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roger. >> thank you very much. um, we know there's a story about the -- recounting a priest who was hearing confession from someone. the priest was always in the habit of saying be brief, be blunt and be gone. [laughter] and, yeah. i am going to do that. it is not true, it is not true that i'm wearing this sling because of some altercation with an heir to george bundy or t.m. greene or any of the other, any of the other spoiled prof sore ya that weighed in on "god and man at yale." before i get to the book, i want to mention one aspect of bill's life and work that i don't think has come up today yet. namely, you know, he was a very accomplished man at many things. one of his greatest talents was as a kind of talent scout. and there are many people in this room just looking around i know who benefited from that activity, and i just want to mention one in a new book that he has, my friend wally olson just published with america's premier conservative publisher whose name i will not tell you -- [laughter] a book calle
roger. >> thank you very much. um, we know there's a story about the -- recounting a priest who was hearing confession from someone. the priest was always in the habit of saying be brief, be blunt and be gone. [laughter] and, yeah. i am going to do that. it is not true, it is not true that i'm wearing this sling because of some altercation with an heir to george bundy or t.m. greene or any of the other, any of the other spoiled prof sore ya that weighed in on "god and man at...
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roger kimball will speak second, wears an amazing number of hats. he is the publisher and president of encounter books, one of the leading, one of the best conservative publishers in the country. he is the author of, i'm sorry, the editor and the publisher of the new criterion, the distinguished magazine of cultural criticism. and he's the author of many books including "tenured radicals: how politics has corrupted higher education," and his forthcoming volume, "the fortunes of permanence: culture and anarchy in the age of amnesia." with linda bridges who is here and will be chairing the third panel this afternoon, mr. kimball edited a thwart history, the sprightly anthology of bill buckley's writings that appeared last year. our third speaker will be r. 'em 'em -- r. emmett tyrrell, the founder of the american spectator. he has written many provocative books and, certainly, none more provocative than "the new york times"' best selling "boy clinton: the political biography." his latest volume is called qualify after the hangover: the conservatives'
roger kimball will speak second, wears an amazing number of hats. he is the publisher and president of encounter books, one of the leading, one of the best conservative publishers in the country. he is the author of, i'm sorry, the editor and the publisher of the new criterion, the distinguished magazine of cultural criticism. and he's the author of many books including "tenured radicals: how politics has corrupted higher education," and his forthcoming volume, "the fortunes of...
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you mentioned roger's action -- a little skirmish--a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes. it is a disaster for rogers and his men but things are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold -- the southern edge of lake champlain and this is repeated later on in 1814 when the united states navy built a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeat a slightly superior royal navy. one of the things the book brings out is the multiplicity of that. that remains true today. even as we do these things in iraq and afghanistan, we are getting ready for a much larger conflict with much more conventional forces in the other places. >> we actually have a little time because of the efficiency of town so we might take a couple questions from the audience. if there are any. go-ahead. [inaudible] [laughter] >> we would have to go through an institutional review board at johns hopkins university and people from the medical school would be passing on whether i could use human subjects and work with dead people. >> are there archival materials? >> no. as i s
you mentioned roger's action -- a little skirmish--a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes. it is a disaster for rogers and his men but things are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold -- the southern edge of lake champlain and this is repeated later on in 1814 when the united states navy built a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeat a slightly superior royal navy. one of the things the book brings out is the multiplicity of that....
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roger elwood hearst. elizabeth sophie penell. khalid jafarrobert check. carl jefferies. rachel jefferies. kathleen mary german. mary lincoln johnson. timothy barrett johnson. j. joseph deegan. patricia ann klein. gregory kosmoski. elka isconsuse. mary lancaster. >> karen leigh hunt. ronald albert riviera. maria beavis lercachiva. martin lip burger. william j. flavor. when the lincoln. lloyd david lowe. maria theresa murphy. william john mcallister. lily beth macalully. william edward back. james bruce mcmurray. douglas eugene malachot. wendy forsyth ballot coat. elizabeth lily merrick. louis anthony moreno. no george martin. diane marie maslowski. >> beth johnson. daniel and it mccarthy. robert eugene macaulay. charles dennis mickey. bernard joseph mclaughlin. chain susan gilbert. on row. suzanne maria. joseph kenneth miller. jewel courtney mitchell. jane morgan. eva morrison. have a gut rachel mosley. in good elisabeth morrow way. john nowak. john kevin mulroyt. geraldine murphy. been at can murphy. jean afton murphy. >> christopher andrew jones. karen elizabeth nivens.
roger elwood hearst. elizabeth sophie penell. khalid jafarrobert check. carl jefferies. rachel jefferies. kathleen mary german. mary lincoln johnson. timothy barrett johnson. j. joseph deegan. patricia ann klein. gregory kosmoski. elka isconsuse. mary lancaster. >> karen leigh hunt. ronald albert riviera. maria beavis lercachiva. martin lip burger. william j. flavor. when the lincoln. lloyd david lowe. maria theresa murphy. william john mcallister. lily beth macalully. william edward...
