c-span: did you win? >> guest: i did not. c-span: what party were you running on? >> guest: democratic. it was the only party in the district. c-span: was this for the manhattan borough? >> guest: no, it was just for a small section of lower manhattan. c-span: why did you lose? >> guest: you know, they didn't vote for me as much as they voted for the other people. c-span: and three and a half years ago you said, "i want to write a book"? >> guest: no, well, i started looking into the question. i said, "what is it that's wrong? why are things not working?" c-span: how did you get to the first step? here is random house, 202 pages later. >> guest: it took me a year and a half to come up with the basic idea, and i wrote an essay. i handed it around to a few people. i gave it to arthur schlesinger, i gave it to a few other smart people who i know, and they told me they thought i was onto something. what i was saying in this little essay was very radical. i was saying, among other things, that law shouldn't be precise, that law had to leave room for people to use their j

c-span: what do you think would be the major differences? >> guest: well, a much more circumscribed role for women, which i couldn't help but think of instantly. c-span: could you have taught school back then? >> guest: mm-hmm. mm-hmm, but i couldn't have taught at the university. i couldn't have been a scholar. there are very--i don't think there are any women who were scholars. there were certainly some brilliant women. c-span: you couldn't have voted, or could you in some places? >> guest: i could have in new jersey for a brief period, if i had property and no husband. c-span: why no property--i mean, why property and no husband? >> guest: well, because the way the law was written, it would be--there was a property qualification, and they didn't put in that you had to be a man. and so women voted. but women only controlled their property if they didn't have a husband, and so it was mainly wealthy widows who voted. and then that was changed, and then 'women' wa--was put in and the vote was taken away from them. c-span: how many states in th

thank you c-span. thank you c-span. host: oush facebook page, if you are a user of that social networking service looks like this. we already have comments coming in. put it on the screen, please. we will show people that you, too, can log into facebook and show the comment. we will include it in the conversation, if we can, with the senator. next up is a call from michigan. this is fred, independent. go ahead, please. fred, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm 64 years old. all my life i've heard from people in michigan. i'm not from any other area, i'm raised in michigan. about people telling me about about people telling me about other people they know that are receiving social security, food stamps, welfare, medicaid, i will li legally. -- illegally. and people know this. is there a possibility way they can set up a reward program for turning these people in? host: thanks, fred. next up is cedar creek lake, texas. this is betty. what do you think about what's going on in washington over the debt debate? >> i thin

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can you email us or twitter at c-span wj. caller, you are up first. go ahead. caller: hello. thank you. i want to thank c-span for letting a little guy like me from virginia to talk on your forum. the first thing i wanted to say was the house is about ideology. the senate is about big business. big business bottom line is about making money. republicans are making their money by lower taxes. they make profit by tax breaks. they would not need to hire more people to raise revenue. that's the plan. it will turn us all into slaves to big business. thank you, pedro. host: caller. go ahead. caller: i'm josh from new jersey. host: go ahead. caller: my family all things obama is so wrong about the limit we are discussing. he needs to address the problems of the nation in that we are all, all, all, all -- we are all trying to payoff a debt that he cannot deal with. host: as far as your confidence level, do you think he'll be able to do that by august 2? caller: we, republicans, are trying to deal with it. he's not trying to address it in a way that's actually going to pay it off in an

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shuck it off. >> arlington, virginia, you are on c-span. lcome to our discussion about ernest hemmingway. >> caller: thank you. good afternoon. i am interested to know if your experts have any knowledge or input of a jewel that ernest hemmingway was supposedly involved with? i believe a reporter from new zealand? his name may have been thomas scott or edward scott and i just have heard rumors that he was, there was a challenge to a dual. and i just wondered if there was any truth to it or if they could elap rate on that. >> linda miller, do you know about a dual in his past? >> i know about a dual that he had in the office of max perkins related to a challenge to hemmingway's masculinity. but i don't know of any dual related to this at all. that's new. i had not heard of "the credo" either that was brought up in the previous quee sue susan bee, just given our first two questions, you begin to see that this man live ad larger-than-life kind of existence. how typical would he have been of men of his generation? >> well, you know, these questio

