From his point of view church house was still a. When you look back in your career which was extraordinary but would you say you are most proud of having done . With the caveat that history takes a long time to judge i think im most grateful that we stood up for their right for people to i know there were a lot of criticism and a lot of it is probably justified about freedom agenda and declaring one of americas most Important Services was to work hard so that no one would live in tyranny. I think america is at its best and its highest calling when it leads both from power and principle. We stand for the proposition that the right to be enjoyed are indeed universal and if they are universal that there are no people for whom they shouldnt he will secured. Im very grateful that we were able to do that. Im grateful that some of my travels was when it was ice about people in a couple of things stick out as an individual. I went to china and a little boy walked up to me and said you are that
Through on the president s policy. We serve as a central junction box for the government. Every dollar that goes from treasury out to the agencys flows through this office. Every regulation that comes from the agency ends up coming through this office. We handle procurement for the federal government. We handle a lot of personnel issues. A lot of i. T. Issues. We work with the inspector s general at all of the agencies. We dont do anything, but we oversee everything. And thats been kind of neat. Host how much of it is policy and how much of it is numbers . Mr. Mulvaney same thing. Our policy is numbers. When we wrote the budget, every line item of the budget is a policy for the president. If the president wants to spend more money on School Choice, we would go into every line item in the budget that touches on School Choice and make sure there is Adequate Funding to support the president s initiatives. And then assuming that is approved by congress because they still appropriate we mak
[inaudible conversations] book tv is live coverage of the 2017 National Book festival continues. Rogue h that was ted mcintyre talking about his book rogue heroes. Coming up in ten minutes, John Aloysius carol talking about his book, richard nixon. Ut we have about ten minutes between these two authors and we want to hear what you are reading. 748820 7488200. For those of you in the Eastern Central time zones, 202 7488201. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zone, these are the comments weve got on facebook and what people are reading. Robert hunter writes in and says he is reading shakespeare the man and martin is reading young radicals by Jeremy Carter and book tv has covered that book, young radicals. We will read some more these comments as we go. O. Lets hear from kathleen in plymouth michigan, cap lane, good evening to you, what are you reading. Right now im reading robert service, my favorite poet. Ob im not sure how familiar you are with robert but one of the most poig
Cell phones and other devices should be turned off. That would be very much appreciated. Tonight is the sole event so tonight there is one event. If i could just ask everyone to pull fold up their chairs at the end of the event that would be greatly appreciated. Last thing, the q a session, if i can ask you to step to the side, to my left we have a microphone and we do record this and cspan is here as well. If we could get this all on recording, that would be wonderful. Thank you. Without further do it like to introduce tonights author. Be free or die, the imaging story of escape from slavery to union hero. Its her second major work. Nominated for the 2014 edgar award for best fact crime and number one wall street bestseller. They chronicles the heroic journey of robert small who in 186 1862 seized a confederate steamer and sailed to Union Blockade freeing himself and his family. As all of you will soon see and learn, he i his mission did not and there. He would later become the first
Introduce the state speakers. Cell phones or any other devices that go bang should be turned off. Tonight there is one event. If i could just head everybody fold up their chairs at the end of the event. Last thing is for the q a session after the presentation if i could ask you to step to the side we have a microphone we do record this. For posterity if we could just get that all on recording that would be wonderful. Thank you. I would like to introduce tonights author. The amazing story and escape from slavery to union here. It is a second major work with the secret rescue. Nominated for the 2014 at gore award of her best and number one wall street best seller the heroic journey in the life of robert small. In 1862 seats at confederate steamer. Freed himself in his family as all of you will soon see and learn he have a mission that did not end there. And enjoy the illustrious career of a state and national legislator. They declared that reading these like recovering a national heirloo