Of their speeches one day before the Vice President ial debate. Does the vacancy on the court, as well as pastoral potential future decisions past or potential future decisions affect your decision . Republicans, call 202 7488001 , democrats, call 202 7488000. Independents, call 202 7488002. If you are a member of a third party, call 202 7488003. You can send us a tweet, cspanwj, or join us on facebook. We are keeping an eye on the Supreme Court as oral arguments begin this week. Yesterday was the traditional red mass in washington, d. C. The is the headline from Weekend Edition of usa today, the court on the brink of transformation. Actions president s could bring on monumental shifts in legal owner stones. From harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell on america garland on the Merrick Garland nomination. Give us a call. David savage of the l. A. Times, is writing about this. , dividedhe headline Supreme Court opens a new term that could bring a historic shift. He says and evenly divided Suprem
For those of you in the east and central time zones 7488201 in the mountain and pacific and if you cant get through on the phone lines and want to make a comment. Facebook. Com you will see right youll see right there at the top of some video you can go ahead and post a comment right underneath it and also email booktv at cspan. Org. You can make a comment there as well and finally you can also text a message if you would like to. This isnt for calling. 20,271,791,684 and if you would just include the first name and your town so we can know that much about you before we get started. David maraniss. In your book. [inaudible] guest every life is random. Maybe more random a chance meeting of the student at the university of hawaii who moved there because of the russian language class theres so many different aspects of what caused those people to that place and the fact that it really was a romance that didnt last. The point of this book and the story is really to show how much of a produ
Now there is a tiny fraction of americans serving in repeated deployments while the rest are not involved. How does the experience of your Vietnam Service and reflect on the service by this 1 . We are products of our experiences. It affected me. I was there in 1968, the worst year. Home 56,000 dead americans in one year. To fathom that today is unbelievable. Lot, like anyone does when you go through those things. Ways, to do in many this job. Else, it always made and careful of unintended consequences. Of goodreful intentions. Always think through the whole sequence of questions. What happens, wheres it going, what is the end result, and what could go wrong . I wish i was smart enough to have all of the answers, i dont. It has made me cautious. Ok, theno a point is you make decisions. For the next two years i hope we can bring the country back together to Work Together and atress the big issues coming the country that will have longterm consequences for our society for the next generat
Up next former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee appeared on booknotes in 1975 to workaround his journalism career. Mr. Bradlee died this past week at the age of 93. This program is about an hour. Cspan ben bradlee, one of the last things you tell us in your book is that you gave an anonymous gift to harvard and nothings happened. Guest well, i didnt want to have any publicity about it while i was still editor of the post. I thought that would be inappropriate. And so i yeah, i tried to thank the two influences in my life; one was kennedy and one was phil graham and the Washington Post. So i thought giving something to the Kennedy School, endowing a chair, would be appropriate, and i did and theyve been looking ever since. Cspan why has it taken so long . Guest i dont know. Cspan when you. Guest theyll find somebody. Cspan when you give an endowment to a school like the Kennedy School at harvard, how does it work . Guest well, you have first thing, you have absolutely no say
We see the same polls as everyone else, which is it is a jump ball. I like will go until election day. Either of you may buzz in. Which of you has the Technology Edge in this election . Voter vault has been a tremendous asset. It was created in 2002. It provides great historical data. It got a little threadbare. The movement itself inside and outside the Party Structure has invested over 50 million and data. We dont have the realtime application we had in 2012. I think we have made massive strides and it has worked well. In mayoral races, florida 13, where we went head to head with the democrat technology and turnout machine. Performed well. The proof of the pudding will be how we do tuesday and the runoffs but based on the cultural changes, in which we have the data, i think that has been an unbelievable change. I was joked it is hard to turn an elephant. You have to smack him hard. We got smacked hard and we turned him. Do we catch up . I dont know. Can you catch up to something buil