Longing and recognition, a collection of tiny lights that gathered force long ago. The boy with long fingers sweeping the keys of a piano and uncles laugh at it teachers who always listen to the one who perceive them all, the father. The things. The things about him you never forget, his hand circling your ways, flying perilously in the air, grains of sand rubbing against your cheek, your chubby hands moving back the soft bristles of his hair so they spring up again like soldiers. Then in a flash, you stand head to head, face to face, and he walks away for you have become too mature, too near, a danger. In an equitable longing takes over you and then eventually is forgotten. Years go by and one day you meet him again the thickly chinned, the bright smile and behind his classes the love that was always there, hes not your father but he is everything you wanted him to be. Quote. Bob and my dad were sweet, kind, loving men. My late father had been my first teacher, he had laid the path that led me to the man by marriage. Bobs moral values were dads moral values, which were inevitably mine. This makes me unaccountably happy, there is a beauty in it, of fulfillments. Our husbands reading what was once lost, help mend the circle along conditional the circle of unconditional love that was broken long ago. Both men had experience crippling traumas in the war which they would not talk about, both were emotionally closed, hiding their feelings sometimes even from themselves. I would chisel away at my dad trying in vain to learn his secrets. When i fell in love with bob, i knew i had another chance, those of us who marry in the mullahs, want to crack the puzzle. I spent 30 years trying to get inside bobs mind and once again, i failed. What is it like to write about someone you love . A reporter doesnt usually live with her subject. I agonized, how could i be honest, but do bob justice . How could i risk for dealing with his quirks and weaknesses, how far should i go . After all my marriage was more important than this book. On the other hand, i didnt want to write a love a love letter, but an authentic portrait of him. I didnt want him to go down in history as an iggy magma, a onedimensional mine, mine, who in spite of his halfcentury of Public Service wasnt really known by his people. Until now he had referred views to talk to reporters about his personal life, most thought of him as a stern man with a biblical fury. I wanted to show bob and all of his complexity, his kindness and generosity to the little people, his wicked sense of humor, how he came home at night as he walked in the door and began booming out give my regards to broadway. Bob had wanted me to be his memoirist, that way, he didnt have to look back, which he hated to do nor did he have to do the work. I really knew most of the story. But i still felt uneasy about the responsibility, i knew his laws a fair take it on the chin attitude, whatever write whatever you want he said. But i wasnt going to let him off so easily. I insisted he read my journals chronicling our relationship and every draft of the manuscript. Even then to find out what this very private man really thought was almost as hard as writing the book. Typically, i had to look for clues, how do you like that passage sweetheart, id ask. And if he said its your memory, i would know that he didnt like it. Then it was necessary to watch for the slightest twitch in his facial muscle. Or the double snap to discover exactly what he didnt like. I learned a lot from writing timeless, but most important i learn relinquish on realistic expectations that bob give me what i thought i needed. I was on the wrong hunt, a blinding mission that was just that, blind. I didnt need to crack bob shell, i needed to appreciate what he did give me and give to him the Little Things he most desired. I learned that love looks different to each of us, for some like bob, it consists of doing. When he brings me blueberries in bed, calls on my behalf, he is giving his love and the way he values love on both our parts. But he knows now that i perceive love in my own unique way. Its about showing, and if you can always access through emotions he has learned to show affection, what he loves to do now is to shout hog. An open his arms until i come over and split between them. Thank you. [applause]. We have time for a few questions before she goes out front to sign books that i know you all want to buy so please come appear. There has to be a brave first one. I wanted to tell you story you may not have heard about eleanor and eleanor. As many are you are aware Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt died and the last person from the cabinet where the opportunity to see him was henry morgenthaler. Henry was on his way back from florida because eleanor had just had a heart attack and he stopped at the town on his way up to new york. The next day fdr died and eleanor informed late in the afternoon about the death of her husband she came back to the white house, and was informed that he had died and had to go back to palm springs in order to supervise the funeral arrangements. So in the time that it took for eleanor after she was informed it to get to the plane to go down to fort benning georgia, she took time out of her schedule to call Eleanor Morgan falls nurse and inform her that the president had died and to turn off the radio so that eleanor may not have had a reversal hearing about the death of the pres. I just thought id like to tell you that story about friendship. [applause]. Thank you so very much on behalf of both bob and me. I do not like to speak publicly but i have to tell you i read your book, i loved it. It is one of the greatest love stories. Thank you for opening up the history of Robert Morgenthaler which Robert Morgan fall which i was not aware of and i am now of what a truly great individual. I love your book and i recommended it many times, thank you very much. She is not my she is now my Public Relations person. Thank you. We live up here in cole sprint and this farm is a major resource to the community, what role did the farm play in the familys life, both with the roosevelts and why have the farm in the first place . Probably bob could answer this better than me, but i will take take a stab. You can yell some answers to me. Henry morgenthaler one, who was ambassador to of turkey under president wilson bought the farm and it was much larger than it was today, it was a dairy farm as well as a fruit farm. He bought it for his son. From what i am told he bought it for his son, henry junior junior in order to keep henry junior near