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disaster area, under state law and said, look, this economy has hurt american families, right here, and we need help. this is a place that s really struggle. and of course, today, we just got a new number from the unemployment report, and it s another hammer blow to the struggling middle class families of america, because the president has not had policies that put american families back to work. i do. i ll put them in place and get america working again! reporter: and that s right. you hear mitt romney saying that he has a plan that will not only create jobs, will certainly put people back to work. but, you know, this is a really sort of difficult situation for the president, because unemployment is still above 8%, going into the election year, or rather, the election. that is not good news for the president. but, again, everyone trying to highlight, here at the white house, on the campaign for the president, trying to highlight the positives here, hoping that americans wi
thank you. now we are pleased to be joined by the founder of the national book festival and former first lady, laura bush. it was september 8th, 2001 that the first national book festival was held on the capitol grounds, founded by laura bush and now grown so large they hold on the national with all sorts of tense. that s right is a thrill and i m thrilled to see so many people who have come for the very first reading. we can hear gordon wood reading from the history tense. very happy to see him and how many people love the books. we continue to hear about the demise of the publishing industry and the demise of books in general but then you hold a book festival, in its tenth year. 100,000 people show up. the texas book festival as well which is one you founded. what does that say to you? i think people to love to read for sure. a big part of the demise is the publishing industry which i don t think is