>> but while he was dreaming, someone else was scheming to steal. his money was gone. he was next. >> the body was laying on the ground. keys were next to it and absolutely no other evidence anywhere. >> not much evidence but plenty of potential suspects. some halfway around the world, some much closer to home. >> there were a lot of people who didn't like the victim. >> like the people he owed money to and the people he had threatened. >> he said i will make sure you cannot feed your wife and your baby. >> only two people knew the truth. the killer was one. she was the other. >> you were pretty sure he did this, am i right? >> absolutely. >> she had a secret. and the killer had a proposal. >> what were you thinking? >> money. love. and mystery. >> this is where it gets rough. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." here's keith morrison with "family secrets." >>> it's called the secret. it's an international best seller which claims to be based on hidden ancient texts so popular it was made into a movie. they think it will lead them to whatever they desire. >> you

he was not there and that he was there. he called me the morning i got back asking me what had happened and everything like that. his argument was to do away with, first of all, nuclear weapons when there was a conventional imbalance, was a very dangerous thing, the first when she rolled in to camp davis shortly there after and prime minister what we called handbaged the president and not directly. that means, just beat him over the head but she went after the staff more and was nice to reagan. so there was the no nuclear weapons eliminate all nuclear weapons with reagan that were talked about on sunday afternoon for a very brief amount of time and enormous controversy. there was more substantive to do away with wholistic missiles that had been proposed at the lunch on sunday. the break before that and that's what bill and myself at the meeting afterwards said it was fundamental tally against the interest, but for various reasons, budgetary reasons and protection reasons that the whole triad had been on the basis, at least

. >> was this a fall, or was this murder? >> reporter: tonight a mystery we've covered for more than a decade comes to a shattering end. >> it did not look like a fall. >> reporter: michael peterson, under suspicion. then a bombshell revelation about another woman, from his past. >> liz was on the floor, and there was a puddle of blood under the staircase. >> two women that appeared to die the same way. two women associated with michael peterson. >> reporter: what are the odds? >> yeah, what are the odds? >> reporter: at trial, one expert -- >> this is the scene of a beating. >> reporter: -- would make a slam-dunk case for petersen's guilt. >> the jurors were captivated by his testimony. >> reporter: but were his dramatic experiments, legit? >> it's designed to get a result. it's not scientific at all. >> reporter: now, in his only network interview, michael peterson on the twist that might finally lead to the truth. >> the most difficult decision i ever made in my life. >> reporter: a writer at the center of a story even he

that was not here. those were work areas previously read but remember the station was busy and did serve as the gateway to the nation's capital. for example, this concourse served during the suffragette movement movement in 1910 and in 1963 with the civil rights march. there were major events throughout history that took place here. people using the station. the beatles arrived here for their first american tour, and many diplomatic events took place, creating quite a bit of traffic through this portion of the station. we are back in the main hall and by the 1950's, the main hall had suffered quite a bit of use and was in fairly bad condition. in fact the floor was taken out , and removed. the ceilings were covered with gold paint in some places. there was blue paint put on some of the walls. congress and others began to debate the future of washington union station. around the country many other , stations were being shuttered and torn down. fortunately, it did not happen here. but it took 20 years of

there was no saying it, it was awful. but i am becoming really troubled by the amount of oppression and violence against the common people by their own chiefs and kings before we ever showed up. i gave them some examples, and he said it is true. if you write your book that way, and you don't, his words, position the natives as victims of american racism, that will not help you get back into grad school. [laughter] james haley: i marinated in this, then i said, that must mean what they say with academic freedom. [laughter] james haley: so i had the opportunity to go to research, and i discovered very quickly the local phenomenon known as stink eye. this is the look you get from them researching their history or nosing into their culture. there was one lady, a docent at kilauea. my research assistant let it drop i was writing a book, and she gave me that look. she said, of course you realize you are not the person who should write it. if you insist on it, the first thing you should do is submit yourself to the kupuna, the e

the pit was covered in this -- was covered and this floor was put back. everything from book -- everything from the clocks to the ceilings were restored. the legionnaires were cleaned. and the building was reopened in 1988. it was quite an event. there was a great celebration. many speeches were made. the rest of the building was also restored much as you see it today. so, the west hall area that had once been ticket counters were opened as a retail space. the columbus plaza opened as an event space. the east hall was fully restored, and then the train concourse became a significant retail space. and it was a significant public/ private partnership of its time, and although not everything that was done was great acclaim, everyone understood that it was a very creative way to save the station, and in fact, it worked, and here we are 30 years later, and the station is still going very strong. so the building after its restoration in 1988 was very well used for the past many years, and then a few years ago, we had the earthquake here in washington d.c. a ver

