Beyrle full circle. So, what is your next book going to be . Right now im doing two things. Im working on what might be potential movies about teddy and taft. They bought the rights for the bully pulpit maybe even a miniseries. [applause] im trying to think about muckrakers as a miniseries. A ida tarbell is my favorite character in the idea of this great female investigative journalist and then the relationship between teddy and taft but for a book at this stage of my life i dont think i can afford 10 years on Millard Fillmore or franklin pearce. Theres no big person to go back too easily so im bringing all my guys in the room at the same time and im going to write about leadership. Thats really what i care about underneath it all. [applause] oh thank you. I just started it. After you finish that book i hope you will do a Great Service for america by running ask froml over the country some questions of doris. Are you ready . Host this is the tvs live coverage of the 14th National Book
[inaudible conversations] do you want to set . Good morning. My name is sharon and im a volunteer for the book festival. On behalf of the state library of louisiana and Louisiana Center of the book. I welcome you to book festival the 11th annual book festival. There will be a book signing with jim cobb afterwards in the bonds barnes noble tent. So if you want to carry on after that he will be happy to sign your books. We are happy to have with us this morning james cobb jr. Who has written flood of lies the saint regis nursing home tragedy. He was a managing partner in a firm. Cobb served as an adjunct professor at Tulane University while at the law school. And since the 80s has taught at Harvard University since 2008. He lives and practices privately in new orleans and we are pleased to introduce to you the james a. Kopp jr. [applause] thanks very much. Good morning. Its cold out there isnt it . Thank you guys for coming and braving the weather. A couple of things about my biography w
Be fine. He goes to europe and it comes back on the titanic and he dies. For taft it was yet another blow. He said every time i look in the room im missing every single moment. Those letters are an absolute treasure and he felt especially betrayed with teddy running against him. To me the most poignant part of the book is taft and roosevelt were enemies. After the election wilson as president. Taft and roosevelt dont talk about. Taft tried to talk to roosevelt and roosevelt ignores him. Finally they came by happenstance in a hotel. What happened . What happened was when i finish the book i didnt want to end it. It was such of the trail but i didnt know so i followed them in 1913 and 14 and 15. Ut i didny know what the relationship had been like past that. I followed them in 1914, 15 and 16. People brought them together but taft says it was like an armed neutrality. In 1918 teddy was in the hospital with an operation that taft had once undergone any work undergone any wrote them a lette
Will be doing a call in program with cspan said he cannot sign books until 4 00 then he will have a very short window before he passed to catch his flight t consign books from 4 00 through 4 20 p. M. I hope you can catch him then. [laughter] that is at the bookstore attend on the ball at the university of arizona bookstore they are purchased at that location if you are enjoying the festival we encourage you to become a friend of the festival your taxdeductible donation allows to offer programming free of charge learn more about friends of the festival benefits that the information with our at tucson book festival website at of respect for the author and fellow audience members please turn off yourself comes at this time if he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scho
Senator from california has voted for this restriction on the use of taxpayer funding for abortion previously. Not to my knowledge. Let me put it that way. Way. Now, you can blame me and you can say, i shouldve known. But i am not the only one on our committee, senator who is in this position either. Communicated with your staff and under the impression that the bill was identical to last year. With exception of seven pieces, which is not this. I am not going to engage in a debate about whether you should have known or how you voted in the past. I do believe the record would demonstrate that you, among others, voted for the Affordable Care act which actually the national aborts Rights Action league says is an expansion. Let me ask the senator you rightly. Out that these child victims of Sexual Assault will have been raped either statutory rape, below the age of consent or are adults that may have been assaulted, criminally assaulted. The exclusion would still allow them to gain access