He saw the authors we have had on this year. Go to booktv. Org you can see any author but tonight we want to show you two of them. Ow was coat pink founded . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists that were sitting together in a retreat right every 9 11 right after 9 11, talking about how to deal with the climate crisis, and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the pending war with iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by c
Host lynne chaney, we are showing influences in your life. We talked about margaret scheidler. Another is richard himmelfarb. Who is she . Guest an amazing intellectual who i have been interested in the taurean period. She is much more insightful than i think ive ever been about while we condemn as morality of the victorian period with this underway. How was important and what we gain when they move away and what we lose. Hes been a wonderful writer on the enlightenment in america. She resigned the national and im up for Humanities Council when i was there. You could just count on her to be incredibly perceptive about whatever the subject at hand was. Burchard as i call her miss mary to crystal and her husband as bill kristol of the weekly standard. It is a family that has made the intellectual life seem so energizing and reporting. Host when you were second lady did you maintain an office . Guest yes, but i didnt go down very much. This trouble to get secret Service Agent and a couple