appreciate it it s been very warm. it s been a terrific field as you all know . marvelously talented in many cases friends in every one of those great public servants and i m hoping to have the chance to compete in every state and speak to every voter. we were delighted that in the first couple of hours of our white website going up we had people identify themselves from every one of the 50 states and we look forward to leveraging that kind of engagement through the primaries so i m glad to be here and thank you for taking the early does i think i m going to speak and you will all be ready to end your day i think. questions? [inaudible] how do you navigate a field this large especially comingin late ? a lot of people are voting. i m not going to get into the strategy buti can tell you two things . i would have come in a year ago and that was the plan, two weeks or so before we were ready to launch and i think some of you, my wife was diagnosed with uterine cancer and i m
presidency, and expressed in written word. the other culture in this room is pat oliphant. [applause] please greet pat oliphant. even more so by the work of pat, which you will see displayed on this screen. is notture he represents sort of broad gauge and long but highly specific. the course ofer more than 60 years as a cartoonist producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, for the washington star for several -ears, and then pot out fan he became the first 20th-century cartoonist to work independently. it was syndicated through newspapers across the country out of his studio. comment onic, daily events as they were occurring. far from being balanced, they were opinionated. virtue. part of their obviously, not so much in words, but especially in pictures. not just confined to cartoons, but also to paintings and sculpture. ,efore i introduce our panel let me speak some words of thanks on behalf of those who were ins
watch live coverage of the miami book fair saturday and sunday on c-span2 s book tv. how many years of your reporting career other percentage have you spent overseas? i guess close to half. first with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. so that was close to a decade and then off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward foreign reporting? my earliest interest in journalism was really about domestic issues. poverty, drug addiction, social ills, you might say. so i did a lot of work on that in the early years. i traveled a little bit overseas as a tourist to unusual places and i began to think that some of these same issues were definitely there and more and the struggles and problems were deeper. and i just wanted to try that. host: what special skills does it take to be a foreign affairs journalist, as opposed to someone working domestically? pame
we weree just talking in the back, her discussion of life in a religious community, doubt, how you decide to leave or stay and how you defend yourself in those contexts is one of those conversations that we need to be having so much more as a culture. i think the it opens up so many doors for people. megan is herself a writer and an activist. she leftp the westboro baptist church in november 2012 and is now an educator on topics relating to extremism and communication across ideological lines. at the age of 53, megan at the age of 5, peg began began protesting homosexuality. this church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family. picketing at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. as the church s twitter spokesman, megan was one of the few that interacted with the outside world, and twitter actually did something maybe we can applaud it for, it caused her to begin doubting the strict church members and its message.
and megan phelps roper recounts growing up as a member of the westboro baptist church. watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival today starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern. and be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the miami book fair in november on booktv on c-span2. .. coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the city s history and learn how it came to be known as a glass capital of the world. later the toledo van band crash of 1931. we begin our special feature with the city s mayor. i think places like toledo are often taken for granted there is a such wonderful history here. they had built things. the first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston. drawn by rich reservoir natural gas. brought his glass company to toledo and opened a plant on ash street in north toledo. it s on the same site today. the glass industry was big and important into in toledo once di