william douglas are the longest. -- served the longest. he served 12,611 days. you were three days short of been the second-largest serving in history. did you know that? >> i really did not. people often ask me if i was trying to set a record. i particularly did not want to be remembered for the length of my service. it is a testament to the quality of the service or its importance. icing may be i may read it i think i may have performed -- i think i may have performed more. >> people that did that, william douglas became the no. 1. >> i preceded him. he served much longer than i did. >> over 700 days. >> when did you retire from the court's? >---- cour? t? >> the day after the last day. the next justice that you write about is general warren. let's watch this. this is a 1952 clip. this used to run on television. he was the governor of california. listen to what he had to say. >> i do not believe we can continue to travel the road to insolvency by piling up a national debt year after year in time of peace. there's almost always a day of reckoning. i believe tha

william douglas served the longest. over 36 years. stephen johnson field served 12,614 days. you served 12,611 days. you were three days short of been the second-largest serving in history. did you know that? >> i really did not. people often ask me if i was trying to set a record. i particularly did not want to be remembered for the length of my service. and i never really paid much attention to it because that is not necessarily a testament to the quality of your service or its importance. i was interested to learn that later, and i had also been told or learned somewhere that the he really should not get that many days because for the last several days of service he was either sick or could not participate in the work. i think i may have performed more time of active, constructive service than he did. >> people that did that, william douglas became the no. 1. >> i succeeded him. he served much longer than i did. >> over 700 days. when did you retire from the court? court? >> the day after the last day. the next justice that you write about is general warren. -- is a boroug

to chill by white house correspondent william douglas two he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that the vice president did like that we wrote. there was no on the plane it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions. an example of media ownership. sheds light on the reasons why they are being asked to go and risk life and limb and health and family and everything else then we're doing our job and if that displeases the secretary of defense if it just pleases the vice president so be it . we. think it's the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to the public last. the story really begins with him bastard joseph wilson wilson was the acting ambassador to iraq before the first gulf war when saddam hussein took more than one hundred americans hostages joe wilson stared him down saddam hussein backed off and released the americans for that president george herbert walker bush proclaimed wilson a

the chill by white house correspondent william douglas. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that the vice president did like that we wrote. there was no on the plane it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions. this administration's policies particularly in the run up to the. because they were afraid of losing and having happened to them what happened to me and has happened to others an example of why media ownership matters to democracy for reporting. sheds light on the reasons why. they are being asked to go and risk life and limb and health and family and everything else. and if that displeases the secretary of defense if it just pleases the vice president so be it. it's the biggest scandal of the bush administration is the story of reporters who protected their access to top officials first and put their responsibility to the public last. the story really begins with him bastard joseph. wilson was the acting ambassador to iraq before the f

william douglas served the longest. stephen johnson field, he served 12,611 days. you were three days short of been the second-largest serving in history. did you know that? trying to set a record. or anything like that. i particularly did not want to be remembered for the length of my service. it is a testament to the quality of the service or its importance. i had been told or had read somewhere that you really should not get that many, because the last few months of this service, he was sick or something. more. active, constructive service on the court than he did. >> i preceded him. -- i succeeded him. did. >> over 700 days. yes, years. >> when did you retire from the court? >> the day after the last day. the next justice that you write about is general warren. -- earl warren. let's watch this. this is a 1952 clip. a program, this used to run on television. this is in black and white. he was the governor of california. listen to what he had to say. about the world in 1952. >> i do not believe we can continue to travel the road to insolvency by piling up a natio

douglas waller's new book is a biography of an outside american character, general william wild bill donovan, founder and director of the office senior services, precursor of the modern cia. in this super biography, at once a cliffhanger and the work of the scholarship, douglas waller tells the story of a man who built a far flung intelligence organization out of absolutely nothing in the middle of one of the most brutal wars of our time. an ambitious young lawyer with political aspirations, william donovan had written to franklin roosevelt in 1942 and told him what the country really needed as it hunkered down for war was a good spot operation. roosevelt, desperate for operation gave him the task. donovan was fearless, even reckless, always the center of attention and the story douglas waller tells is full of action on the ground and in the corridors of power. as david wise who has written extensively about the cia wrote on the pages of the washington post, "wild bill donovan," name of the book, is the first carefully researched, in-depth biography of the legendary world war ii spyma

and so these are the foot soldiers of the roosevelt revolution. >> who was william o. douglas, and what role did he play in alaska? >> everybody who hears me right now needs to know about william 06789 douglas. he's our lodgest-serving supreme court justice. he came from yakima, washington, and i think he's the most powerful conservation spokesperson america had after theodore roosevelt. he wrote a credible book called "my wilderness," one about the west, one about the east. he wrote a children's biography of john muir, and here he is the supreme court justice. what douglas would do is do walks. not sit-ins like in the civil rights movements. he'd gather a gun. of people and say let's save the canal, let's save the beaches along the olympic and washington state. and douglas also was very close to the kennedy family and was a promoter of racial -- [inaudible] so by 1960 douglas is a big influence on why we have the arctic wilderness saved. in the '60s he's sort of seminal with secretary stuart udall, bobby kennedy, john f. kennedy on making people understand that conservation a