Or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Ladies and gentlemen, Barbara Boxer. [applause] well with my husband . High. Today is our wedding anniversary. [applause] jamie, only for you what i do this by 56 wedding anniversary, but yeah, i know. 55 years to one guy. Its amazing. Im so thrilled to be with you today. And interesting time, dont you think . Yes. Somebody said oh, please. Its an interesting time. Jamie, before you leave there you are. Jamie and debbie and everyone in the Rancho Mirage writers festival, so professional and so helpful and thank you for everything. Stu and i about 12 years ago we bought a house in Rancho Mirage. Its such a special place. It already had sunny land, this library. Now the writers festival. [applause] that really made my day. What more could we want . Im going to talk about this book. It took before used to write this book. This was an effort of love and effort of memory and i have been published before. This is my fourth published book. This one is the closest to my heart. For a couple of reasons. As we get older, we do get wiser. Thanks, arthur. We do understand things better, and we are all products of the times in which we lived. So for someone like me, and yesterday we had a little writers lunch that was sophia units, these writers writers who are so brilliant and delicate things from land here and put in the context of universe. And i have been at ground zero about so many things that they write about. And i say ground zero, i mean it. You think about it and a look out here and we have a lot of people about my age and you think about the issues that weve lived through. Anjust wrote down a few. I have left some out. Im not talking about the fact that i was born around world war ii and discussion about the holocaust all the time in my home. There was, as i get older, the civil rights movement, the human rights movement, vietnam war, Environmental Movement, the Womens Movement, the aids crisis, the lgbt rights, 9 11, the war in iraq, climate change, the great recession, voting rights. Thats just a few that i was in the middle of. I mean, you all were in the middle of it, but not in the middle middle. You were there giving me your views and having your own thoughts and feelings and taking their own action, if you wanted to. When i sat down, decided to write this book four years ago, i just did it on the airplane. I would write on fo long trips k to california every week, and i really had two purposes in writing the book. One was to share the inside of the inside of the inside of what goes on, how a bill really becomes a law. Its not like we learned in school, believe me. Passive out of a committee, you know, it goes to the floor, you vote on it, you pass it and you go take it to the other house. Vote on it, pass it, then he goes to the president and either signs or vetoes it. Trust me, theres a lot more to it. And it isnt as easy as it sounds. So i want to take you into the middle of it. I also know that theres an expression that came from the founders, we are a government of law, not men. Of course they would say people, but its more than that. We are a government of laws and what are a government of people. What i wanted to point out in the book is how people make a difference at those very moments come in those side rooms come in the debates. And i wanted you to see some of those people and learn about some of those people. So all that is in the book. How does it feel to serve with someone like john lewis, the iconic civil rights . When he has met. And john mccain, a war hero, and serving with them with some of his ups and downs with me. Just really interesting stories. Nancy pelosi, dianne feinstein, a lot of the people you know, but you dont know them the way i know them, and reading the book you will know them the way i know them. Barbara mikulski, how many of you have heard of barbara . What an amazing woman and someone who was a mentor to me. Well, so i wanted to tell those stories and also wanted to share, how do you get through some of these times . When people are calling you dates and tried to shut you up and tried to shut you down. Because i believe in life. We face those things regardless of whether we are in politics, whether we are in a community situation, at work, in our family. There are people who will try to shut you down. And how do you retain your toughness . How do you summon your toughness . So in many ways its an impairment empowerment book as well. I had how did i get the name . While i was writing this book during that period of time people would keep coming up to me and say, how did you get to be so tough . How did you get to be and i was on the top, just, i was born in brooklyn. I mean [laughter] im just who i am and i do what i think that you know, you are really tough. Im not we had this big argument and then i decided maybe i really am tough. So i called my staff and and i said can you google some of the right wing commentators and see what they had said about me . Because as a rule i dont Pay Attention to that. So they come in with this incredible list of stuff. And after i listened to what