Well, now you have triplets. They do so much for coming. We will be outside signing a book. Im sorry. Right over here signing a book. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] coming up next on book tv, jo becker writes about the fight to legalize samesex marriage in her book forcing the spring. Then edward klein. And former washington d. C. Merit to the mayor talks about his new autobiography mayor for life. Cspan2 providing live coverage of the Senate Floor Proceedings and keep Public Policy events and every weekend book tv now for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by the cabletv industry and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable satellite provider. Watch in hd, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Pulitzer prizewinning reporter jo becker wrote a book forcing the spring chronicling the political and legal fight overseeing samesex marriage paris she recently discussed her book and Marriage Equ
To all this because they believed if people could get to know the four plaintiffs, if they could see what they went through over the course of these five years, that win or lose it would educate people. Win or lose it would move people and make them see this issue in a different light. How hard was it to choose the plaintiffs indicates . Normally you think, theres a couple of people who want to get married and hire a firm. This idea was the opposite. You had essentially chad griffin who is gay sitting watching the elections returns come in on election night. And barack obama makes history. You know, hes the first africanamerican president elected. Chat as a democrat. He wants to celebrate, but hes watching on his computer screen as the numbers roll in. Proposition eight was at the ballot, Vote Initiative essentially strip gay and lesbians of the right to marry in california. They briefly enjoy that right after the California Supreme Court said it was a matter of state constitution. The
Department of recreation. Every student in the top 10 . Were going to bring some of that back. We have term for one more question. He started to nine sing one of the reasons you wrote the book, question springs from that what you think is the biggest misconception that people have . The biggest misconception is that most of my life is taken up with junk and scandals and alleged corruption. Most of the no because i even in d. C. 152nd sound bite. And nationally the United States government. Beset that tape to every ambassador in the world cannot to every president of every country in the world, sent it to the other propaganda arm of the u. S. Government. It ran on television. But this so many have contributed to it, too. And that is all part of it. I am not fazed by it. Washington d. C. , as long as it gives them some hope that some help. I dont care. [applause] i dont care. The wanted thank you so much for coming here tonight. I also wanted to give you this is actually a very precious
clapping . Thank you so much clapping . Wow. Welcome to the peoples house of San Francisco. Historic. Historic day today for all of us for the struggles for many, many years i want to thank all of you for sharing this historic moment in San Francisco, california. Wow. Its been a long road. Many years but gosh it feels good to have love triumph overcome ignorance to have equal it triumph over discrimination to have that diagrams end right here in San Francisco. Wonderful, wonderful. Its a great place to be today in this hall where so many marriages have taken place and so many people have loved each other. Were the very first one with phyllis. Thank you phyllis thank you very, very much. And many more weddings to the celebrated in San Francisco many more. I know all of you have had some of those feelings before just maybe over 9 years ago and, of course, in 2008 when i had the prim of sharing that moment. I want to thank all the people behind me its an incredible history. Mayor willie b
Presiding. Truman never learned anything from fdr or from staff. It was a transition with zero knowledge. That doesnt happen anymore. Got a phonecall from the white house, get to the phone right away so he picked up the phone and on the other and they said get to the white house as soon as you can. So he grabbed his hat and dashed out and he had a car of course. They gave him a chauffeur when he was Vice President. Went to the white house and was taken upstairs to the second floor. He was met by eleanor roosevelt, and he looked up and she said harry, the president is dead. He was in total shock and he said, what can i do for you . And she said, harry, what can we do for you . You are in trouble now. Now a forum on how the election affected the lesbian lesbians gay and transsexual population. This is an hour and a half. I have one roll tonight. My job is to welcome you. Thanks for coming tonight. Several months ago when my good friend said to me would you mind posting the postelection p