in 2011 i invited mrs. bush to kick off an event in houston. she said why would you want me? i never worked a day in my life. she had a way of poking fun at herself. the point she was making she had never actually earned a paycheck. everything she did in her life she did for charity. all book donations and all charitable work she did not because she was working but i asked her because i thought she would have such wonderful advice for professional women that were getting their career started and she didn t disappoint that night at all. bill: one of the lines she gives in her speech to graduates, cherish your human connections. think about that. this was a woman who was all about people. she was all about her husband. she doesn t have the life she has without him and he doesn t have the life he had without her. they fell in love when she was 16 and he was 17. she happened to be on christmas vacation from the school she
many of the books from the library were just destroyed and most of the equipment and the structures necessary to put the library together were missing. they said among that stuff that was missing was all of the reference section, they were particularly upset by that. here s a photo posted of a bible that looks to have been very much damaged. the occupy wall street librarians say more or may not be coming out of a giant trash pile at the back of the building. we asked the mayor s office for permission, again, today to go inside the sanitation garage on 57th street to look at the library to get our own photos of it. the mayor s office declined to give us that çpermission. when the occupy wall street librarians got back into zuccotti park, they started the library up all over again, started taking in book donations again. tonight they tell us they were back up to 100 newly donated books. but they say police told them they had 15 minutes to remove them tonight. when they didn t, police a
librarians who went to retrieve the library reported back that many of the books from the library were just destroyed and most of the equipment and the structures necessary to put the library together were missing.ç they said among that stuff that was missing was all of the reference section, they were particularly upset by that. here s a photo posted of a bible that looks to have been very much damaged. the occupy wall street librarians say more or may not be coming out of a giant trash pile at the back of the building. we asked the mayor s office for permission, again, today to go inside the sanitation garage on 57th street to look at the library to get our own photos of it. the mayor s office declined to give us that permission. when the occupy wall street librarians got back into zuccotti park, they started the library up all over again, started taking in book donations again. tonight they tell us they were back up to 100 newly donated books. but they say police told them
the library reported back that many of the books from the library were just destroyed and most of the equipment and the structures necessary to put the library together were missing. they said among that stuff that was missing was all of the reference section, they were particularly upset by that. ible that looks to have been very much damaged. the occupy wall street librarians say more or may not be coming out of a giant trash pile at the back of the building. we asked the mayor s office for permission, again, today to go inside the sanitation garage on 57th street to look at the library to get our own photos of it. the mayor s office declined to give us that permission. when the occupy wall street librarians got back into zuccotti park, they started the library up all over again, started taking in book donations again. tonight they tell us they were back up to 100 newly donated books. but they say police told them they had 15 minutes to remove them tonight.
let s further this subject. a new program aimed at boosting literacy is using book donations as a way to clog the gap. this summer, a million books, launched by the nonprofit literacy groups to put 1 million new brand new books in hands of children across the country by september 8th. now a new report from the group shows that the single most effective way to prepare young children for success in schools is to simply read to them out loud everyday. i m joined by reach out and read s ceo earl martin fphalin, and i was reading through this earlier, and it is interesting the simplicity of just reading to children. yes, thank you, richard. reach out and read addresses the issue that 35% of the young people in the united states show up to kindergarten with significantly below grade level meaning that they don t know the