was doing, he was in new york.e didn't make the trip out to dodge city. he was writing plays, he would write plays that completely fabricated things about the west. there wasone play that was kind of successful , the critics hated it but it was popular and buntline was absolutely correct about it, he said he wrote it in four hours of one of the critics said what took him so long? [laughter] other questions. i know you're out there somewhere. >> maybe you're anxious to start reading the book. >> anyway, if you don't have any questions and you are interested in having a book signed, then i right there. preferably after taking the sign down so you can see the. >> don't bother with that man, he's being encouraged but i'd be happy to sign any copies that you have and you have been so gracious and thank you very much. >>. >> thank you very much tom. >>. >> thank you all very much for coming, we have books for sale at the front desk and robin is going to come along by row and get you situated with your post-it notes, and

>> it was.was. >> heather moved into this rental house with the help of family and friends. >> she was backed by a lost awesome girls. so she was ready. >> she was saying, you know, i don't want anything in my house but my crock pot and matt tres and brown book, that's okay. because i'm happy. >> in his interview with police, chris said that after nine years of marriage, he and heather began to have some differences, but, he said, he had no clue she was going to move out on him and was even more shocked when he found out she had filed for divorce. >> totally side swiped. i did not see it coming. >> chris told detective kevinmp had been trying to patch it up ever since. >> i wanted my life. i want the family dynamic. i want us to be a family. i want us to work things out. >> kemp questioned what heather had been up to when chris was trying to win her back. >> it's common, a lot of times when a couple is going through a divorce that maybe somebody was seeing somebody and i asked him that. >> that'

sore was a polish defector, he basically was turned in. at the beginning of my presentation i mentioned that the very smart lawyer who said you can't have tunnels which have double agent. there is no such thing as this. they know about this. comingn be transferred back into u.s. and u.k. cooperation. especially with the soviet union, it is so much with intelligence. who can you trust? there are a lot of projects with trade. in this case like was betrayed and he the british and the americans. the tunnel was betrayed as well. in conclusion this was the first of many projects i was betrayed by double agents, or a mold. there are many joint projects as well. involve the hazards using the berlin tunnel. [applause] >> thank you both very much for the presentations. -- dutifullyuly following the clock on the wall, it is about one hour behind. not have quite as much time for questions as we thought. but we do have some time for questions. announce thate to immediately after the session we are going to move into the keynote address. if youremain he

so i was asked if tubman was there. part of the answer is that we in the field go around trying to find intersections in moments. so we say elizabeth keckley must have known harriet jacobs because they were in washington working in the contrabands at the same time. harriet tubman must have known francis watkins up in the north. they were in the same small town in canada at the same time. but they didn't have smart phones. they didn't have facebook locator. we can't really find this. there is no evidence of this. but keckley is rereceiceiving a of interest. but it's for your generation and the next generation to keep in the archives, as well as the dumpsters, in biography classes as well as out on sites. so thank you very much. >> thank you very much for your time and informative discussion about harriet tubman. i wanted to know, how do you think she -- you mentioned that she had a christian faith that guided her. and i want to know how you think she came by her christian faith. and i'm also -- i have a lot of questions

he was lost in thought. the choice was in ourhands.r once, we could decide our fate for ourselves. to stay, both of us in the infirmary where -- thanks to my doctor, he could enter as either patient or medic -- i made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went. well, father, what do we do? he was silent. let's be evacuated with the others, i said. he didn't answer. he was looking at my foot. you think you'll be able to walk? yes, i think so. let's hope we won't regret it, elie. after the war i learned the fate of those who had remained at the infirmary. they were, quite simply, liberated by the russians two days after the evacuation. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you. >> i did not return to the infirmary. i went straight to my block. my wound had reopened and was bleeding. the snow under my feet turned red. the -- [inaudible] distributed double rations of bread and margarine for the road. we could take as much clothing from the store as we wanted. it was cold. we got into our bunks the last night, one more the last night.