these people have said about me, you know what, i am tough. I am tough. So i said to my agent, i want to have tough in the title and i couldnt get in. I kept saying, why i have had to be tough. No. And then i thought ill call it why you have to be tough to know. And they said to kimberly, and kimberly is here. Brody, my favorite agent. Did you stand up just because agents are so important. Could you stand up and say hi . [applause] she such a help. She came up with it. She said lets call it the art of tough. I said thats it. Because there is an art, and thats what i try to talk about in the book and what i tried to teach. And i thought, the book came out before the election results, and i thought if everything there was a time for tough, its now. If you voted for clinton as i did you have to pick yourself up off the floor, face what happened and fight back for what you believe in. And if you voted for trump, we are going to hold you accountable, so you better be tough. You have to explain to us why you did it and whats going on. So we all i think have to be tough. Now, i did introduce you to kimberly, and i did mention that stu is here, but i do want to sue one of my favorite lights in the book i talk about when he met him i was 18 years old, i was a cheerleader in college, really, and when we got married he called me in one day and said honey, i want to talk to you. I was 21. I was still in college, just graduating. He said dont you think its time you quit the cheerleaders . I said, no, i dont. That was the prelude of things to come. But i often say and i write in the book one of my favorite lines is that stu married Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with my year. [laughter] golda my year. Which i think happens a lot of guys his age, the Womens Movement moved on. But when i say, i knew you would like that line. Im going to read you the first page of my book. I want you to really buy this book. Please buy this book. When i finished i will be signing books, and stu will be taking your camera and taking pictures of us, if thats an enticement. But i will give you some reading from it so let me read you the first page. I am no martial arts or bigtime highstakes moneymaker. I barely measure five feet. Maybe fivefoot three and my high heels or on this box but nobodys ever accuse me of having a menacing presence. No, but ive lived with an emotional tenacity, determination. Sometimes outrage that has often inspired opposing reactions among my political colleagues, voters and rightwing pundits who had said these and other quotable things about me. Get ready. This is doug powers. Barbara boxer is quite possibly the biggest doofus ever to enter the senate chambers, including janitorial staff, pizza delivery kids and carpenter ants. [laughter] thats what of the best ones. Nicest ones. This next one, how about this one . Barbara boxer is a great candidate for the democratic party, female and learning disabled. Ann coulter. [laughter] then this one from arthur schlep. I swear thats his name. Hes on tv a lot now, speaking for trump so keep your eye out for him, or dont. This is what he said. Barbara boxer continues to prove that she is unfit for any Office Higher than turned in spector. Thats very sweet. Oh, god, this, this is the worst one but i wont read you all of them because wine is just more interesting than the next, but this one is unbelievable. In the future Barbara Boxer may be remembered as the frau doctor mangalore on the u. S. Senate. Doctor mangalore, the nazi war criminal who directed merciless experiments may have decided to come back as a woman. I dont even understand that. But anyway, thats that. Now, what you can tell, you already knew i was getting heat, but you see how tough it was. You have to have a sense of humor and one of one of the aspects of having a sense of humor is one of the rules of the art of tough. Youve got to let this stuff roll off your back. And different people, you know, use a sense of humor different ways. Heres what i do. I write funny lyrics, songs, about politics and issues. And it just was a way to just have an outlet. It was just great. So when i got to the house of representatives after serving as a county supervisor, i said wheres the gym . And they said by the way, wheres that the thing that show you how much time you are using up . [inaudible] okay, all right. Because im used to the filibuster. I can go on [laughter] i do want to lose my way here. So when i get to the house of representatives i say wheres the gym . And they say, well, there is no gym for women. Theres a little room you can use, but you cant get in the gym. Now, im from california. This is 1983 and we already were working it out, and jumping around. So i said ill go look at the womens gym. Maybe its fine. So i go, i swear to god, its like a six x seven route and it has five hairdryers. The kind that has the big things because of course why else would women go to the gym other than to do their hair wax so im getting really annoyed at this and im saying, this cant be true. And i thought all i had to do is ask a few people come psycho to the band who is in