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we were a supporter of mike roger's bill, one of the first to get moving. we launched in cta there with him and his team. we think that that kind of purchase is critical because the biggest thing, my view is what you don't know can't hurt you, and there's the state government with access to all kinds of information to cyberthreats and roles of other international governments not shared with or fully appreciated by industries like ore own, and so his bill where you're able to bring together an entrusted forum, the ability to share and coordinate information, as long as you are fairful about the need to protect the privacy of consumers, we think that's a really constructive approach. there's other bills and approaches working their way tho. through. i don't think we have a strong view any of them are wrong other than we think more is not known than known, and it has to be legislation that can breathe and evolve and doesn't get heavily prescriptive in a way you try to rewrite it every time you learn something new. it can be too straight jacketed in a rule spec
we were a supporter of mike roger's bill, one of the first to get moving. we launched in cta there with him and his team. we think that that kind of purchase is critical because the biggest thing, my view is what you don't know can't hurt you, and there's the state government with access to all kinds of information to cyberthreats and roles of other international governments not shared with or fully appreciated by industries like ore own, and so his bill where you're able to bring together an...
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, it was a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes and is a disaster for rogers and his men but also talks about some things which are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold built this amazing fleet out of virtually nothing in 1776, and then this is repeated later on in 814 when the -- 814 when the united states navy builds a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeats a slightly superior royal navy flotilla. so i think up with of the things the book brings out, i hope s the multiplicity of that. and that remains true today because even as we're doing all the things we've done in iraq and afghanistan, you know, we're also getting ready for much larger kinds of conflicts with much more dimensional kinds of forces in other places. >> well, good. um, we actually have a little time because of the efficiency of the panel, and is so we might take a couple of questions from the audience if there are such. go ahead. >> eliot, i'd be interested in what the sources -- you, obviously, weren't interviewing. [laughter] >> no, then we'd have to go
, it was a bloody little fight which takes place on snowshoes and is a disaster for rogers and his men but also talks about some things which are really sort of industrial warfare as when benedict arnold built this amazing fleet out of virtually nothing in 1776, and then this is repeated later on in 814 when the -- 814 when the united states navy builds a more substantial flotilla on lake champlain and completely defeats a slightly superior royal navy flotilla. so i think up with of the things...
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what about roger's widow, jen? are they going to get their money back? i'm doing my best. i have a list of people -- wait, andrew interrupted. how can you even do that? they're not going to keep that must be. they will, bernie explained, and patiently started to outline other situations where firms had failed and investors were made whole. andrew stopped him, sickened, not wanting to hear more. how long has this been going on? oh, god, it's been going on for years. much has been made of when the fraud started, and the truth is no one really knows. bernie started the firm in the '60s. the records from that time are thin. even modern regulatory requirements don't require records that go beyond six years. bernie claims the ponzi scheme began in 1992, any questionable behavior before then was at worst a gray area involving synthetic trades to defray income tax costs for his most important clients. and there is evidence that he executed actual trades into the '80s. but whether it started when bernie said it did or much earlier, only bernie knows. what's going to happen to us? i
what about roger's widow, jen? are they going to get their money back? i'm doing my best. i have a list of people -- wait, andrew interrupted. how can you even do that? they're not going to keep that must be. they will, bernie explained, and patiently started to outline other situations where firms had failed and investors were made whole. andrew stopped him, sickened, not wanting to hear more. how long has this been going on? oh, god, it's been going on for years. much has been made of when...