buckley was the guy who was of most concern. tortured ands produced from it a 400 page agonizedt of his discussions a that created huge pressure for the intelligence community, as well as for the president. the hope was that buckley would be the first guy released. that was what mcfarland wanted from august 1985. bruce: since casey had sent buckley to beirut, he felt a personal and professional responsibility. >> i write "the mitchell report." memo about socks, but my argyll's were at the laundry. argyles were at the laundry. there is one name that hasn't come up yet. where is george h.w. bush in all this? what does that tell us about the pardons? bruce: -- malcolm: excellent question. was making sure he left no footprints in the sand wherever he went. --i can find a document here he, as you are member, came remember, came under a lot of scrutiny when he was running for president to 1988, and his in whole story was, i didn't know anything. i wasn't in the loop, i wasn't in the cockpit. he was trying to show himself simultaneousl

his brother was a well mannered likable guy and the family thought he was too nice to survive so he was the one that would look after his brothers. the time came he didn't want to be a farmer. he heard there was a lot of money to be made to be a buffalo hunter so this was crying me come in dirty, filthy, hard work. but it paid well because at this time there were a lot as fast as you could kill them and skin then you could make some money. it was one of those years they had so many disputes that they would say that's when they met each other and immediately became friends. thahe did a buffalo hunting fora while and became an army scout. one of the stories in the book is that with the movie the searchers with john wayne they go through the whole picture and it was kind of inspired by an adventure that masterson had when he was only about 20 and a scout. there was a family attacked by indians and there were four daughters were kidnapped and then they split up into two bands. one band took two of the doctors and the other took the other two and he went after them. he was going to find them

and then on the next trip he was able to see chairman wa, the short remembered chairman wa. and then he got to meet and deal with and even see him in the white house dung jo ping. so by the nixon providence with china, almost the nixon franchise with china was really maintained by going for that second anniversary or that anniversary in '76, the fourth anniversary. >> colonel, how did you advance is it without a ron walker and the white house staff of john and all the other people around you. >> nothing is easy without ron walker. but let me go back a second. the chinese, i would occasionally go back to washington and see people that he asked me to see to take the temperature. and i would always visit the chinese embassy, it wasn't an embassy at the time but nevertheless. they said to me we would like -- chairman wa would like to invite president nixon back to china on the anniversary. this was way before we knew there would be a fight between reagan and president ford in new hampshire in february. we didn't announce it. and they said very proudly we're going to send not a p

there was lena harris who was tran was father was a turkey chief. there were a number of native americans who played for a the team. she was the team historian and she had written profusely about them and kept track of all the players. she was like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. her granddaughter, came to the book event that we held in oklahoma city and i got to meet her. there was a strong native american influence to this story >> do we have any other questions, if you do, step step up. >> tell about your journey in terms of how you took that file and produced a book from your starting point. >> first of all, i drove to durrant oklahoma and started with the library there. the oklahoma presbyterian college had closed years earlier and, actually, back back then, they're building a new headquarters but it housed the indian nation in the school was not there anymore. i went to the library and started doing research and applicant to ask the librarian, because i couldn't find much about it, have you heard of the oklahoma where the teary and

and it was a was -- >> to start off, it was a merchant ship based in philadelphia. it sailed between philadelphia and liverpool and would make journeys to charleston, south carolina and to the west indies. during the transatlantic trade. the bowl was made in liverpool, so it is made in liverpool and the ship's bowls were often commissioned to celebrate a voyage or commission of a new ship and would be given to owners or captains of these ships. we found, looking through colonial newspapers and of coarse, digitization has made this so much easier than the old days when we had to go through the microfilm or the originals. a couple of hours of searching, we were able to establish that the ship begins appearing in advertisements around 1760, 1763. there will be notices of goods imported being sold in this neighborhood -- >> we have lists of all the goods and the shops where they are being unloaded. >> but the connection to my request is in december of 1765. the ship carried a protest against the stamp act signed by all of the merchants in philadelphia and addressed not

he was not a all. he was a rage filled man. he was angry all his life and nothing made him angrier than being treated by being mistreated by white people. he saw racism in every glance. he was court-martialed in 1944 for refusing to go to the back of the bus in the army. he beat the charge and saved his career. this is a guy who is taking a chance with. he had to know if robinson was provoked and people we're going to provoke him without a doubt and he responded in anger if he threw a punch or went into a tirade, that it might be the end and who knows how many years it would set integration back. but rickey wanted to send a tone of strength, that we are not just asking blacks to go along and get along and find their way and slipped quietly into the game. he was saying we are going to send a message that black americans are here and part of baseball and you have to deal with it. you have to deal with him. jackie robinson is not someone to be trifled with. so on that opening day, i mention that the black newspapers covered it and

