In a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the City Co
In a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the City Co
Rides mountain bikes and drives his daughter to School Every Day except on days when he is inspiring folks like us. I want you to know he has a better introduction for himself. I am proud and honored to welcome travis mills. Thank you so much. That was a great introduction. I tell people when they come out and see me and someone introduces be i say what do you call a guy without arms or legs in the ocean . Bob. Travis mills. Nice meeting you guys. Let me start off with my thank you to the savannah book festival. Thanks for having me. My father in law and brother drove down so we are happy. The hosts are the most phenomenal people. If you dont know them you need to. A couple things about me Everybody Needs to know. One, i am awesome. Two, i am humble. In that order. You get the idea there . I have pretty cool tricks. Yup. And i wrote a book so im an author, too. What . [applause] i know you are not supposed to read from your book so luckily i didnt bring one up on stage. I was told not
That. 92 percent, perverting 87 percents. Interesting thing is what you pay for it. The most avantgarde was gasoline tax. They would pay a gasoline tax to Fund Increased research and development and commercialization portals. s polling agencies the whole methodology. I think it is an Incredible Opportunity to leverage. May have an innovation advocacy council. And the book, i think we have been talking about these types of things for a long time. And i think the book gives a lot of credibility and the way that it was written to bring back to our city governments and leaders and really be able to talk about what needs to happen as we accelerate this transformation. The era of piece is over. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] s. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] when i tune in on the weekends authors and knew releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on book tv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they could have a l
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