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and william henry, snow shoes where robert rogers's men, 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book judy and i have seen our wonderful teenagers grow
and william henry, snow shoes where robert rogers's men, 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book judy and i have seen our wonderful teenagers grow
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and by the way, roger goodell, the n.f.l. commissioner, wants to grow nfl revenue to $25 billion by the year 2025. now, you grow revenue by doing what? jacking up prices, among other things. building bigger stadiums, which means asking more communities for more public money to build bigger stadiums. c-span: should government tried to stop those increases? >> guest: i think government ought to stop those increases, number one. but number two, if they are willing as a community to give some public money to projects like that, again, ask for something in return more than just keeping the football team you know in washington or in your community. but back to the original point, i think that owners should examine their responsibility to the community. you know their parents. the act like barron's. they live basically in the back room of the palm restaurant. i find more and more the behavior of professional sports owners to be unseemly in the sense that they want hundreds of millions of dollars from their communities, and yet they
and by the way, roger goodell, the n.f.l. commissioner, wants to grow nfl revenue to $25 billion by the year 2025. now, you grow revenue by doing what? jacking up prices, among other things. building bigger stadiums, which means asking more communities for more public money to build bigger stadiums. c-span: should government tried to stop those increases? >> guest: i think government ought to stop those increases, number one. but number two, if they are willing as a community to give some...
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and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found every bootleg tape, totally dylan fan natics. the sandarac of steve's life. dylan is a sony artist. so he wants to do all tracks of dylan as a virtual digital set you can buy for $199. andy at sonny says, no, i'm going to jab it to him. we need leverage. steve calls bob dylan, bob dylan, slightly spacey, doesn't deal with it, hismark, all trying to figure out -- steve jobs talked him into it. andy lack finally says to bob dylan, i will write you a check for one million if you'll stay out of the itune store with that box set. and dylan -- i hate to say it because i love dylan -- takes the money, bou
and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found...
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well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians, your job looked pretty good. actually from northern california doesn't look so good anymore. and these days -- and i have to say it -- these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on you know what those special seasons are like you. have had plenty of them. let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. >> thank you, madam secretary. thank you. [applause] >> we have the this book called "the deal from hell." what is it about, basically, and why should we? specially why should people watching in maine, new york, why should they care? >> this book talks a lot about the differences between journalism today and journalism when i started. when i got into this, journalism this, newspaper business was archly controlled by families. not all of them were angels by any means but they really had a kind of a public service mantra, that they followed, an
well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians, your job looked pretty good. actually from northern california doesn't look so good anymore. and these days -- and i have to say it -- these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on you know what those special seasons are like you. have had plenty of them. let us...
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joshua roger is with rand fisher and company. mr. birch e. lee --burt ealey is an adjunct scholar at the cato institute. four of you have testified as before, but it is standard practice of receiving government reform committee that'll witnesses be sworn so please rise and raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the old truth and nothing but the truth? you may be seated. let the record reflect that all the witnesses answered in the affirmative. seeing as you have testified before if you will summarize your statement you will see red, yellow and green lines before you. when yellow pops up that means just what it means when you are at a stoplight. hurry up. so obviously green beans go and read means stop. i recognize dr. laughlin for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman mchenry and members of the committee for giving me this honor to testify before you this morning. in my oral statement what i would like to do is three things. the things -- there's going to be significant anticipation
joshua roger is with rand fisher and company. mr. birch e. lee --burt ealey is an adjunct scholar at the cato institute. four of you have testified as before, but it is standard practice of receiving government reform committee that'll witnesses be sworn so please rise and raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the old truth and nothing but the truth? you may be seated. let the record reflect that all the witnesses answered in the...
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the same would go for the morgans and and roger too. trying to chronicle. there were a number of books that had come out but they're still going to see several more volumes that will make sense of what led to the economic crash, what lead to all sorts of malfeasance and bailouts and all those things which certainly not only america but every place around the world is trying to get a grip on. one need only look what is happening in europe and the moment with the precariousness of the euro zone to see that we are nowhere near out of the woods and sometimes books are the best way to get a sense of what is going on and anticipate what will happen next. >> host: one history book was love and capital:carl and jenny marks. this did quite well. it got notable on several different lists. >> guest: and nominated for the national book award. to my mind how can you not win by combining the story of calm marks and his wife against the larger backdrop of the changing economic times, is serious about socialism which led to communism. contrasting love and money is a great
the same would go for the morgans and and roger too. trying to chronicle. there were a number of books that had come out but they're still going to see several more volumes that will make sense of what led to the economic crash, what lead to all sorts of malfeasance and bailouts and all those things which certainly not only america but every place around the world is trying to get a grip on. one need only look what is happening in europe and the moment with the precariousness of the euro zone...