one day, he was hearing arguments, and i was not in the courtroom but i was told this. attorney stood up and started arguing, and he did not let her get her word out. started criticizing her for not knowing the federal rules of procedure because she had not provided in appendix, and don't you with the rules of a state court about the rules of the court you are going to appear in? she cannot get a word in did, she and when she said judge, i did. the court clerk was standing right there, and judge family suspended the argument and started criticizing the clerk's office and not letting danny get a word in edgewise. said butthe clerk judge, our papers show it was delivered to your chambers. [laughter] and so a phone call came in from mr. passaro, there was a phone down there and asked if you have an appendix down there for such and such a case? i walked into the judge's chambers, and there was nothing. the revolving bookcase which he had back in 1969 was empty. as i was about to turn to come back out, i saw this piece of paper underneath the book, and lo and behold it was t

it was very good, she was super nice. still, around the beginning of sophomore year began to realize my french major was maybe not taking me in the direction wanted to go. vermont is very political. people say what they think. they disagree without being disagreeable and have discussions without fighting. state and local officials were always on campus. governor howard dean seem to register us to go. i got to jump on a reviled republican -- i found myself gravitate. it was newt gingrich just fyi. a contract with america, it was a terrible time. i found myself gravitate into the political stuff whether on or off campus for that winter decided to apply for a summer internship with bernie sanders. bernie, the revelation. when spring break whirled around and found out that the budget for the french department was being cut in it might not be offered as a major any longer. i thought this was a sign so i reapplied to the university of wisconsin madison to transfer in my junior year and i was accepted.a few weeks later i also go

time, it was, at the was the country that was the closest to britain.ts army was called the arab glub , and it was led by pasha, a british officer. the top officers in the entire british. they were borrowed from the british military. legion was paid for entirely by a subsidy that the handed to the jordanians every year. when i mentioned to you before bout how we didn't realize there were these conflicts between arabs. nasser most wanted, one of his main goals, was to drive the and his ut of jordan, conflict with israel. he was using the conflict with israel. border war going on. foment unrest in jordan, it was a very complicated picture. was d to say that israel the primary concern. he knew very well that nasser as gunning for him and was using the israel question to go after him. >> you mentioned john dulles was an antisemight. was his brother, allen? >> i think so. word 't use the "antisemight" in the book and i very consciously different and saying here, i felt a little uncomfortable about it. antisemitic he had attitude snoos what about ike? no, i n

the ideology of this period was that men's work was, was public. it was important. it was for men. and that women had other attributes, other qualities. they were natural caretakers, and that the two spheres should be kept separate. right? men were assumed to be naturally more intelligent, you know, active, in charge, right? aggressive. women were assumed to be better at raising the children and running the household, you know, obviously, at this time, women, they couldn't vote. their education opportunities were far more limited than men's, they lacked property rights in many states. they were treated like property themselves. part of this ideology came from religion. right? it was believed that god intended men to be the leaders and that god intended women to take care of their families, physically, spiritually, intellectually. it was believed that well were, so to speak, the better sex, that they were purer. of mind and heart, right? and that they were needed to sort of keep their men folk in le line and to keep their families on a straight spiritual path. t and it was taking a

on campus today, he was sort of -- and when he was writing the book, he was realizing that he was writingr the students of today who are, you know, nixon was like the teapot dome scandal of our generation, that far back. and so, you know, each the students' parents -- even the students' parents were just kids when richard nixon was president, to some degree. so i'm going to save him a trouble, a couple of bare facts for anybody who doesn't know. richard nixon was born in 1913, he died in 1994 at age 81. he was a congressman from california, served on house un-american activities committee, then was elected to the senate the same year jfk was, served briefly, and then was vice president for eight years under dwight eisenhower. ran for president in 1960, was defeated. two years later, lost running for governor for california and said you won't have dick nixon to kick around anymore, and then he came back, was elected in '68, lasted five years and hen re-- and then resigned after facing articles of impeachment for the watergate scandal. i know that as an author myself all authors, most hate

