Thank you very much, its been a pleasure. [applause] if you would like to have your book signed or meet him, he will be over there signing books and you can get them here or take them upstairs or if you have them with you thats fine too. Thank you so much for coming. I really appreciate it. [applause] [inaudible conversation] this is book tv on cspan2 and we want to know what is on your Summer Reading list. Send us your choices at booktv is our handle. You can also posted on facebook or send an email to book tv at cspan. Org. Whats on your Summer Reading list . Book tv wants to know. Congressman gerry connolly, what are you reading . I just finished Richard Reeves book on president kennedy, profile profile and power. Excellent book, a delight to read. He got to be rather critical of jfk, but the maturation of this man in his all too brief time in the oval office, nonetheless, pretty admirable. Having lived through those days as a young person, it was a delight, really, to to go back an
Verizon have in place to protect the information you get from consumers and customers and how is that information used . Guest that is a good question. We have a Privacy Policy in place that covers how we use customer information. The whole list of different issues. And a whole gamut especially. The line drawing at the fcc is exercising is trying to figure out where do we give customers notice and opt out. We have had to make those calls over the years. We spend a lot of time on privacy. A chief privacy officer reports to me. We spend a lot of time on that. Very important to the company. We have a lot of different consumers and we have a policy we post on our website. We give customers separate notices. When they change the policy. There is a lot of information we are providing to customers and trying to make clear how their information is used, how it is collected and what we do with it. Host do customers read the long, privacy forms . Guest they do. We spend a lot of time explaining
Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
Doing fine. But what they are learning every day. In those letters are absolutely phenomenal. As the harvard medical school. Host the last question or comment who was the last president to write his own speeches . Order your thoughts on the gaggle of writers and handlers for modern president s . My guess is theodore roosevelt. With the power the president to communicate it is somewhat diminished by that that is not to say they have written some of the most powerful parts of the speeches they have made kennedy was a very good writer in the speech from the car and not from the script some president s have had wonderful writers for their scrips and Ronald Reagan had peggy noonan and george h. W. Bush when he became president and they were writing speeches. Words are much more important than many people realize. Using words is a huge part of leadership. To all have that power of communication and with the door in thing full franklin roosevelt. Could we still the maltese following generatio
Them and she had and how do we fight this sort of forces that fight and can some ways selfishness or selfjustification and societally how do we stop this inventing in our schools and education . This is the institution which record providing the american dream, the only semifunctional one. I wonder to what extent we reduce the problem to how we make the schools better. Why . The answer comes back to kids. When you see Public School students, you understand they are being largely deprived of opportunities that should be theirs. Those schools need attention. They need funding. They need political will and people to come teach even if they dont teach all that well. For a time. I think we are about out of time. Thank you all for coming and for participating. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] congressman said break away the recommendations for books on your website . Ive always been a big part of my life and i was actually a pretty Smart Communications is idea b