a comanche mail, you were free to do whatever you want wanted. there were no strictures on you. the comanches did have a culture. it was not as sophisticated as a hardware to use when you are talking about this but other tribes wove baskets or of build houses or had elaborate art. comanches had none of that so inside, and they'd love to have fun and they love to gamble and they love to wager into many things, but i saw them as this kind of just absolutely stripped-down spartan kind of war machine that everybody was scared of but in fact offered unbelievable freedom. it was to me, the freedom that writers and poets in america have talked about that great spatial freedom of the west but it was also a freedom from institutions. you know when you came lest you got away from all those institutions that they're in boston that maybe you didn't like. and you know i think on some level the comanches structured the way they were and other indian tribes were way more hierarchical than they were if you look at the iroquois or something, extremely sophisticate

you were always on my mind, you were always on my mind.ell me, tell me your city love and has not died. give me, give me one more chance to keep this city satisfied, satisfied maybe i was not always there for every item that came along boat maybe i was not perfect on my city, city song little things i should have said and done i just never took the time but you were always on my city mind you were always on my mind ♪ and thank you for being supervisors. ♪ so glad you made the city number one ♪ [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors, or elective there of. happy new year, and, unfortunately, i hope it does not progressively get any worse in the city of san francisco. can the city of san francisco afford the type of activism that members, like the one that just cannot up and walked up of the chamber, he has a wife that is a teacher, and is the city voted, voted, -- this city voted to have activities for our school children. what does this progressive board of supervisors do with this vote? 0. what did eric mar do to protect our parks befor

the kid should be considered as if you were to version to western principles or not or your general of socialist thrillers or something else when you weren't a dissident as such right now but i have always protested against being called a dissident you know no it wasn't like that i don't like it when someone says that she can is a dissident dissenting i was actually involved in very simple things like studying russian icons but it was considered as interest and mr says though it was also into group there was a book called match his group written by an author from the german democratic republic at those it was a very distressing fascination i don't know if you know anything about his books but he writes a lot about crucifixion it using a very expressive catechism etc the main crime was my interest in a rented. says on sicily and it was considered a crime yeah even if you were interested in impressionist because they praise the buddha to ideology moreover i really want to. make it a pain to the naked and gay people so when you were expelled from the soviet union nine hundred seventy one.

when you were fighting with the sisters, it is fantastic. d very real, too. >> thank you. it was -- the characters get to throw down like that. i felt like i was doing it at charlene and as -- my characters are always so pent up. i felt like i was fighting for -- >> jimmy: were you pregnant while you were fighting? >> no, no, but see, that was written on the internet. >> jimmy: that you were -- >> i was pregnant while i but filming "the fighter." i was like, great. >> jimmy: when did you find out? >> i found out -- i found out i was very close -- i got pregnant very close to the wrap. this is getting very personal. >> jimmy: i just want to clear up the blogs so your family doesn't get into a tizzy. you're getting into fights with a baby inside you. that wouldn't be good. also, if you were pregnant at the time, i believe your daughter would be eligible for a golden globe, as well. >> well, maybe i can teller that i was pregnant -- >> jimmy: it would be like the car pool thing, you can sue, it was me and the baby. >> i'll lie to her. >> jimmy:

if you decide special order things which were clearly trouble again. the school of socialist realism world even if the world doesn't you know about it yet. greet a number of truly great. britain russia has all the rise to be proud of that and. the parody on that school like the works of one of those and let me take this a lot of and sort of. for instance in the distorted linnean hugging mickey mouse and the marilyn monroe kissing stalin. or an almost pornographic he's by comrade unlimited stalin on the top of a naked little girls there as well. it's a nasty takeoff on what was going on. on the one hand it might be needed but it really has nothing to do with the serious school of socialist realism. your story with two thousand dollars. has already become a cliche. i didn't go to america i went to france. fifty dollars in your pocket when you got to france which was one hundred fifty francs at the time. was it hard to find your place you had to find in any local already seen the artistic establishment did you feel like no one needs you over there. my fate

