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Extraordinary and believed in him and that he was going to be a great man from the beginning. He has gotten some bad press. In the biography she doesnt show up well you dont want her to your motherinlaw for sure. A very difficult. Ultimately people are unfathomable but i do think that hes in a wonderful relationship with his father that was much older than his mother and became something of an invalid himself when franklin was still a kid and was his mother that was the driving force. Was a terrific family. His uncle, one of sarahs brothers was a terrific guy that played in the business of finding fdr was somebody who became a kind of father figure after his own father died. So there were lots of good people around fdr but ultimately where do these figures come from, lincoln and washington. She asked where my interest in fdr came from. Its partly the talks that my grandmother had with me. In the books im always kind of reaching back into my childhood for things fascinated me. I wrote a
Stay and answer additional questions or whatever you want to talk about. The life in the whit war of 18t for two and a half years. We dont call world war ii the war of 1941 to we dont call the civil war the world 1861 but we call it the war of 1812. Folks that support it and feel it was a positive thing called americas second war for independence. I think it was that. Its detractors call it an unnecessary war come and they think it was unnecessary. Thankfully we havent had an unnecessary war since then, right . [laughter] i call it the unknown war because no one does anything about it. My favorite president harry truman was characteristically blunt on the war of 1812 treaty, he called it the silliest damn war we ever fought. And they think it was that, too. It was a war that had we won, candidate would have been a state. And possibly we would have had a huge slave colony in mexico, maybe even cuba. Had we lost the war of 1812, we wouldve become once again a colony of britain. But after
Instead of to be living in this kind of hermeticallysealed distaupe ya which will be by 2020 surrounded by walls on all sides in which an adviser to netanyahu has proposed seawalls to keep out climate refugees in which the United States government has offered 200 million to provide an iron wall that coats the sky of israel with missiles. This is the reality that theyre in, and there should be a nonviolent means that all of you can participate in to get them out of it and also to get the people in the gaza strip, according to the u. N. The gaza strip will be uninhabitable by 2020, to get them out of their crisis. That should be the priority. And so, obviously, i favor the latter means which is, i think, humane and moral and also based in international law. [applause] well, on behalf of the committee, i want to to thank max, of course, and also a thank the public for coming. And we hope to continue this series of discussions on these and other topics. Yeah. And as max delicately suggeste
Look specifically at Muslim Americans and they are just secret. So we can say we abide by the constitution, but we do it anyhow. That is what the more important matter to me in the book. Okay . Thank you very much. You are expected to buy books now and you are going to bring them up here and i am going to sign them for you. If you want to use an alias i am ok with that. Thank you for coming out tonight. [applause] have you ever talked about visit booktv. Org to watch any of the programs you see here on line. Type the offer or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. You can share anything you see on booktv. Org easily by clicking share on the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. Booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. Scientology was really created as a religion, it was using celebrities. When it was set up it was established in los angeles in 1954 and there was a