Fraternalility of the president not only what foreign enemies think divisiveness in the United States we need a strong leader to unite us how is that traditionalist someone weak ailing in leadership position. I think that is right were watching adversaries are watching as well not just age there are questions about Mental Health capacity how do you see it. The majority americans do have concerns about bidens age they dont seem to see trump the same way even though comparable in age. Maria younger trump is younger you go. Yes, he is. But really the issue democrats have stuck with this guy, he i mean who else do pef. Democratic party people he beat in 2020, Kamala Harris extremely unpopular probably cant win National Election gavin newsom led longest covid shutdowns kept schools closed a disaster if not biden the more age issues come out one more thing probably most watching dont understand infrastructure, packaging surrounding president s they have a lot of resources going into preventi
Here is a few of the authors youll hear from today. Oranges the new black actress will recall her familys immigration story. Former secret Service Agent will talk about the five different president ial administrations he served. Pulitzer prize winning author takes a look at terrorism. For complete schedule of the days events you can visit the days events you can visit our website at booktv. Org. Follow us on twitter at book tv, on instagram at book underscore tv and on facebook, facebook. Com book tv. Will post pictures and videos on social media platforms. You you can watch exclusive videos on facebook live. Beginning now we kick off the festival with the book, true faith and allegiance, us dory of sacrifice in one piece. Live coverage of the texas a book festival. Hello. Welcome to the 21st annual texas book festival. Thank you for coming out today in support of authors, the festival, and celebrating great literature. As you may know the texas book festival is a nonprofit is a Nonpro
[inaudible conversations] book tv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv. Facebook. Com booktv. B [inaudible conversations] hello. Welcome to the 21st annual texam book festival. U thank you for come out here in support of the authors and bookt rit rature. You know its a Nonprofit Organization by awarding library grants and reading rock starsac program sending nationally recognized authors and illustrators into title one schools and donating books to those students. Tl by being here today and buying books, you are funding the important initiatives. Thank you very much. Please silence cell phones. No photography allowed. Authors will be signing book after the session including alan gonzalez, books available in the tent just down. My name is klay thompson, itssy my honor to be a moderator of this session today. Jo we are here to hear from alberto gonzalez, who is the author of this new book, true faith and allegiance, story of service anw s
Thanks for coming. Is your husband here . Hi. Michael davis speed and good to meet you, michael davis. I heard you all were having a party. Thats all you needed was a president ial candidate for it if you like New Hampshire i decided to comply. You invited cspan and everything . Where should i speak from . Right over here. In the kitchen . Okay. Sandy, how are you . Good to see you. Hows it going . Hey, doug, how are you . Thanks. Thats good. Can i get you all anything . [laughter] good to see you again, my friend, countryman, supporting Martin Omalley for president. Thank you. Its not easy. I know, i know. Is anybody going to kick us all. Or do i just jump in . It looks like im just jumping in. Look, i want to thank you all for being here. I want to thank william, did you entertain earlier . I tried spent i want to thank my son William Omalley for being up here. [applause] what do you guys discuss already . To be honest i didnt get to make as much ground as i usually do, but it seems
Most important thing you can do, movement in politics, to show that you can improve the condition of peoples lives. With stagnation, 4050 years, you know, africanamerican communities, it has been brutal and not much attention paid until the last years. That turned people away from politics and government, from a belief that the government can work on behalf of a too often cited common good. Van i think she is holding out on us. We were talking about right and left stuff. You have been able to get people to come together on your issues in a way that i think is shocking a lot of people. So, did you have any insight . Aijen poo i did, i was actually going to say, i have been so inspired by all the work you have been leading on mass incarceration and i think that we have to get smarter and more creative about how we are connecting the dots between and across the kind of pain people feel in this economy. And one thing that we think about a lot is the fact that this country is actually aging