him. He was devoted to his son and his son was devoted to him, although sometimes he was known to want to take a little break. But henry junior, indeed threw himself into farming, the dairy farm was sold off at some point and only the Apple Orchard were left. Bob, i think bob is a farmer at heart just like his father was. One of bob saenz is there is no better maneuver than the footprints of the owner. So, every weekend since we have been married, almost 40 years we have gone up to Fishkill Farms and bob has gone around pruning the trees, examining the apples, getting depressed if it was a bad crop or if we had a freeze, and getting a lady if the crop, like it is this year, bountiful. Our son joshua, who is 31 has just taken over Fishkill Farms and he has made it into an organic enterprise. He has been using clay to spray the apples instead of pesticides, he is growing organic vegetables, he has has free range chickens that produce really delicious eggs. Stop by, sometime we we have a huge farm store. There is pick your own every month, we have newly ripened berries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, then in august, even in july we have the apple crop beginning, and then there are pick your own people who come and spend the day and have picnics and pics bags of apples. So its really part of bobs blood and after almost 40 years years its become part of mine too. Thank you everyone, thank you lucinda for a great talk, thank you for honoring us. Thank you. Tuesday on baking and Data Security experts discuss the future of secure credit and debit card transaction in the us. Will be live live with the event hosted by protect my data starting at noon eastern here on cspan2. Pres. Obama and the epa released the first ever Carbon Pollution standards for existing u. S. Power plants last week. Tuesday Gina Mccarthy discusses the plan at the resources for the future organization in washington dc. See it live starting at 12 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. With the senate in its august break well picture book tv programming weeknights and prime time on cspan2 starting on a p. M. Eastern and at the end of the summer look for to book tv special programs, saturday, september 5 here live from our Nations Capital for the 15th annual National Book festival. Followed on sunday with our live indepth program, with former second later and senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute, lynn cheney, book tv on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Next break mcadams discusses his book of vietnam rough riders. This interview as part of book tvs College Series and took place at the university of Southern California in los angeles. It is 20 minutes. Are now joining us on bic to be on cspan2 is u. S. Professor Frank Mcadams who has written vietnam rough riders, a, commanders memoir. What is a rough rider in the vietnam era question that. A rough rider in the vietnam era and the first marine division, and we ran the trucks up and down highway one, right out of the neighing and north through the notorious. Anybody who want on those convoys one of the dangerous pass in vietnam, they just nicknamed up the rough riders. Sometime before i got there in 66 or 67 when i got there they told me is going to be 11th motor transport those are the ref writers. What is highway one. Thats the main highway in vietnam that stretched from the delta, through the central highlands, into three core and then into ichor which is where i was from the neighing. All the way north to the dmz. It was the main highway. It was just called highway one. I believe it socalled highway one. And what was your job. My job was the convoy commander. I was responsible for everything the convoy does or fails to do. If theres an ambush, to get through the ambush. If theres minute with as minimum trouble as possible. What made up a convoy . A convoy was made up of anywhere from six to seven trucks, the biggest 1i was on was 140 trucks. Vehicles from 40 trucks. Vehicles from all branches of the service, south vietnamese, we tried to get them to break it up into cereals going over a three to four day. And they turned us down and my sergeant told them were going to get hit. And the sergeant took a pencil this is in the book, he took a pencil and he marked three places on the map on the north side of the past, he said theyre either going to get us here, here, or here. They hit us on the third point and we went back and wrote our after action reports in our operations people were kind of red face. It was predicted, a convoy that big, hundred 40 trucks was going to get hit because of the boom, and the smoke in the air and everything. Theres a everything. Theres a tendency of coming out of the high gone pass of the trucks developing a gap which would give the enemy enough time to set up a mortar team and walk him right in on us, which is what they did. What was contained in those convoy trucks question mark. We had unger beans, artillery shells for various artillery batteries, 105, 155 millo meter. Anything a unit needs to stay in operation that really did not need to be airlifted in. They just put it on a convoy and we usually arrive at its destination, be three or four days after as ordered. It was our job to get the stuff up there. Work. Redrafted or did you volunteer. I volunteer right out of college, Loyal University out of chicago, the class of 1966. There is no exclusive military Marine Corps Academy they do get a certain percentage of the navel, but i went through mechanic school. Why did you volunteer question mark. I was are ready in the navy, i did several years as a hospital and this is ticonderoga which was involved with the golf in 1964. After i left active duty i went back and finish my degree but while it was going on i saw what was developing in vietnam and i know is going to be the Biggest Issue of my generation. I had a question with myself, should i go question mark as i redid my time and a lot of people in my class, my peer group who were very supportive of president johnson and they were all for it, but let the other guy go but that really did something to me and as a hospital corpsman, i had a comradely with the marine corps under ticonderoga and i put all these things together and on top of that i met a young woman, and we decided to get married. Thats patty. We decided to get married, it it was a question of waiting for me to come back with patty possibly be in the widow at age 22 and we talked about that, we had a lot of pro and con discussion about it with friends and family and we made the decision. I got married in my dress