charge i forget his name from massachusetts, and he said sorry, jeff to go talk to dan rostenkowski, the tough guy from illinois to make it the room. Because i suggested expanding the other gym and it was a very big room. Psycho to see dan. Mr. Chairman, i have a very simple request. Who are you . Im senator boxer from california. On congresswoman boxer from california. He said you can have that extra room because i use it. I said i dont mean to pry a why do you use a . He says, i store shampoo and conditioner in there because its in illinois and they give me this and they give it out as gifts at christmas. I said, mr. Chairman, we need a rim to work out. Go away. So the issue is, when i get angry or wha would i use my senf humor . I used my sense of humor. I was annoyed. I wrote a song. I sing it to one of my colleagues who said thats great, it could work. So i put together a team. We called, i know, you can believe this, can you . The red light in blues pick it was marcie captor, mary from ohio and myself. The one thing we could do was we could barely carry a tune, but we were very convinced that we could turn our sense of humor into a winning strategy. So i saying the song and they said sing it to tip oneill and a leadership. So i called the women together, the red white and blues, youve got to enunciate, because we have a story to tell. So then i got a guitarist. Today i have paul to his disciples pianist, and i sing this song. This is a very unusual looking at because im going to sing a few songs to you that because i thought we all need to be lifted up a little bit. So im going to sing this song, and guess what . After is over we got the gym. We got in the gym. Add to this day we can did in the gym. Yeah, i know. [applause] so this is the song that we saying, and forgive me if, you know, im not a perfect singer but i am a perfect politician. Okay, paul. Exercise, where to go . Has everybody used the gym . Equal rights, where types, lets avoid those macho fights, and everybody use your gym. Now, if you run into a colleague who looks sad and blue fight and fuss, she would even callous, you bet your life it could be us a note because we are not trim, we are not slim can everybody use your gym . Where only asking, can everybody use your gym . [applause] thats part one of my presentation, okay. Can you believe thats what we had to do, but using a sense of humor is part of the art of tough. Its better than anger. I once tried anchor when i was a kid, i write about in the book because most of these lessons i learned as a kid, and most of us do. There was a little kid named albert about 11 years old. You know he was little, like little my size little, just little. Of course who does he pick on . Someone his size. He was in my face and saying things and pulling my hair, and he was getting me crazy. I didnt want any part of it. One day we were in the hall, ps 161 in brooklyn, and he just got to me and i did a horrible thing. Horrible. Really. Im not kidding. I took out my number two pencil and stabbed him in the arm. You know, right where you get the vaccination. I can remember it. No one was around. He started to cry. I started to cry, and you know, i was crying because i had lost it. He was crying because he deserved this, and it was a nightmare. So i go home, i thought, okay, he didnt talk about it. I didnt talk about it. That was it, we go home. And he says, in the next day i i come to school. Hes not there. I didnt think anything of it. Hes absent the day after. On the third day i walked home. I had to go through this lot, dirt lot to get home, and his house was on the lot, very small, italianamerican family. Theres a big black crepe over the house. And i say, i must have killed him. I am panicked and i go home, of course my mother says barbara sue which is what she said when she was serious whats wrong with you . You look terrible. So i confessed to the murder. I said, mom, i stabbed albert in the arm with a number two pencil. Hes not in school. I know i killed them. She said, honey, that was a horrible thing. I cant believe you do that. She said i want to tell you something. And this is a rule of the art of tough. You never act like when youre mad like that. You have to think about it, and then you can tell someone off. You can actually tell them to go to hell, and i was shocked she used that. But you can do it in such a nice way they will say thank you. She said, you dont stab people and you dont resort to those things. So she calls up the principal, found out that albert grandfather died. Well, i felt guilty because i was so relieved, you know, felt bad for him. And when he came back actually hug him, but we never talked about anything, and he is staying out of my way. So you dont act out of anger. Now, when i got to the house there were lots of other things to worry about other than not getting in the gym. We had a horrible disease to fight, and that was called aids. And ive represented a district up in Northern California that was heavily impacted, and Ronald Reagan was president. Some of you may have been at the Ronald Reagan speech, and Ronald Reagan come it took him