A Book Release Party for carl cannon of your chief for politics his book provides a history on the United States through 365 events for each day of the calendar year. [inaudible conversations] as soon as it went off [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is for booktv. I dont know if this helps sell books or not. [inaudible conversations] thertheres a movie coming out t this. [inaudible conversations] it was after the Martin Luther king assassination. I thought there would be a signing. There will be. It [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is great. But the empire. You cant possibly read everything. We know that is not true grandbaby alert. Hello, michaela. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you cant use these in your morning columns anymore . Sometimes we need more of that in journalism [inaudible conversations] you are on cspan [inaudible conversations] is there anything you can do on your and . To cover the news and make the news. Hello, michaela. This is michaela. [inaudible conversations] can i put you down for one minute . [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] she is the executive. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] say hello to this guy. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i will speak with you. I will make it happen. All right, the. You okay there, kid . Im si am so sorry i didnt seeu and i bonked you with the book. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] her name is kelly, shes the middle child. May she meet him tonight. Do you want to go find your mommy . I will go find her. I will be back you guys. Lets find your mom, shall we . [inaudible conversations] it wasnt my advice, everybodys advice. They were wonderful, very literary. [inaudible conversations] where are you now what you doing . I was in chicago. When i met you you were that size. That is the lords work. No bad language. I noticed there was a camera. Are you doing a signing later . Yes. Im going to sign after. I know where to find you. Dealers know each other . [inaudible conversations] are you not signing . I will sign this. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] did you rewrite much of your stuff . I had to. Thats too bad. It is better that way. Stick around. [inaudible conversations] we first met in sacramento. How long, that was in the 70s, wasnt it . I think so. Or early 80s. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] are you doing all right . Yes im good. [inaudible conversations] this is catherine. This is my cousins daughter. How are you . [inaudible] there is nothing to investigate right now. At Interamerican University the Investigative Reporters workshop. Who runs it . [inaudible] you will enjoy this. Some of them will remember but i do not remember a lot of it. I think you met our friend tom recently. Where . I do know he just told me that he met you. Maybe it was at an awards that they were doing. Yes i like him very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] congratulations. Thank you a great party. [inaudible conversations] cspan buddy. This is james arkin, realclearpolitics. For now he is ours. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] thank you all for coming. Really, really appreciate ever being here to support carl cannon in the book. I would like to thank the Hoover Institution for hosting the event. Maria and her crew for letting us use the space. It is a gorgeous building and we are thrilled to be here. My name is tom i am the cofounder and publisher of realclearpolitics. And i want to say a few words about the author and a few words about the book and i will turn it over to the man himself. As most of you know, the book is based off of carls morning note that hes been press for a number of years. And a couple of years ago carl was scheduled to take a vacation and he did not want the note to go dormant for the week. So he, we came up with this idea that we have guessed people write the note and im sure some of the people that wrote a guest note were in the room. I had when i think it was a wednesday. But i first had to figure out, spend a couple of hours researching what happened on my date. Then i, was i decided what i wanted to write on i had to spend a couple of hours researching it and trying to figure out as much of good about it. Then a couple of hours writing it. And i think it was okay nothing about about the gemini space program. I think it turned out fine although i do remember in preparing these remarks that carl never asked me to write another guest note so maybe maybe wasnt as good as i thought it was [laughter] but the point of the story is that the talent and effort that this guy puts into his morning note, it took a team of five people just to do if he does, and what he does by the way for most people get to work. It is astonishing and i could not have written five days worth of notes, let alone every five days for the last five years as carl has done. And done with such passion and commitment at a really high level. Most of you that our subscribers know what im talking about. The other thing i would say about carl is that before you all think that i am a terrible boss and a slave driver, that is really a labor of love for him. And there is nothing, probably once a week for the past five years i will hear carl in the office or in his house or on the phone. I had a great note today did a great note, you have got to read it. I love that note at least want to be. And theres nothing that puts him in a better mood in the morning and writing a great note. Ashley one thing. Feedback from his readers. Which every day, at least once a day, often times more than that. He gets notes from people all of the country that read his note and say, it inspired me. It reminds me of a story. I learned something new. Thanking him for his thoughtfulness and a subject study covered. Now it will bit about the book itself. It is unlike anything that any of us have ever seen. If you have not delves into it yet, it is a collection of drinking 65, not even short stories, their micro stories. 