Many aspects that someone could look at and judge whether that was a good reform or battery form. People grabbed onto that particular conclusion and try to use it to their best and. We are talking with professor philip here at the university of maryland about his book on the congressional Budget Office. The cbo was used in two ways or in one way it should have been used in two ways. One way is to help a Super Committee to set the parameters. So director elmendorf went and testified on the nature of the problem that was facing the country and what kind of thing was what needed to happen and what would be a reasonable trajectory for trying to get the deficit down for example, and clearly cbo stepped behind the scenes and worked with the committee answering questions. Theres an awful lot of work that they do that isnt visible in the sense that they are providing advice when asked to congressionally staff the committees. Now, what would have happened if the Super Committee had been success
Know, one last time as, you know, Adolf Eichmann faked his death and his wife reported him as dead . So he sits atop the most wanted list with an asterisk as presumed dead but not absolutely sure, and thats where the case remains from his perspective to this day. So thank you again for joining us. Thank you [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us tonight with booktv guests and viewers. Watch abuse and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. You are watching booktv on cspan2. On cspan2. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. Battle happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. And the on booktv robert klara becomes the physical improvements made to the white house in 1948. The author reports on the decampment of president harry truman and his family to blair house during the reconstruction which consisted of a gutting of the entire interior of the building and the addition of a steel frame and an underground shelter. Thank you very much, and thank you for inviti
She visited him, he visited her. Through his letter stir will largely have his recollections, but there was an exchange shortly after the reelection but before the inauguration in which most of her letters disappeared. We only have a onesided dialogue, but he was not very good at this relationship thing. A very clear. He spends three pages going into great detail about the election return and then says, by the way, what you mean when you said we were going apart. Theyre is a leather chair shortly before the inauguration which says, you know, i think not going to take that diplomatic post. And that he goes to sear. By the time he comes back his riding in telling him here is where the wedding will be. So very clearly the only way he could have got married was to get out of the white house because the secretaries were expected to live there and he couldnt. They went on to diplomatic posts nikolai stay there until 6869 and then came back. Hey did a turn in paris and then came home. He kind
Trusting that everyone will realize, particularly because of the letters she wrote home to her sisters, that they were enbroiled in this and they were. When abigail wrote a letter it was known it was actually written for the whole neighborhood. And mary would get the pleasure of having everyone important in the neighborhood come over and she would read allowed abigails letter. And then there were chapters when mary is trying find a minister for the first church of quincy and she is the most important person. And even john adams think she is the most important person in quincy. And one day, abigail catches him opening a letter that mary has written to him. And she is furious. She said how can you open a letter and he said it isnt just any letter it is from mary and there is no one that knows more than mary that i am interested in. And then there is a lot on elizabeth. She is the sister who endures the most. She is the prettiest and i say the most beautiful. There is a wonderful picture
He claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln. The love of his life had been a young woman named ann rutledge to die when lincoln was off in springfield or actually the old state capital for his first term in the legislature and that he never got over the loss. He claimed that lincoln had syphilis. It was not clear why this was helpful or helping to set, you know he tried to make him a very earthy figure. The family was absolutely furious. They elected these interviews and thought, there is no possible way that people could remember with any precision somebody whom they had no expectation whatever rise that far. One of his informants said something really telling. Look, you know, im sorry. I wish i could remember more. When i knew him it was just for a year in her early 20s, and i had no idea you would be president , so i did not think term member. So they relied instead on a vast body of lincolns papers and any kind of primary sources they could get there hands on. They sc