Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce. The author reports on lucs tenure as board to italy and her political and personal life. This program lasts about an hour. [inaudible conversations] i am the senior director of programs and chief operating officer here at roosevelt house, and it is my great pleasure to welcome you here to tonights very special discussion of price of fame the honorable Clare Boothe Luce, by sylvia jukes morris. Price of fame is the second in a twovolume biography of ms. Luce. The first volume was published 17 years ago, and as the wall street journal has written, both books are really models of a biographers art, meticulously researched, sophisticated, fairminded and compulsively readable. Now, we are, of course, gathered for tonights discussion here in the former home of franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt where i think it is probably safe to assume that Clare Boothe Luce was not a regular social visitor. [laughter] mrs. Luces relationship with the roosevelts was, one might
Enterprises that are designed to make revenue and not facilitate creativity and the people that work there are private employees not public servants. You also write, astra taylor, in order to find the world you are looking for other options would be to demand that radio and television broad casters play te rate for technology or maybe thy technology compatible. Guest there is an idea that the tool kits of the preinternet age like you know the idea of public broadcasting and public media and the idea of grants to fund things or i dont know the National Endowment for the arts or all of these things seem like they are obsolete because we leave in a digital age. And the internet is somehow technilogically behind regulations and i did go through basic examples and there are lots i dont talk about in the book but public subsaharsidies and the public isnt reaping the rewards. They are going into private hands at a disporportianate rate. We give it to Wireless Companies who pay less than the m
Careers in multiple fields, politics journalism and diplomacy. She may have disagreed with much of mrs. Roosevelts philosophy, but as early as 1948 she was recommending that truman ask her to be his running mate. And for her part Eleanor Roosevelt publicly praised her appointment as ambassador to italy writing that mrs. Luce would be an able ambassador who will represent us well. Price of fame goes into fascinating detail about luces relationships not only with the roosevelts, but with so many of the great figures of the 20th century from eisenhower to several churchills to jfk and of course her stormy marriage to henry luce. And so does morris herself in a wonderful account of how she became to be Clare Boothe Luces biographer the only one to have access to her public and private papers. And so it is really a great privilege to have Sylvia Morris with us here tonight. Born in england, she taught English Literature before moving to the United States in 1968 with her husband the writer
Tweet me, high handle is ali velshi and have a great weekend. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good afternoon. Im Martin Savidge. Thank you very much for joining us this hour here in the cnn newsroom. Hugo chavez is fighting for his health interesting way of putting it according to venezuelan officials. The 5yearold leader has a severe lung infection. His fragile health has a lot of people wondering whether he will be able to go through with his inauguration next week. Moments ago, venezuelan lawmakers elect elected a president of that countrys National Assembly. Joining me is Senior Latin Affairs Editor rafael romo. This National Assembly election is really crucial. Tell me about it. It is crucial because it ensures continuity. Those people who are loyal to president chavez at least have the certainty that whatever happens and there are two possibility scenarios either the Vice President or the president of the National Assembly in this case the man who was just reelected, would have
Benghazi, libya. Heres what graham said moments ago when the meeting came to a close. If you dont know what happened, just say you dont know what happened. People can push you to give explanations and you can say i dont want to give Bad Information. Heres what i can tell you the American People got Bad Information on 16, september. They got Bad Information from president obama days after. And the question is should they have been giving the information at all. If you can do nothing but give Bad Information, isnt it better to give no information at all . Ah. Lets go straight to cnns dana bash. So before we heard that pretty explosive news conference, it seemed as though there was a bit of a softening of some of the gops opposition to ms. Rices moving up in the president s cabinet. Now after hearing that, i need to get some clarity if i can from you about whether the criticism is about ms. Rice and what she delivered to the American People, which turned out to be wrong, or whether it is