400 or 500 words theyll have a beginning, a middle and an end. You can read the book, open up on todays date start today and follow for the next year. You can open up to your birthday or your anniversary. You can read one note, 10 notes were 100 notes. As many as you want. And you can do it at any time. So it is a really special book in that regard. But the other thing comes through in this book is carls passion for america. He had to make a lot of decisions. On any given day there were 50 or 100 things he could have written about. He had to choose what he wanted, what he thought should be included in the book. And so through the choices you learn a lot about carl. His passion for sports, president s, history. His passion for cowboys and cabdrivers and athletes and astronauts. And of course baseball players. Songwriters and scientists, the list goes on and on. But above all, this is a man with a gift for telling a story and this is the story of america. And his love for this country really comes through in what he has chosen to write about and how he writes about it. So with that, i would like to offer a toast. To mr. Carl cannon on the publication of his new book on this day. This is to you i think you need this so people in the room can hear you. I am not going to talk very long. I think what we did pardon . [laughter] the heckler in the room is george im going to speak to David Bradley about him. He timed my toast at my daughter kellys wedding. He came out on five or six minutes but it was way longer 19 minutes. But i will only try to speak for four or five. But when you came in most of you put a date in this box there that shelby is holding. This is the gimmick but we didnt know how to do it. Theyre actually drinking 68 essays in this book. I left here and two days i did twice. I dont know why. I just did. I just want to tell you one brief thing. Sean is here the publisher of 12 books. He is a distinguished gentleman back there. Raise your hand. He came to washington and he said he was looking for me to give him names for other people to us. I took the meeting but i wasnt going to do that. And i was thinking in terms of my morning notes in his thought about it a few minutes and said i think we can do that. And we shook hands on it. Thats the way things used to work. Maybe it was better than. Ive known sean since he was an intern at icm for an agency and then he wrote the novel in the think i must have reviewed it. If positive review. No . I knew him when he was an editor and we wrote an ebook for him and now he is at publishing. The reason i am bringing that up is that i thought i would just turn my morning most into a book. It turned out not to be the case. It was more work than i thought it was. The reason i am telling you that is because the one thing i did, i ran out of time and i push the deadline but i did not get any acknowledgments. So i would like to take a moment just to acknowledge a few people. I have already acknowledged sean. And 12 books, time that you heard from and his Business Partner john mcintyre. John is here to be able to work for a company like that, the culture that we have. You can probably already get a sense from the comments, it is nurturing, supportive and i could not have done this without them. You know not having an acknowledgment of the problem. I will do that again. I would say half the people in this room helped me with that book actually. Sharon cannon who is here, our daughter is here. You little girls are our granddaughters. Sharon is the one who gave me an introduction if you got that far. Something she found in an autobiography about six or seven decades ago about people thought that these were the end of times in politics and nothing was ever as terrible as it is today. And that is one of the themes that comes through my notes. One of the themes in the book, there are three or four. Things seem bad right now. In politics in the country. But whatever we are facing, we usually face did in the past and worse. And we sort of, we come through it as a country and usually stronger. Not always. Every once in a while but that is one of the themes of the book and another theme of the book is, it is dedicated to immigrants. I got this idea and again, this is something i just discovered as i was writing it. In the course of American History when we needed something, an idea or invention or just something that happened it was often an immigrant that was there to provide it. And so that is something that comes through. And another thing that comes there are the stories that we do not know right. George washington probably did cut that cherry tree. [laughter] and the moral of the story is that he could tell a lie. And mark twain once said he could tell it like but the first president ial biographer, the first Investigative Reporter writing about president s because the cherry tree story, he courted an anonymous source. He implied it was so he had a source. The point of the story is really not the George Washington