecemeal changes in the period we talked about here. thank you very much. [applause] to >>> up next, booktv presents afterwards mack, an hourlong program where we invite a guest hosts to interview authors. this week dale carpenter discusses his book flagrant conduct with a lead times supreme court reporter david savage. the book tells the story of the landmark gay rights case lawrence v. texas from the arrest of john lawrence and tyrone garner to justice kennedy's reading of the supreme court decision in 2003. the ruling made same-sex sexual activity legal in all states and territories to pave the wave for the same sex mana

>> i was supposed to call and make sure the work was done. at the point where i got the work done -- the same day of the meeting -- the person that was running the meeting said he did not want to see the pictures. i called that day and left a message saying the work was done, could you come out and see a? at least the scraping part. that was what i needed to do was get the paint off and private, am i correct? >> i think you had to finish the project. >> from what i understand -- at that particular point, the issue was the lead paint and having the paint chips peeling off of a wall. i scraped it and private and that settled the issue about the peeling paint and there being any lead paint exposed. >> you never had a final inspection to sign off on what the violation was? >> the final inspection came after i got notice of the directors' meeting that i did not get notification of. at that point, that is when i made sure -- i must have called him a few times at that point. he went ahead and set a meeting i think a week or two out and that's when h

the short story was it was my journalistic curiosity that was peeked out of some reporting i was doing one thing led to another. that was sealab. the fact that there was no real record or book of what this was all about, that became my job. to tell that. obviously i got a publisher interested in the contract to do it and i went back to my desk and went about my journalistic work as i had done for years before. a little bit lonelier with your cubicle neighbors and water cooler conversations. >> last few questions. >> you describe your early on the sensation you are breathing in those circumstances would it is like. can you go into more detail about what it feels like? >> breeding peanut butter i mentioned at the beginning. that was a little bit of hyperbole on that diver's part. that is not quite the experience that these deaths. the questions george bond asked, at the could diver go, the kind of research bond did continued in other laboratories in england and france and united states, particularly duke university with a big hyperbaric facility and they were back in the chambers and sti

she was a young bride. she was away from home. far, far away from home and was homesick and very unhappy and she was a bit sickly as well, so robert brownly speaks of tabby, her slave, very briefly in his memoir. he says isabelle took her passions out on tabby. we don't know exactly what that means except that she was treated badly and that robert brownly noticed it. we are walking through what would be the breezeway and actually in the summer this is the coolest part of the house. we open both doors and most of the family's time was spent out here. they might even bring the dining room table and bring it out here to have their meals. this is the parlor. this is where if mrs. brownly had been inclined to do entertaining, this is where she would have done it. isabelle brownly was taken from her home when she was so young. she came to arkansas when she was still a teenager and had not been married to james brownly for very long. they arrived in 1848 and they left in 1852. isolated here, andin 1852. she returned to scotland while her

it was like america the beautiful. it was so rural. it was such a different world for me. the first sighting of my brother. he didn't know i was coming was at the packing house. i remember seeing him, millions of apples coming down the flumes. my brother was looking at every single piece of fruit to be sure it was shipped correctly. he was to tender. i was seeing him from a long shot. i thought oh my god, all he needs is a sweater, he'd look just like are mr. rogers. i began to realize i didn't get it. that was the beginning. then i began bombing him with questions about apples and fruit. there was one moment that did change things in my perception, which is we were walking one day, i worked the fields and packing house routine, 5:00 a.m. routine. we were walking at dawn with the pickers who were all working, my brother was walking ahead of me. i saw all the shades of green, i was able to get my own ego out of the way. i thought he is amazing. this brother of mine is amazing. he has built up something astonishing here. it was almost like he was no longer invisible to me. i

