[inaudible conversations] booktv on instagram, follows for publishing news, and behindthescenes pictures and videos, instagram. Com booktv. Next on booktvs thanksgiving Holiday Weekend complete coverage of the fifteenth annual National Book festival held this past september. First Cokie Roberts talks about her book on women in washington d. C. During the civil war era called capital dames the civil war and the women of washington. [applause] thank you. Thank you all for being here this labor day weekend. This book festival is one of the greatest things that happens year in and year out. Hundreds of thousands of people showing up. To celebrate books and to buy them. What a concept, children and families, usually my grandchildren are with me but i am going to catch the plane and go see them in a minute. It is a wonderful event, i write the history books, often many of the characters in my history books are political wives and it was a political wife who started this book festival, laura
It was at a student political meeting in ohio in 1962, the summer between my sophomore and junior years of a college, and we were writing notes back and forth to each other during some very important session or whatever students do, and he had something sort of typically 19yearold boy pompous, and i wrote back, im the youngest of five. I have an insane family. Host who are they . Guest my family is a wonderful family. My father and mother were some of the most dedicated public servantses in the history of the country, and my father, hail boggs, elected before i was born. 26 years old. My mother was 24. They had a baby girl, the day of his elects, and eight days later a baby boy, and they came here, and i think about it now, you know, in my old age, and think about these kids coming to washington. In this day and age theyd still be on their Parents Health insurance, and there they were, the member of congress and his wife. Of course they werent kids in that era. They were fully grownup
Book i am the youngest child of the family. Guest i said that to him when we were first meeting each other it was that wasnt a student political meeting in ohio in 1962. We were writing notes back and forth to each other and he had something a sort of typical 19yearold boy and i wrote back. My family has a wonderful family. My father and mother are some of the most dedicated Public Servants in the history of the country. My father was elected in congress in 1940 before i was born there yet he was 26yearsold. My mother was 24. They had a baby girl and eight days later a baby boy. They came here and i think about it now in my old age and think about these kids coming to washington in this day and age age they would still be on their Parents Health insurance and there they were the members of congress and his wife so of course they were not scared to leave cocaine. But here it was the world war ii washington. And it was very similar to the period of washington that i write about in my his
That one lane is blocked. Taking a live look, it doesnt seem to be too terrible at least right now. Single tracking. 66 is oklahoma. No problems on 95. Same thing when youre looking at prince georges county. No actual incidents. Starting to get the typical slowdowns. Its 6 00 a. M. After all. Ill see you shortly for travel time. Were following breaking news out of mali where theres a hostage situation at a hotel. Were getting new information. An Army Commander said 20 hostages were let go 20 minutes ago. That means still 150 people are being held hostage by gunmen at the Radisson Blu Hotel right now. Guests and employees. Gunmen stormed the hotel, throwing grenades. No words on whether americans are inside of the hotel. But here is a tweet from the u. S. Embassy in mali on high a ale alert, of course. It says u. S. Embassy staff has been asked to shelter and place americans. All should shelter in place. The hotel attack in mali is a fluid situation and well get the news to you as we ge
What the war was over was about the continues to play out in a variety of different ways. My real question is on the 1903 world series. To counterfactuals. Even if mcclellan had won that election he would not have taken office until march 4, 1865 when the war was virtually over. Over. Do you really think he would have exceeded to the southern demands that they be aa separate country . And if lincoln had gone on with the radicals have done to him at least a modified form of what they did to johnson . Let me just say one thing that will connect baseball to lincoln i can do that. Theres a wonderful political culture that shows Lincoln Holding a bat and the other three candidates holding balls using baseball is a metaphor for which candidate should be elected. Elected. Lincoln is talking about striking the ball fair and hitting a home run lincoln wrote a blonde memoranda beforehand saying in the event he lost he felt it would be his duty before the inauguration of the next president to res