you said you were working late. u just tweeted you were at the movies. >> you can't lie anymore, that's for sure. >> i'm analog in a digital age. there is definitely a certain -- it brings people who would not be in the same space together. but if you are -- >> that's it, we have those invisible walls. >> lola, amanlda, david, thank you for being here. >> up next, this singer is using gospel music to help people live better. >> i want them to know they're so important to their families we don't want to live this life without them. ordinary rubs don't always work on my arthritis. try capzasin-hp. it penetrates deep to block pain signals for hours of relief. capzasin-hp. take the pain out of arthritis. ♪ >>> welcome back to "our world with black enterprise." last year, yolanda adams was recognized as the number one gospel artist of the decade. today, she's using the power of wholistic faith to save lives. yolanda adams is our "slice of life." >> lift your hands! >> with the voice of an angel and the character to back i

you were able to give nursing up. >> i gave it up after three months, actually. >> jimmy: how old wereyou came to l.a.? >> 26. >> jimmy: 26. and did you come here for a job? >> no, i came over with my wife and my -- my 2 1/2-year-old daughter. and i stayed, literally, three blocks from here. >> jimmy: oh, really? and what did you make of california when you got here? >> people called me dude a lot. a lot of dude stuff. i thought it was -- i thought that was in those "bill and ted" movies. >> jimmy: that's what you think about mate, too. but people say it. >> it's unfortunate. >> jimmy: i like being called mate. it makes me feel like we're friends. >> my son calls me "dude dad." he puts my name on the end. he knows i don't really like it. so, he goes, "dude dad." >> jimmy: if you do a show after "the mentalist," "dude dad" would be good. i think there's a dude dad parade in pasadena every year. the show is very popular. you just got renewed and all that stuff, and -- [ cheers and applause ] i mean, it's phenomenal. and i guess the lesson, i mean, if there is a lesson, really, it's don't

you received a horse. [ laughter ] >> and it was great as long as we were standing still. galloped sideways -- [ laughter ] and i always fell off. >> jimmy: started going that way. see you later. i'm going this way. look at this. you're on the cover of "the hollywood reporter" "legends" issue. that's a -- look at that. [ cheers and applause ] you look great. you look great there. oh i love that, right? i mean, phenomenal people. we've just had -- this is stiller and meara -- we just had them on. ben stiller's parents. they were just on the show the other day. did you know those guys before the photo shoot or no? >> i knew them way back in the '50s. we were part of a workshop together in shakespeare -- for shakespeare. >> jimmy: is that right? >> yeah. tom barber and i. >> jimmy: really fun, huh? >> yeah. it was fun. >> jimmy: oh, they're crazy. i love those guys. >> anne is nuts of course, you know. >> jimmy: she's crazy, yeah. yeah, i love her, yeah. >> but i love that kind of nuts. >> jimmy: yeah -- exactly. yeah, she knows what she's doing. yeah, yeah, yeah. but i love

like to say that it took them about 25 years to realize what it was that you wereecause you... >> that's true. >> hinojosa: ...as far as they were concerned... >> something like a hiie magazine. someing like a hippie newspaper. >> hinojosa: and that was... that was... >> no. >> hinojosa: that was not so good. >> no. it was not until the rice room was published in the early 1990s and i went and did a reading at a library branch that happened to be in chinatown-- oakland, so they could get there easily. and then they saw what was going on in terms of some... i wouldn't say "fans," but people who read the book or knew my work and showed up, and they asked for autographs, they took pictures. and so my mom got a... you know, i had been on tv a lot by that time and had a radio show that didn't connect with them. it was seeing it in person and hearing from chinese friends of theirs or parents of people who knew what i did who would then tell them who i was. then they knew, but yeah. >> hinojosa: but you end up going back to china... >> yes. >> hinojosa: ...and then you en

