Tree, what kind of tree would you be . It was like a hardhitting interview question. President bush says well barbara, i am not a tree. I am a bush. [applause] and i said i am voting for him. So living life with that gentle, witty human it has been a plus to be around him and embrace my own humility and the importance of character. Elections are about character. The people you surround yourself with their character sticks out. I didnt realize i wrote a book about this until megyn kellys husband said this is a parent book about living with character and surrounding yourself with people of character. So i had worked on many other books. Before i was a White House Press secretary i was a deputy. I always say take a deputy job. You work holidays and weekends but you get to know the boss and learn the job so when there is an opportunity you can step up. I left the white house and i was called upon to work on doing publicity for karl roves book, laura bushs book and i got a call from 43 and
That. The guy who edits president bush, keep him in mind. He knew me and asked if i had a book. And he said what about your stories and he said you tell Great Stories about president bush. And i remembered i took the from the amtrak train and it was in my wallet for three years. All of a sudden i pulled it out and said i have do this. This is my book proposal a. Ripped up piece of paper folded in my wallet for three years. Sean looked at it and said leave this with me and went to this bosses and said we should do a book and they said that book will never sell and if you want to do something political we will help you. I said i am not doing that. I was a little humilitated. And then sean went to another publisher, my publisher. He said what if you did your book here. His team gave him a lot of room to run and he helped me structure the book. I wanted to fill in the gaps of history about president bush and provide mentoring advice to young people who didnt go to Ivy League Colleges or yo
In the govern class and had faith they deserved to be there and because of that they treated the men who were in the powerful role as if they, the women, were equal to the man. Because they treated the men as equal when the men pressed oconnor and ginsburg to admit they were inferior they took offense. And when they took offense they were so selfdisciplined they only took revenge when it would be effective. The classic example is the dean at Harvard Law School asked ms. Ginsburg in 1957 what she was doing taking up the place of a man at harvard and she said she thought she should anyhow as much as possible about her husbands work who was year ahead of her. After the womans movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the story on the dean so many times he wrote to the harvard newspaper saying she he was only kidding. How did they get to where they were . Part of it was life on the ranch and part is Ruth Bader Ginsburg is smarter than any woman i have heard of. Host did Sandra Day Oconnor sit dow
Cooperation, trade and north korea, in particular the fate of a pair of japanese hostages held by the regime. They are ready to break for lunch. Tpp and trade almost certain to come up in the conversation in particular tpp. You and i have talked about that at length since this president s come into office, hes made it very clear hes not a very big fan of the multinational trade deal. Let me tell you what he had to say about it. He said, listen, while japan and south korea would like us to go back into tpp, i dont like the deal for the United States. Due to contingencies and no way to get out if it doesnt work. Bilateral deals are far more efficient, profitable and better for our workers. Look how bad wto is to u. S. So while Prime Minister abe may not convince our president to rejoin the multinational pacific trade deal, he is hoping that mr. Trumps tone in his meeting coming up with kim jongun, per happens in june, will reflect the longstanding relationship with tokyo. Japan and ourse