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you are on c-span. ller: i listened to the trial yesterday, what ever you want to call it, and when they turn to all of these people, as it did not seem right to me. i think he should take responsibility. it did not slam right to me for someone to come up and all the sudden have like they do not know anything that is going on, when i have heard several times that he knows everything going on in his company. and to pay out this kind of money and he does not know what is going on? it does not seem right to me. host: thanks for calling in this morning. one of the lines of questioning that came up with the murdochs is it was hacking into the phones of the 9/11 victims. here is a response. >> we have no evidence of that at all. >> i was just going to say that as our incredibly serious allegations and have come to light very recently. we do not know the veracity of those allegations and are trying to understand precisely what they are and at any investigation to -- i remember well the september 11 attacks. i w

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caller: thank you for c-span. if it was not for you, a lot of people would not know what is going on in this country. i'm very scared about social security benefits. i am going to be 68 friday. i have been on social security for just about a year. i cannot go back to work because of my physical condition. i am scared. my dad raised need to pay my bills first, and then go play. i have always believed in that. if we do end up -- how long would we lose our social security, or how long would that less? i have to pay my bills, sir. i have bills to pay. higher rents, and i cannot afford to buy a house. -- i rent, and i cannot afford to buy a house. i just lost everybody in my family. host: richard, we will try to get an answer to your question. guest:, so, let's look of the history. back in early-1996, there was a similar impasse, not quite as severe, but similar impasse over the debt limit, and then secretary rubin wrote to congress, and said i did not have enough cash to pay the social security benefits in march of 199

we'll have that live for you on c-span. you can follow the senate on c- span2. also, every week and we bring you our "newsmakers" program on sunday mornings. this week, we will bring you more comments on the debt discussions on capitol hill. our guest commented on what it this -- what this means to the state of iowa and with the tea party brings to the debate. >> i, like governors all across the country, have made tough decisions and balanced the state budget. i miss -- i was in a real financial mess when i came to state office last year. we went through a long and tough session, but we got that accomplished. we passed a two-year, not a one- year budget for a long budget for the first time in a long, long time. we're spending less than we spent last year. the federal government is spending weigh more than it is taking in. i think only $0.60 of every dollar is coming from revenue and the rest is barred. that is a recipe for it -- borrowed. that is a recipe for disaster and everything about that needs to change. the federal government obviously needs to put togeth

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you missed it on "washington journal. it is available on our web site in the c-span video library. check it out on c-span.org. spring hill, fla., from the republican line. caller: the morning. i am sure you spend a lot of time and your research, but i am concerned. i do not want to say it is intellectually dishonest, but i think what is happening in is it you focused too closely or make your field to narrow you can give a bad impression. i have not seen your story or your research, but i have seen two facts come up repeatedly this morning. order rates and distance from the border. 0-- murder rates. if you only do that, yes, it can look not horrible. why not look at ms-13? when i look at operation shield that has generated all of these family -- felony arrests? that is drop the country, not just the border. it is simply the doorway, walking through. 50 miles from the border, sometimes it takes 75 miles just to get to the closest mall. guest: you raise a good point. we did not look at the effect of illegal immigration on crime in new york, in the northwest, or northeast. this is something we identified as one i

if you want to send us an e-mail, journal@c-span.org. you can send us a tweet off of c-span, wj. the papers talked about this morning, discussions about what to do as far as revenue raising, discussions about what to do as far as cutting, which one of those arguments are winning out these days on capitol hill? >> so far, it seems like cutting is winning out. the democrats and republicans are at a bit of an impasse right now. democrats wants to raise revenue in some way, whether it's raising taxes through tax rates. some people want that, more want to raise revenue by cutting tax breaks, whether it's for businesses or higher income consumers. republicans have been on a very clear path of forcing budget cuts in a number of areas of government and they seem to be winning is the political debate right now just because the weakness in the economy is leaving a lot of people to be worried about tax cuts. but that can certainly change. both sides, as we saw in the past week, have really staked out positions now to appeal to their political bases, and democrats, with president obama comin

