stay at home dads who are very happy and who do not all entirely live in portland, oregon, you know, that is okay too. we re the only national television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books, and throughout the fall we re marking 15 years of booktv on c-span2. this weekend booktv of is live this florida for the miami book fair international. coverage kicks off today at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span2 with dave barry, roy blunt jr. and brad meltzer and continues with appearances by doris kearns goodwin and a. scott burg. plus call-ins with sheri fink, peter baker and susan herman. sunday s coverage starts at 10:30 and includes mark halperin, bill ayers, thomas cahill and chris matthews. the miami book fair international live this weekend on booktv on c-span2. and don t forget to weigh in on our november book club question: what books are you reading on jfk? post your thoughts anytime on our book club chat room, booktv.org/bookclub. presidential historian tevi troy
booktv.org/bookclub. presidential historian tevi troy examines the popular culture that american presidents have partaken in over the past 200 years from andrew jackson s interest in attending the theater to the reading habits of dwight eisenhower. he speaks on a panel with jonah gold burg, william galston and political analyst and columnist mona charen. this panel discussion is just under two hours. ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. i m chris demuth, fellow here at the hudson institute, and i will be moderating this afternoon s session in which we will be recognizing and celebrating and discoursing upon tevi troy s new book, what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted: 200 years of popular culture this the white house. with a title like that, you might expect that the book is a parade of ton and entertaining stories about presidents idiosyncratic tastes in reading, theater, music, sports, movies, tv, or maybe it s more than that, maybe it s a study of
any such plans that might be in the preliminary stage. there s an important election suggesting the nsa is a very dramatic role in the drone campaign. i wonder if you can talk about that but also more broadly, keith alexander, was this prompted by the edward snowden scandal in terms of the terms of the presidency ended? the answer is no pity if we can confirm several weeks ago general alexander confirmed to the president in the spring of 2014. when he was extended for the third time as the director of the nsa for the fiber command in march of 2013, general alexander indicated his interest in retiring next spring. and having served as the director since 2005 and commander of u.s. cyber command since 2010, general alexander served in extraordinary and let these agencies through critical periods of clinton s transition. the president looks forward to continuing to work with general alexander until his term as complete and he thinks him and the men of the nsa for the patrioti
so, yes, there may be some people who want to stop these changes or at least argue for them to happen somewhere else, perhaps away from their backyard. but let he tell you this let me tell you this, we have a plan for the long term, and we will stick to the task. finally, everyone knows that we need a bigger and more prosperous private sector to generate wealth and to pay for the public services that we need. that means we need to support, reward and celebrate enterprise. that requires a fundamental change of culture in our country, a culture that s on the side of those who work hard, that values typically british entrepreneurial buccaneering spirit and that rewards people with the ambition to make things, sell things and create jobs for others up and down the country. and that is what this government is on a mission to bring about. we want to make britain the best place in europe to start, to finance and to grow a business. so as the lord mayor said, we are cutting corpora
every day in a criminal court room somebody will tap me on this note shoulder do you know, who my lawyer is? they have no idea they have not met them. kid you imagine god forbid it did not even knowing who your lawyer was? that is the language of lawyers say and people just have no idea how to navigate and don t even know who their lawyer is. said general and fairness is the manufacturer of crime of lot of police departments to undercover stings of buy or bust operation for drugs or for prostitution to use illicit a and other undercover things like robberies or a police officer with the iphone and i think that adds a level of randomness to cases to devote resources we don t need. host: to close out on a positive note. for both of you what to advice would you give to young lawyers speaking of law students going into this field or want to? you don t want to give all the bad stuff. what would you? we are happy defenders. i guess all of these things that suppress thi