Libraries. I like to own t they might loan me a book or Something Like that. I do go to bookstores and just browse like everybody else. I read reviews. And you know, i just see something or hear something, there is no particularly systematic way. Or i decide i want to, you know, i want to read something on fillintheblank. You just go to the internet and pop up something about this and there you go. And then i try, if i am going to have an opportunity to meet an author, the other night at the library of congress, we had this president ial series that they are doing and i didnt have a chance to meet him but i was an admirer of evan thomas who wrote a book i friend of mine got me that was autographed from him. So i wanted to make sure i read being nixon which is one of the best and sympathetic portraits of Richard Nixon i have ever read. One of the nice things in this business is you have those opportunities more than others do. Host on the night evan thomas was at the library of congress
Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
President s . Guest quite a few. My taste is about the same as everybody else. Well, maybe not. I will grant you theres been about on him and eisenhower. Again, you do get some wonderful privileges. She was kind enough to invite me the chief of staff another dear friend to come out to gettysburg to get a personal tour of the eisenhower postpresident ial homestead. And it was wonderful. It was one memory after another. Here is where i met khrushchev and the house. We were talking and i actually got close to the plane and 59. My dad was a Master Sergeant in the air force base and i will bl never forget us going out there to look at the plane that had brought Nikita Khrushchev to the united states. He was the most Senior Master on the base. It was wonderful. What a treat. Their grandmother and grandfather and what it was like and see the things in the home but have a personal hunch this is where i used to sit when my grandmother was doing this, that and the other. Host i dont know if you
Them and she had and how do we fight this sort of forces that fight and can some ways selfishness or selfjustification and societally how do we stop this inventing in our schools and education . This is the institution which record providing the american dream, the only semifunctional one. I wonder to what extent we reduce the problem to how we make the schools better. Why . The answer comes back to kids. When you see Public School students, you understand they are being largely deprived of opportunities that should be theirs. Those schools need attention. They need funding. They need political will and people to come teach even if they dont teach all that well. For a time. I think we are about out of time. Thank you all for coming and for participating. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] congressman said break away the recommendations for books on your website . Ive always been a big part of my life and i was actually a pretty Smart Communications is idea b
Transcripts For CSPAN U 20160211 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.