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. >> well, used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger caddell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians every day, your job looked pretty good. it actually from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. and these days i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal having quite a special season, you know, come on, you know what the special seasons are like you've got an event. let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. minutes. >> without we would have the scattering because secretary rumsfeld's book has not been getting very much attention, so we thought we would make up for that bailey by at least having one event. i know you're not doing anything else to make sure the boat gets the attention it deserves. it is appropriate that we are doing this here at the national constitution center because one of the things the founders were serious about unlike regimes in europe but they were starting this country to be unlike, they wanted to make sure we had a record of our
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i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russian every day, your job looked pretty good, but from northern california, doesn't look so good anymore, and these days -- and i have to say, these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a successful season you know what those special seasons are like. you have had plenty of them. let us have one. that is the greatest job in the world. >> thank you, madam secretary. >> thank you. >> that was fun. for more information about condoleezza rice visit hoover.org and search her name. >> we have this book called the deal from hell. what it's about basically and why should we care, especially why should people watching as far away in bangor maine, portland, maine, new york, why should they care? >> the book talks a lot about the differences between journalism today and journalism when i start ode. when i got into the journalism, the newspaper business, it was really largely controlled by families. not all of them were angels but they really had a kind of a publi
i told roger goodell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russian every day, your job looked pretty good, but from northern california, doesn't look so good anymore, and these days -- and i have to say, these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal are having quite a successful season you know what those special seasons are like. you have had plenty of them. let us have one. that is the greatest job in the world. >> thank you, madam...
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from the people who live in my building, i know the name of only one person who lives in my block, roger cohen, the times colleague. i want to blame it on the fact that i'm absolutely awful with names and can be quite socially awkward. but that has never been less. then i thought that maybe it was the city thing. that explanation goes but so far to i actually beginning to believe that it's bigger than me, bigger than my block, bigger than the city. i increasingly believe that less neighborhood leanness is becoming intrinsic to the modern american experience. a most unfortunate development. the back to the beginning of that, where you say that you're awful with names but quite socially awkward. what do you think that? >> guest: i don't know. i guess i should pay a therapist and figure that one out for me, but there's a certain, you know, i'm kind of two minds about myself. there's a very outgoing guy who is never shot a and -- but in certain settings, i can be a bit awkward because i don't do all the small talk things very well. and it creates a very weird thing, because people expect per
from the people who live in my building, i know the name of only one person who lives in my block, roger cohen, the times colleague. i want to blame it on the fact that i'm absolutely awful with names and can be quite socially awkward. but that has never been less. then i thought that maybe it was the city thing. that explanation goes but so far to i actually beginning to believe that it's bigger than me, bigger than my block, bigger than the city. i increasingly believe that less neighborhood...
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[laughter] well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, you know, when i was struggling with the russians and iranians every day, your job looked good, but actually from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. [laughter] and these days. and i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on. you know what those special seasons are like. you've had plenty of them. let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. >> ah, thank you, madam secretary. [applause] that was fun. >> that was great. [applause] >> for more information about condoleezza rice, visit hoover.org and search her name. >> recently, the new york times released their top ten best books of 2011. here are the five nonfiction titles. christopher hitchens's cay collection, "arguably," ranges to afghanistan and politics. "the boy in the moon" by ian brown recounts the story of his son who was born with a genetic mutation. "malcolm x" has been discussed
[laughter] well, i used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger goodell, you know, when i was struggling with the russians and iranians every day, your job looked good, but actually from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. [laughter] and these days. and i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university where the stanford cardinal are having quite a special season -- you know, come on. you know what those special seasons are...
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against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state republican bill rogers to sneak into the white house one evening. they would enter the treasury building. they went through the underground timeout. but not been through it before they said it looks like a fallout shelter and he couldn't believe he was mayor. and went up to the residence of the white house and advised the president on what to do about the iran-contra scandal. and he advised him to get rid of chief of staff don regan and said you need to bring in someone like a howard aker, someone who really had a lot of credibility and congress. with those sides are they all outcome that a lot of relationships with the press. and nancy reagan really took this to her. at the time, stressed in the president had been been listening to him because the president disagreed with them instead i would never do that. and that is what is said to helen when he got home that night. amanda got a call from nancy reagan the same night. and she said, i do suppose there's any way you want to come help us over here in the wh
against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state republican bill rogers to sneak into the white house one evening. they would enter the treasury building. they went through the underground timeout. but not been through it before they said it looks like a fallout shelter and he couldn't believe he was mayor. and went up to the residence of the white house and advised the president on what to do about the iran-contra scandal. and he advised him to get rid of...
