Lessons she learned as first lady as well as her time in the white house attending meetings, working on Mental Health issues, and working alongside her husband, former president jimmy carter. Rosalynn carter, do you remember when you and president carter started having conversations about him running for president . What was that like . What was that conversation . It was very interesting. We had a friend that wrote and told jimmy that he thought he ought to run for president. Well, we couldnt even say the word, that my husband is running for, well, i didnt tell anybody because we kept it very quiet. But then once he decided that he would do it, that was when i couldnt he could hardly say im going to be president. It was just something that was we never ever dreamed would happen. I was excited about it. I had xacampaigned the whole la year before the governors race for him and it was hard. Amy was a baby. And i didnt like to leave her all the time. I enjoyed it. I learned so much about
Well read thank you so much. Good night. Bestsellr most recent book held Voter Suppression is destroying our democracy. Doctor anderson is a renowned historian and author. She is the professor of africanamerican studies at every university and is the author of the unspoken truth of our nation is divided. I am a great admirer of her work exploring the legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination and how we remain fundamentally an equal nation 400 years after the arrival of slavery in north america. Doctor Andersons Book one person no vote, calls the history of the Voter Suppression including all of the current ways the Republican Party is undermining Voting Rights. Doctor anderson, im delighted ti am delightedto have you heret your work. Its wonderful to meet you, and to talk about what they can do to fight back against efforts to suppress the most fundamental rights we have, the right to vote, and we know that this is occurring each and every day in the country so thank you again.
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Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
Good morning. We follow you. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Governor, i did not realize they need a photo of you actually signing the eggs. Get a sharpie. You do not want to lay an egg. Dont break an egg. You know they are recording, right . Yeah. [laughter] [indiscernible] that might be uncalled for. When i get sore the last egg, i have a feeling his handwriting will get sloppy. May be an initial . Did you get one . Can we just keep going . [indiscernible] great turnout. On short notice. Longtime admirer. Did everybody get there their egg . They do not know what happens. Good morning, everyone. I just want to say that four days notice, this is a lot of crowd. This is a sellout crowd. Friday. Out on we are auctioning off this is amazing, this kind of crowd with a level of interest today here for this great politics eggs breakfast. We do these things because we have great sponsors who are here. Their names are around the room to help us put these on. We have been doin