a very long time to understand that this disease needed attention. Because he and his staff would not even say the word aids for so long, and tell rock hudson died of the disease, and then it became real to Ronald Reagan. But before that i was kind of a loan with this handful of people fighting for funding for aids because we couldnt get a penny. And i remember walking in the door to the chairman of the appropriations committee, and he was so old he must have been my age now. But to me he looked so old. And i said, i have to tell you about this terrible disease. I said, i dont think you really know about it because youre from kentucky and you and your enteral digit. He said i dont know much i said its hitting gave people. And he was so incredibly wonderful and he said barbara, i dont care who these people are if you need them and their hurting and their suffering, we will double the funding of age. And he did. Now, he took it from 6 million to 12 million. Now its tens of billions but i was there right in the middle. It was very, very hard. Do you remember c everett coop . What a great come incredible surgeon general, Ronald Reagans surgeon general, very conservative person. But he said he refused to treat this in an ideological way. If people were sick there are going to get treated. But it put me in quite a situation in that period of time when the Reagan Administration wouldnt act because i knew tht you could stop the transmission by the use of condoms. And here i am kind of a middleclass suburban mom and i am now talking about condoms and having to lose my sensibility about what i could say and go to parts of a district and give out materials to save lives because i felt if i didnt do it i would be guilty of, frankly, allowing people to just die when i had the information. Well, it was a lot of prejudice against gave people. It was considered a choice, and when bill clinton put up roberto trachtenberg, she was the first openly gay person or an under sticker terry job. Jesse helms had a nervous breakdown. We never him . I had run, i said i will be his worst nightmare. I wont let them do this. So i went down the floor and jesse helms had said, he called roberta that damn lesbian. Thats what he called her. And it was amazing. We beat him and we put her in as the very first openly gay woman, and it was quite a victory. And jesse helms wagged his finger at me and innocent on a calculator, skipping ahead, he went like this and he said, the world will never forget this day that this woman got disappointment, you know . And i said later in the speech hes right, we wont forget this. We are going to build on this and were going to stop this discrimination. And to have been in this particular time and place when i had a chance, very dear to my heart. [applause] going back to the 80s and the we will leave the 80s and move forward, in addition to the aids crisis, the country was in deep anxiety over the nuclear arms race. Do you remember what that was like . American and soviet union and the missiles facing each other and everybody was scared to death about it. There was a physician, she stil around named helen. Does anybody remember her . She coined the phrase missile in the. She said that america and the ussr had missile in the. They kept building the biggest missiles. Who could have the biggest missiles . They were very destabilizing, and i think sometimes we go through hard times and we will always go through hard times. Were going to sometimes now that our top, tougher than some of us, lest tough on some of us but they are tough. I think we have to remember what times we came through. Some want to redo part of the book. A young woman 16 testified before congress in the height of this nuclear arms race, and this is what she said. I think about the bomb every day. Shes 16. It makes me sad and depressed to think about a bomb ever being dropped. I hope i am with my family. I dont want to die alone. I think about it most on sunny days when im having a good time. I think it could happen now. I often used to think about when i was in school that was built on two levels, and upper level and an underground level. When i was in the classroom underground, i would think about the building crashing down on me and suffocating the if the bomb dropped. I would think about all the air is sucked out of me, and i burned up under the rubble. I want to live longer but at least i have lived this long. I feel the worst for little chilly. Its not their fault that government cant find a way to solve the problems. I think the arms race has gone on too long. I hope you will open your eyes and your minds and stop the arms race for its too late for us. So out of the words of babes, what a powerful commentary and what a lesson to all of us that was. So that period of time was very, very difficult for i think all americans. Because whatever side you on, whatever you, you thought should be done, we all had a fear that something would happen and we would have that. So again i have to deal with this in my way. So i wrote some words, and everything i am singing to you was never sung publicly. It was just sung to