Host that was his assessment of the year, but, however, for the first fortyfive minutes, we want to get your take on how the president did this year. How would you rate president obamas year . Here are the lines. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002 for independents. Those are the phone lines, if know how you et us would rates the presidency are. Us or send us eat a comment on facebook. The last press conference of the year before him and his headed to hawaii it found found on it can be on our website at cspan. Org. I am not done, says the piece. This is edward writing. The president said he promised that would be heavy on outreach of congress, but also his own rd on protecting healthcare and financial regulations. As the white house was a ut the run of good news, sense of turnaround they admit that they have gotten lucky in the timing. The climate deal with china, the booming obama care enrollment numbers, the teetering of the russian economy were all the r
Can you talk about the driving force for you is right teeing drink . Guest it is decades old liger up with an alcoholic mother who was cross addicted to valium like much were in the 50s and the 70s depending on mothers little helper. A stay at home mom and a poster girl for that era. I have always been interested why she dropped and i said i never would but in my fifties i had a bad patch in my own life and i would say a poster girl for this era. Welleducated, highly professional, the other, and not drink two or 34 glasses of wine per night the five or six and i caught myself quickly and went to rehab. Can you talk about that with the addiction . I was full of shame. I was deeply humiliated by my a behavior. But i did blackout. Right before i went to sleep. I said i would get a handle on it. Of favorite cousin was killed by a drunk driver. I will just quit and i couldnt. I knew i was addicted. It was confounding. So i thought it could not be the alcohol. Host just like the year on the
Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
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