coming tonight. um, before i introduce joseph mccartin, i d like to say a few words about what led to the collaboration between the two libraries on this event. some of them you may know that the southern labor archives which is part of southern collections and archives at georgia state university library houses the records of the professional air traffic controllers organization. dr. mccartin used the collection before the collection was processed and opened for research. peterson, who was the grants librarian, and i, began writing a grant in hope of getting portions of the records digitized. we contacted dr. mccartin to see if he would write a letter of recommendation. when i made this first contact, he told me that a book he d been working on would be published in the next year or so. cut to december of 2010. we received notification from the national historic publications and records commission that our grant proposal was accepted and that we would receive funding to dig
measures, indicators and reporting systems that are a bit onerous for a lot of, for a lot of folks, but it does, um, it does provide a little more oversight. well, thank you so much for your time. thank you. the c-span campaign 2012 bus visits communities across the country to follow the bus travels, visit www.c-span.org/bus. well, coming up next, a program from our archives. richard brookhiser recounts the life of gouverneur morris of new york who helped draft the u.s. constitution at the anal of 35 and crafted the phrase, we the people. gouverneur morris died on november 6, 1816. called it in april john furling revealed that although their political views were often quite similar, as people john adams and george washington werh really as different as night ani day. and then in may stuart lyeberges revealed that james madison wasm often george washington s indispensable adviser. advisor although i hate to admit it at least once in a while a ghostwriter. but in t
[laughter] the bible speaks about liberals in the verse i cite. host: all eight of your books about liberals, is that fair to say? guest: um, yes. i mean, the first book was on the grounds for impeachment of bill clinton. slander on the various ways liberals lie. yeah, the rest are about liberals. actually, the one the column book, how to talk to a liberal if you must, that covers everything under the sun including dating tips in washington. host: slander, treason, god less, guilty, demonic, are those fighting words? guest: zip by titles, aren t they? [laughter] like i said, i was thinking of calling this book legion or my name is legion. but a small slice of christians would understand what i was talking about and, yeah, i want people to read my books. i put a lot of work in them, i think you ll learn things, i think you ll sigh the world in a see the world in a different way so, yeah, we give them zippy titles. we put me
thrilled to be welcoming these legendary tel dan on the occasion of his new book quite enough of calvente trillin 40 years of funny stuff. he has been a guest speaker here before and is also frequently seen on the staff. contrary to the title of the featured book, we can never get enough of calvin trillin. he s been a staff writer for the new yorker since 1963 coming and he s written a weekly peace for the nation since 1990. his nonfiction book we have a love of his books over here, include american fly come adventures of a happy easter, adventures of a happy easter, for third helpings, and sold to the party some trouble with alice. his works of nonfiction include doing out and american stories. his books include oblivious, oblivious lee which is a bush administration, heck of a job which is more of the bush administration. he s written and performed to man shows of the american place theater in new york city. in quite enough of calvin trillin, he addresses the subject incl
grafted trees. if you planted siege of a one in six chance of getting a true apple. that is, you get all kinds of hydrogen things. at the house okay for the frontier because he was playing them for the the people following them. they preferred apple brandy to moonshine in those days. suzette real popular figure. he became very rich in land, though we lived like a popper. and this is a being that many people do not know about john chapman. the second half of his life was spent not only planting apple trees and herbs, and exchanging those with the settlers, but preaching mysticism and distributing tracts of swedenborg s writing. he was a visionary. he would talk to settlers about angels, talking to angels, about how the spiritual world and the heaven was here, if you could just see it. the indians thought he was a holy fool, and i think a lot of the settlers did. i think he s the kind of american that we see in a row and emerson and emily dickinson later. somebody living in har