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against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state, republican bill rogers, to sneak into the white house one evening. they went into the treasury building and they went through the underground tunnel. bobbitt never been through this underground tunnel before and it sort of looked like a fallout shelter and there were beds lining the walls and he couldn't believe he was there. he went out to the residence of the white house and it buys the president on what to do about the iran-contra scandal. and he advised him to get rid of chief of staff don reagan and he said you need to bring in someone like howard baker, someone who could really, who had a lot of credibility in congress on both sides of the aisle, had a lot of relationships with the press and nancy reagan took this hard. at the time strauss didn't think of the president had really been listening to him because the president disagreed with him and said i would never do that. i'm not going to fire reagan and that is what he said to helen that night. he got a call from nancy reagan the same night. she sai
against reagan, nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state, republican bill rogers, to sneak into the white house one evening. they went into the treasury building and they went through the underground tunnel. bobbitt never been through this underground tunnel before and it sort of looked like a fallout shelter and there were beds lining the walls and he couldn't believe he was there. he went out to the residence of the white house and it buys the president on what to...
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reading these books, i--i don't always approve of the ways people like william bennett, lynn cheney and roger kimball and so on--other people--talk about literature, which strikes me as philistine. and i think that--i think--i think it should be said that the conservatives pointing out that something was wrong in the way the liter--the--the universities were--were--were preserving or failing to preserve the lit--the literature and ph--and philosophy of the past--when they said that in 1980 and '81, they--they did a service. there's no doubt about it. but i don't--i think now it's enough culture war. there are too many people who are not interested in culture. they're interested in culture war. and if you don't agree with them on every point--and this is where i got clobbered--then you're dismissed altogether. and i--i--i find that stuff unilluminating. i try to listen to both sides; i try to be as even-handed as possible. i interviewed left-wing teachers and gave them a long platform. i try to give the conservative case. i make what i think is the conservative case in some ways for reading li
reading these books, i--i don't always approve of the ways people like william bennett, lynn cheney and roger kimball and so on--other people--talk about literature, which strikes me as philistine. and i think that--i think--i think it should be said that the conservatives pointing out that something was wrong in the way the liter--the--the universities were--were--were preserving or failing to preserve the lit--the literature and ph--and philosophy of the past--when they said that in 1980 and...
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senator schumer, secretary gagger, senator schulz, senator warner, the secretary napolitano, chairman rogers, senator rubio. very excited and appreciate having you here. many of you, almost all of us are really appreciative. for the final we will have speaker boehner who will frame the year for us. first we have to take sherman of politico to help us look back. [applause] [applause] and before we pummel jake with questions i would like to think americans for their continued partnership with us. important for issues that matter policy, politics from a personality. all of 2011. supporting through 2012. thank you. [applause] and reminding you about the breakfast. the hatchet man. you were the editor. what is a light? chatty, distant. >> fascinating. pauses, dashes, now in the middle of, once again. but a very interesting character to cover. a very interactive and interact well with the press. .. >> congress has a 9% approval rating. much higher than that. they are meeting in rooms with members, there is blowups, people are always upset with what leadership is doing. no one can ever get it right
senator schumer, secretary gagger, senator schulz, senator warner, the secretary napolitano, chairman rogers, senator rubio. very excited and appreciate having you here. many of you, almost all of us are really appreciative. for the final we will have speaker boehner who will frame the year for us. first we have to take sherman of politico to help us look back. [applause] [applause] and before we pummel jake with questions i would like to think americans for their continued partnership with us....
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texas in case people didn't know where it is and you wrote about the three that were the contestants, roger rosenblatt to who people would know from public television and two other gentlemen. do you remember their names? i'm trying to find them. mr. berger, edward herger. >> guest: he was actually the eventual winner. c-span: and elliott was. c-span: at the university of -- i went to see berger and west in person and they are different kind of styles of teaching. less is, he is not dry but he sort of is telling a story and telling the story about american history for many years. there and a lot of you know prior shenanigans going on in his classroom but i was sitting in an audience of two other people in the only visual aids he was putting up her sort of slides of historical photos. everyone was just sitting and listening to him because he kind of knew how to tell a story in there was a lot of information. he wasn't reading off of notes and just sort of staring down like this. he really was engaging with the audience, trying to see our people away? are you listening to me? amberg or was muc
texas in case people didn't know where it is and you wrote about the three that were the contestants, roger rosenblatt to who people would know from public television and two other gentlemen. do you remember their names? i'm trying to find them. mr. berger, edward herger. >> guest: he was actually the eventual winner. c-span: and elliott was. c-span: at the university of -- i went to see berger and west in person and they are different kind of styles of teaching. less is, he is not dry...