you were like -- >> yes and you won. >> jimmy: you were great. i was happy.my: we worked on -- we did a celebrity jeopardy, i remember. it was a musical jeopardy, and i was dave matthews and you were bjork. >> i was bjork. [ laughter ] i won. >> jimmy: yeah and i know -- >> wonderful bjork. >> jimmy: mine was more like a -- [ dave matthews sounds ] like that and you were like, "help me with my bjork," and gosh, i didn't have to help you. we have a clip. it's one of the funniest things. >> oh, my god, really? [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. [ buzzer ] >>> bjork, this is the only thing that becomes toast. >> everything is music. when i go home, i throw knickers into the oven and it's music. crash, boom, bang! [ gibberish ] [ buzzer ] [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's great! you've never seen that? >> i didn't have any -- >> jimmy: yeah, 'cause you did it. >> i have like a vhs tape of the show that i can't find, because i boxed up all my vhss. >> jimmy: we'll get you a copy. i know you don't have a computer. you know nothing about it. you

when you were here last time, i recall saying to myself, i hope i get a chance to see you. i am thrilled. >> i would say gods still has some stuff for me to do. i did not know i was that close. >> how close were you? >> maybe 8%. my kidney function have less than 8% left. that is how close. tavis: first of all, the title. i love me some d j rogers, and one of my favorite songs is "love brought me back." >> i was in new york, and i heard that, and i thought, that is the title of my book. it makes sense. when you look back at certain things, you can ask yourself how do i get through this. players got me through this. >> you did a cover, "say you love me." that is a beautiful song. >> i ran into debt and sell. -- denzel. tavis: if i show of december 8 and you do not sing it, i am going to think he is more important than i am. >> nosair. >> it is a great song. it was not that long after that you went into dialysis. how did you wind up with a kidney? >> it is a long list, especially in big cities, and my son was not a match. we got a call. i was with my sister when the call came

the... you know, it wasn't explicit racism, like the stories i get from my parents back when they were growing up. it's kind of an implicit sort of cultural... they lean you this way instead of that way if they have power over your trajectory. and the directions they lean you are consistent with their expectations of what you should become when you grow up. >> hinojosa: which means that you had to be incredibly powerful to push back. >> yes. i had to push back my entire li, that's correct. >> hinojosa: and that's hausti. >> it's energy, yes. but i was getting energy from the universe. i felt it. it was there. >> hinojosa: you said when you were giving your convocation address when you got your ph.d... >> by the way, that's a highlight of my life, was getting the ph.d. and being invited by the dean to give the commencement address. >> hinojosa: i was kind of like, "oh, wow, does everybody get to do a convocation address?" >> yeah, no, no. it was... i mean, i was very honored, deeply honored by that, because it was my lifelong goal and dream to get a ph.d. in astrophysics. >> hinojosa: b

and you were great with him that week, too. u've been on a run. i mean, you had bruce springsteen and paul mccartney. >> jimmy: we had a crazy -- we had a crazy couple months. you were here for the springsteen. >> yeah, i came to watch. >> jimmy: you were right over there. >> that's right. >>> jimmy: you just came to hang out. >> yeah. >> jimmy: you know, we had a behind-the-scenes video with springsteen. we did "whip my hair." i did neil young and bruce springsteen put on a beard and a wig. and he was like -- ♪ whip my hair back and forth ♪ [ laughter ] but it was surreal. but we have the video. we put it online and people were like, "is that paul rudd, just hanging out?" like, "he's just hanging?" i love that you just come and -- please come all the time, whenever you feel like hanging out. >> it was -- yeah, i knew that he was gonna be on the show, and i was able to kind of sneak in and just sit right there and watch. >> jimmy: i saw you quickly during a rehearsal for "saturday night live" up there. were you nervous around pa

applications you -- that were submitted to you, you were told corner lot. at 5:00 p.m., before this was heard, the board -- before the board of supervisors, they finally realize that we had it right. it is not a corner lot. the rear yard modification that we use was not correct. here is what we are talking about behind this property. here is where the walls should be. here is where it is. it is 10 feet from these apartments. there is some 65 units back here that are grossly -- commissioner miguel: thank you. is there further public comment on this item? >> hello. my name is david, on behalf of the project sponsor. i just wanted to add that 300- foot radius letters were sent, as required by the code. we believe that the notice provisions were treated as this -- as if this were a new conditional use application, and mr. williams, i consider wanting to testify all over again about these matters we heard during the approval process. this is not a new matter. there is nothing changed in this project, the physical structure. has not gotten any closer. it has not

