was upgraded to a turnpike in the 1830s everybody wanted to have access because it meant you were connected. you were part of the economy not only the regional to national economy. the merchant on main street and lexington couldn t have been selling tea without the road. there is a much greater appreciation for the role of the road in people s lives established homes and businesses and who are able to conduct business because of the road. again, the idea is to take infrastructure in the road for granted. for more information on book tv presented lexington and the other cities visited by the vehicles go to c-span.org. publisher adam and mark argued that america s intellectual habits are in decline. in audible conversations can we begin to? welcome everybody. may i be heard? [inaudible conversations] have though everybody. link back i like a captive audience but this feels like a captive panel. welcome, everybody and thank you for coming. am i over amplified? welcome to t
he worked in some of the administrations in this time. have but was asked to run. he seemed to have a political interest and every time at the end, right before, he said no. what happened in 2004 he runs for governor. he d been living in dc and his daughters finally want to go home so leave washington and run for office. he does have a golden name in the state and he was aware jon huntsman senior if you think about what it takes to create a business empire you have to be a pretty passionate person. that is the influence there that makes him a little bit more capable of handling some of this stuff that happens in politics. they ve both been exposed to politics and both have a commitment to public service so why don t they get along? what is the story? let s talk about the winter olympics in 2002. it wasn t a risk at all before that. the olympics are coming from 1999, they can do some trouble and bribery scandal and they need the white knights to sit so they reach out to
it went out of nowhere with a shock. we waited for mike to get back and my comment was i never been through this and don t know the right answer. that was, and i spoke to a lot of attorneys and legal scholars who said mike s calls was one of the more brilliant legal calls they are aware of representing me as his client. so we said no. next day, the hearing is scheduled for is 11 o clock. i will touch on the judge never being on time. i did the math after calculating irritatingly and putting in my court journal he was late on average 40 minutes for trial whether that is in the morning, after break or lunch, it added up to 40 minutes on average and i think i am giving him the benefit of the doubt. i thought a federal judge wouldn t know better. we were there on time and we were properly ready to do your best. i didn t expect to hear back from mike until much later. while we were staying at the place we were at there was a slow drain in the sink the whole time. it irritated me b
no one at this point is chart running against him. josh romney considered and he was one of many people including jon huntsman junior who is asked to run against mike lee who declined to at that point you have a prominent banker and jonathan junior to announcing announced. the short answer is if you can t beat them, join them. i would like you to talk a little bit about the seniors and juniors relationship as lukewarm at best on the huntsman side of course. the last time i actually saw them together was during a dedication of a wing of the cancers to toot just a few months ago when john junior was on the stand at the time and that was one of the last times i have seen him with his father. do you know what the relationship is? sure an impact if you look at jonathan junior and senior are very close and they still talk every day. what s complicated for them during the 2012 campaign because while they wanted to talk to each other every day and they did for the most part t
with celebrate the most american of holidays each year years later he with a laugh about it. he was one dash she said it was the great line. but back then mitt romney appeared on the news on his own. as he was getting used to the spotlight and then he had his appendix out. reporters once wrote he made $2,000 would actually she pointed firefighters in the direction of the fire. he just wanted to be a part of it. he said he idolized his father did he follow in the ideological footsteps as well politically? yes. this is michigan and you have to learn how to ingratiate yourself. at the time as a politician of race relations and then to go to harvard than like massachusetts and if you re going to be a centrist republican to be successful you better figure out how to play nice. with the abortion i want try to repeal any thing and i won t take any action on cave marriage that d since the direction of the liberal end of the scale. what about huntsman? there is of great pict