colleagues at retreats and things like that. So youre getting a look at that. Theres a tune called ball in the jacket. I wrote this song about, its hard to write a song about this but it did. You will hear it, okay. First you put a missile herein their and pretty soon they are missiles everywhere. Its all okay until they start to blow, and then you turn around, you look around and what did you know . All the trees and buildings, the people, too, all the dogs and cats just to name a few the things we loved, they are no more. And thats what i call nuclear war exchange to think thing about a thing called war but we tried it before. We assured him that grasp and he takes no heat so whats the point to building bombs that we dont need . Stopped all the testing, ask your congressmen to cut off the funding, get a real test ban. Stopped the colleagues one by one and leave our children into the sun [applause] thats part two. Okay, now were moving on, except i have the wrong folder. That cant be right. Just bear with me. I want to get this totally right for you. That wasnt right. Okay. So as we move forward, we get to 9 11. 9 11 was an amazing moment and a frightening moment in history. Now, how did i get to the said it . That something i wanted to share with you. I get to the senate because of one woman, and her name is no. Yes. Who said anita hill . Thank you. Anita hill. You say why . Because of anita hills courage people got to see what . There were no women in the senate virtually, two women, one republican and one democrat women, all men. And anita hill wanted to be heard because she said that she was sexually harassed by a Supreme Court nominee, Clarence Thomas. Im in the house and i am running for senate. I have absolutely no chance of getting there. Zero. I was running against two great democratic eyes, leo mccarthy who you may remember, greatly can accommodate, mel levine, great congressman. And i am an asterisk in the polls. I am so nowhere. But he decide i want to leave the house because it was getting too partisan and it didnt like it Newt Gingrich had come in. It was ugly. It was a politics of destruction. I wanted out. I want a more bipartisanship, which is how it used to be in the senate, whether you believe it or not. So theres anita hill, and she tells her story, but the hearings are shut down. So do you remember that photo of the women members of congress marching overcome some of you remember that say open up the hearings. The picture is in the book and cost us 250, so please buy the book. Just kidding. Online, we march over, knock on the door bottom line with the Democratic Leaders are sitting because they had shut down the hearings. Jill biden was the chairman of the hearing. Knock on the door and a staffer pops out, what do you want . We want, we are seven names of the house, we had 100 years of experience between us. We want the hearings open, just to have her to get a chance to tell her story. No. Not happening. Why . Because the hearings are over. The hearings are over but now you have this information, and they said you cant, the staffer said you cant come in because we dont allow strangers in the senate. [laughter] what do you mean strangers . We are seven women of house and we have 100 years of experience and youre telling us we cant come in. She says, im sorry, i said okay, heres the deal. Look outside. She opened the door. She looks down, theres like 50 cameras there. We are marching debt and with telling them that our own colleagues in the United States senate wont even allow us to have a meeting with george mitchell. She says, wait a minute. George comes out and says okay, we will meet with you your we said senator mitchell, you have to open the hearings. Okay, okay. Okay, okay. So the open up the hearings and anita tells her testimony, and the whole country, whichever side they are on to begin with season theres not even one woman there and the men are pounding on her. Are you a scorned woman, one of them asks . Everybody is counting on her. She gets fairly mistreated, in my opinion, and at the end of the day, heres what i think happened. I dont know this but i know enough now to know it. They opened up the hearing, her testimony was heard, boom, they shut down the hearings. And later i found out that there were many other women that were waiting to corroborate her testimony. So i write in my book the following, i blame myself for not focusing more on what was happening behind the scenes. After we marched up the steps of the senate. I mightve learned in realtime what i learned later, that the committee had refused to allow the testimony of two women, Angela Wright and rose, both of whom were prepared to say that thomas had made unsolicited sexual advances. Moreover, an article in the new yorker and 9 93 of may, may of3 stated that jill biden had abdicated control of the thomas hearings and didnt call for women who traveled all the way to washington to corroborate and leaders claims. And the women claimed that thomas had lied under oath, and it goes on. So i blame myself very much for not focusing more. We marched up the steps, got the hearings. I thought