low income communities, there is one age appropriate book for every 300 children as compared to in middle income communities, 13 books per child. so that s what we re dealing with. access to books is the biggest challenge to improving literacy in this country and we pulled together all our people at kpmg, their families to distribute books, read those books to children, and to commemorate our five-year anniversary, we re taking our reading relay through every one of our offices in the u.s. distributing books and as phil said, we ll get about 130, 150,000 books in the hands of kids who otherwise have no books and we re going to make an exact on this literacy problem in the u.s. phil mickleson, you re tired, it s in between matches, you re by yourself in the locker room. everyone is jealous of you and they re not talking to you. you have to whip out one book. is it a biography? is it a mystery? a children s book? what kind what is it, phil? what s your choice?
history. i enjoy reading about history. i enjoy reading about lincoln, about washington. i heard you guys talking about him earlier. i enjoy reading about civil war and much of america s past history. people are concerned about kids not involved in here. i think john, that s why this is important. just looking real quick, phil, at your career, as great a year as you ve had, you re missing one thing. what is it? it would be a u.s. open. you re stating the obvious there. i came so close this last year in philadelphia, but obviously my goal is to get that final leg of the career grand slam, to get the u.s. open of the it s next year at pinehurst in june and i ll be focusing on that tournament. i ve come close six times. i ve had a second place finish in the u.s. open and i believe if i keep getting close like that, i ll eventually break through. there at pinehurst with payne stewart. your memory of that in 99? pretty special memory for me, even though he knocked in a putt on th
i feel happy. what did it mean to meet donald trump. your new boss? yesterday i was in a meeting with him. no, he was so nice, so kind with me. i feel very happy to know him because i think it was very serious guy, but no. i feel happy. you re hired, he said. you are miss universe and he owns the pageant. congratulations. thank you so much. good luck with that adjustable crown this year. yeah. enjoy it. for a year. right. well done. thank you. coming up, pro golf superstar phil mickleson using his fame to stomp out child illiteracy and he ll join us next. plus, think pink. the dancing hospital workers who started a world wide contest are back and dancing for us and in a few moments, a new winner gets named right here on fox & friends. who will it be?
last night at book ends, steve was able to come down and join us as we were in new jersey, ridgewoods, new jersey, for george washington s secret six. a lot of people knew a lot about the story of washington and all his spies and it was a blast. it was nice of steve to come down and talk to his people of new jersey. as you know, elisabeth, what s it like working out? is she always that happy? i just said, what about me? i wrote the book! it should be about you. that book is great. so many of my friends are getting it and getting another copy for their kids to keep on their book shelf and telling them it s great way to go through history. steve, i appreciate you going down. my pleasure. talk about good buddy, he s one of our friends. he s a pro golf superstar, one of the greatest american golfers ever and he s taking it to focus on child illiteracy. joining us to explain, hall of famer phil mickleson, a lefty, kpmg s u.s. chairman, john. welcome to both you guys.
it turned out that my first child, amanda, was born that monday and i would have ended up having to fly back and miss it anyway. so it worked out for the best and i was able to be there for the most emotional experience of my life, sharing that with amy, the first of our first child. it s always been family first and giving back as well. john and phil, great program. thanks for sharing with us. have a great day. thanks for having us. 17 minutes before the top of the hour. i think the message is, you ve got to get him your book. up next on the rundown, real fixes or another failure? the backlash begins after the president makes more promises. can he really change the rules? then talk about a long shot. this rookie harlem globetrotter shattering world records with this shot. kaboom! how did he do it? watch it again.