Tree, what kind of tree would you be . It was like a hardhitting interview question. President bush says well barbara, i am not a tree. I am a bush. [applause] and i said i am voting for him. So living life with that gentle, witty human it has been a plus to be around him and embrace my own humility and the importance of character. Elections are about character. The people you surround yourself with their character sticks out. I didnt realize i wrote a book about this until megyn kellys husband said this is a parent book about living with character and surrounding yourself with people of character. So i had worked on many other books. Before i was a White House Press secretary i was a deputy. I always say take a deputy job. You work holidays and weekends but you get to know the boss and learn the job so when there is an opportunity you can step up. I left the white house and i was called upon to work on doing publicity for karl roves book, laura bushs book and i got a call from 43 and
That. The guy who edits president bush, keep him in mind. He knew me and asked if i had a book. And he said what about your stories and he said you tell Great Stories about president bush. And i remembered i took the from the amtrak train and it was in my wallet for three years. All of a sudden i pulled it out and said i have do this. This is my book proposal a. Ripped up piece of paper folded in my wallet for three years. Sean looked at it and said leave this with me and went to this bosses and said we should do a book and they said that book will never sell and if you want to do something political we will help you. I said i am not doing that. I was a little humilitated. And then sean went to another publisher, my publisher. He said what if you did your book here. His team gave him a lot of room to run and he helped me structure the book. I wanted to fill in the gaps of history about president bush and provide mentoring advice to young people who didnt go to Ivy League Colleges or yo
In the govern class and had faith they deserved to be there and because of that they treated the men who were in the powerful role as if they, the women, were equal to the man. Because they treated the men as equal when the men pressed oconnor and ginsburg to admit they were inferior they took offense. And when they took offense they were so selfdisciplined they only took revenge when it would be effective. The classic example is the dean at Harvard Law School asked ms. Ginsburg in 1957 what she was doing taking up the place of a man at harvard and she said she thought she should anyhow as much as possible about her husbands work who was year ahead of her. After the womans movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the story on the dean so many times he wrote to the harvard newspaper saying she he was only kidding. How did they get to where they were . Part of it was life on the ranch and part is Ruth Bader Ginsburg is smarter than any woman i have heard of. Host did Sandra Day Oconnor sit dow
1890, which killed over 20 million old world wide. That is sort of a sag card. Number two, the American Economy had ramped up to produce armament for the war. Ironically, most of those never got in the war. When we got in the war in 1919, we used most european weapons. For example, we started building airplanes. Not a single american tanks had entered the war. And goodnight, we fought for the british. But we had a not quite was the largest armaments industry in the world. I Must Immediately after the armistice and the end of the war, the government started canceling contracts. When i see canceling, i mean just like this yet without warning, they pulled them. Factories were left literally with lines halffull. Thousands of workers were let go without warning. The state but connecticut really felt this because it had so many of these kinds of plants. And companies were left with buildings, factories to produce armaments. Well, they said youve got to do something for us. What are we going
That. Please stand adjourned to. [applause] we now have secular norman said of theological board that governs our acceptance or rejection the way our god can speak to people and what impact. We have the Davidians David Koresh says he has special insight to the bible a and this helps other members of the community understand the bible better and allows them to understand they live in the times. That by itself does got saved to be a problem but when it is indeed to other elements, if that trigger of the Law Enforcement concern and the popular press then the idea somebody listening to god is dangerous from the norms and that needs to be policed a and controlled. Stanley weintraub an Award Winning author ruth more than 50 highly acclaimed books including pearl harbor christmas 11 days in december and final victory and i actually remember when i was young undergraduate student reading a young folks on Queen Victoria so a man of many talents. The National Book Award Finalist and a guggenheim