University. The notion is this our university should be empowered to look in the mirror and be honest with herself, we use it in a way of talking with leadership and talking about our society that institutions that are healthy and secure and should be willing to recognize whatever is going well and to be willing to say that we have a way to go. Its empowered to be honest with itself. In the subtitle which is shared leadership, culture change in academic success starts with the notion its not about one person, is not just about the University President , its about all of us working together with the vision of educating students, that is the notion of empowerment. I found the subtitle interesting because if you look at the cover of the book, you dont have one listed higher than the other or greater priority, you really have them almost laid out as a circle that we all rely on each other. Thats exactly right. Why was that you really tell important stories in this word the university is ne
Today, or he plans to sign an executive order on medicare. We will have live coverage on cspan starting at 1 10 eastern. We are joined by tom , he covered mike pence in the statehouse at indiana. For the associated press, fort cnn and the indianapolis cnn and the indianapolis star. What made you write a profile for the Vice President . Guest i was standing outside the u. S. Senate chamber right after the 2016 election, doing what we always do, shacking quotes firm senators, from senators, tracking them down before they run to the subway. I was looking at the marble bus. Out of all the Vice President , because they are the presiding officers of the chamber, i was like mike pence is in history. Marbleill be a chiseled bust of mike pence here. I have to go deep on this guy. I never understood him when i was covering him daytoday. Talking to other reporters, they said the same thing. I had to pull back, try to go deep and understand his faith in a real way. Outside of the politics. And, th
And again i want to thank politics and prose and also cspan for thinking enough of this series to come out and continue to cover. You dont get these kinds of people in this kind of room without getting this kind of coverage. I want to thank you all for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free, feel welcome, feel like home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer. And i want to come without further ado, introduce this great great pedal because were going to get into some bullet points on their career and were going to get into the discussion. Discussion. I want to start off with someone who i have such respect for, such apparition, love four. Dr. Mary Frances Berry. Shes a former head of the civil rights commission, you civil rights commission. Shes also, shes got a list of things shes done. Shes been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list goes on and on, but shes also the author of the book, fi
Coming up here on cspan3, the confirmation hearing for the nominee to head the Social Security administration. Then the director of u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services testifying before the house judiciary committee. After that, an update from the u. S. Nuclear negotiator on Irans Nuclear program. Sunlds, on book tvs indepth, former republican congressman from texas and president ial candidate ron paul. He has written more than a dozen books on history in the latest, School Revolution on americas education system. Join the conversation as he takes your calls, emails and tweets, live, three hours, sunday at noon eastern on cspan2. Watch more book tv next week while congress is in recess. Book tv in primetime, 8 30 p. M. Eastern and tuesday through friday at 8 00, featuring a wide range of topics, and covering book fairs and festivals from across the country. The Senate Finance committee today held a confirmation hearing for the president s nominee to head the Social Security admi
Wounded. You know, it is maybe you have something to say about that that. I said, maybe i dont. He said, try. And so, i did. I thought about it and he was absolutely right. I was hoping with this book to write something that would number one, show people what to the cost of combat really is. But number two, aimed at men and women coming back in seriously bad shape. Loss of limbs, all sorts of things. Maybe this book will give them something to hang on to. A sense a little luck, some grit, so people that care about you. You can really put you life back together. Not the way it was going to be, but in a way authentically your owner. Let me show you some video when we talked about your book the nightingales song, 19 years ago. Here you are on the program. [video clip] what i did to a large extent, i felt anger and hostility that many of my [indiscernible] my sense was, i do not think it is good for me. It is not mentally and psychologically good for me to be part of it. To a certain exten