Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. After hearing her talk, id bought six more copies. I bought them for all my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you it was a good investment. It helps me better understand my own family and many mysteries surrounding my own family. Rachel l. Swamss book is a comp
Yeah. I think that we really do have a huge opportunity here, and the more we learn about this country is the more we see that it can be transformed in the blink of an eye. They could increase their Energy Efficiency by 50 in five years. Bit of to use every leverage that we have in order to help them accomplish our goal. That is what is going to keep gazprom up at night with nightmares. Thats why china looms large. They will see a market shrinking dramatically and their geopolitical leverage as well because that is what it is really all about. When you talk about syria or iraq or libya, unfortunately oil underlies a lot of each of those regions, and here, we really get a chance to do something for them that makes them selfsustaining. My hope is that we can talk about this issue on a bipartisan basis and the committee and get right at the heart of their weakness, get right at the heart of what this whole story is about, which is their necessity today of importing natural gas, but it is
Is always more that could be put in. Commandeers from the time you had to leave the department to get the book published how many years did this take . One year after i was disabled from the job and had a heart attack was the year i wrote the book it took 12 years to get the book published but an author writes with longevity in mind i had published several other books prior to this and i am always writing a new title all the time i have three books ready to go now and one book i wrote that many years ago as well glading to be published it is a combat war book from vietnam. It is in the same spirit of this one. It is great to see wonderful old friends and colleagues. I cannot tell you what a great thing if it is. My question is from your vietnam experience out of curiosity have to be here are from vietnam . Quite a few. Talking about your bronze star would it bother you to tell you how you got it . Mcfadyen said good question. I was of the first recall a marine corps combat for a man an
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He likes this, number one. Number two, this president really is not a president of governance. He is a president who goes with a kneejerk reaction in a lot of instances, but hes also a man who feels that his base is with him. He is not the establishment. He is pushing the envelope. And this might just push it too far, if he does indeed fire Robert Mueller as special counsel in this probe into the russia investigation, thats dealing with issues of obstruction of justice possibly as well as collusion. It seems like that all of this is making the president s own making, these problems. Because hes the one who started tweeting about these things. Rod rosenstein chose to, i guess, fire him. But to hire mueller after the president fired comey. This is the president s own making, crest. Right, it is. But the thing that i think we need to understand is that some of this continues to be within his power. The attorney general can, you know, and the Deputy Attorney general still report to the pre