caller: thank you for c-span. president obama doing basically let the republicans hide in his administration. you have a republican party in place. this is where it came from. you have these tax cuts, medicare part b. president obama is not going to change those tax breaks. we are still in a fix with these republican parties. we need to come out of these wars. republicans are deliberately trying to sabotage this economy because this is the only way they can get someone elected in this economy. everything else to sell or group -- sour grapes. keeping the unemployment rate at the level that it is. they are trying to destroy this economy. host: some of those things you mentioned could be resolved if this was done in the open? jerry is gone. let's move on to rhode island. caller: but would like to point out that there are many, many federal institutions and agencies that are not warranted by the constitution. we could get rid of many of them and it would save this nation billions, if not maybe trillions of dollars ann

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[laughter] >> arlington, virginia, you are on c-span. e to our discussion about ernest hemingway. >> caller: thank you, good afternoon. i'm interested to know if your experts have any knowledge or input of a duel that ernest hemingway was supposedly involved with a reporter from new zealand. his name may have been thomas scott, edward scott. and i just have heard rumors that he was -- there was a challenge to a duel and i just wondered if there was any truth to it or if they could elaborate on this? >> linda miller, do you know about a duel in his past? >> i know about a duel that he had in the office of max perkins related to a challenge to

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welcome to c-span. >> caller: thank you. stemming from the time that he spent in africa, -- >> caller, let me stop you, caller, because you need to turn your t.v. volume down. i am getting a terrible feedback. > > caller: coming from the sometime he spent in africa on safaris and his writings about africa, can we have comment from either the professors about his views on segregation? and how he might have been involved or not involved in the civil rights movement here, although he probably was gone at the time that it really began to take hold in the country. thank you. >> thanks very much. susan beegle? >> hemingway was interested in race, but he didn't really write about it a great deal. i think what's really interested about his african experience is his sympathy for the indigenous cultures there. if you look at "true at first light" which takes place in the 1950's, he was actually interested in becoming a part of the tribe and entering into that and understanding more about african indigenous culture. he wasn't really pa

thank you c-span for covering it and letting you know it will be on wea next week, and on you can downloadit and also get the information you need on all of our guests op the books they've written and the works they're doing. thank you for coming out tonight. [applause] >> manning passed away on april 1, 2011 at the age of 60, just days before the publication of his biography of malcolm x. he was the director of the malcolm x project at columbia university. to find out more visit columbia columbia.edu. >> long before he put his john hancock on the the declaration of independence, he was arguably the wealthiest merchant banker living in america living in a mansion with a commanding view of the massachusetts landscape and sea scape. far from ease spousing individual liberty, hancock and his fellow merchants in new england governed it with ruthlessness that often left their competitors homeless and penniless. like today's tea party movement, the colonial tea party had almost nothing to do with tea. tea was nothing more than a social beverage for wealthy women. men seldom drank it and ranked b

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you will be able to see that live on c-span3. you can also listen to it live on c-span radio. is there to talk about the federal reserve's annual military policy report. you can see that again live on c-span3 and listen to it live on c-span radio. that is fed chairman ben bernanke in front of the house financial services committee. back to the phones about the republican leadership and their handling of the debt talks. washington state is our next caller. cliff, what do you think about the republican leadership in their handling of the debt talks? talks? caller: i think they're doing as well as they can. it is surprising to me that more people are not pointing out that social security is a bottle -- supposedly self supporting. why wouldn't there be tax cut on the third of the month? i'm sure they are paying into the system. there should be plenty of money for. most people do not realize that $1 trillion is 1000 billion dollars, to count from one to one trillion would take you 70,000 years. so if people understood that, they might understood that -- the gravity of the situation