"it was very authentic. it was very ethnic." filming on location also brought press coverage and legions of adoring travolta fans. "when i began to think that maybe john travolta was more than some kid was when the girls would come. i mean he was like, really - it was amazing. it was like the god dionysus or something and all these girls were screaming maenads celebrating the bacchant festival or something." but what really made "saturday night fever" stand out was its unabashed embrace of disco. the movie helped take disco out of the underground clubs in new york city and introducted middle amerca to a colorful embrace of sex, drugs and dancing. it stood in stark contrast to the counterculture of the '60s and the harsh reality of the vietnam war. "saturday night fever" also stood in contrast with what hollywood was used to seeing by putting dancing front and center. "the dancing is phenomenal and the choreography is phenomenal and it was unique to the time. i mean we hadn't really seen a film like this before that focused on da

she was more legal than i was at that point.my kids were reacting positively i waited for both of them until they were 18 years old. when i told my daughter she cried because how do you prove to a child how much you love them. that was a big one other than maybe throwing yourself in front of a bus to save them. my son when he heard the story's eyes were bigger and bigger because he knew me as is a working desk jockey in corporate america. i could never explain to him what i did because i was a manager at the time and he once told his friend and i overheard him that my dad doesn't do real work, he's in the office all day . all of a sudden, the faceless bureaucrat became an international spy. he said, dad, we have to write a book. [laughter] >> speaking of a book, please join me in thanking jack barsky for taking the time to talk with us today. he will be making his way to the back if you would like the book sign in to say hello. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

danny was aware that this was a powerful magician, is what he was. it gave danny a sense of security. he's always worried that something is wrong with him. amos approved of it, it must be right. that was part of the dynamic. amos settled down that way. amos was also supremely confident and may danny feel confident. amos, for a stretch anyway, up until they get to this country, treated danny and all of his ideas kind of critically. there was unconditional love. danny responded well to that. it was a magic in them. the taming of danny for ten years is the miracle of the relationship and the ability to keep him from pooping on him, on the ideas. amos -- when i went through his file cabinets there's a breakup letters and there's this drama in the file cabinets and among the signs the drama was the stack of papers that were clearly were some of the preparation for phone call with danny. it would be bullet points of all the things danny would be upset about and amos's response, the arguments you make in response. this clearly happened over and over. he spe

there was not a problem. as the chairman said, there was no dystopian controlled internet with anybody interfering with the ability to post content or look at the content of their choice. >> watch the communicators monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> up next, historians describe the great famine in ireland during the mid-19th century. discuss how people across the globe contributed to relief efforts. they focus on a story of a group of bostonians who build a ship called the jamestown with supplies. the american historical society but massachusetts most of this event. >> you may have noticed this event originally called for our here.r bill fowler to be he is my predecessor at the historical society, which many of you already know. he is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern -- professor of history at northeastern. we realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. he suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation wou

few days she was certain she was going to win. she was talking to aides about what she was going to do in the white house. we recount an exchange she had with one of her aides a few days after the election. she said, you know, i bring out the worst in a lot of people, and i don't know where that is, but it is. the aide says to her, you know, it's going to get worse when you are in the white house. this is somebody who is very much thinking about going into the presidency. in the book, you see the optimism waning and the reality rising through the course of that night. the first indications were in florida and then the question was, are the numbers we are seeing in florida, are they going to extrapolate to north carolina, to pennsylvania, to michigan? there was some hope that they wouldn't, that it's just florida that's behaving this way, but instead what they knew in their hearts was it was likely there were certain parts of florida that would behave like the other states and it was really the bellwether for what would happen that

she was a face that was recognizable. perhaps the same was true for boston.he said she didn't know where she was going so it was likely that those that helped her didn't tell her for fear of problems that perhaps she would tell the plan or be found out. so she doesn't know where she's going until she disembarks and once she gets to new hampshire she finds the community that harbors her and gets her housing angives herhousing and food andr find work and keeps her safe every time one of washington's agents or family members came after they always showed heard her, hid her. so i think the other part of what this book does is show the importance of the community at the end of the 18th and early 19th century. >> a few years ago i read a wonderful children's book to my daughter. were you part of that project? >> if it was diane turner, she's written a children's book. i wasn't part of that, but i knew her work and i think there are two children's book about ona judge and now there is interest about the kind of young adult versions so i am working on that. stay tune