that was it. Looking back i failed to do the follow through. I failed bigtime. Not it wouldve been easy. We women of the house was seen as the enemy. We really were. And enemies of the status quo as the way things were, of the gentlemanly things. I believe even my dear friend joe biden had to succumb to the vast majority of his Committee Members on both sides. Its a long and sad story, and theres even more. In 2010 Clarence Thomas his wife virginia left a Voicemail Message on anita hills office on over a weekend demanding that the professor say she was sorry for accusing her husband of harassing her. This is the message on the machine. I would love you to consider an apology and some full explanation of why you did what you did. So give it some thought, and certainly pray about it and come to understand why you did what you did. I write, and credible, isnt it . Professor hill called the message inappropriate. She reported it to the Security Department who in turn reported it to the fbi. Professor hill said quote, i have no intention of apologizing because i testify truthfully about my experience, and i stand by that testimony. Well, i write, i need hills story touched the hearts of women and caring man across the nation. I definitely wrote that way. It was a rough wave, a very high wave but hope you can understand now why the anita hill case translated into victories for women. Anita hill is an icon who went to hell for coming forward and hope she knows what a different she made, even though Clarence Thomas got confirmed. Major federal laws were passed to address sexual harassment, violencviolence against women p, and the long march to get more women elected to congress kicked into high gear. All because of her courage. Ability to be tough under extraordinary pressure. And i was one of those women who benefited from her particular art of tough. So thats the anita hill story, a story that hugely is important for me. Paul, whats our next thank you for that while i talk to paul. Whats our next step . Right, right, right. Thats great. Perhaps the most difficult issue for me was the war in iraq. When it came to us i knew i could never vote for it, even though 85 of the of the people across the country supported that were at the beginning. And i was shunned the rest. It was a very, very difficult time. Because california lost more than any other state, lost more young men and women than any other state, i carried this in my heart. So i go down to the senate floor to read the names of those who were killed, those who were wounded and their story. I was accused of being too emotional. I wasnt emotional at all. I was reading the names. I never realized until later how tormentors this war was, how tormented this war. I never made so many speeches on the floor as it did of that war. I did every thing try and stop it, and its my biggest failure that i couldnt stop it. I couldnt stop it no matter what i tried to do. And ill give you a taste of some of this in the book. Every time i finished the speech i thought about what i would say in the next one. I asked over and over what the war was going to cost in blood and treasure. I asked what other nations would support us military, militarily . What with the rebuilding of iraq cost the u. S. Taxpayer . How long would our troops stay there . I was worried our troops would be a target for terrorism and that the war was a diversion from the antiterrorism mission that i had voted for to go after bin laden. I railed against the Bush Administration for calling those of us against the war week. We were not weak. We were tough. We were in the minority. We were fighting to end this unjust war. In 2004 i got an amendment through to make sure that injured troops would not have to pay for their own meals. Could you believe they were forced to pay for their own meals when theyre in the hospital . I couldnt believe it. We got that through your i encouraged others to speak out by quoting my hero, one of my heroes dr. Martin luther king who said our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter. Our lies begin to end when we become silent about things that matter. I talked about going up to that room, which was this little room in the capital, to bear witness to the torture photos from abu ghraib. It was one of the most painful experiences i had ever seen. Trent lott, my friend, republican leader for mississippi, was in the room, was very kind to me. She must have watched me sync get in my chair with shock on my face as i saw the photos. He came up to me and he asked me if i was okay. I wasnt. He walked me out of the room, for which i was very grateful. The fact that american soldiers did these things was beyond my imagination, and i realized what a worker due to the best of people. So day after day i did everything i could. I also went right after the people who were on the tv pushing the war, whether it was rumsfeld or whoever it was, or condeleezza rice. That was hard, but i did it because i knew when she went on tv and said unequivocally that every Intelligent Agency agreed that saddam was getting weapons to build a nuclear bomb, i knew that