Conversation with your calls, tweets, and facebook questions at noon on sunday. On cspan two. Washington journal continues. Host welcome back. Is with us. Ni she is founder and ceo of the nonprofit group, girls who code. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host it is great to see her. Guest doing wonderful. Host you have a background in law and politics. How did you get involved in this . Guest i am a really weird person. At ageunning for office 33, ran for congress and lost his relief. But i would go into schools and computer labs and see hundreds of boys clamoring to be mark zuckerberg. Where are the girls . I am the daughter of refugees. Ive had a job since i was 12. I am a product of the american dream. I knew that the future of work was in computing. It did not make sense to me that we were leaving out half of the workforce so that is how i started, girls who code. Host you believe that it is not giving girls more opportunity, it is about changing the culture. Explain this. Guest wh
Delighted to be at the convention. My first convention. Ive been working for hillary for eight years. To get her in the white house. Thats why im here. It is my passion. Im from ohio. Im a delegate for bernie and i 21. Am this is my first convention. I am the state director of College Students for bernie and im really excited to be here. My generation and the millennials, we are about the same size of the baby boomers and it is really important for us to show up. We are having a great time at the convention and looking forward to the rest of it. Voices from the road on cspan. Talk next, historians about the process of writing a president ial biography. This event was part of a Pulitzer Prize centennial the george w. Bush president ial center. It is just over an hour. [applause] thank you. Laura and i want to welcome you. Of the president and ceo bush center and all of us who work here are thrilled you are here. I must confess i have mixed emotions. I am thrilled to be part of this, and
I got mixed emotions. I am thrilled to be a part of this. But im disappointed youre not here to give me the Pulitzer Prize for the book i wrote. [laughter] Good Organization needs a Pulitzer Prize recipient on the staff. Heres the bush center, we have bill mckenzie. [applause] thank you for convincing us to join you in hosting this. It is very exciting for the bush center that you are here. All the members of the Pulitzer Prize board as well as the representatives from 41s library and i forgot lbjs number. [laughter] as a history buff, i aim thrilled that i met and to john and ron turn our here to be interviewed. [applause] get my book reconsidered, i thought i would share an active with you. Talk to vladimir about the necessities to have a free press in order for the society to be a wholesome and vibrant society. He had just suspended the independent press. This was in slovakia. I couldnt identify during the debates. Its during the debates. During the debates. [laughter] i said, vladi
[laughter] every Good Organization needs a Pulitzer Prize recipient on the staff. Here at the bush center, we have bill mckenzie. [applause] thank you for convincing us to join you in hosting this. It is very exciting for the bush center that you are here. All the members of the Pulitzer Prize board as well as the representatives from 41s library and i forgot lbjs number. [laughter] as a history buff, i aim thrilled that jon and annette and ron chernow are here to be interviewed. [applause] in order to get my book reconsidered, i thought i would share an anecdote with you. I was tasked to talk to Vladimir Putin about the necessity to have a free press in order for the society to be a wholesom and vibrant society. He had just suspended the independent press. This was in slovakia. I couldnt identify it during the debates. [laughter] mr. Bush i said, vladimir it is very important that you have a vibrant press. He said, you are a hypocrite. You fired the famous newsman. I said what the hel
100 years ago, president Woodrow Wilson signed the bill creating the National Park service and thursday we look back on the past century of these caretakers of americas natural and historic treasures. Beginning at 10 00 eastern and throughout the day we take you to National Park Service Sites across the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern, were live from the National Park services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial at Arlington National cemetery. Join us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, former National Park service director, and brandon buys, the former arlington house site manager who will oversee the upcoming yearlong restoration of the matching, slave quarters and grounds. Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the National Park service live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Up next on the presidency, historians jon meacham, Annette Gordon reid and ron chernow talk about