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last friday i had the opportunity to visit the samaritan community center in rogers, arkansas. for more than 20 years this organization has lent a helping hand to the hungry through soup kitchens, food pantries, snack packs for kids and a variety of other initiatives. this help is needed now more than ever. the economy is forcing more people to rely on the services of samaritan community center. in just three years there has been more than a 50% increase in clients. this is the story with similar organizationses throughout arkansas and really throughout the country. in a segment that aired last month cnn focused on the hunger problem in arkansas' second largest city, fort smith. ken, the marketing director in fort smith told cnn some heartwrenching stories encountered. he spoke of a mother who used to volunteer at a food pantry and is now in need of the organization's services due to mounting medical bills for heir he her children. he recounted the story of an elderly lady who went from financial security to sorting through the garbage at a grocery store after her husband passe
last friday i had the opportunity to visit the samaritan community center in rogers, arkansas. for more than 20 years this organization has lent a helping hand to the hungry through soup kitchens, food pantries, snack packs for kids and a variety of other initiatives. this help is needed now more than ever. the economy is forcing more people to rely on the services of samaritan community center. in just three years there has been more than a 50% increase in clients. this is the story with...
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roger elwood hearse. elizabeth for dow. paul french actress. rachel jeffries. kathleen mary german. mary lincoln johnson. kennedy powered johnson. jay joseph king m. patricia and kline. gregory kaczkline. gregory kaczmarski. manas christopher. mary bao lan caster. >> caryn leigh hunt. bonnard hobart barbier. robert milton what burke. william chase labor. wendy and lincoln. void david wadlow. maria teresa murky. william john mcallister. while a bit to billy of the cloverleaf. william edward mack. james bruce maguire e. douglas eugene malakhov. wendy forsyth malakhov. elizabeth lillian merrick. what was anthony marengo. no well george martin. diane marie maslowski. >> fna johnson. daniel amit mccarthy. robert eugene mccollum. charles dennis mckie. bernard joseph mclaughlin. jane susan melber. john marrow. joseph kenneth miller. jewel courtney mitchell. jane and morgan. eva anderberg morrison. how ago rachel mosley. ingrid elizabeth swinson mulroy. john mulroy. sean kevin mulroy. mary geraldine murphy. jane adkins murphy. >> christopher andrew johns. karen elizabeth men. daniel amit o'
roger elwood hearse. elizabeth for dow. paul french actress. rachel jeffries. kathleen mary german. mary lincoln johnson. kennedy powered johnson. jay joseph king m. patricia and kline. gregory kaczkline. gregory kaczmarski. manas christopher. mary bao lan caster. >> caryn leigh hunt. bonnard hobart barbier. robert milton what burke. william chase labor. wendy and lincoln. void david wadlow. maria teresa murky. william john mcallister. while a bit to billy of the cloverleaf. william...
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. >> roger that. my time expired. thank you very much for your answers. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back, and i recognize the gentlelady from california for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen, for being before us. you know, my husband, jack, is a retired military officer, and in 9/11, he was in germany, and he headed up pretty much all the law -- he's a lawyer, all the law institutions that we have and oversaw that in germany, and he recalls the day after 9/11, he had to go in and talk to the lawyers on the other side for local municipalities and explain to them how -- why we had driven the tanks all over the towns. obviously, we had somewhat overreacted to what was happening over here, and he had to go and explain what the heck we were doing by driving tanks all over the town and shutting things down, and so i think we need to plan ahead to we don't have these types of reabses, and we need -- reactions, and we need to plan ahead as we learned in the issue with germany, to plan ahead with our local municipalities and
. >> roger that. my time expired. thank you very much for your answers. i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back, and i recognize the gentlelady from california for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen, for being before us. you know, my husband, jack, is a retired military officer, and in 9/11, he was in germany, and he headed up pretty much all the law -- he's a lawyer, all the law institutions that we have and oversaw that in germany, and he...
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and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found every bootleg tape, totally dylan fan natics. the sandarac of steve's life. dylan is a sony artist. so he wants to do all tracks of dylan as a virtual digital set you can buy for $199. andy at sonny says, no, i'm going to jab it to him. we need leverage. steve calls bob dylan, bob dylan, slightly spacey, doesn't deal with it, hismark, all trying to figure out -- steve jobs talked him into it. andy lack finally says to bob dylan, i will write you a check for one million if you'll stay out of the itune store with that box set. and dylan -- i hate to say it because i love dylan -- takes the money, bou
and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found...
