Resignation. This is about an hour. A testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books books that we all share. Richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. By first i remember as a child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man, he was on a good ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem taking money from a secret fund. And i thought this is interesting. He never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. David mentioned he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicle in the book beginning with spiro agnew. Remember spiro agnew being in some trouble and i said to my editor at the new yorker, thought lamented and just the legendary William Shawn saying what are you thinking of writing next . I dont know. I have a feeling we are going to change Vice President s and president s within a year. This is labor day of 73. A way out there kind of wild thought at the time. We agreed i would wr
The square was instituted, was designed and built in the Nineteenth Century by the then ruler, an imitation of paris, studied and loved the ruler and imitation of baron house ands reconfiguration of the modern city. We are seeing those french roundabouts in an armor i noticed catching up. Cairo did some time ago. And i live off of that square and went to school because the American University in cairo was just off of tigress square and a lot of egyptian student franz, hung out together and went to films together and talked about the future so in january of 2011 thousands and thousands, ultimately hundreds of thousands of young people came to Tahrir Square and occupied it, they had tends, some of them just didnt leave, started putting up placards, Hosni Mubarak, please resign, we need a shower. When they did that, i recognized them as sons and daughters of people i had gone to school with and i had followed the arab world, so i felt a Certain Affinity to them and was very interested in
Question. This is a program writ was a gotcha. Im going to try to get you to say something, and i slipped in putting that word. My would have been better just to say rape instead of trying to define it more precisely. Host former congressman todd akin talks about is in hit back firing back. Appreciate you joining us this morning. Guest thank you very much and best wishes to all your great listeners. This is booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern, norman pinkingstein discusses the israelgaza conflict, and at 8 45, the detail of the life of john d. Neglect be honest day. Former counsel to president nixon, john dean discusses watergate with bob woodward at 10 00 p. M. Eastern in our primetime programming continues with adele leavine, who recalls her time as a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army medical center. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. What are you currently reading . Robert wrighton wright now,
[inaudible conversations] next day here in looking how veterans are transitioning to civilian life. In a washington journal segment on the destruction of chemical weapons and later a discussion about brain injuries and the elderly. A lot of people dont know how difficult it is. I dont know one person may be in this room that can juggle the things me and my husband have to juggle every single day with having three children on medical disabilities going back and forth to work sometimes maybe having too taken under the table job just to bring in extra money. There isnt a lazy bone in my body. There are many people that live in the inner city under the Poverty Level that are not easy. We want to be a part of the conversation. We want to have fulltime jobs and go to school and go to college and things like that and i actually believe that certain people just put the stamp of sleazy on us and to put a smoke screen that could not can not be able to see what is really going on. To point the fi
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