At this is that book expo which the publishing industrys annual convention and here is president bill clinton. [background sounds]. Good evening everyone. My name is greg and i meant the Vice President shoaf manager for book expo america. A manageable familiar tonight. To this very special occasion. He would not be here this evening if it were not for the support and loyalty the bookselling and Publishing Community spring to us each and every year. For the for an eye for that i think you. [applause]. The fabric of our convention lies in the connections we all make with the authors that appear here. Its been over 100 years of memorable moments since the very First Convention but has two guest of honor. Mark twain in 19 oh one. And since in the book industry has continued to come together to house authors have provided us with thoughtprovoking discussion to say nothing of stimulating entertainment. But all i think i can safely say that nothing has approached the magnitude of this evening
Is a nice pattern that is not changing anytime soon. Overall what you see is what you get. And we are just carrying from one day and the next. 1 degree at the most changing from day today. Is hot on the inland. Most locations are near average to a little below. 53 in oakland and larimore. Theres a pretty good breeze out to travis. That is picked up in the last hour or so. Overall look for temperatures to be very similar between the low and the high. When becomes more of a dominant feature. There have been a few things going through here. Were going to look at a few of these things here. Lets go to the Richmond Bridge to san rafael. There is some slowing at the bay bridge toll plaza on the way into San Francisco lets go back to the headlines. We wait for that News Conference in San Francisco by firefighters. Lets bring you uptodate on the developments from the scene of this massive five alarm fire yesterday morning. Alyssa harrington is here now with its details. Bring us uptodate. Fire
Women where they could wield a great deal of political power. Here, Dolley Madison would sit at the head of the table and direct the conversation. She got these people to the white house and entertained them, got them together, got them talking. This is very important for dolley to make everyone feel welcome. Whether they were enemies or allies. Dolley popularized the style to american fashion, that was considered her classic look. People noticed it. The octagon, it was the perfect setting for james and Dolley Madison as they try to resume government as quickly as possible. She sat side by side with madison for almost 20 years during his entire meant, helping him compile his papers. She moved back to washington d. C. And became a grand, very much behind the scenes in the political field again. As henry clay said, everyone loves mrs. Madison, and then her equally famous response, thats because mrs. Madison loves everybody. Dolley madison came to her service as first lady with the experi
These are your manuscripts of kid books. Are all in process, yes. And theres another nonfiction thing im doing now, a friend of mine matt everson, matt, you remember the movie black hawk down . He was the actual sergeant portrayed in the movie and he went on to become a First Sergeant in the ranger training school, etc. And were doing book right now, walk in my combat books which is an interview with all these people whove gone through combat and ill take the interviews and third turn 30page interviews into five, six, seven pages and our mission is if you went to combat , that youll go these guys got it right and if you didnt and youre one of those people that think they know what soldiers are all about youll read it and say i had no idea and one of the thingswe all say again and again with our fathers and we see it with our loved ones , people will come back and they dont want to talk about it and in this book they talk about it host how manyinterviews will you do for that . Guest its
Vitality, of life. Not of a movement thats cracking up or that its on its last legs. People are fighting and debating and arguing so strenuously because something of value is concerning here and that is the conservative movement which is still a major actor in american politics. At the same time, they have an opportunity to accept change. I think thats part of what it meansto be a conservative today. Not to be so resistant that we wont allow anything to happen. Even edmund burke said change is inevitable. Its a question of being prudent change and thats what i as a traditional conservative are looking forward to the right kind of leadership, the right kind of debate and discussion so i welcome all thats going on right now. All the various strands, all the various strains of conservatism. Thats good. Coming out of that is going to be a bigger, better, i think more relevant conservative movement in the years ahead. I want to read you a quote. Barry would go absolutely crazy if we were wa