it was really about where did you write this. what was your base? >> my face was here. live right off the beltway near the mormon temple. hadll this material you in-depth? >> it is mostly online. somebody the other day wrote an entire book only online. they set in the kitchen and all the research they did was online. we're getting there. all of cleared sterile cases government online -- all of this cases got put online after i left the country. the problem is they cannot put everything that is at the nixon library online. it would take 200 years. what you tend to do is if you are too lazy, you only do the online stuff. you only did the oral histories online. c-span archives, you have a lot about nixon. but if you only do that then you do not get into some of the texture they can only be done by turning every page. and the nixon book, a lot is online. >> if you are going to pick a chapter in this book that everybody should read that is new, different, unusual, which be?would it i think the piece on the cambodian incursion in the spring of 1970, that chapter is relatively

that was it. but then, many months later as my friend danielle from the white house was in the back, damien winter who took the photo, when it came out that day, we were in texas, with kenny thompson, who was there, and you won a pulitzer and he was like i won the pulitzer. that is where the title of the book came from because you always have to know who thought it was a good idea. questions? do it. >> how involved are you now in the political arena? >> i work at a private company so i am not as political as i would be otherwise. but i march. don't tell people i work for. i tried to support women-owned businesses and people who support the aclu and planned parenthood almost entirely. for the first, pre-sale of this book went to the women's march and next week, this is my cowriter, we do a day next week where it all goes to planned parenthood. [applause] >> in some ways you can't march every day but what is happening now is garbage so we have to keep doing stuff. >> what is the takeaway from the ex

it was paul wells church and as it happened he was just starting the morrow majority. my editors would never heard of him before said yes, write a piece about him because he was starting to make news. i wrote less about him that at the time and then about his community. i felt that there were people who belonged to the church or perhaps, were far away from my own sensibilities that anyone i knew. i thought, well, to try and understand this country you have to to understand that. i did a few more pieces on evangelicals particularly recently and eventually occurred to me that it was perfectly impossible to understand the evangelical right without understanding its history. a lot of doctrines and ideologies make perfect sense in the context of the 19th century but it seems completely insane to people today. you know, like the apocalyptic prophecies and so on. i said to myself, finish this test. >> take the story of american evangelicalism to the beginning and america as you do in the book. can you just sketch how does america evangelicalism start or take off? >> the first

was it? i think it was. have a very difficult time with myself if i thought that i was part of something that was done all the time. i didn't see it. innocent civilians do get killed in wars. i don't care what army, what country... but my lai wasn't that, was it? no, it wasn't. this wasn'tjust one of those awful things that happen in war time. these were murdered. some of them — 170 of them. and hands above their head and executed. that's not war. that's not what a soldier from any country does. these are murders. were you taught about the geneva conventions? yes, sir. and yet in 1971, a soldier goes before a jury and says he couldn't remember a single army class on the geneva convention. his name was rusty calley. the one man who was found guilty of the my lai massacre. he has...i would say if he says that he has a very short memory. i will not say a lot of emphasis went in those classes. just about everybody who went through basic training had about three 50 minute blocks of instructions. code of conduct,

my wife was there and was on the floor. he has now won the nomination but is presiding over a divided park. he knows if he has a chance in the convention meeting rate in new york city which was unusual in that they were hospitable and the democrats carper is ahead of the poll by 30 pints. so they have to unify the party but millions around the country are watching live. these are the days of gavel to gavel coverage and many people watch the convention and if you think the last 30 to 40 years they were divided and lost a. in 76 they united and it looks like the republicans are going to be provided until four calls ronald reagan to the podium to make a speech pleading for the party unity. there is something quite different.ford they expected him to give a concession speech and to kind of fumble.acterly go for had given a good speech. he practiced before a teleprompter and his speech was actually quite good especially for gerald ford because of his propensity for crawling downstairs and air force one and dumping his head into

it was just on display. >> was it moldy?en andrew jackson is elected there is a similar gift given to him. it was sitting around for months and he thought the best way to get rid of it was open the white house and serve punch and let people have all the chose they want. the white house was tore up and cheese in the carpet and curtains and they said it smelled like cheese for months. >> was this the first government cheese deposit? >> i like that. with orange drink. >> it should have been red drink. >> to answer the second part of your question and jefferson was teased about having a half french, half virginia style and the fact he gets the knowledge and imparts it on others who would cook for him shows the ongoing legacy of french cooking in the white house. we have alternating presidents some big in french food and some are are mot. james monroe, big fan. >> his plantation was near. james' training staff and there was efrdz the neighboring plantations were being influenced. madison, monroe, and the different counties and ho

