Announcer next, a look back at president s giving their last speeches at the annual white house Correspondents Dinner. And Governor John Kasich of ohio, at a couple of Campaign Stops today. Then the congressional Gold Medal Ceremony to honor the 65th infantry regiment. Saturday, april 30, cspan presents live coverage of the 2016 white house Correspondents Dinner, an event that typically includes prepared remarks by the president of the United States and coming up in just a few minutes here, were going to show you the last white house Correspondents Dinner speeches from president s reagan, both bushes, and clinton. But first, we will discuss the annual washington event with mcclatchy senior White House Correspondent steve toma. How long have you been attending these events and how have they changed over the years . Steve i have been going about 28, 29 years likely 30 years, but close, going since reagan. How they changed . They have become much more crowded. We have squeezed more tables
booktv.org. [applause] first i think the business leaders for allowing me to share my vision in education. i also want to recognize some of the groups or organizations that i provide service and support, akaalpa kappa alpha, the urban league, and the urban league deal, and the national association for the mentally ill. thank you for being here. i am patricia pickles, author of are you in a pickle, students performance and achievement gaps. i m the first college garage watt from my graduate from my immediate family. i was tracked on the bases before i lived. i was tracked on the basis of what my parents did or do not do. i was trapped on the basis of my race. i m extremely passionate about ensuring that every student and every classroom, and every school across america has an opportunity to be successful. , to have choices. how many of you have chirp in school? raise your hand. grandchildren? nieces? nephews? cows pes? [laughter] then education is your business. educat
an awesome opportunity. legitimately i thought it was an interesting idea and i thought i would probably get no other time in my life to do something so fun and ridiculous and over the top and exciting and serious at the same time. so a blue state atheist liberal and the republican christian red state or got together. what s the tone of the book? i think it is surprisingly positive. before we embarked on this project i think when michael and i were having initial discussions and we were e-mailing back and forth about the concept of the book, both of us knew enough about each other to know that we weren t really going to be nasty towards each other and make it personal, although it happens a bit in the book. this was a serious a social experiment to see a few people. you say serious. can go together in a band and do, and the friends and discover america in 2012. it is a romp for america. so the two you got into an rv and just took off the? with two other people,
realm, you re watching booktv on c-span#, and we are on location in new york city for book expo america, which is the publish industry s annual convention held at the convention center, and here we re pleased to be joined by two publishers, susan weinberg is the publisher of public affairs, and margie ross is president of regular publishing, and we want to talk about the books coming up this season. susan, if we could start with don bartlett and james stehles. it s a book written by a premier team of investigator reporters still working in america today. they are well-known, and have two pulitzer prizes as well as two national magazine awards, and they even have an award namedded after them given out in journalism today. they worked at time and now vanity fair, and they have been tracing this story really since the 1980s, and they take the drum beat of the economic that we hear and they give you the context to put the news in. you don t see the stories as isolated eve