And worked on kennedys campaign. All of these people help make me the people that i am today. Youve a lot of people here at the National Book festival watching it right now. A bunch of young people here as well. What do you tell them . Their parents want to know. Thank you for being here. Stay in school get the best possible education that you can get be helpful, be optimistic and be happy. Dont get lost in the sea of despair. Here is the book. As the illustrator. Nominated a frat National Book award. This is again a book three representative lewis has written to others in graphic novel form. For longer conversation with congressman lewis. They sat down with him for three hours on her our indepth program. If you go to our website type and representative john lewis include the word book otherwise you will get all sorts of videos from the sea stand archives we sat down for three hours. You can put them together, you can put freemarket economics and your values together and your politics
In this book is clearly a book about water, but as youve sensed, its also a book about Climate Change and about biodiversity and about peace and conflict and food security. So what i do in the book is i explore how water connects with all those different facets of our challenges and also explore how water literacy, understanding how water works, how water moves across the landscape and through the atmosphere can help us better address these concerns. Pause its no news to because its no news to any of you that we do have a lot of really, really difficult challenges before us. But we are not going to resolve those challenges with a visual graph, you know . Im thinking of the keeling curve. Were not going to really get at these problems by, by missing were not going to, were not going to get there from, um, from scientific research, you know, from peerreviewed studies in part because of the politicization of agricultural science and also because most research is not out in the real world.
[inaudible] [inaudible] what will your plan be. [inaudible] with that help increase marriage incentive. [inaudible] as we run through the alternative of what this will do for marriage and there are different outcomes for different people. Ive noted a couple things that i think would be incentives and one of those has to do with children, having children. From the womans point of view, today, having a baby creates an income stream. Im not making any collateral statements about her getting pregnant so she can get the money, im saying having a baby creates an income stream. Under ubi, having a baby creates a drain on the income supply and thats how it should be. Having having a baby should be something that is this is something we want to do and we know its going to cost us money. For the guys its different. We now have a system where you cannot enforce Child Support because either he has no income or whatever. Under this system he has a known bank account with electronic to deposits and
He was found to have this exceptional knowledge of all of the battles that they were studying in military art. And was soon conducting extra instruction sections for all the upperclassmen who had commended there. As a fall out of that it was that the word got to some of the faculty and he actually i dont know that much more about it that he actually ended up lecturing the faculty at least on one occasion. So sandy graduated in 1968. Right into the vietnam war. He is reminded of his tour in vietnam every time he goes through Airport Security and they detect all of the metal that is left in him. And sandy we wont tell the whole story behind this acquitted himself extremely well in vietnam and i think you will notice in his lapel he wears the silver start which he earned during that tour. After he was medically retired and he is the junior a junior man in the room he likes to say captain u. S. Army retired and he began to pursue to include writing as one of his most prolific talent i thin