and hugh hewitt, the president of the nixon foundation who you ll hear from in a few moments. we have many distinguished guests here today. many former officials from the nixon and other administrations and staff and friends of the nixon foundation, and we re honored to have you here tonight. this year marks the 50th anniversary of patricia nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. under her leadership, the white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency. the significance of this will be discussed in tonight s program, but it s very important to us here at the white house historical association as a core part of our mission which was inspired, as most of you, or all of you know, by first lady jacqueline kennedy, to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservation, preservation, restoration of those beautiful state homes in the white house for the a
on this week s after words program ellen silbergeld talks about that new form farming efforts affect consumers. ellen is a pleasure to have you here. here i am this port city boy who became secretary of agriculture which is one of the greater jobs i ve ever had as congressman beforehand but before we talk about your book which is my father and atticus finch i thought maybe you might talk about yourself. how did you get into this whole area of agriculture especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it? guest: at something of a story that begins with the chesapeake bay and this was this mysterious eruption of a toxic organism in the water that is some kind of a narrow toxin causing fish to die and a lot of reported illness and fishermen. it was never really figured out that one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs from poultry waste that went into the water. that was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me
surely this is an old case, old at least by newspaper standards . the condition had occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper, i saw that it hadn t been covered at all and the reason was that brian regan was arrested two weeks before 9/11 and he was convicted one month after the us invaded iraq so it was almost this story was kind of book ended bythese two major events . and it was sort of lowhanging fruit for me to go after . to rewind a little bit, your interest in going to this cryptology us, do you have a background in science writing so you were comfortable solving into it. as you get to the cryptology section, i think everyone except that hard-core cryptology us are going to say, let me get a cup of coffee, this is serious. can you talk about what was your interest in cryptology before that? were you working on something? i didn t really have a specific interest in cryptology. i m a science writer, i worked at science
endangers workers, animals and consumers , i thought you might talk a little bit about yourself. how do you get into this whole area of analyzing agriculture, especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it? well, it s something of a story. it begins with syria and the chesapeake bay and this was this mysterious irruption of a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of a neurotoxin that caused millions of fishto die and a lot of reported illness in fishermen . they never really figured it out but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs of nutrients poultry waste that went into the water so that was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going to a lecture and listening to the speaker talk about food borne infections and how these were really big problems and he said it was particularly a problem because many of them were drug-resistant and i knew nothing about the subject. so infec
pick back up in january. have all been on the tv, when are we going to get the other two booktv? i will talk talk to them this week. here s our primetime lineup. tonight starting at 8:30 p.m. eastern, look at first lady eleanor roosevelt and 10, conferences narrows delivers the fairfax pride lecture and we wrap up monday primetime at 11:30 with hildale college professor bradley bruiser who talks about his biography of conservative writer russell kirk. that all happens tonight on c-span2 s book tv. i m here with scott farris, the author of inga, kennedy s great love, hitler s perfect beauty and the fbi s prime suspect. who was in arvada. she was missed denmark of 1931 but more than that. he was in actress, a ballerina, a concert pianist, explorer, washington columnist, gossip columnist and screenwriter for mgm and editor of harper s bazaar but most of all she was the great love of john f. kennedy s life and they desperately wanted to marry each other. it was not a plane