you were either, you know a check-in person. you were a greeter. you were part of the license issuing unit. you were deputy marriage commissioner, or you were on the recording side. each one of those functions required a different set of skills, a different oath of office if they needed to be sworn in as a deputy county clerk to issue marriage licenses or as a deputy county recorder if they were going to register the marriage licenses or the deputy marriage commissioner if they were going to be performing ceremonies. >> donna, place the ring on her ring finger. >> the marriage commissioner training was only about a half hour. it was very simple. very well run, very smooth and then we were all sworn in. >> they said we would get our scheduled sunday night and so 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, you know, i got it at 11:00. this person who was orchestrating all of the shifts and the volunteers and who does what, you know, said from her office sunday night at 11:00. they are just really helping each other. it's a wonderful atmosphere in that way. >> have you filled

you were married to the host once. "password." what do you think of that?e ] >> jimmy: i mean, this is good. [ cheers and applause ] >> okay. >> jimmy: we actually have a clip. here's a clip of betty white from the original password. this is from 1964. >> the password is absurd. >> ridiculous. >> stupid. [ laughter ] >> that's my wife, sir. >> twins. >> double. >> yes. [ applause ] >> ho -- >> hum. >> ho-hum. [ cheers and applause ] >> worcestershire -- >> sauce. [ applause ] >> yes. [cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: worcestershire's a great -- [ cheers and applause ] >> who's hair was i wearing? [ applause ] >> jimmy: you looked gorgeous. oh, my gosh. that's amazing. >> yeah, but i don't know where that hair came from. i never had that much hair. [ laughter ] i still don't. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and, of course, allen ludden right there. >> oh, that's my alan. >> jimmy: yeah, that was really cool. you were phenomenal at that game. >> no, i'm not. but, i just love it. >> jimmy: oh really? i know you love games. all right, so when we come back, can we play? >

(anderson) and you were brought up in a catholic family. yeah, i was raised as a catholic, you know. and of course, i left the church at the age of 13 or 14. as most ex-catholics that i speak to, you know, they sort of leave the church at around that time. and i've always felt there was a, you know-- there's a basic conflict between what the church tells you and what your body tells you at that age. and if you're smart, you'll listen to your body. (paulson) and you mentioned that before this controversy, you were relatively unknown. yeah. a little more than a decade later, you are widely known and widely respected. so was that controversy a blessing or a curse? both. you know, why couldn't it be both? yeah. i mean, that's--but that's the nature of my work, that there is a lot of conflict and contradiction within the work, and certainly the way it's been perceived and seen, you know, outside of the studio is also conflicted. so who would be some of the artists that you looked to for inspiration early in your career? a lot of dead ones. but ea

just in case you were wondering.ited states, two winning tickets were sold for the big mega-millions jackpot. did anybody buy tickets for this thing? [ applause ] yeah? well, i know why you're clapping. you're all losers. when the jackpot got up to $380 million, all over the country, there were huge lines to buy tickets before the deadline. which -- this makes no sense to me. what, the usual $40 million jackpot isn't enough for you to get in? i don't get out of bed for less than $300 million, i'm sorry. wouldn't it be funny if oprah had won? we'd have to kill her, right? this is something. four of the six winning numbers matched the mysterious numbers on "lost." for real. i knew that wasn't the final episode. i knew there was -- it all makes sense now. magic lotto numbers, birds falling from the sky for no reason, a hawaiian president, an orange guy running congress. we're all dead right now. this is -- [ laughter ] only one of the winners has been identified, a woman in there she is. [ laughter ] she's -- planning a

was there some guide that you were using or something you were trying to convey and secondly what were there particular writers or things written that were sort of plague in the back of your haying in the back of your ha head as you wrote? >> sure. what was guiding me in choosing what i had read and probably something in 25 minutes or 30 minutes to give a list near some idea of the arc of the book from that initial moments of composition through some of the training and into combat and then post combat moments. so that's really what guided me in deciding what to read. in terms of influences, you know a long list of influences some of the war literature of war that high marks for me over all catalonia, michael hurst dispatches as well things they carried, tim o'brien. there were other pieces of literature that are kind of stacked up on my shoulders each morning as i try to write. >> any other questionquestions? >> just kind of a two part question, the first part: at the time of the fighting did you or the people that you served with give much thought to the political ends that you were

