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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130922



there are just so many books that are about to come out. it s a little hard to excuse me. it s a little bit hard to keep track frankly. host: which ones do you have your eye on? guest: first and foremost there is a new one coming up with james swanson. he had written a very popular best-selling book called manhunt which was about the assassination of abraham lincoln and now he returns with and of days, the assassination of john f. kennedy and it will be out around the 12th of november. there is also from a different vantage point this is sort of a counterfactual. you have jeff greenfield who will be publishing its kennedy lived the first and second terms of jfk and alternate history. he is done alternate histories before with much success and it will be interesting to see what he posits whether jfk had lived. host: sarah weinman putting jfk on the cover of the book is that a good marketing tool? guest: i think it remains to be seen. it certainly can t hurt. it ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20131103



were not so close off from society. there was a lot of penetration to outside and inside. people delivering refreshments, bringing the bottles, juice and water, making these deliveries into dachau. airports, these sites. dino from the holocaust museum s incredible research, the whole camp, we have to understand is much larger. we also have more guards. i can t believe we can talk about 40,000 kids and not raise the number of female guards to 3,500. that story will change. i wanted to show that this was something much more widespread and very in its form. the question children have, it appears inaudi [inaudible] you have got this same area it is this part is a military occupied zone. they cannot produce it. and the rest by the ukraine. a big reception here. so western russia, moscow, leningrad, that is part of the village of occupation. goldman were there too. any soldier s homes set up in th ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20131031



government, millions of americans are already benefitting and there are benefits that are not tied to healthcare.gov. some madam secretary, let s clarify what s working. is it correct to say many of the improvements that the aca makes to employer coverage and medicare were the vast majority of americans receive their coverage are not dependent on healthcare.gov. that s correct. so the delays and problems with healthcare.gov do not affect the millions of individuals thanks to the aca who no longer have to worry about lifetime monetary caps on their coverage that previously sent them to bankruptcy? that s absolutely true. i think the quote that the president was quoted recently saying if you have health care, you can you don t have to sign up for the new marketplace was referring to the large portion, the 95% of insured americans who plans are solid and stay in place and move forward. i understand the frustration with the website. i don t know why people are not ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20131101



with massachusetts, it is the president that makes sense precedent that makes sense to look at. you will see that the first month is going to be slow as people begin to familiarize themselves with options and then make choices they want to make when it comes to their health care. the othersident said day just a small fraction of americans would pay more. do you know what that fraction is? that is america question. i do not have that figure because here is the reality of what happens when you create a market that provides options to the american people. when you talk about it, and this is the focus we have discussed in the past, joe, on the portion of the percent 5% population that are insured in the individual insurance market, they often have one option, one carrier, one plan available, and every year that company can say your plan is canceled and here s your option, and it is usually a worse plan. what happens now to those individuals is they now have a variety ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Washington This Week 20131103



thank you all for being here. and heather, we honor you today. you were there all along guiding and ack anying tom across all the peaks and the valleys right to the end. e thank you for your spirit, your generosity and your example as h enlivened this house well as your own for many years. welcome back. inempty it ismous ironic he ran for congress in the first place. he actually did it in a moment of anger. the day was july 16, 1964. the beetles had just returned to liverpool after their first u.s. tour. president johnson had recently signed the civil rights act and was on his way to a landslide victory that november. and a 35-year-old tom foley was having lunch in downtown spo can. a gifted lawyer from a prominent local family and trusted aid to scoop jackson. some mentioned to the guys he was eating lunch with he was thinking seriously about running for congress, not this time but the next time around. at which point one of his lynch companions bluntly dismissed the ....

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