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you can watch the house here on c-span and the senate on a c- span 2. we turn to "washington journal." kremer, that chair and co- founder of tea party express. welcome back to c-span. guest: thank you for having me. host: i want to pick up where you just left off on fox. you said you do not want a deal, you want a solution. what solution to you think needs to happen in order to raise the debt limit and cut spending? guest: as i said on that interview, that debt ceiling issue is a symptom of a bigger problem. the problem is the enormous amount of debt that we have. that is why these credit rating agencies are threatening to downgrade our credit ratings. we need to do something so we do not find yourself in this situation down the road. this out of control spending has to stop. i think a balanced budget amendment that would force washington to live within their means would help. host: how would deal with a situation like 9/11 or the war in iraq or afghanistan are terrorism? what if there is unforeseen event that would force government to spend more money t

you. [applause] >> here i am forgetting my microphone. c-span is all about activity, so the chairman has agreed to take questions from the audience. >> but i'm very shy and i don't have any strong opinions. [laughter] >> i'm going to ask for you if you have a question, we'll bring the microphones up. who has a question? anybody? >> mr. rosen, i noticed when you were discussing the background history that led to secession, you didn't mention the notification -- >> what no obligation? [laughter] that's why i'm asking. when calhoun was standing up against jackson, they were about to go to war and have it broken out then, the war would be over. i agree with you that the events in 1861 were about slavery, that they were about states rights and the right they were talking about was, unfortunately slavery. and in 1861, these folks were several hundred years after the beginning of the horrendous african slave trade, started by the spanish and portuguese, which the french and english didn't like, and which bring elizabeth took a personal. is an extreme t

thank you, c-span, for being with us throughout the morning. i have a request from the security people. when you exit the room, if you would just go across the atrium and out the double doors, that is the fastest way out of the building. we have found this is a complicated building and people wonder four days. they were never seen again. down through the atrium and out the double doors. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> betty ford died last night at the age of 93. president obama and former presidents have been remembering mrs. ford for her work on reducing the stigma of drug and alcohol addiction, which she battled. she became the founding inspiration for the betty ford center. george w. bush remembers her contributions. she is a remarkable political spouse. in 1976, she delivered her husband's concession speech after he lost his voice and a presidential bid to carter. next come remarks from 1999 when she and president ford won the congression

. >> caller: good afternoon and thank you for c-span for taking my call.some good questions and commentary today. i am curious. this may have been commented on earlier today but i came into the program a few minutes late. recently there was a lawsuit that was settled from eloise cabal versus the united states government interior department that was finally decided on in the supreme court and i am wondering if linda hogan has heard of that. she may have commented on it when i had my tv on mute. if she knows anything about that i would be interested in hearing her thoughts. >> guest: i believe you are talking about the shoshone woman. i didn't know it was settled. i don't know much about it. i was surprised anything had been settled yet because it takes so long in court and i think she is still alive and i know that the uranium miners, is still ongoing and everyone has passed on. it usually takes a really long time to get things taken care of. >> host: let's go back to arkansas. go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: a question about the trail of

so please sit back and we offer you the c-span viewers an exciting chance to see behind the curtain the power of what you will see in the future. michael is a senior analyst in the research firm simba information. without further ado, i will turn things over to michael. enjoy the panel. >> thank you very much, gene. my name is michael norris and i am senior analyst from simba information. and with me today is mark laframboise, the legendary politics and prose independent bookstore. jed lyons, the president and ceo of roman and littlefield and had a national book network. geoff shandler, editor-in-chief at little, brown and company, and gail ross, the president and founder of ross yoon agency. before i do a good job introducing everyone i just wanted to start off with a few words. i have instead in the publishing industry for about seven years now. it's a pretty longtime if you think about everything that has happened in just the past three and a half, but over the past seven years or so, i watched a lot of changes going on in terms of not just what is being said about the future of book

