Well good Tuesday Morning or a great morning for anyone who supports the duke blue devils. Yes, the dukies are happy right now. Their team the new champion, this ive been here before though but still the new champions right now, firing celebrations on dukes campus. A huge schoolsanctioned bonfire i should say. On the other side you poor wisconsin fans. The results there of last nights game. You could see it all over their faces. They were all on state street madison, wisconsin, hoping for a celebration. Disappointment for the badgers. Alex perez was at the game last night in indianapolis and alex, good morning. Hey, t. J. And reena, an exciting night in indianapolis. This game turing out exactly as predicted. A complete nailbiter. But in the end duke walking away with the championship now, both duke and wisconsin fighting it out point for point during that first half. They were tied at 31 come halftime. The second half of this game dramatic. Wisconsin at one point leading by seven. But
Professor Matthew Green talks about his book the speaker of the house. This is half an hour. Host youre watching booktv. Were on location at the Catholic University of america in washington, dc, and were meeting some of the professors who have also written books. Joining us now is professor Matthew Green who has written the peeker of the house a study of lloydership. Whats the speaker of the house responsible for . Guest the speaker of the house has a number of responsibilities. He or she is the top officer of the house of representatives and in fact the only one named in the constitution, and so theres an expectation that speakers are there to represent the house of representatives to the senate and American People. The principal practical matter the speaker is responsible for ensuring that the house operates correctly, ensuring that legislation is enacted, helping to develop the agenda, interacting with the president , interacting with the American People, and ensuring that general t
It. Yeah, preposterous, brenda. Why didnt they throw in the old chestnuts like highway spending, and food stamps, and medicare and education spending, and all of the mom and the apple pie stuff that people would be heart less if they voted against it. I mean, this is politics at the best. What bothers me about it, first of all, each of the bills should be voted on separately. They are all separate issues with separate debates back and forth, but what bothers me more than that is that, hey, it is a billion or 2 billion whatever, and it is other peoples money that the government is so good at spending without anyone really having to say. That is preposterous. Chuck, another name for it . What do you think of it . I think that you cant plan for emergencies and things happen. These lazy guys have five or six more days to work before they take a month off, because they have been working hard and trying to group it together. When you are with the fence down and the cows and the chickens are
Yeah, preposterous, brenda. Why didnt they throw in the old chestnuts like highway spending, and food stamps, and medicare and education spending, and all of the mom and the apple pie stuff that people would be heart less if they voted against it. I mean, this is politics at the best. What bothers me about it, first of all, each of the bills should be voted on separately. They are all separate issues with separate debates back and forth, but what bothers me more than that is that, hey, it is a billion or 2 billion whatever, and it is other peoples money that the government is so good at spending without anyone really having to say. That is preposterous. Chuck, another name for it . What do you think of it . I think that you cant plan for emergencies and things happen. These lazy guys have five or six more days to work before they take a month off, because they have been working hard and trying to group it together. When you are with the fence down and the cows and the chickens are out,
Discovering the taping system, was it lucky or inevitable, is this lecture. The whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told, taking years to gather and find out what happened. Since it is one of the most important factors in the watergate story, its important to get that history straight. And we are going to try to do that in a very summary fashion. Id like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used when they first went to talking movies and had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sample let me go back a quick sample of roosevelt taping. Let me go back. [video clip] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] all right, all right, to give a sample, thats kind of amazing when you think of somebody today, when we have cell phones talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back