yeah, you were the mr. [ laughter ] that was the move where i go he's genius. he's television royalty. >> did you get "the situation workout" yet? >> jimmy: yes i did get "the situation workout." i just got it though. [ laughter ] haven't had a chance to really use it yet. >> they told me you were working out back stage to it. >> jimmy: yeah, something like that. >> a little fist pumping. >> jimmy: that was fist pumping. but i did not get the workout move yet. but i'm going to get on it. how long is this? how long is it, the whole thing? >> oh, the whole thing? >> jimmy: yeah, do i watch the whole movie? >> no, no. well actually, you can you really can go at your own pace pretty much. >> jimmy: you can? >> yeah, pretty much. >> jimmy: come back and do it if parts. >> if this is your first time working out, pretty much, you know, you can do it section by section, body part by body part. or you can do the whole workout all at once. and are you ready for it? >> jimmy: yeah -- no. [ laughter ] yeah, if you want

were missed? >> warning signs for violence, no. you in the class that i had with him, he made people uncomfortable. the way he carried himself, people felt eerie around that but didn't behave aggressively. even his poems were far from aggressive, so it's hard to draw a line by someone being weird and standing out, you know and -- [ laughter ] >> tucson loves you, as we've learned from this event. >> and if you're going to try to police that somehow. again, as the sheriff said, he didn't do anything that would merit police action or any kind of institutional intervention. >> seemed like he was a very troubled young man and that there were people -- even his math professor who said, this is a troubled student of mine. did you see that trouble? >> you could see a lack of stability. trouble is -- that's perspective and so that's hard to really gauge when you're not in their head. but, again, that's not something that can be measured. it's all perspective and it's all from whoever is looking at it, and you can't draw lines around something

you were pretty excited, you were mentioning it at the time. you were involving the students of the more. that is one thing. if you're still doing that, we should know about that. i guess, i am hearing that your reserves are all gone at this point. >> they are all gone. commissioner yee: i just wanted to make sure of that. i like your idea of the advisory board. i am surprised that this board has not challenged the station to have this. when you create this, i recommend you ask the board of education to have a sitting representative on the advisory said that there is more connection between them and us. >> i would welcome that. >> i am sure -- i am not sure what you're referring to from my last report. one of the things that has changed for us is that a good amount of it, my kind of feeling is that we have a high school here. one of the things that is changed their is the status of journalism. it is part of an after-school program rather than being part of the curriculum. it was one of the best ways we had -- it was a perfect opportunity. we ha

you were so good. what a great student. a, that's just weird. you get this -- it was like "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" type of stuff there. that was very good. [ cheers and applause ] that was very, very good. now, there can only be one winner and the audience will decide. which of the back-tors did it better? was it -- contestant number one? [ drum roll ] [ cheers and applause ] or was it contestant number two? [ cheers and applause ] congratulations, you're our winner. contestant number two is the winner. ♪ very good. you're the winner, which means you get to take home this lovely, "late night" reversible fleece jacket. inside out or outside in, either way, you're gonna look super-cool. [ laughter ] and because nobody goes home empty-handed, our other contestant will take home this one of a kind "late night" t-shirt with the logo in reverse. [ light laughter ] thank you guys go. thank you both for playing -- thank you, pal. thanks for playing "put it in reverse." we'll be right back with candice bergen! [ cheers and ap

i will always remember how wonderful you were to your parents. you are a great human been in. -- a great human being. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. our final thing today -- our final honor read is -- honoree is supervisor maxwell. whereas supervisor maxwell is a long time community leader, and elected in 2000 and reelected in 2002 and in 2006, one of our largest geographical district, and whereas supervisor maxwell plan to come -- to improve the quality of life through the city. is the feet 17 years in the making. it has resulted in a stronger program institutionalized in our government, whereas the engagement in the intricacies of contacting has benefited many small businesses, whereas as a senior states person, supervisor maxwell's bearing and respect for her colleagues has set a tremendous example, and whereas supervisor maxwell has created numerous have forced end bodies including the food security task force. whereas supervisor maxwell has represented the city well in her numerous appointments, whereas during her tenure, supervisor maxwell

