The really fun stuff, the letters are great but the newspapers are online. Back to the host century, it was buried. [laughter] it was going the well. Breast cancer [inaudible conversations] sandy is one of the leading Breast Cancer survivors in america. He is coming also. Could be here. Something at the five. Also doing five local furies of the smithsonian. I thought it was [inaudible conversations] i am doing one thing that. [laughter]. [laughter] king change i am on this for a while. How are you . Books available . Outside. [inaudible conversations] thank you so much for bringing it. You look so good. Congratulations. Hi, how are you . [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i think i told you this, had a woman who was declined for the association of fellowship and she was riding her thesis on some many men the answer turned out to be a misquote. Oh oh oh oh it is true. [inaudible conversations] geraldine ferraro, someone yelled out i remember that. So miranda or something my gosh. That would be mary richards. [inaudible conversations] there shouldnt be any alliance this summer for my uncles. Let me tell you about the name. [inaudible conversations] maitland has the same story. Her father, hazmat map of the world and australia. [inaudible conversations] they all got married. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you for coming down. Have not been too bad. Either of those seemed really not done. Not diplomats. There we were trying to impress them. I practiced this morning. Told them about the afghan he was very it was very distressing. I [inaudible conversations] they were abducted. A month and a half ago. The money thing. So you think you think you can keep people quiet. What we always do. No one ever has kept quiet until the deal is done. Right. And most of the time they just come back. Were they nationals . Yes. Working up in some awful yes yes. Take with me on the plane tomorrow. You let me know. Okay. How are your girls . Wonderful. I became a grandfather. Lovely. Is it a girl . Yes. Three daughters got to be a girl. I have 16 female cousins. Wow. Who is the barbara . My sisterinlaw my brothers widow now. How many brothers and sisters do you have. Just the two now theyre both gone. We came in together. You next book started yet . I just turned this in february. How could that be . I was still writing it until february. How did that it get it out so fast. They were not happy. And theres not an incheck in the index in the first printing. Friend of mine just finished a book and wont come out for six months. What can i tell you. The next printing will have an index. Wonderful interview. Theyre really interesting women. Civil war with 6 then thousand what was lincoln thinking that it was worth 600,000 lincoln is not the person you should be blaming you. Should blame Jefferson Davis. Theyre the people he tee feeted. Tee feeted. He was trying to save the union and eventually free slaves. At least on the union side there was [inaudible] there was a cause on the southern side. And they kept going. Robert e. Lee was ready to throw in the towel. Jefferson davis kept it going. He was going to letm the south keep the slaves. Initially yes. He must have had a america would not be america. Of course not. Got this all in the gettysburg address, whether a nation like this can endure. Come get some food and drink and yes thanks. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] how are you doing . Haves not been on a jet. A total cliche running in [inaudible]. Going to get out of i just want to let you know, youre totally impressive. Fred said to tell he cokester hello. Is he coming . No. How are you . Im good. So im going to miss your you told me that. I tell you some things about that when i dont have a microphone on. Exactly. Mingling. Okay. You look good. Thank you. Is rebecca here and everybody . I think she had a program tonight, actually. I see stephanie over there. I thought of having her here, not there all right. See you later. Thank you for being on the list. Of course. Thank you my dear. Thank you. Want to get that for my sister. Okay, is it sister bobby. No. She wouldnt she would die. Shed be horrified. A lovely woman. Yes. Yes. She is doing the lords work. Bobby bobbie. I didnt know that. Im doing a talk over there next week. Did you see what he said about women today . Im doing a talk over there next week on the role of women in the church. Great. I think we should stop traveling. Makes me nervous. People are nervous when he stays still. Is she around here . She is in greensburg, florida, and but were very close. She likes you. Oh, good. Thank you. Hi. Always get two books because i get one for my mother and myself. So i think maybe mary, helen and matthew. How is he doing . Doing just great. Living in brooklyn. So he moved out he was in california for a while. Right . Right. Right. He is actually getting a couple gigs here and there. Good for him. I told him he has until 26 when he gets one he insurance. I was in brooklyn with the Historical Society monday night. It was so shishi. Really. It is so beautiful now in downtown that area of brooklyn. How do you el it . Leoa. Now i have all the books of yours. Thank you. That i have gotten back from mother. She has a program tonight i think. Im not sure shell make it. Thank you so much. Hi. How are you doing . Im doing well, actually. You were so good this morning. Thank you. I was really interested in clara barton. She is [inaudible] i had lunch with robin today and i would say how nice you are to me, and my mother would say the mothers and daughters book and couldnt find it. I hope you sell. Marallee. What are you up to . Ive got an ongoing relationship with going places doing some editing for c. J. R. And. Thats a wonderful way to feel. Talking to fred, thinking about coming here today. When i was a young researcher and would go to the prime sea states there would be you and linda. Its true. There we were. Schlepping everything. Hi, annie how are you. My gosh. Hi, walter. I listened to it was so much fun. Right. Fremont and you may have talked about ten other people while i was in the car. You were talking about her and i thought, god what a great lady. 1848 to are you going to do 1988 to 1908 . Did something happen in those years . This is to the two of you . Yes. Ann without an e right . When with die i hope all of our books will become valuable. Not all books. All the signed books from wonderful people like you. Thank you. Walking downry lane. Look who is here, annie reeves from princeton. Do you have a place to stay . Im all right. I have a bedroom. Im so glad youre here. Me, too. [laughter] [laughter] cokie do you know that Whitman Walker is named for two medical care givers mary walker. Still the only woman to have won the medal of honor. And they rescind it and then gave it back to her. I didnt know that. Did you also come across a Mary Elizabeth bowser . She was in Jefferson Davis white house. I before she spied on them she had a photograph of oh, i remember reading about it. Well her live in richmond. Is that right . Oh good. Congratulations. Im going to good. Im going to the Historical Society. The publisher never debt with it. I said this is a civil war wok. A civil war book. Right. I remember that. Its terrific. Its absolutely terrific. Im looking at your cast of characters because people actually the editor insisted on that. I think thats part. I was at another in new york and one of the young publishers, and said Cokie Roberts is in washington. Whose book . Is this for you . Yes. [inaudible] how nice. Barnes noble. Thats terrific. Thats great. Thank you. Hi. You found each other. The team. The excellent team. Good to see you. To me and alex. Thank you. I wrote this down because i have a little story but ill get to it in a second. On behalf of james goldstep, the president of abc news and robin and everyone with our group we are honored to be part of this great evening and celebrate cokies latest work of art. We are especially proud to have cokie as well with us through the next big election cycle which is very exciting. [applause] cokie the reporting the analysis their history we could not live without you. Going to be a very exciting time. This is my story. My first job out of College Issue worked on cabol hill and i worked for Bob Livingston of the First District of louisiana and it was a starter job but i was assigned to make a presentation about some education money and the districts that we worked in, to the congresswoman from the Second District of louisiana who was lindy. So i went down and we made a very nice presentation and im not sure what happened with the outcome, but i just wanted to make this point because what remember most about being in the presence of a woman who really i remember most being in the presence of lindy boggs who stood for something so special and what a true capitol dame fighting for equality and authority and cordial confidence, and you could feel the hoyt [applause] you could feel the history and her knowledge in the room. And in a way she was picking up the man tell where so many of the women cokie writes about. So its in your lineage to chronicle this history for all of us, youre a true capital dame. We know [applause] we also know writing these is really really hard work and we know how much work you put into it. So we toast you tonight for the great work. Hear, hear. And now someone much more important than me, steve roberts. [applause] well, what i appreciate those words about my motherinlaw. This ills not the typical motherinlaw to have. In fact what you didnt mention when you look at the capital the only room in the capital named for a woman is named for lindy boggs. So you talk about a true capital dame. And theres the former congresswoman over there. Connie morell la, who knew lindy very well. And i want to make a larger point about the women in this room. What you have here is a generation of so many women who were pioneering. I look at nina, the first person who helped cokie get hired at npr. The first time i ever saw the Old Girls Network at work. Was when nina helped cokie get hired at npr and so many martha and robin and so many other colleagues who have not only forged a way for younger women. I teach younger women today, and they would not have the opportunities to be in this profession today if it wasnt for that generation that we see here tonight. [applause] and so this book is not just about the capital dames of the civil war although they are magnificent women. Its about the capital dames today and the women who are continuing to write history and fortunately today we wont have to wait 150 years for someone like cokie to unearth the stories that women are writing and contributing to history in the city every day. And this Great Mission this great contribution that cokie has discovered at this stage of her life, where she is rescuing the history [laughter] Everybody Needs an editor. I just bring mine along. Or a producer as the case may be. I just want to say one more word that this its a profound mission. These stories have been told before about the revolutionary war and colonial period and now cokie dealing with the civil war. Been told many times. They have never ever, ever been told through the eyes of the women who lived through that period of history. This is a great contribution to this country. Woohoo and this is a great contribution to the legacy that women have always played, and the role theyve always played, and too often the guys who wrote hoyt never paid take. Cokie has paid attention. [applause] this is a wonderful contribution and im so pleased with so many of the capital dames who are part of this invitation. I see gloria and so many and barbie and so many who are here. So i just want to raise a glass to all of you the capital dames who helped forge this wonderful period in American History where the role of women is now doesnt have to wait 150 years to be discovered. So, thank you. And congratulations, my darling. [applause] thank you. Well its kind of steven to know he makes us seem a little old, but the truth is he had to put up with a great deal because as always, i was on frantic deadline because that seems to be the way i work, and i was a whole two hours. I was unlovely to behold and not very helpful around the house, but and he filled in bigtime so thank you. But also i have a couple of people to thank in terms of the book itself. Laura nelson is right here. When i would get these letters which are fabulous, but they would come from libraries or historic societies scanned into the computer as handwritten, 