couldnt tell a lie but he was saying that you lived in a house where if you told a lie did not have the fear of getting west. As you get into American History find these things. And we do not know everything that we think we know. And some of the things we think we know is wrong. And i did my part to try and set the record straight. Their individual stories, 450 but hopefully come to the end and you get a sense of the country of who people are. So with that, should we one other person since cspan is here, the fact checked the book for me. Bob castillo, he is with i may change after change after change. I was looking at the book today and there was something that wasnt in the advice that i wanted there. So we do a second printing i am going to put you guys do it again. [laughter] i can name everyone here but you will know what youve done for me. Are we ready for the big drawing . Should i do one . Should i go in the bottom like this . I am going to get this one. April 27. I guess i need a book, i did not memorize the book. [laughter] robert draper. April 27. His neck here . Is that your birthday or what is that . Nick by the way, all of you can stop emailing me when you want your column to appear in real clear politics because i dont do that. Nick does that. His email is [laughter] april 27, 1956. Going out on top. Boxing fans were stunned on this date when Rocky Marciano retired as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world. He was only 32. Quote domains and say what he will do in the future marciano said, but barring poverty has seen the last of me. Growing up in the 1930s in massachusetts he dreamed of becoming a baseball and football player. He was a solid athlete, good enough to earn date postwar trial with the chicago cubs. He had been successful but in 1946 amateur Armed Forces Tournament at five feet 11 inches in 188 pounds, he left the classic size of a heavyweight. His short arms put them at a disadvantage. It was also considered old for a fledgling fighter. Rocky was in his mid20s when the trainer Charlie Goodman taught him the points of the sweet science paper had deceptively quick reflexes. In 1949 in 1950 he began getting victories all by knockouts. He acquired a base of hometown fans are piled into buses and cars to see them fight and dealt timber when his opponents were rubber lead. In 1950 when he climbs into the ring against joe lewis. He sported an impressive record as a professional fighter. 37 wins and 37 bells, 32 by knockout. But in joe lewis he was facing perhaps the greatest fighter of all time. Lewis was 37 years old by then and well past his prime. Marciano knocked him out in the eighth round. Reactions were not there. Directions when the theorists of the old chap retired after the fight. My age comes against me. Afterward marciano was to his dressing room with victorias younger father wept. The rock went on to get his title shot which he won. He defeated five times before retiring. A decision based partly on joe lewiss example for rocky did not want to go out like that and he didnt. He died on august 31, 1969. The day before his 46th birthday in a Small Plane Crash outside of des moines iowa. Joe lewis and mohammed ali attended the funeral. Lewis kissed the confidence he passed it and said, god is giving himself a beautiful man. [applause] all right then. We still have liquor and food. Not liquor, wine and beer and food. One second. My friend was to say this. This is not open night might but hes a good buddy. I want to leave you all with one other personal note which is this. While i was doing this book, my brother dave, got pancreatic cancer and died suddenly. It was a blow to everyone in the family as you might imagine. One of the last things we talked about was my brother. He was glad i was doing it but i, where getting to the age now it doesnt matter what age you are. I have friends fighting cancer now and one of them is home recovering tonight, she is in angel fan. She is going to watch the game. Another one is here, michael, are you still with us . Michael and jen. Michael is with us and so i just, i asked you all to keep them in your prayers tonight. All right. [applause] i promised i would try to Say Something that of which carl cannon me specific you do not speak as a democrat and i do not speak as a i speak as shown for. [inaudible] i just want to say on behalf of all of us carl that you are a unique resource. Your bipartisan, your fair, youre tough, youre one hard journalist to spin and i sure did try. I want to thank you for all you have done for everyone in the city and especially people who appreciate good journalists. Thank you carl. [applause] you have been watching Book Release Party for carl cannon of the realclearpolitics. Every sunday night on cspan q a interview program, we introduce you to people in politics, the media, education and science and technology in our long conversations about their lives in their work. This weekend q a guess is carl cannon. Tune into cspan right now to hear more about on this day. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Booktv takes hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. Here is a look at some of the events we will be covering this week. Monday where i politics and prose bookstore in washington d. C. To hear journalist joe talk about a drug cartel for the following day back in the Nations Capital when historian John Chandler will become the life of Patrick Henry at an event hosted by the smithsonian institution. 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