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i have beenfollowing politics and writin about politics f over 50 years, even before i got washinon.is an addiction. >> charlie: and reporting isan addiction r u. >> it is. it's fun to find somhing out that other people dot know. prting it. a lot of people say that this book - they're amazedat how many facts in the i tell about myself and the tngs usually you don't put in --ournalists dot put in their memoirs and i say that was m styl >>harlie: what was theardest thg to put in here? >> i ink the mostifficult thing was to put in the miskes i have made -- >> charliewhat was the biggest e in your judgmen we could go through a of them but what the biggest one in your judent? >> it may not sound like much butuch an embarrament when chuck colson got me to write a column aut suing "time" mazine for reporng that he was involved in the watergate burglary, and i was - that was my weakss. it'seen my weakness. am so desirousf getting a scoothat sometimes i will grasp atomething that a coln shouldn't ha been written. >> i believe ry strongly iis yourar more than yr eye that kes you in the tevisio

. >> ifill: now washinon's new 'arts' chief. brown has our profile. >> brown: rocco ndesman is a succsful broadway producer, whose mpany jujamcyn, owns five major theaterin new york and has presented numerous award-winning play including "angelin america", and "the producs". ♪ now landesman has given uphe bright lights broadway for thhalls of washingn's bureaucracy. as head of the nional endowment for tharts, he manages federal agency that's seen its sha of ups and downs: stard by congress in 1965 to ster and bring the arts to a americans, but a frequentarget of conservives for funding of controrsial works. landesn wasted no time raising eyebrowshe called nea funding "pathetic", d suggested money should go to programbased on merit, n automatically to all congressiol districts. "i don't know if there's a theater in peoria," said in an intview, "but i would bet that it's not as good steppenwolf or the goodm," referring to t chicago companie that didn't play well in peoa. but recentlylandesman paid a sit, answered questions, and ma

this that usedo be the mantra, the thing at could get you elected, to n against washinon, run agait government and now we are in an unprecedent era. >> 2009, huge budg deficit, lead by barack oba to make sure that a second great depression with not ppen, ast did not. by may see the e of small vernment is back again next year. because there is every indication thawe are -- republicans argoing to say next year is, you know, don't talk about secd great deession, talk about the fact that this is th mo big government president ateast in recent time ultimately will lead to a rise inax, not good foamerica, they'll use that ithe midterm caaign. >> feels little bit like beinon a treadmill though. >> this cle that we are . >> there is the boomnd the bust and y know, i think that it true are you gog soee members of congress trying find ways to disnce themselves from washington. i think that has bn sothing of the trend for a while now because of scandals and because of the association th washington has never be particularly potive. but what you are seeing w in the wayhat candidates are positions themsees

the one ing that we know we want to see is a change washington, a ange the way they do things in washinon. if he tus out to be one of the olitics as usual" kind of politicians, we're gng to turn away fm him. and that's exaly what happened i thk they are frustrated by the fact that they'veeen duped thought they we voting for something in008 and find not onlyre thgs still the same old-same oldickering in washgton but seems to have gotten worse. >> ifill: and perhs focused on thwronthing. ceciverybody wants to know will hpen with health care reform. as of night, where does that sand? >> well, gwen, the resultsn massachusetts e a real blow to the prpects r health care reform legislation, and think i would deribe the blow as somewhere betwn debilitating and fatal, tbe honest. here ware exactly one year from obama being sworin, and we knew om one year ago that time was going to be the emy of health careeform, and in caseemocrats had forgotten that, alex capatzia put out a memo saying to replicans we can kill this by delay. and th is exactly what happened. th sort of ran the clock out. they went

ieresting thing abt it was how much that message seem to be that the were tiredf the hyper-partanship in washinon wanted people to work together. they said in tir-- in the polling ey saw after the electi, "we want this new senator, senator brown, toome and work witthe administration with the democrats, solve problems." that's not been e -- that not en the strategy. that's not the plaook of the republans on capitol hill. and i think that will catcup with them as aolitical matter. t the country needs them to realize that's nothere people wanthem to go. >> ifi: you bring up the election last week, the special election in massachuses. the presidents these next f mohs leading up to midterm elections later this yr , is this going to be a referenduon his presidency >> you guys willecide that. and massachusetts people sd no thpeople who voted for brown said they weren't ting to-- a majority of them said they weren't voting tsend the president a message. but, again, thesare things that frustrate themerican people. th're not interested in the score keeping. theye not interested in who's up and who's dowand