thank you. now we are pleased to be joined by the founder of the national book festival and former first lady, laura bush. it was september 8th, 2001 that the first national book festival was held on the capitol grounds, founded by laura bush and now grown so large they hold on the national with all sorts of tense. that s right is a thrill and i m thrilled to see so many people who have come for the very first reading. we can hear gordon wood reading from the history tense. very happy to see him and how many people love the books. we continue to hear about the demise of the publishing industry and the demise of books in general but then you hold a book festival, in its tenth year. 100,000 people show up. the texas book festival as well which is one you founded. what does that say to you? i think people to love to read for sure. a big part of the demise is the publishing industry which i don t think is
are as wide apart as points on the compass. they were very different boys. john wilkes was physically strong. he was the image of his father. he was charismatic, aggressive, bold. but he was not a scholar. he had a difficult time reading. he had a slow memory and no head for languages. edwin, those commie and admittedly strange looking, physically weak, he would cry when always been baltimore gave him a hard time and his brother had to fight his battles for him. nonetheless, edwin had an intuitive grasp of shakespeare s words even from a young age. they even said at the age of four he was a child who inherited not his father s luck, but his father s intellect. and so for junius, edwin went to chili s to be a successor on the american stage. and it was bad choice that sowed the perceived of conflicts between and when and john wilkes. for junius took edwin out of school at age 12, making him his assistant and together this year traveled every year from albany to new orleans, sa
be in austin, texas. [applause] i d like to welcome you to the texas book fair. i m alberta phillips, editorial writer and columnist for the austin american thank you. [applause] i will be your moderator today. you might say that this is like a first date for me because it is the first time i have moderate for the texas book festival and, boy, did i luck out on my first day. [applause] i get to introduce a great journalist, a great writer, eugene robinson. so forgive me if i m gushing and giddy. before i got to the intro, i have already taken care of the housekeeping duties. you know where to go after the conversation with eugene robinson is over. so with no further adieu, i d like to introduce mr. eugene robinson. [applause] he was born and raised in orangeberg, south carolina. that s where my mom is from. and earned his ba at the university of michigan, where he was the first black student to be named co-ed did for in chief of the michigan daily. he began his jo
los alamos director said to me, they know the it was the material they used to make the bombs, the whole country had a prison camp. there was no way to get it out. when the walls came down, they were like us. we went in and sent a lot of money. with the real effort on our part helped them begin to put all of their materials under lock and key. we re still sam nunn the former senator estimated that about 60% of our nuclear materials are now carefully guarded and accounted for. so the job still remains to be finished. but we ve made a good start. earlier today, you had a presentation at the national book festival. tell us about that and during the question and answer period, what was foremost on the minds of the people that were asking you question there is? i really went through my new book, the twilight of the bombs and talked about some of the serious issues and sometimes the cops and robbers stories that came out after inspecting iraq after the first gulf war. ultim
was president and vice president and secretary of state in the three senators senators are leading advocates of darfur inaction the congo they whether the first year-and-a-half for two weathers or the first 20 months of their administration with unprecedented problems and reasserting his fundamental priorities and i sought a man across the table friday when i met with him at the united nations, a president who has fired in his eyes for this issue of cdn in particular. it takes some time at the beginning of an administration, it is truly possible moment where we can make real changes but also at the individual local where anyone of us in this room and watching this has stepped up to become an advocate for others who are less fortunate whenever circumstances it may have had. mine came when i was 21 years old i injured my ankle playing basketball and could not get up in a lazy boy chair because i did not have a channel changer that newfangled thing back of the day. i had two w