Weve partnered with cox to communications to learn about the history and literary life of tulsa, oklahoma,. Woody guthrie is the most famous for his writing of this land is your land but he was very much more than that. He was born in 1912, and so were very proud to have his work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. He was an advocate for people who were disenfranchised, for those people who were Migrant Workers from oklahoma, kansas and texas during the dust bowl era who are found themselves in california literally starving. Antisaw this vast difference between those who were the house and the house not and he became their spokesman through the his music. He recorded very key songs of his own very few songs of his own. We have a listing station that features for six of his own song in his own voice. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island watch all of our events from tulsa saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv and sunday afternoon
Youre so gracious. Carry pop back to the earlier panel real quick . Engaging. You are very accessible in terms of answering questions and how are you doing this and what are people wearing. ,y question for this panel is how many people are in the press corps . Is about 40, im guessing. I wouldve thought twice as many. Peoplee are a number of who wear multiple hats. You could be sent off to boston and all the sorts of things. We are all aware of the strains that journalistic institutions and the media are under and the need to have fewer people covering more things. Technology can help with that. The number of people in the press room who are devoted to the Supreme Court correspondence has gone down materially. The core people you rely on, that you have known like these , those institutions remain committed. There are a lot of regional papers that have completely , some of theerage Television Networks have retrenched considerably. It is a smaller and smaller group. When i read something
Signature issue as first lady. Campaigner,tural successful businesswoman and husband,tner to her Lyndon Johnson. You the storytell of Claudia Taylor johnson known ourady bird, the wife of 36th president. Here to tell her story are Cokie Roberts, political commentary for abc news and npr, also the books, founding mothers and ladies of liberty. Curly is an expert of working on a biography Lady Bird Johnson. I want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 week, this is an administration birthed in national tragedy. The immediate challenges for the brand new the firstle in terrible days after the assassination of kennedy. It was enormous. Nobody knew if it was a widespread plot so the country was in terror for a period of had to be both taking over and making sure that peaceful transition of power without seeming to take the image ofof kennedys out the of the way so they had to be very, very careful in how they handled it and Lyndon Johnson birdery lucky he had lady to help him with t
I think bureaucrats today are really politicians with tender. Thats whats happened or they havent become civil servants. They become politicians of tenure. I dont know how were going to do it. The state to become less and less important. These 50 places of experimentation are being shut down. I think it has to start in washington first. I think washington is the key to unleashing these 50 places that can really produce innovation. I think washington is where it has to start and filter down. Final question or was that it . Thank you again. Thank you for joining in the big tent. [applause] copies of the book our personal. He can state an autographed impartially and even wander outside. We do thank you for your kind attention. Hope to see you again soon in the future. Thank you all. [inaudible conversations] on the go, afterwards is available via podcast. Visit booktv. Org and click podcast on the upper left side of the page. Select which podcast youd like to download and listen while you
What solution is there . Even if you had a fair tax or flat tax, youve still got to have an i. R. S. And i love Arthur Laffer, reagans economic advisor, he said, you dont have to have the i. R. S. Do away with it. The problem with the i. R. S. Is of course theyre going to get arrogant because they pick who theyre going to audit, just like weve seen with all these abuses, they put they pick what all they are going to audit, just as weve been hearing, they get so intrusive, so personal, and then they decide what your punishment is going to be. Theres no other area in america, and i sure dont think the think the founders anticipated that the i. R. S. Or any entity would exist that could be the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and the executioner all. And thats why Arthur Laffer says, you need to get rid of the i. R. S. And have an Auditing Agency thats a fraction of the size of the i. R. S. , they dont get to pick who they audit, thats done completely at random they never get to pick who