administrations, including richard nixon s during vietnam. one argument could be made, look, there s nothing happening here that doesn t happen in any wartime white house. of course there s disagreement. president obama went in saying he wanted people to disagree with him, he wanted there to be a lively debate over important issues. but how do you view this level of infighting? is it about what you would expect? well, first, i agree with general mccaffrey. nothing in this book surprises me. even the statements and comments about holbrooke and others, thankf frankly, has an aspect of humor and truth to it. those people make comments like that. it was foolish for the administration in this situation to really cooperate the way they have with woodward because it s an ongoing battle, but there s not we all know there s a division in the white house about whether to continue this war or end it. is this pat, is this about ego? you don t want to be left out of the book.
tell us what was going on with you. well, i start off the book kind of talking about that incident with me and that was in fourth grade and it was really the first time for me that i became aware of my body and self-conscious of my body and it was really the first time i realized that every girl has a different body. so, it was kind of . i hate to interrupt you, i thought, fourth grade, already in fourth grade you were worried about your body image? yeah. you know, now the age is getting younger and younger, where girls are becoming self-conscious. you know, at age 5, most 8-year-olds now are going on diets. so it keeps getting younger, so it seems young but it is an average thing. and then you where, i m just going going to read a little bit hear, you talk about the relationship you had with your parents, you say if you can t at the very least share your thoughts with your mom and ask her questions becoming a woman, you won t be able to learn from her experiences about what yo
okay. here you go. when you re on a boat and you don t have a steering wheel, you have that tiller that goes back and forth. this is my really crude example. here is the tiller. that s the rudder and the rudder turns. you push it to the right, you turn to the left. you turn to the left, you go to the right. back in 1912, proceeding the 1930s, when you turned the wheel to the right, the boat went to the left. when you turned the wheel to the left, the boat went to the right. now, what louise patten is suggesting oh, come on. a.j., my sailing buddy, what just happened to your correspondent? anyway, i love that he cut that out, right? that was a very high-tech piece of high-tech prop. anyway, that s the story. i bet the book sells a lot of copies. all right. i just showed you how little i know about sailing, even though i go all the time. could you figure out who is going to win the midterm elections by checking facebook? as more candidates bypass
she says her landlord tossed her belongings to the curb after evicting her because she couldn t pay the rent. she s a housekeeper who is out of work. her roommate said he didn t know she was behind on the rent until he came home and found his stuff out in the street, too. after almost 100 years, we may now know what happened to the titanic. the author of a new book claims her grandfather was an officer on the ship. she says he told her that the helmsman followed the wrong directions, steering the ship right into the iceberg. just a month ago, you might recall kerry sanders went on that impressive expedition to see the titanic. okay, kerry, this has been studied by scientists, historians, bloggers. there are clubs. i don t know how many books have been written about the titanic. could it have been that simple? well, louise patten writes that the second officer, charles
figuring it out on your own can be very lonely. is that one of the key messages you have tore your girlfriends and for other young women your age? yeah i mean, i talk a lot in the book about having a really how important it is to have a strong relationship with your mother for young girls and your father, especially your mom, you can ask your mom everything about maturing, about changing, about different pressures in school, different pressures from the media and it is really important for moms to also be there for their daughters to, build up their self-esteem and to build up their confidence about themselves and, you know, dove is doing these amazing self-esteem workshops and, you know, really working on building young girls self-esteem and build them up to make them confident. i feel that is important and what i try to say in the book and why i really want young girls and mothers to read this book together and a bonding process. it is called rock what you ve got. very impr