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roger bate, the fellow in global prosperity the american enterprise institute and a founding director of africa fighting malaria. he researches international health policy with a special-interest in counterfeit medicine and malaria control. dr. bate conducted research in nti and numerous african countries on the public health consequences of the counterfeit drug trade. he writes extensively on topics such as endemic diseases in developing countries as well as access and innovation pharmaceuticals and the international health agreements. he's also the editor of 14 books, two dozen peery viewed articles and hundreds of newspaper articles. we will then hear from dr. david bowen, who is currently the ceo of malaria no more. until november, 2011, dr. bowen served as the deputy director for global health policy and advocacy of the bill and melinda gates foundation. in this role he had the responsibility of interaction between the government pulled wide on global health. dr. bowen was previously stuff connector for health of the senate committee on health education and labor and pensions. fr
roger bate, the fellow in global prosperity the american enterprise institute and a founding director of africa fighting malaria. he researches international health policy with a special-interest in counterfeit medicine and malaria control. dr. bate conducted research in nti and numerous african countries on the public health consequences of the counterfeit drug trade. he writes extensively on topics such as endemic diseases in developing countries as well as access and innovation...
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sally rogers, one of our board members, from my standpoint one of the great communicators of our time, and i learn about the need to communicate, and what we were communicating was the value of pharmaceuticals and the importance of innovative. and then i worked in the legal department on vioxx, and our past ceo retired, bill clark, allowed me to run the business of merck for three and a half years. so i had some experience outside the legal department and i think that was very helpful. >> is legal training itself helpful in being a ceo. >> that's a hard question for me to answer. i think that some aspects of it can be helpful. the ability to sort of cut through the clutter of discussions and try to find what is fundamentally important. i think that is helpful. but i don't think that by and large business and law are very close to one another. i think the way that business people think is very different. i think the way that lawyers think about protecting businesses is a different thing. so i don't think it's perfect preparation but i was fortunate at merck that the majority of my anyt
sally rogers, one of our board members, from my standpoint one of the great communicators of our time, and i learn about the need to communicate, and what we were communicating was the value of pharmaceuticals and the importance of innovative. and then i worked in the legal department on vioxx, and our past ceo retired, bill clark, allowed me to run the business of merck for three and a half years. so i had some experience outside the legal department and i think that was very helpful. >>...
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department noted, money-laundering occurs to venezuela's commercial banks, exchange houses, gamblin says, roger lately invoiced foreign trade transactions, smuggling realistic, agriculture, livestock businesses. venezuela is not a regional financial center and doesn't have an offshore financial sector, but many of its local banks have offshore affiliates in the grieving and that's one of the key gateways into the money-laundering world. i would say that the blind trust our particularly unnoticed in the region, although my own research in recent years has document that the muslim brotherhood as well as the bin laden family making dozens of companies in panama and elsewhere in the caribbean where the two other ships of the accounts were hidden and difficult to find. this summer the international investment corporation of the gulf, a wholly owned subsidiary, islamic banking institution linked to the muslim brotherhood reach agreement with the is with the is department of justice would they agreed to pay more than $30 million in fines and penalties for significant tax violations in the united state
department noted, money-laundering occurs to venezuela's commercial banks, exchange houses, gamblin says, roger lately invoiced foreign trade transactions, smuggling realistic, agriculture, livestock businesses. venezuela is not a regional financial center and doesn't have an offshore financial sector, but many of its local banks have offshore affiliates in the grieving and that's one of the key gateways into the money-laundering world. i would say that the blind trust our particularly...
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reid: i also ask unanimous consent that roger yang, a member of senator merkley's staff be granted floor privileges today. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, yesterday on the senate floor my friend the republican leader said he supports the extension of the payroll tax cut that was enacted last year. there's been an extreme change of heart haoefrplt on the sunday's shows, the assistant leader, my friend, the junior senator from arizona, said sunday not a chance they would work to extend this payroll tax cut. then as late as tuesday my friend, the republican leader, said that it wouldn't do a thing to help the economy. so obviously there's been a change of heart since then by the leaders of the senate republicans. but i noted yesterday that my friend was very careful to say only that he supports existing cuts, not that he supports our plan to cut taxes for 160 million american workers and every business in the country. last night i found out why. i was disappointed to see republicans' proposal was actually a back door route to protect the very rich while sh
reid: i also ask unanimous consent that roger yang, a member of senator merkley's staff be granted floor privileges today. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, yesterday on the senate floor my friend the republican leader said he supports the extension of the payroll tax cut that was enacted last year. there's been an extreme change of heart haoefrplt on the sunday's shows, the assistant leader, my friend, the junior senator from arizona, said sunday not a chance...
