As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
The white house is still there. I think about the wonderful times we had. And 40 miles a week which is a lot. Thinking about the good times that we had and how thankful i am now to have the superb bipartisan support existed in the seventies. Is there republican in the congress or senate that you enjoyed working with that you became friends with . Howard baker from tennessee was a minority leader and was a great personal friend of mine i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and a minority leader the house of representatives also a great supporter of mine so during the last couple of years i was in the white house so they took away a lot of very liberal democrats with a moderate and conservative democrats and republicans. What about sam nunn . That is very important. He was a young senator then and was my floor leader on some of the key issues applied to nuclear power. He was very knowledgeable about it and working his way up to be chairman later on of the Defense Committee
It was once in order to remain a real scientist, you need, as someone said, to be a monk in this profession and to everything, to give all of yourself to this research and some kind of design, evidence of the theory that is born in your head , and not everyone succeeds in this, and not everyone does it, therefore unfortunately, or scientists, this also happens in different ways, different caliber, like they say, well, does it help . I think it helps, because it was those teachers who were there who, in some places, strengthened them, and in others they simply helped formulate the algorithm of work consistency, perseverance, that you need to go to the end, you still need to achieve results , the result will be the same anyway it wouldnt have been hard, thats why i did the work and defended myself during such a period, it was very difficult, if you remember, then the head of state spoke and said, the doctorate should only be an opening, not lower, yeah. I say, so why wait, well it wont w
Its so late, i could have come earlier , we have a family dinner today. Would help, well i dont seem to have anything to do with this family anymore, its you who have nothing to do with me anymore, with our children, thats why i was delayed, i went to the hospital, but my mother asked you, but i didnt bother victor, i talked to the doctor in our professional language, and you think they wont. Do without the advice of a gynecologist and in general , tomorrow, you hear, im going to go tomorrow, where are we going to go, heres a oneroom apartment near the roundabout, for example, far from work, so, then here the port area, a very, very disadvantaged area. Well, then heres an option. Let me remind you that the ukrainian clowns president ial term expires on march 31, but he is in no hurry to leave his seat, despite the failure to fulfill his election promises, but this is different. And an hour, and after the closing of polling stations in belarus, the state debt ran to declare the effectiv
Rebuilding gaza six months after the conflict with israel. Our top story calls for a full and transparent investigation after russian government critic is gunned down on the streets of moscow. He roses to political prominence as deputy Prime Minister under russias first president , Boris Yeltsin and then he became a thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin. He was killed last night in moscow. Hours earlier, he called for a march against the ongoing crisis in ukraine. Fellow Opposition Leaders say his death was motivated. They say he was poised to release a report on the kremlins role in ukraine. More from moscow. He had received Death Threats before. But he brushed them aside and said if he were afraid he wouldnt be leading an opposition party. On friday evening, just before midnight, he was killed near the kremlin, shot four times from a passing car. He was big, handsome bright and talented. The very kind that they kill. We needed him very much. This is a new spiral in russias decent into