And they provide miami dade colleges to the community. Host you have a full day ahead of the. We appreciate you stopping by. Guest thank you for being here. Abyss the day for you host we have moved inside the bus where were joined by john dean whose most recent book is called the nixon defense what he knew and when he knew it. Mr. Dean, how and when kid you become richard did you become Richard Nixons counsel . Guest peter, john please. [laughter] anyway, july of 1970 when i was 31 years of age, i became white house counsel. I wasnt a part of the nixon entourage, i hadnt been in the campaign. I had been in washington quite a while, id worked as the chief minority counsel of the house judiciary committee, id gone on from there, id been an associate Deputy Attorney general. Thats where i joined the nixon administration. While at justice i had a lot of dealings with the white house staff, and so when John Ehrlichman became assistant to the president for domestic affairs, that chair sat em
If you want behind the scenes pictures. Pictures. Finally, you can follow us at facebook, facebook. Com book tv. Because of the wind we moved from our out dorsett and are on the cspan bus. Hector tovar is our guest. Here is the book. Kind kind of hard to see the title, but it is deep down dark. What is your book about . The famous chilean miners who were trapped underground for 60 days in 2010. When in 2010 did 2,010 did that happen . October of 2,010 trapped at the bottom of this copper and gold mine between 700 meters of direct down. The first two weeks they were slowly starving to death and then they were miraculously found but had to spend another ten weeks waiting to be rescued. The mine is located in northern chile, town that is 500 miles north of the driest desert on earth operating for 120 years. They worked at the bottom of a spiral highway 98 degrees, 90 percent humidity, and the mine collapsed and trap them. The only way out was a spiral highway. And was it gold . Gold and c
Noticeably, seriously higher that was a great subject for john and his character on good times. Attention to life in america for 1972, 3, 4 american family. Host next call for norman lear is bob in oklahoma. Caller i enjoyed your work. In my 50s. I grew up watching all in the family, my parents were quakers and they were active in the civil rights movement. It was good entertainment. I have been politically active all my life. I am wondering, a candid question, do you think that some of the older folks, when i say old driving 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, do you think we could be more instrumental in bringing at end to cannabis prohibition during our lifetime so we can help rejuvenate the economy and environment all over the world . Do you think we older people host we got the point. Lets get an answer from norman lear. Marijuana legalization. Guest solving the problem in our economy, i am not the economic maestro. Host should marijuana be legalized . Guest to the extent liquor is analyzed by th
Host joining us on booktv is Maureen Corrigan who is a book critic on a program called fresh air so a lot of our book viewers will know that program but now you have become an author as well. What is your book . Guest my book is called so we read on. Its about the great gatsby. I think the great gatsby is their greatest american and nonamerican novelette once. I have read it over 50 times in this book was born out of my passion for gatsby and fitzgerald. He is one of her gods and american literature. Host american and unamerican . Guest yes because gatsby tells us the American Dream is worth reaching for and it also tells us the dream is a con and when the book opens of course had to be as dead already. Im not writing anything. Thats on page one. So what kind of an american novel is this where nothing can be changed next caraway is remembering everything in this novel. Theres no possibility for change so thats a little odd but at the same time fitzgerald writes about the American Dream
Last decade, billions of dollars were invested in upgrading refineries in texas louisiana and those were on the gulf coast to process heavy crude oil now we have a surplus of light crude. So its created problems. I think the concern of surplus of light crude, because they are typically the shale, those wells are very shortlived, but theyre much cheaper to drill in the army are once. So theres some issues with our be going to have to reinvest for those refiners another 2. 5 billion to handle the lighter crude . There are upgrading and new Construction Projects underway right now to allow the refiners to handle that. A lot of those are taking place in your district. As eia looked at the issues . In the past we typically choose whatever we refined in the country, but now we are producing so much more that its actually, were having those downstream jobs better exports. Back in houston were exporting just times in the last few years of low sulfur diesel. Because of the heavier crude we get