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thank you for c-span. wanted to touch base with our guest and find out if he has any specific information with regards to you know, if he is actually a country they are looking at. is it close to a failure or not? thank you. host: amill. before you go, there was break up in my microphone. where are you from? caller: camaroone. host: do they say they are failed and do they see problems? what are they relating to you? caller: there are problems but with regards to the economy, it could be better. you know, unfortunately, we have a bunch of folks who are just out there to steal from the people, you know, in most of the countries in africa. they take money that is, you know, meant for the general public, you know, i mean it's hard, the economy is tough. people are suffering. a bunch of students out of school. universal graduates cannot find jobs. it's a whole mess. the country has a lot of potential. host: emil from virginia and camaroone is 24th on the list. guest: in certainly countries it feels like a countr

you can follow that on c-span. here on c-span2 we're hoping to take you live to the white house at 1:30 for the briefing there. the white house or the house democrats, rather, held their press conference today with president -- they started their press conference with president reagan's 1987 call on congress to raise the debt ceiling. you're going to hear from caucus chairman john larson and vice chair javier becerra from earlier today. it's about 30 minutes. [inaudible] .. >> if you could roll that, please. >> congress rings the government to the edge of fault before facing issues possibly. this threatens the forms of government bonds and those who rely on social security and benefits. interest rates would skyrocket. instability would occur in financial markets and the federal deficit would soar. the united states is a specialist hospital to itself and the world to meet its obligations. it means with a well-earned reputation for reliability and credibility. two things that set us apart from much of the world. >> we

eastern here on c-span and c-span radio. thank you for joining us. i hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> as far as how states are viewing debt discussions in washington, what concerns among chief executives like yourself? >> the concerns are two-fold. the biggest concern and the more inaction we have been out of washington, d.c., the more upset this causes in our own economies and state. consumer confidence and business confidence is affecting my economy. you can imagine my consumer confidence is down. i'm not getting revenues and it is affecting the coffers of state government. a number of those in the business community have money but have not been willing to hire simply because of the uncertainty of what is going on in washington, d.c. that really has a direct impact but not just my state. with all the individuals at the table, we said if what we hear is correct and you are planning a 10% cut of medic

caller: thank you for c-span and for your guests for being there. se budget of $700 billion, you will not stop the nation from meddling in other nations' affairs. i think american foreign policy is very shortsighted. i think the short sightedness of it gets us in more trouble than anything else. pertaining to pakistan, having grown up there in the earlier years of my life, and it cannot tell you the immense good will that was there for the americans in the 1980's when we were fighting the soviets and freedom fighters of that time. the day the soviets left, the very next day everyone packed up their bags and left. that region was left with the master deal with on its own. come 9/11, all of a sudden they want that place to be fixed. well, no one was there for 13-14 years. we need to have a longer-term view. if we do not do that, there is no way we can solve our problems. thank you and i will listen offline. host: that may be a way to look at the broader question before we wrap up, but the remainder of the middle east long term. guest: this gets to the

they could thank you on the c-span of course like to think the county library and the american indianresource center program about native people to the tulsa area. i think to also thank everyone for coming. i hope you have a safe travel home. [applause] >> this is a sad day i have to say and kennedy flies. this is the red room. thursday showed us is that was the first room she completed at the restoration, but this is the day of her husband's funeral. she insisted that she meet those who are coming from afar, those who are diplomats, the diplomatic corps from abroad. and so, she said with her brother-in-law, senator edward kennedy to her right in insisted on gritting everyone who came to pay their respects to her has been. i mean more glittery note, can we remember her for her entertaining. in the short amount of time that she was in the white house was only a little over 1000 days, she and her has been through 16 state dinners in the first term, full four years of the w. bush turned, they had i believed to. now mind you, 9/11 happened during that time. there were security issues, but

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