wasnt true. I knew it wasnt true. Because i had classified briefing in the Foreign Relations committee and i saw the intelligence agencies arguing with each other right in front of me. So i tell the story in the book. I called up george tenet was ahead of the cia and i said and i go out and say this is not true wax he says, youre in a catch22. You had a classified briefing. You cannot talk about it. So all i could say was you know, i have reason not to believe that. It was weak but i couldnt do it. So one day in front of the Foreign Relations committee i thought i had to try another approach with condi rice pics of this is what i said. I said, you know something . The sacrifices that are being made in this war, not being made by us, they are being made by the people who are sending their sons and daughters, many of whom are coming back with horrible physical and Mental Illnesses and many of them will never come back. And i said, look, i dont have anybody in the war. I said, my children are too old, my grandchildren are too young, and as far as i know, you dont have any immediate family in the war. I get back to my office. The right wing media has said i attacked condi rice because shes a single woman. Me attacking someone for being a woman and single, really . And it went on for a month. And they said resign, reside, youre a disgrace. Its the whole thing. I said, no, no. Dont cry for me condoleezza. You are the one who told us of aluminum, of serotonin, your truth was halfbaked with yellow cake. Colin powell go without condoleezza, but no not you. You told us nothing that was true. [applause] so for minutes. In my book i talk about the Lessons Learned from the iraqi war. I hope you read them, theres nine of them. In closing, because i have to, i have two more songs. Then is about the Environmental Movement which broke my heart had became part of it. It never was part of it, republicans and democrats and all of a sudden it became not so easy being an environmentalist so i wrote this one. [singing] its not easy being green when people ride their suv and their heat on high and the coulomb low and their rights lights on breaks, everything right. Its not easy being green. Whenpeople laugh at little cars. And you look like your choking at windows and switchgrass all day but reading is always really got. To bring us out of a top spot. It means jobs making roofing and fair weather proofing its true we are shocked. With all the warming heating up and our children, wonder, they wonder. If we will fix the place we gave them and be green and really save them for all time. Its not easy being green. When many hate the epa even though pollutions no solution, it makes kids sick and everything like that. Its not easy being green when people love their their mobile phones and their ipads and their ipods and their candles and everything like that. But green is always really got to bring us out of a tough spot. It means jobs making roofing and fair weather proofing. Its true we are sad. With Global Warming heating up. And our grandkids, they love us, they trust us but they wonder if well all be green and save them for all time. [applause] oh my gosh. So now in the really, really closing i will bring you into a room. I want you to think about this. Of senators who are retiring and we were asked to give a speech by. And as so, id rather sing. So instead of saying too much, thank you its been glorious, i sang this song, this has never ever been heard except by a senator. This is what i did and its also what im saying to you today as goodbye today. [singing] never can say goodbye. Never can say goodbye. When i started all those years ago with harry, chuck and dick no one thought id ever make a mark, i was just a check but even though she stood so strong and women said it was wrong, we proved so much many hearts we touched. And now i never can say goodbye, no. You know i never can say goodbye. Never can say goodbye. But in song, i will try. When diane and i made history in every single state, there came main, new hampshire, washington it was great but our king is not the only thing you see, many strong and wise, oh no, i never can say goodbye now. Oh no, i never can say goodbye. Never can say goodbye. Im afraid i will cry. As i look back on my senate years, i had so many friends. Its hard to think that 24 years on but then again. We brought so many issues to the place where people serve. So that is why, i even though i tried, you know i never can say goodbye now. Oh no, i never can say goodbye, no, no, no. No, i never can say goodbye now. Oh no, i never can say goodbye 32 second breath, thank you so much everybody. Its been a joy. I hope i see you in the signing room, thank you. [inaudible conversation] heres a look at books being published this week. Rhode island senator Sheldon Whitehouse shares his thoughts on how private businesses are influencing government and castor, former executive assistant Ronald Reagan, recounts his residential life and the president will see you now. Another bookbeing released this week , Pulitzer Prize winning journalist ben franklin reports on the climate that mark the