he was brilliant. >> jimmy: you were great, as well. ng that. >> terrible night i thought. >> jimmy: it was a terrible night. >> stupid movies one. >> jimmy: the audience didn't seem -- one of those deals where they force the celebrities to come to the show to be presented with awards that they probably don't care that much about. >> and ones that do win, "the king's speech." has anyone seen it [ applause ] >> excuse me? boo-hoo. the king stutters. the [ bleep ] owns england, ireland, scotland, new zealand, oh, the king is unhappy. so [ bleep ] yourself. >> jimmy: make a good point. >> if you owned ireland, would you care? i stutter. who cares. whatever your highness. it's like last year with "precious." do you remember "precious." that was another one, boo-hoo. her mother didn't treat her right. obviously her mother treats her a little right. she certainly feeds her. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, another excellent point. >> by the way, who was the star of that? >> jimmy: gabby sidibe. >> she's oprah's half sister. >> jimmy: i'm sure she

i mean, but -- so he's working to persuade, i mean, in the way that you were talking about rather than convince. so a lawyer in a trial is sort of what you're talking about, i think. and then i just remembered that you said that you first wanted to be a lawyer. so it sort of works perfectly. >> i think in the, in both of our work i think we both believe in telling stories. i mean, malcolm's stories were often engaging an intellectual idea. they really are built around stories and narratives and character and have kind of an arc, and you go on this journey. and that's what makes them much more satisfying than picking up a scientific journal. and in my stories, similarly, i really want to tell a story. i want to take the reader on a journey. and i really see my job as a nonfiction writer as gathering the facts and presenting them and showing them. and i try to have faith that the reader can interpret them. and, clearly, i make judgments and i'm organizing things, but i was a terrible op-ed writer. i just don't think that way. i don't think in that kind of convincing way. the way i see th

you were getting into punk at this time. >> bruce: the tuff darts was robert gordon. or the love of rock and roll," great, great rock and roll song we did a cover of at one time. >> jimmy: it is all phenomenal stuff. but you show all the records. i mean, you've got "the promise" here, which is out, because this is two extra cds of music that you didn't put on "darkness." >> bruce: right, yeah. >> jimmy: so you wrote 70 songs. [ laughing ] that's, like, an insane person does that. [ laughter ] that's like -- that's seven albums! i mean, that's crazy, right? >> bruce: yeah, it was. it was. [ laughter ] we didn't really know -- we really didn't know how to do what we were doing, you know? it'd be like if you had to tell ten jokes to find one funny one. >> jimmy: i did that tonight. [ laughter ] i do it every night! it's pretty insane. yeah! [ cheers and applause ] but, i mean -- >> bruce: that's exactly what's going on there. >> jimmy: what happened? i mean, but now you listen to them and you go, "god, they're all funny. they're all good jokes. they're all good songs." >>

we thought you were it a construction expert. -- you were a construction expert. it seems we have a difficulty saying nation-building. >> i think that afghanistan is a nation. it is not our intention to build the nation unless the in san -- build the nation of afghanistan. >> what is the difference? >> i do not know what you mean by nation-building. i think that afghanistan is a nation and have been a nation for hundreds of years. we are trying to get them on their feet again. they did relatively well in the 1950's and 1960's and than 30 years of horrible tomorrow. our intention is to help them rebuild some of their institutions so that they can be stable and prevent al qaeda from coming back into their country. i think that is our goal. >> thank you. >> before i thank you, this is an opportunity for us to learn in for you to share. it is never -- there was a different tenor in our fact- finding than there was with general fields coming up because of the nature of what he was trying to do verses what you were trying to do and what we are trying to do. i have to ju