it was crazy. very crazy. >> and i had heard that the pilot may have said to some witnesses on the scene or at least residents on the scene he was sorry he crashed into their home. is that true, did you see anything like that? >> yes, ma'am, i did hear that. he said that to my uncle as i was walking away. but yes, i did hear that. >> i want you to stand by, mr. edwards, matthew edwards, joining us an eyewitness to the scene. barbara starr is standing by. what's the latest at the pentagon on what happened and how this happened? >> well, an incredible scene that we watched unfold during the day happened when the training flight took off from the oceana naval air station. by all accounts it ran into trouble very quickly because it crashed into the apartment building about two miles from the runway. so the working assumption is it did not achieve significant altitude before the pilots realized they were in trouble. leading them -- forces them into an ejection potentially at very low altitude. pilots as

what was the mistake? >> you know, that's augustine's contention too, i'm in good company. >> you mean the saint? >> yes. yes. >> of hippo? >> yes, one of my favorites. this is something that greek-speaking christians were aware of as early as 150. >> what is the word in question? >> the word -- it's like the word for the parthenon because athena was a virgin goddess, the word is parthenos and that's the word that appears in greek of isaiah 7:14 but it's not the order in the original hebrew. >> what's the word? >> the hebrew text says ama. >> what does that translate to. >> it's the word for young girl which has its own greek word. >> what's the greek word. >> the greek word would be nianis. >> niansus is not parthenos. >> i have three daughters, we hope that young girls are virgins but it's not the same word. >> mary is not a parthenos. >> i don't know if she was or not but the text says -- >> how do you know the hebrew was mistranslated when put into greek. >> hebrew has word for virgin. it's tula and th

another thing that was concluded was there was about only 37 seconds of warning between when the lookout spotted the iceberg and when the ship actually struck. this was based on one of the eyewitnesss, the helps man, robert hitch ins who said the ship turned 22 degrees to port, to the left side, before it actually struck the iceberg. tests done to titanic's sister ship olympic showed it would take 37 seconds for the ship to turn down a mount. and so they assumed that the iceberg was spotted just a second or two before and they only had 37 seconds to avoid, and ave. course they did not avoid the iceberg when it was struck. that turns out to be not true as we'll see in a few moments. the other interesting myth that came out of the original inquiries was that car path yas traveled 58 miles in about 3 1/2 hours to reach the titanic life boats. and the reason why that turned out to be not true is that we know now that titanic did not sink at the original coordinates. it sank 13 miles to the east, and car path yeah never made it to 17.5 knots. this actually turns out to be impossible for her t

he was quite happy. just as i was leaving, he grabbed my arm and he said, kid, how do i know you didn't have your lens cap on when you shot this? if i ship all this to new york and it's no good, i'll kill you. and i believed him. early the next morning i dashed into the nbc bureau to see how much they used on the evening news, and there was a telex coming through on the wire from mack johnson in new york just as i walked in. and it said, on pass north, it said, looks like the story shot with lens cap on. then the telex went dead for about two hours. damn, i must have shot the story with the bloody newfangled bolex gismo in the fadeout leaver gear. and chances are my stills with the new likoflex i ground into the dirt was about as bad and jim wild will surely kill me. it was the longest two hours of my life as a stringer. but when the telex started up again, it continued. two north rolls that were okay are great and we cut a solid minute 30 spot that led "nightly news." congratulations. i lay low for the

he was of course not the captain who was in the famous battle, but was assigned -- actually there were a couple of captains between him and when he took over. but he was the captain for the summer, most of the summer of 1862. interestingly, in may of 1862, he wrote an extremely good and very honest account of the strengths and weaknesses of "the monitor" for gideon wells, the commander of the secretary. he really nailed it on the head in a whole bunch of different ways. another part of that story, the famous story is ericsson the great inventor thrust this invention, radical invention on the navy, and the old fogies, that's a phrase you see all the time in ericsson's writing and all throughout, the old fogies in the navy didn't want ironclad technology. but you actually look at the debates that were going on on paper. the old fogies were mostly ericsson's friends. they were the older gentlemen. they were the senior ranks in the navy. they actually liked ericsson. the people who tended to oppose him were people like this, jeffers, young officers, highly trained in engineering, very fami

