I decided that maybe my life was not going to consist of getting married and having children and oh brain that life should be thinking about. To give my step in expanding my own horizons, i can say thats one book that totally changed my way of thinking about myself here can see that book tv once to know what you are reading this summer. Treatise here answer at book tv or posted on our facebook page. Cspan, crete about americas cabletelevision companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. C1 Jeffrey Toobin, welcome to cspan to indepth. The author of indepth and counting . Host including your most recent book, american heiress the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst. I want to begin where you in the book. You wrote this without her cooperation. Guest i did and there were several things different in my other books. This was the first bookk i had written that was really the border of journalism in history. All of the other b
And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. Its our look at president clinton through the decades. The presidency is the highest office in the land. And over the course of our history, the men who held that post have each impacted and shaped this country. In 1992, the youngest man since jfk, 46 year old William Jefferson clinton, then jfk, 46 year old William Jefferson clinton, then governor elected our fortysecond president of the United States. Today on through the decades we take a look at the presidency and legacy of bill clinton. He was charismatic, intelligent and approachable but his eight years in office would be plagued by personal scandal but that didnt prevent him from leaving office with the highest Approval Rating of an outgoing president since world war ii. We begin, where it all begins for every president. With an election. By november, 1992, the reagan revolution of the 1980s had run out of steam. Reagans successor, president george bush, was seen as aristocrati
I have a great deal of affection and respect for george w. Bush, the man. He gave me several onceinalifetime opportunities that fundamental change the trajectory of my life. I really feel privileged to have played a part in his administration, both in texas and in washington, d. C. , and i have the highest regard for him. Host thank you so much for talking with us about your book and your time in the white house tried to i appreciate it. Thank you. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies that brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Booktv continues now. Estoria and gil troy talks to 60 minutes correspondent lesley stahl about the impact of the Clinton Administration on foreign and domestic politics and culture. Thank you. Thank you. I have to turn my cell phone off before we do anything. Would not be something if the went off . While im turning it off i will tell you that i know gil because he is a historian. I met him when he wrote his book o
They only had one suspect theyd in tell the American People the rose and others suspect and chairman dempsey and general clapper head of the director of National Intelligence had both told the president they couldnt be sure they had a case against him that it is not a slam dunk for what we know to be in the arsenal so i dont like not telling the truth the reason why what he may not have done i dont know why gsa the story is told by the white house is like liable you cannot get too close in Congress Today he is hated like hiller. I will take a second to say he is fighting a lifeanddeath more if those isis people get in power he and his wife and children will be hung up like mussolini in the square yes uses beryl bombs but i know a country that use that for seven years in which our National Security was not at stake. It was as. And no we use it because it is cheaper a barrel bob is 63 gallons and it is cheaper than to drop of 500pound bomb. At first we did i wonder about al gore morality
Cooperation. Guest i did. Host why was that . Guest there were several things that were different about this book than my other book. This is the first book i have written that was really at the border of journalism and history. All the other books that i wrote i had covered the underlying story in real time and then wrote about it. This is something, i was alive in the 1970s but i was a kid. So i was really starting from scratch in terms of my research and i discovered that there was a tremendous volume of printed material, in particular 150 boxes of material about the Symbionese Liberation Army and i managed to obtain access to that so i knew i had a great deal of material that no one had ever seen before but obviously just to answer your question i would have liked to have talked to betty hearst. She made clear to media areas wt and indirectly that she wanted no part of this that i realized i had so much material from her and about her, her own book, her own testimony, her fbi inter