and i was just wondering if when you were a kid did you grow up and no you were going to have a lot of people [inaudible] [laughter] -- just have the state of mind when you were a kid that you are going to do better and make something out of your life and that you're going to us by your young black women like me to want to do more and that state of mind? >> what is your name again? >> bethary. >> i had no idea that i was going to end of the secretary of state, no idea. in fact, how will our you? >> 16. >> 16. when i was 16i was going to be a great concert pianist and i studied piano from the age of three and i could read music and concert pianist and then i went to something called the aspen music festival school and there were prodigies who could play from sight what it had taken me all year to learn and i thought i am about to

some of them were poppies. you had this strange moment where the soldiers were riding into a blue number with puppies. just one of those weird moments. i don't know that much, but the dogs were ubiquitous. always. in fact, the way before the horse. a dog was but carried all their belongings. so anyway beckham are we done? to you want to squeeze one more in? one more. >> i found that a failing in the book being where are the maps? all over the book. >> other people have noted that. tooley noted. at think it could have used more maps. the second edition. yes. granted. i would like to thank you all for being here. [applauding] at the book signing to and immediately after this. >> this talk was part of the 2010 texas book festival. to find out more this it texas book festival bought org. >> we are here at the national press club talking with offer ted about his new book a secret gift. can you tell us what the secret gift is?

i knew what you were leading to, an emotional moment. it was enjoyable to follow along with how that -- with how that trail wound around. how did you decide to write the book in the way you did? >> well, as jerry said, he had spent many years putting stories together. and he had conducted -- he had contacted a lot of agents already. i had a lot of material to work with in terms of their various stories. we came up with the idea together of how to put the story together. to me what was fascinating and important was to show the men as human beings. not just these nameless, faceless men in dark sunglasses. to me the secret service agents were always very mysterious creatures. you know, as i've gotten to know them, i realize -- they are -- i mean they are human beings. and the stories that i read from the various agents and as i started interviewing the agents were just so poignant that to me it was important to make the reader understand who the men were and love them and understand the close relationship they had with the kennedys. so that

it was a precursor to what you were doing now. we were collaborating.you were outside philadelphia and sean is in boston. >> i was in boston at the time, and he -- we did not know this, but he was literally a few blocks away. we went three months without ever actually knowing that. >> did you at the time have any idea what -- how big that was going to get? we talked to developers or people who have done viral videos who said, you know, i went to bed on tuesday, and i got up on wednesday, and i was the most famous person on the planet. did you have any idea how fast it was going to grow and how big it was going to grow? >> absolutely not. i would loveç to sit here and y we were gods and we planned every part of that, but we were just a bunch of really talented software engineers and hackers who wanted -- who were frustrated by what we found on the internet and we wanted something better, and it was a great product. that's a lot of us were actually involved in the very beginning in helping debug it, make it better, make suggestions, add little pieces to

we just you know had no right to make that mistake so the stakes were really high. and this year expects the rate of success you get. with the movie. while it was just it was just not disillusioning people and not disappointed but it was real success was that yes i was seriously i was certainly hoping for that i was surprised what a big it's of. i have read in one of the interviews that you grant to one of the american papers that you worked so hard and you were so much occupied. when you worked in that movie that you were sort of depressed after it all finished after the work was terminated is that true while not depressed probably is not the right word. go. it's human nature you're getting used to an extremely high pressure pretty much you know becomes your. way of life the way of thinking you start thinking yellow. scene yellow in your dreams or nightmares so when the whole thing stops it really is very abrupt and bizarre feeling because the world goes back to what it used to move yeah and you need some time to adapt to that because what you described did the work

seeger," you know, "are you--were you a member of the communist party?" and he answered, he said, "well, i was polite, if uncooperative." and he said, "i wished i had done what paul robeson had done," which was to stand up, point at these people, and say, "you're the un-americans." and, you know, what we have in here-- and it's wonderful as a connecting link for generations for pete seeger to talk about paul robeson, and for people now growing up to understand that that was something that made it possible for beastie boys to sing some of the songs they're singing now, for the rap groups to sing what they're singing. it started with people like paul robeson and pete seeger. and those guys faced tremendous oppression and censorship because of the message of the music. you had an experience with the byrds in eight miles high where it's just kind of insane reaction to the song. roger mcguinn tells the story about how you were sure it was going to be a big hit, and his story is that it was written about an airplane flight. it was written about an airplane flig