one was the details of the construction. he was right that his design was quite radical. but that design could really only hold together if it was -- and we saw a quote from the contract in the previous talk. "perfectly engineered" or "perfectly constructed." and any new technology has a lot of bugs. he was not that interested in working through those bugs. the major change he made with the second class of monitors was to put pilot house on top of the turret. but there were a lot of other changes about ventilation and habitability and so, you know, the blowers -- the belts on the blowers were a single-point failure. if the blowers failed, the crew died. and they did fail from time to time. and the crew almost died. the "monitor" was hopelessly vulnerable to boarding. and the crew were terrified about that eventuality. all the crew of the "virginia" would have to do would be to jump on board and stuff up the ventilator holes and the story would have been over. so there were a lot of things that could have been prevented that way. gustavus fox and gideon wells and many othe

he was well connected. he was what we call a networker. and he took appropriate advantage of these connections in his pursuit of the right to rise. and here's a photo of dolly madison's house. you see the cellar windows where jennings quarters would be. and also i feel obliged to say that the door moved all over the place. it was first in front and then moved to the side where you see in this photograph. later that door was made a window and today it's further down on h street. this is one of the earliest photographs of the white house on the south portico, you see president polk and you can believe that dolly kept all the earnings. dolly is to the right of polk as you're looking at the photograph. and here is the la fayette square gates. oops that one didn't get in there. here's the la fayette square gates. and this just gives you a period sense of just how close la fayette square is to the white house. and here is franklin jennings. this is paul jennings' son, one of three. and they all served the union cause during the civil war. and fr

money was. you know fifteen twenty thousand dollars a year for part time work and it carried a retirement with even though i had and a change of heart about wars i needed the money you first come home and you meet lee forget about everything and you go to mcdonald's you go to all your favorite restaurants and you do all your favorite things and you're having a great time and you know. and then all of a sudden you wake up one day and you're like wait a minute i'm not having a good time anymore. starting with think about this i'm starting to think about that because all the newness has worn off your home i'm alive i got my arm i got my legs i'm alive. but then the mind. and the mind starts catching up with with everything else. a farm myself going through my gear prepping like i'm getting ready to go to combat i mean i even look for suicide bombers. you know anything out of the anything out of the ordinary. once you reach that level of your senses being that heightened it's hard to turn it off it'

swimming was a means to an end. i was supposed to do it. i was still good. i was competing with the best but i did not like it. i was tired of training, my mental attitude was not as good as it should have been. there were things i would have done differently. i think in the back of my head regardless of the success i had in my earlier career, i always regretted a little bit my mental attitude and how i felt between the 1992 and 1996 olympics. for me to come back and find joy in the sport again, from 1989 until 1996, for seven years i never swam the best time. in swimming that is important. now every time i jump in the pool i do a best time and that is fun for me. coming back to that sport and appreciate it and going at it with a better attitude and having more wisdom has helped me. it has helped me find a nice balance and a nice place for the sport in my life which is a much bigger picture. tavis: two things. the comment, you were not just competing with the best, you were beating some of the best, even folks who were tipped up. which raised the question ab

>> it was stamped in my dna. i was so lucky, cynthia. earlier we were talking about our shared mexican history. in my house, first of all i came from a house in san antonio, south texas of big opinions. my father was a kind of district attorney without portfolio. other jewish fathers play golf. >> this is a jewish district attorney. >> originally from mexico. his whole passion in life is corruption. the family own add discount store. that wasn't where his heart would you say. he was running this family business and his heart was exposing theing bad guy. for a reporter it became the most fantastic training ground. at dinner my father would talk non stop, the mayor is a crook, the senator is a crook, i am going to get that guy. he would have campaigns, whistle blowers, he had stocking bag stuffers. there was an extrodinary house, lucky house, very grateful for all of that who is hilariously funny. he is holder sister, anita brenner was older, worked in the "new york times" in the 1930s. there are many pictures of anita in those family scra

