Good afternoon. Welcome to our session with the author, mark k. Shriver. My name is dan. My wife and i are the proud parents of three k School Graduates and im the dean of the law school at cass university. Withbe get started, a few reminders. Please be sure that your cell phones are turned off or in the silent mode. After i introduce mr. Shriver our program today will follow a question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washin
Question and answer format to facilitate our discussion. I will be asking questions for the first 30 minutes or so, then for the next 40 minutes well turn the program over to you, members of the audience to ask questions. Youll be invited to come to the microphone ther center of the room. Whenout your turn, please fivous and briefly, briefly, ask you question. Immediately after we conclude mr. Shriver will be available in the activity building to sign copies of his book. Mark shriver is the author of the book toy pilgrimage my search for the real pope fran tis president of the save the Children Network in washington, dc and a form maryland state legislator, this is mr. Shriver res second book. Er is first book a good man, rediscovering my father, Sergeant Shriver was a New York Times and Washington Post best seller. Mr. Shriver has a wife and three children. For those who have not yet read the book i thought i would share with you a review about the book which will give you an introduc
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Should get together with each other and say what do we want and then make it known and then illustrate by your example that you can have a home life and work life. One of my former had three young children, a day schedule. There happy with her work. She has a whole library of work at her fingertips at home. It should be much easier to have a balanced life that once was, but dont be shy about speaking up. Have company when you do so so you are not a lone voice. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Our civil rights leaders and great nicknames, all these wonderful things, and thanks everyone for coming. Enjoy the rest your week. [applause] book tv is on twitter and facebook. We want to hear from you. Treat us, twitter. Com book tv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com book tv. Doctor carla, can you remember the first moment that you were asked about being a librarian of congress. I can remember that moment because i was surprised. I had been advising and consulting b
Thats not the case in New Hampshire, but more the case in South Carolina. New hampshire is not a good state no ted cruz, thats going to be difficult going forward. For donald trump, he receive a lot of criticism for finishing second and questions about his campaign. You know, hes still the leader in the polls in New Hampshire and theres still pressure on him to do well in New Hampshire, marco rubio. The fact he finished third in iowa, sort of a very chose third in iowa to donald trump, now the pressure shifts marco rubio and we saw it in his acceptance speech monday night, talking about broader themes and being the nominee and trying to unite the party. Theres pressure now on marco rubio, even though he has momentum. Ron just think, any other year, marco rubio would have been enough votes from the caucuses to win the caulks, but there was a caucus, but there was a record republican turnout this year and this was given the fact that there was going to be a new president. That was an int