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[inaudible] and barbara were always very welcoming to me. They always said whens your next book . Youre on. [laughter] and it was lovely. And as david said, brad and lissa have carried on the wondrous tradition, the ingenuity and made it keep going, and the fact that all of you have come tonight is a testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books that we all share. Richard nixons a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first i remember as a child on black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man. He was on the ticket with general eisenhower, and there was some problem of his taking money from a secret fund. He was talking about his daughters dog, and i thought, hmm, hes interesting. Well, he never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. And as david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicle in the book the beginning with spiro agnew, remember him being in some trouble. And i had said t ....
The late Christopher Hitchensd9n and martin amos. One can only imagine what those lunches were like. So, ladies and gentlemen, its my pleasure to introduce the author of but enough about you, a storyteller or, a cultural critic and, ifnr i hay say, irreverent historian, mr. Christopher buckley. Lets welcome him. [applause] hello. Would you please turn your cell phones back on . [laughter] what a an honor to be introduced by dr. Pasti, the es . Ive had the pleasure for some years now of getting to know him and his delightful and very beautiful wife, patricia, your first lady, who is a connecticut girl, i point out with no small pride being a connecticut yankee myself. And she is also an author, and you will be hearing from her at, later on at this festival. I, having identified myself as a connecticut yankee, i hasten to point out that i have can you hear me in the cheap seats back there . How much did you pay for those . [la ....
That once thats perfected, and there would be a push to do that, then there it is. Potassium bromide, the people bash toll. Weve got it for the elderly. There it is, now we have it for lethal injections. Right. So, again, this is the question about well have a reliable technology, and well be able to use it in lethal injection. But remember, the problems of lethal injection are not just problems of the drug content. Theyre problems of its administration and whos going to administer it. And these injections are administered under lets say difficult and trying circumstances. So i dont think its just a matter of could we find a drug cocktail which this some way would seem to us to be reliable, i think its a question of how that drug cocktail is going to be administered, by whom and to whom and under what circumstances. The truth of the matter, whats happening with lethal injection today is a form of human experimentation. Thats what happened in oklahoma. They were trying a drug cocktail t ....
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