what they typically looked at was that blood transfusion after the case was tried was banned in france. and then later petered out entirely in england. and they say, well, of course, it was banned. because it was before anesthesia, it's before antisepsis, what in the world were they doing? but that's not really the story in my mind. the story is why would three physicians be interested in putting a man to death? why would they be interested in poisoning him? one of the things i found was the answers are really interested and have a lot to do with deep-seated fears. it's one of the best early murder mysteries you can find. >> thank you, holly. we're going to come back at the end, of course, and ask some more questions, you'll have a chance to ask questions too. i want to go back -- actually, jump ahead a little bit, two centuries, still saying in france. to doug starr's books about the beginnings of forensic medicine. doug is -- i should have made this full disclosure before, all these speakers are colleagues of mine, so i do have a bias about their back books and their performance here

that was an interesting experience for you, was it not? >> it was.make a lot of fuss about correspondents who are dodging bullets and risking their lives. well, frankly, mike impressed me more than that. he came to -- i was in sarajevo, and he came to bosnia to do a story on the war criminal, mass murderer, and we went to his office, and there were about ten of his thugs standing around with automatic weapons, and he was a psychiatrist, an accredited psychiatrist, and mike sat down and said what's it like being a psychiatrist and a mass murderer? i -- i was frightened. i was shake, but mike wasn't. it was -- for mike it was the way he does interviews. >> and he was, steve croft, a pit bull in the office as well. that's what morley safer said on cmn. there was a couple of years where they didn't talk to each other because of an internal battle. how competitive was mike wallace with his colleagues? >> incredibly competitive. it was -- there were always a lot of turf wars, and i heard mike talk about this just the other day in an interview that we had d

was issued, the work was still outstanding. the notice of violation was sent property owners as they are on file with the assessor's office. you also have the property profile information in your package which shows what information that is. when we issue a notice of violation, we send it to the owner as they are on file with that address and post the building. both of those things were done. it would have been posted on the property address and also sent to the property owner. fast forward several months later, we go back and find work is not done. it was scheduled for a director's hearing late in 2011. over a year later, that information is sent to the property owner by certified mail. they did receive it and show up the hearing. the work was not done at that time in the property owner ask for a continuance. there are giving a 30 day continuance which allows the hearing officer to do that. you will see there is boilerplate attached to every notice of violation and this is a later. it is almost the same language. at the time t

you know, i don't know if it was just i was too lazy to get up from where i was and go find the bell to ring it, but somehow i managed to make it through. >> host: when, when did you serve? >> guest: i went in '99 and then got -- in february of '99 and got out in november of '09. >> host: chris kyle is the author of a 13-week bestseller. it's called "american sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in u.s. military history," and he is our guest for the next hour here on booktv on c-span2, and we're going to put the numbers up on the screen if you would like to talk with mr. kyle. 202 is the area code, 737-0001 for the eastern and central mountain zones, 737-0002 for those of you in the mountain and pacific, and we have set aside a line for afghan and iraq vets in active duty, 202-628-0205. you can also contact us electronically, send an e-mail to booktv@cspan.org, or you can send a tweet to twitter.com/booktv. chris kyle, in your book you write that you were not the best shot at all. in your class. or at, before you went into the seals. >> guest: no, sir. i never claimed

sheryl was giving a piano lesson. margo, who was only 12, was preparing dinner with joe.uld happen next would change their lives forever. >> after we had dinner, we sat down in the family room and i -- he was just talking, like he just wanted to leave. and he said he was just going to disappear. but we didn't really know what he was talking about. i said, mom, he's not even taking a toothbrush with him or anything. like, where is he going? this is kind of scaring me. >> reporter: so did you think he might do something that wasn't right? >> i kind of had, like, a feeling that something was going to happen, like something bad. and i told my mom that i wanted to leave. and she said, okay. and so we left. >> reporter: sheryl took her daughter to this nearby ramada inn. she never heard from joe again. the next morning, this is what sheryl drove up to. in this interview obtained by cnn, listen to what sheryl tells the fire department's arson investigator. >> i saw the smoke billowing and i said, oh, my god. he's burned the house down. and then i figured he was in it because he'