19th century letters written both this way and this way across them, and laura deciphered them. So without laura we wouldnt have the letters examination then there are close to 100 point footnotes and jeanine did the footnotes and she was having to do them really fast, and you did. When she started she thought it was not going to be possible. Then she said, im getting good at it and she was really very good at it. Thank you very much. Because it was hard work to do it. And julie who was here earlier dont know if she there she is back there. A student of steves and a worker at npr who put together the bibliography. So it was a group effort. And the research was also a group effort to some degree. Everybody kept getting busy and leaving me with it. But Rebecca Roberts who isnt here because she is having to work tonight and lisa roberts who isnt here because she is living in North Carolina and having to work tonight. Both were incredibly help inflame some research. So it was great to have this entire team of capital dames onboard. So thank you all. The truth is, these are great ladies and theyre so much fun to learn about and they are funny and feisty and frank and irreverent and tell you things like Steven Douglas stinks, and they tell you things the guys dont tell you and is really a whole lot of fun to learn about and it read about it, and really i enjoyed it ive enjoyed it now that its over, and i actually did enjoy read it when it was over so i hope you do, too. But really, steve is right. This is a community of women all of you have worked with me or taken care of me. My doctors are here. And worked with me, both in journalism and on boards, carollian miles was here from save the children, the ceo and my college roommate, barbara she is so grateful because when we were in college she had to type my papers. Because i was always thats right. I was always so late on deadline. And i always stayed up all night, which i did last night so youll feel good about that. But really all of you have been such an important part of my life and the life of steves right of journalism and of the city, and look at it. Its so beautiful out there. But the fact is that actually its funny when i they kept saying to me, it will be easier to sort of stave off everybody because they would say, wares wheres the book . If you had a title. I cooperate come up with a title. Nobody in the family could come up with a title. Finally aid been playing with washington and finally i moved to capital and then capital dames and the didnt catch on its a play on words. But once i pointed it out everybody was with it, and that is what is so great. All of you are capital dames. Thank you very, very much. [applause] eat, drink and enjoy and thank you. [applause] robin and james. [inaudible conversations] i gave her the booktv is on twitter and facebook. And we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter booktv or post a comment on our facebook pain facebook. Com booktv. I take it as given that everybody here is familiar with and accepts the common assessment Winston Churchills war cabinet saved britain and helped to save the world from nazi horror. I agree. I would never minimize the greatness of Winston Churchill or his Wartime Coalition government. We all owe it an unpayable debt. But life is not black and white. Life is not simple. Churchills war cabinet was not simply a smooth, functioning machine. Its members including the Prime Minister were highpowered, ambitious, hard minimum. They had great hard men. They that great talent and great capacity for work but also they had great egos. They worked together to save their country but it was not always smooth sailing. On more than one occasion conflict within the war cabinet threatened to capsize the ship altogether. Moreover today we think of churchill as the indispensable man. Its impossible for us to imagine britain during the Second World War without churchill as Prime Minister, but believe me, it was not impossible then, and ill be explaining that. I want to just pull out the water. In the book, i show how churchill assembled his highpowered team in may 1940. It included men whose politics conflicted more starkly than do those of american liberal democrats and Tea Party Republicans today. Socialists like atley, bev vein, Morrison Crips believed in nationalizing the means of production distribution, and exchange. No american liberal democrat, believes in that. Crips moreover was not even certain that nationalization could be carried out or maintained peacefully. He thought it might require revolutionary violence. The socialists also believed that government should sponsor farreaching social welfare programs. More farreaching than those favored by american liberals today. On the other hand, conservatives, like Chamberlain Halifax beaverbrook. Believed firmly in Free Enterprise and believed government should usually keep hands off the economy. They did not believe it had a major role to play with regard to social welfare either. Churchill himself was instinctively a man of the right. Yet he was determined during the war to keep his Team Together and by and large he did it. In the book i show how the team faced the war. They faced natz eu sunday alone at first and during that period, war cabinet ministers largely suppressed whatever ideological and personal tensions existed among them. But also i show in the book that once russia and then america entered into the fray the war cabinet ministers began to argue. The eemergency had eased. Britain seemed likely to win the war after all and now cabinet ministers could vent jessies enmitts, strains always present but previously always papered over. Ideological conflict grew every more fierce, and i show how churchill strove quite heroic include but with decreasing affect to contain it all. In 1945, labor pulled out of his coalition government. As soon as germany surrendered and with the war against japan still raging, churchill called a general election. It proofed to be one of the proved to be one of the worst tempers of the 20th century. All the spentup frustrations of the previous five years finally burst forth. It was like the long delayed eruption of a volcano. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. 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