that is, his argument was his assertion was that the parliaments in westminster was a foreign body.it was foreign tour constitutions and unload to our laws. there is an assertion there that the colony several constitution. this is not the british theory. the idea that the parliament is foreign to the north american colonies is not the british theory. instead, they were living with the contention that there was one common sovereign and in the british empire that was the parliament of westminster. jefferson says, we have this common crown to the common ground has few functions. it performs the function for the different parts of the empire that no part can perform for itself such as conducting diplomatic relations on its behalf. conducting military operations on the empire's behalf. but when it comes to local issues than the local legislatures weather in the bahamas or connecticut or in westminster, they are responsible for the local inhabitants, not for people in virginia. so, jefferson begins his career as a noted politician in north america with this argument, essentially for decen

the woman who was shot was taken to hospital.rious but stable condition and is under police guard. a 16—year—old man and a woman aged 20 were arrested at the property. a 20—year—old man was arrested close by and a 43—year—old woman in kent, a short time later. all four on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts. they are in custody in a police station inside london. police say this was an ongoing counterterrorism investigation. the house had been under observation, as had the people connected to it. as the search of the house continued into the night, other searches related to this incident were also being carried out at other properties across london. however, police say there is no connection between these arrests and the one in whitehall, yesterday. our correspondent, sara smith is at new scotland yard. what's the latest? what we've heard from police this morning is that this was an active terror plot that they believe they've boiled. this address in willesden was under observation by counter

this was a man who was patriotic to his core. he loved this country and he felt the honor and privilege of serving at the highest level. he was proud for what he was able to represent and what america is represented on the world stage. .. >> he was appreciative and getting the presidential medal of freedom in the white house from his successor, george bush, president at the time. we went to the white house and presented them with the medal of freedom. is a man who has won every award, got in every trophy and certificate. on the way home what is he do? takes off his jacket commits along six hour flight home. he left his metal on. he wore that metal all of the way home. it meant something to him. it was very special, what represented in the people he had represented. he appreciated it so much. he word all the way home. another thing i noticed that i didn't know sweater first took it, what is he doing in this photo? can you tell? as his pen out and is no card. he is writing thank you notes. anybody else a big writer out here. i am b

this was 198080 when he was born. the baby boomers were just in the process of taking over the world at that time. the thing about the baby boomers is, as everyone knows, we are very special and there's nobody like us and i will never be a generation like us because we are so freaking special. one of the special things we did was have babies. nobody had ever had babies before. certainly not the way we had them, the way we had them, like when i was born, the old system was like the mother had to be there. [laughter] the father was not anywhere near when it happened. the mother was there but they gave a lot of drugs. she didn't wake up until the job is like in the third grade. [laughter] nobody really participate in the baby having process except the medical personnel, you know, that the baby out and woke them up up and shoved to the data is out smoking cigarettes in the waiting room, if he was even around. and that was the old system. a lot of people were born under that system, abraham lincoln, you know? [laughter] bu

and it was on the weekend, it was on saturday. they put it on facebook, just a clip of gary's question and then my full answer and by monday it had about a million views and that had never happened to demos before. and a bunch of different other sites and video kind of aggregators picked it up and put different headings on it and it became a sort of racist c-span caller asks this black woman a question and here's her response. and it really went viral, i mean you had comedians and sort of public figures talking about it. you know, demos is an organization that works in public policy. the people who follow us online are wonks and nerds, they're people who really care about the specific issues we work on like debt-free college or raising the minimum wage or democracy reform. but this was getting out there, you know. my like sister-in-law's hairdresser said, "i saw this," you know. it was starting to really break out of the bubble. and i think part of the reason for that is you have to remember this was august we'd had this sort of r

i accept that i was guilty, because i was. i was guilty. i was carrying those drugs.r told me she could get me four years and house arrest. it was what i had been searching for, that lifeline. because i knew when i entered that prison i wouldn't survive 8 or 12 years behind bars. but i knew i could survive four years and house arrest. and that made the difference. i could see the light at the end of the tunnel. i have a smile on my face because i know i'm walking through those doors and i'm not coming back. welcome. this is my home. the most important thing to me is to return home to my boys and my mom. this is the living room, and over here is the kitchen. i can't wait until the day comes when i wrap my hands around my kids. and this is my cozy little bedroom. that's what keeps me going. that's how i'm surviving. because i have a family to go home to. >>> a convicted sex offender becomes the victim of a brutal assault that leaves him unconscious and in the hospital. his assailants say the attack was warranted. >> i'm proud of that because that mother [ bleep ] went t

