[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause]. Thank you so much. My name is arlo haskell and on the executive director of the key west literary seminar. [applause]. Before i get started let me make one quick housekeeping announcement. We are going to do the question and answer session a bit differently today. There will be stationary microphones any child and if you would like to ask a question you should get up out of your seat and come to the microphone when we get to that point. Okay. It is a pleasure to welcome you all to the San Carlos Institute and to the 35th annual key west literary seminar revealing power, the literature of that politics. This sunday afternoon session is free and open to the public. That is our gift to the community. It wouldnt be possible without the gifts many others have made to us at support our operations throughout the year. I would like to thank pay the peggy hallmark in the homeric t
Foley from florida said it was the worst experiences in his life. In order to get the single vote they needed to get the fast track through the house to allow the trade agreement, someone is paying attention to politics, they would say look we do not have broad societal support for full speed pedal to the metal liberalization. Maybe we should slow down and listen. You can watch this and other programs on my booktv that org. Good afternoon. I am here with gail collins. I dont think i have to introduce gil collins. She is the columnist for the New York Times now while many other points of her career, which i want to get to during this conversation, im going to leave sometime at the end for questions. I wanted to say this panel, i titled it, its called dancing backwards and it comes from a quote, i dont know if you remember bill ruckelshaus, he was in the nixon administration, and his wife was also a policymaker and a woman of some influence patchy said it occurred to me when i was 13, we
Or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Ladies and gentlemen, Barbara Boxer. [applause] well with my husband . High. Today is our wedding anniversary. [applause] jamie, only for you what i do this by 56 wedding anniversary, but yeah, i know. 55 years to one guy. Its amazing. Im so thrilled to be with you today. And interesting time, dont you think . Yes. Somebody said oh, please. Its an interesting time. Jamie, before you leave there you are. Jamie and debbie and everyone in the Rancho Mirage writers festival, so professional and so helpful and thank you for everything. Stu and i about 12 years ago we bought a house in Rancho Mirage. Its such a special place. It already had sunny land, this library. Now the writers festival. [applause] that really made my day. What more could we want . Im going to talk about this book. It took before used to write this book. This was an effort of love and effort of memory and i have been published before. This is my fourth publish
Part for journalists in America Thanks to her mustread column times, talking of the road not taken, even a quiet life is a barkeepers life back in clare. Talking about your mother, your family, your irishness. Ms. Dowd that would be my dads family. Mr. Lamb what about the most powerful journalist in america . Ms. Dowd that is what irishamerica would say. [laughter] dowd i am sure there is another magazine that thinks paul krugman is and another that thinks Paul Friedman is. They were giving a boost to one of their own. Mr. Lamb how important is it to be irish . Ms. Dowd it gets more important as i get older, funny enough. When i was small, my dad would make us recite irish poetry into one of the old initial tape recorders. My brothers name is kevin barry, so he would have to recite barry and i would have to recite things, you know, at the time, a lot of it seemed kind of corny, but as you get older, and now the nation is obsessed with ancestry and of finding out things, as you get olde
Part for journalists in America Thanks to her mustread column times, talking of the road not taken, even a quiet life is a barkeepers life back in clare. Talking about your mother, your family, your irishness. Ms. Dowd that would be my dads family. Mr. Lamb what about the most powerful journalist in america . Ms. Dowd that is what irishamerica would say. [laughter] dowd i am sure there is another magazine that thinks paul krugman is and another that thinks Paul Friedman is. They were giving a boost to one of their own. Mr. Lamb how important is it to be irish . Ms. Dowd it gets more important as i get older, funny enough. When i was small, my dad would make us recite irish poetry into one of the old initial tape recorders. My brothers name is kevin barry, so he would have to recite barry and i would have to recite things, you know, at the time, a lot of it seemed kind of corny, but as you get older, and now the nation is obsessed with ancestry and of finding out things, as you get olde