Program that is informative and highly entertaining. These guys know how to tell a story, and it is a rare treat to have the curtain pulled back by the people that protect the president and the first lady. There is three former secret Service Agents. His role in stopping an assassination attempt. It was the security chief with the United States olympic committee. Joe clancy is with us tonight. He served for president bush, or trailblazer, mrs. Bush was tempo. His nearly 30 year career culminated in 2015 when president obama named joe the 24th director of the u. S. Secret service. So he was in charge. Today he is the chief Security Officer at comcast corporation. Nick trotta is here. They worked on large scale events like leader summits. Post 9 11 travel including trips to iraq and afghanistan that you will hear about tonight. He was in Yankee Stadium as president bush through out the first pitch before game three in the world series. Also tonight, spencer geissinger. He was under advan
Attendance. Knowing our panelists who will be out here in a minute, tonight is going to be one of those engage programs that is both informative and highly entertaining. These guys know how to tell a story. And its a rare treat to have the curtain pulled back from those who are on the front lines of protecting the president and the first family. Were honored to be joined tonight by three former secret Service Agents whose combined years of Service Almost approach 82 years. Im privileged to have Larry Buendorf with us, 22year veteran of the secret service. Larry was honored with the secret Service Valor Award for his role in stopping an assassination attempt on president gerald ford in september of 1975 in sacramento. Later, larry served 25 years as the security chief with the United States olympic committee. Joe clancy is with us tonight. Joe served on the protective details of four president s, including president bush, or trailblazer, as he would have called him by his secret service
In countless ways. The works of shakespeare, toni morrison, Jason Reynolds and Michelle Obama are of fire richer experience hard and silently read. Guest you are constantly listening and ill get my own fine and i think it might have some characters. I think it is less of myself as a poet who performs, and out is myself being like, let me hold your hand and tell you this thing i heard once. It is guiding people but in a different way. If i dont give everybody, the utmost respect and understanding and compassion and empathy, i am not doing justice to this book. Studies have shown the listening to audiobooks is more Emotional Experience and stories shared through other mediums. Is none of your book but it has the best of both worlds. It is a very intimate form of experience in the start because you actually human being giving the story to you. Noi absolutely love that. Tearing this how the person is telling thest story. Hearing your novel read aloud and bring transformed into an audiobook
Tran11 primetime, tonight 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Lets more people expense great stories. For people who cant read yet. You are off the reason that 50 of americans listen to an audiobook in 2019, so heres to all of you, heres two amazing audiobooks and heres to 25 years of the audio world. Ladies and document, we are thrilled to introduce this evening im a master of ceremonies, the witty and wonderful mr. Rocca. A correspondent for cbs sunday morning. Frequent catalyst on npr show, dont tell me. Is the author and narrator of the recent New York Times bestseller, obituary. I audio. Hes also the host of the podcast. We are excited to have him as our host this evening. Without further ado, mo rocca. [cheering] [applause] thank you, thank you. This is kind of a dream for me, i have to say. [cheering] here i am in this fabulous venue in front of this crowd and stephen king is here. [cheering] [applause] i feel like carrie when she was asked to prom. [laughter] anyway, i think given the
Stanley cup or whatever . Well, today the president had one of those for himself. He invited himself to the white house for a big stack of cheeseburgers. If youve wondering what the president s mood would be after his acquittal yesterday, it was this. This is really not a news conference. Its not a speech. Its not anything. Its just were sort of its a celebration. Because we have something that just worked out. I mean, it worked out. We went through hell, unfairly. Did nothing wrong. Did nothing wrong. Ive done things wrong in my life, i will admit. Not purposely, but ive done things wrong. But this is what the end result is. [ cheers and applause ] you can take that home, honey, maybe well frame it. Jimmy donald trump is the only person who would celebrate almost being thrown out of the white house. [ laughter ] he ranted and raved for more than an hour this afternoon, airing every grievance, grinding every ax. It was his pettysburg address. [ laughter ] and he took shots at those he