everybody was going to have health care, education was going to bloom, the economy was going to take off, there was going to be democracy. although they would sort of caveat it and say, well, you know, yeah, we could have -- we would have freedom of speech, but the government would be able to say we don't like that speech, and then you wouldn't be able to say those things. but otherwise, we'll have freedom of speech. [laughter] freedom of the press. anybody can write anything they want. but, you know, if the government doesn't like it, you know, you might be told you can't write that anymore, and, you know, you might have to go to jail, but other than that, we're going to have freedom of speech. [laughter] so they had kind of a warped idea of what democracy and freedom actually entailed. but they had a lot of bright ideas and dreams. when i got there, there were about 20 million iranians, 6 million living in tehran. of those 6 million, about 5.5 million lived in abject poverty. the half million that were wealthy were fabulously wealthy. corruption was just incredible. the united stat

he was right, i was wrong. he's in is a phenomenon in itself. >> host: you'd describe him using that unconventional approach to having this victory. you said it was different from the approach you are talking about. can you talk about your book and how he was able to overcome not having a traditional approach yet still being able to winner where he hasn't spent as much money. in your information how was it that he was able to get around many from all the traditional approaches? >> guest: this was different than any other election i have been involved in. this would be my tenth presidential campaign. this was the election was the tipping point was reached in terms of the mainstream media losing their monopoly on the dissemination of political information. in the 60s when there are only three networks when the destruction of gary goldwater was easy all three networks chimed in a gary was done. i mania, lunatic, later when he gets back to the senate he becomes quite revered. in this election the tipping point have

what was interesting was of all things at west point i was in the premed program. love that particular body of academic inquiry. i think it was also that it was the highest academic peak to scale. it was sort of known as the toughest. all of a sudden i found myself in the senior year with an actual slot in the program and i realized at that time i was an not absolutely certain i wanted to be a doctor, i just wanted to kind of climb that mountain so i picked infantry instead. i had a wonderful, wonderful experience. david: you got married a few weeks after you graduated to the daughter of the commandant of west point. general petraeus: superintendent is the overarching guy. three-star general. it was a strange blind date i must say, when i found out. david: but it wasn't nerve-racking dating the superintendent's daughter? was in that kind of complicated? general petraeus: we tried to do it clandestinely for a while. that was not very successful and i took a lot of flak over that. there is a particular generals marched they play at parades and one of my classmates --

and i was just struck by it. i was really stunned. i've never heard of women working at nasa at that time much less a scientist. so it began an obsession that would take me years of learning that she was not the only one. she was a large group of women. >> and her daughter's name today? >> her name is eleanor francis. it was funny because she was named in part for a woman who i never got the chance to meet. eleanor francis passed away a year before started my research. but i hope that her name and her story one day inspires my daughter. >> cindy in claremont florida. i cindy, go ahead. >> i love your book i read it last year and am so grateful that you are writing about females in history which has been ignored. i wonder if you're able to do anything through your publication and your book to encourage girls in high school to get interested and sciences and get interested in careers like this. so that maybe this gets on the reading list of high school. >> cindy are you somebody interested in math and science? >> no not at all. i just r

there was no threat. there was no enemy. country. it's just not. and when you think of those who walked away from it, got on with their lives, had children, set up businesses. they've gotta live with themselves. i imagine some of them don't have an easy time. i'm ok with what i did. ijust, you know, i know their unnecessary pain and suffering, i know how fragile a human life is. we probably all had that experience of leaving an interviewee and feeling incredibly emotional, possibly crying. the only time i've ever cried in front of an interviewee was on hardtalk, thankfully it wasn't on camera, but i suspect most of the audience were in tears too, it was nadia murad, the yazidi girl. it was translated so it was extraordinary sitting opposite someone who was speaking an opposite language to you but we had simultaneous translation, very broken, and hearing this extraordinary story where actually the most affecting thing, so often with these stories, it's not necessarily the really grusesome stuff, what sticks in my head was her