was proof evident and was presumption great?e knew they had a burden of establishing that. they asked for no bond. they knew this was going to be subject to attack. >> this was -- >> hold on. they left it wide open. it was more than a bond hearing. they should have been prepared. >> more than a bond hearing? it's a bond hearing. >> i got to go. sunny hostin, thank you. mark nejame and mark geragos, thanks for being here. >>> and the observers that are supposed to be monitoring a cease-fire in syria. if there's no ceasefire. and second the suv in the video, practically the entire u.n. monitoring force there. keeping them honest straight ahead. er my old 401(k) into a fidelity ira. man: okay, no problem. it's easy to get started; i can help you with the paperwork. um...this green line just appeared on my floor. yeah, that's fidelity helping you reach your financial goals. could you hold on a second? it's your money. roll over your old 401(k) into a fidelity ira and take control of your personal economy. this is going to be helpful

there was no such book, so there was this : my boat. the other thing was discovered norfleet. thought that his was similar to the memoirs i was researching it wasn't true. none of those, and memoirs are true and i thought his is obviously not because his way to good to be true. obviously a false memoir of someone lying about being in the deceptive art seemed really interesting and useful. i can do a lot with this. then i found out it was true. that seemed like a good place to start, to write the book that tried to. nuys con games and talk about the ways that they have been pretty crucial to economic development in our country. it's a good story, but also the kind of story from the underground and so a way to get an underground history as well. i know people in this room have been conned. [laughter] statistically. it's likely. if you would like to tell the story -- [laughter] >> what do you think a modern-day, would look like? twentieth century gone. what of that kind of things that you would see in today's society that kind of mirror? >> well, we all know now about ponzi schem

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was cftc engaged? >> the commission was informed that mf global was going to be placed into liquidation. >> who is handling the decisions in regards to enhanced supervision. who was handling those decisions prior to the bankruptcy? >> up until november 3, the chairman was directing. >> since you have told me you do not know what his conflict of interest was that caused him to recuse himself five days after the bankruptcy, you do not have an opinion as to whether that same conflict of interest would have accrued prior to the filing of bankruptcy? do you know if something happened between the filing and the five days later that created a conflict of interest? is it the same conflict of interest that was there prior and subsequent to bankruptcy? >> i do not know. >> thank you. >> i apologize for missing part of your testimony. i have a conflict, we have a marked up in the appropriations committee. you should not be absent from that. i hope some of these questions have not been asked. if they have, i was n

but what was going on in our neighborhoods was going on in our hearts and it was speaking what was going> let me ask a question. did the rappers get too rich? >> well, a lot of rappers got rich, but also, you know, it was also peel people were interested in hip-hop, they thought, wow, i can get rich with this? yes, people always made dance-based records because, hey, you know, we love to dance, we love to party. but there was a contingent of people who were trying to speak their minds. hip-hop, people don't understand, is an off-shoot of what is known as an african oral story telling. you could tell a whole story they would tell whole stories of kingdoms in rhymes. they could rap for hours and hours. that's what hip-hop is. it's been convoluted because people have used it for economic means. >> one more question, and turks have that oral tradition, as well. i've been doing that oral story telling in a sense. if you sense that the anger is not as as far asful as it was back then, is that a good thing? >> i think it's frustration more than anger. yeah, shoot, there are still people who are

interviewed him he was only there for a few days that was to me the only was a at that time not now was a real rejection of who i was as a man he didn't last he didn't make it he got hit. and i think i didn't even understand it then but that started a decline in our relationship which spiraled downward and downward downward. so you don't talk about it because you sit on it. and say i was lucky why did not kill why did i both somebody you know guys do that or why did no poor me why didn't i do this. i want to try i got on a stool and. i remember living in the y. new york city totally alone i don't have to put my bathroom sash around on it. and why i got. was because. my friends. i had made after the war who had been through the same thing i had and i felt if i did that to myself i would betray. the bond we had. coochie vietnam federer fourteen thousand nine hundred sixty six by a.p. they call it hell's halfacre because of the american bull. that have been spilled their tongue will do well and be a kong snipers have done most of the damage today was no exception. on the. twenty sevent