60s was the tv show fbi hoover review all of the consistents of the scripts of the show to make sure they promoted the fbi as a good guy. more questions? go ahead. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] it is one of my favorite people in american history. quick snapshot on him. to write a biography, as i m sure any of the writers will tell you, there has to be something that engages you and clues you in. you don t have to like them. hoover is not the most like able person. there has to be amy i are. with boss tweed, he has the head of the civil war in new york city. tweed was by for a the most corporate politician who ever served on american soil. the sheer amount of money stole was monument tal. billions of dollars in today s dollars. they did it with management skills that would be the envy of any wall street type today. however, at the same time, tweed was one of the most generous people you could hope to meet. they did more good for people living in new york, and more
satellite images. i can only equate it to standing in midtown manhattan and being surrounded on all sides by just sheer cliffs. they consolidate their guys, and they start walking towards this village. when we say village i m sure in your heads you think, you know, i don t know what you see in your head for an afghan village. sometimes they re biscuit-colored mud huts, but this village and we use village loosely for this was literally cut into the walls almost, and it was stone houses. these were like castles stacked on top of each other, and they were surrounded almost well, not 360, but almost 360 with these stone houses. and as they re walking up, it takes them a little while to find a path. but they get to the way of the hill to the base of the hill, and the path cuts back and forth in switchbacks up the hill. and they so i know a lot of you veterans, i ve met a few of you here. you know that s bad, number one, because there s only one way up. you know you re in
science is the fact that these navy and civilian divers put their lives on the line for the benefit of new science and for at that time national security just as surely as the heroic spacemen do, but nobody cares a whit about these men. nobody even notices what they do. well, perhaps the navy should do oral histories as nasa s doing with space flight. since we are dealing with space flight, though, let s deal with other astronauts of the mercury 7 group. if so once the telephone stops ringing, we ll pick up again. i was asking, let s get back on a space track. this is primarily obviously for nasa at johnson space center. oral histories there. and i was asking if you had met, had working acquaintance with any other astronaut after the mercury 7. sure. and they re a highly respectable group, all of them. i really feel privileged to know these fellows as well as i did. i had a particular affection for ed white, and i hated to see what happened. he was the prince of t
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the third annual gaithersburg book festival. my name is ryan, and i the vice president of the city council. it is a vibrant, diverse city. celebrates and supports the culture of articles. we re leased to you bring you the event free of chargeness thats to the generous support of our sponsors. a couple of quick announcements. first for the consideration of everyone here, please silence any devices that make any noise of any kind. second, in order to keep improving the event, we need your feedback. surveys are available here and the information booth, and online at the website. the thoughts are important to us. please take a couple of minutes to fill out a survey and submit it. ken ackerman will be signing copies of the book and the book will be outside in the politics and pros tent. ken angerman is the author a book that partly inpyred the recent film j. edgar directed b
he will have bilateral discussions in chicago. i don t have the full list right in front of me. some of that is still being scheduled. i don t know that he plans at this point for him to meet bilaterally with president zardari. yes? george, as you would know, mexico is facing an incredible nightmare with the balance of the drug cartels. yes. and they re waiting for a sign of hope. and would like to know recently u.s. and mexico participated in some joint operations. how these increasing cooperation and maybe stronger drug cartels. the issue of counternarcotics and elicit crime was a top issue as you know at the recent trilateral meeting in canada with the secretary and his canadian and mexican counterparts. we fully understand the problems that cartels are bringing to the people of mexico, and we condemn the violence. our counternarcotic efforts in the u.s. government are led primarily by the drug enforcement administration. and we re going to continue to do wha