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the senate invoked cloture on the nomination of janice rogers brown and thomas griffith to the d.c. circuit, the circuit to which caitlin halligan is also nominated. so i urge republican and democratic senators to come together and end this misguided filibuster of caitlin halligan's nomination to the d.c. circuit. they should vote cloture on her nomination. there is no basis under any appropriate standard for blocking her nomination with an up-or-down vote. to the contrary, caitlin halligan's impeccable credentials and record is an accomplish -- as an accomplished advocate make her nomination worthy of bipartisan support. madam president, i would suggest the absence of a quorum and would ask that the time be equally divided. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: i'd ask that the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: i have requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. when they are approved by the majority and minority leaders. i ask unanimous consen
the senate invoked cloture on the nomination of janice rogers brown and thomas griffith to the d.c. circuit, the circuit to which caitlin halligan is also nominated. so i urge republican and democratic senators to come together and end this misguided filibuster of caitlin halligan's nomination to the d.c. circuit. they should vote cloture on her nomination. there is no basis under any appropriate standard for blocking her nomination with an up-or-down vote. to the contrary, caitlin halligan's...
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. >> david rogers, independent historian. one of the arguments one hears frequently in the iranian nuclear debate is that if iranians get nuclear weapons, various other regional powers will start trying to get the nuclear weapons too. is this a given, or is there, or are there other possible alternatives to what the regional powers, regional countries will do? i'd like your take on this. >> getting nuclear weapons is not very easy. i mean, you don't go to kmart and buy one. but the -- >> [inaudible] >> right, that's what i was going to say. [laughter] >> maybe that's walmart. so the saudis may have that option. we don't really know what the arrangement is between the saudis and the pakistanis. but when it comes to the turks, i mean, the turks don't have a nuclear power plant yet. so if you're talking about building, getting a nuclear weapon, you're talking a very long gestation period. they have to build a power plant first. that will take ten years. secondly, the turks do have the nato umbrella. there are 60 tactical weapons
. >> david rogers, independent historian. one of the arguments one hears frequently in the iranian nuclear debate is that if iranians get nuclear weapons, various other regional powers will start trying to get the nuclear weapons too. is this a given, or is there, or are there other possible alternatives to what the regional powers, regional countries will do? i'd like your take on this. >> getting nuclear weapons is not very easy. i mean, you don't go to kmart and buy one. but the...
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. >> well, used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger caddell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians every day, your job looked pretty good. it actually from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. and these days i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal having quite a special season, you know, come on, you know what the special seasons are like you've got an event. let us have one. that's really the greatest job in the world. >> thank you, madam secretary. [applause] >> next, an interview with farmer defense secretary donald rumsfeld about his response publish memoirs titled "known and unknown." he sat down with historian, michael beschloss at the national constitution center in philadelphia. this is an hour and 10 minutes. >> we thought we would have this little gathering becauseuld have secretary rumsfeldspoke has notc been getting much attention, so we thought we'd make up for tha. baileys having one of that.n i know you're not doing anything else to make sureyke the b
. >> well, used to want to be the commissioner of the nfl, but i told roger caddell, when i was struggling with the iranians and russians every day, your job looked pretty good. it actually from northern california, it doesn't look so good anymore. and these days i have to say it, these days being a university professor at stanford university, where the stanford cardinal having quite a special season, you know, come on, you know what the special seasons are like you've got an event. let...
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and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found every bootleg tape, totally dylan fan natics. the sandarac of steve's life. dylan is a sony artist. so he wants to do all tracks of dylan as a virtual digital set you can buy for $199. andy at sonny says, no, i'm going to jab it to him. we need leverage. steve calls bob dylan, bob dylan, slightly spacey, doesn't deal with it, hismark, all trying to figure out -- steve jobs talked him into it. andy lack finally says to bob dylan, i will write you a check for one million if you'll stay out of the itune store with that box set. and dylan -- i hate to say it because i love dylan -- takes the money, bou
and steve personally is like bringing the itune software to the time warner building, showing it to roger ames at warner music, getting him aboard, and then getting doug morris at universal, finally encircling sony. no other ceo would have been so passionate about just going at people until they finally surrendered, and sony is the last holdout. there's a great story that andy lack tells me. he has to put sony music in but the one thing that steve wants is all of dylan. because he and woz found...
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. >> host: roger, ohio, you're on booktv with author ben mezrich. >> caller: anyway, i hadn't herd of mr. mezrich, so i looked him up on the internet, so that gives me questions. >> guest: that's scarry. i don't know what you find on the internet. >> caller: there's one obvious one, it was either rigged or of the ugly american, maybe both was about a guy who used the stock markets to -- rigged the market to make a lot of money, and according to occupy wall street, that's what's going on now. it's the great recession that's all a result of the goldman sachs conspiracy. how much of that is true and is in your book? >> guest: i get so many pitches about evil conspiracy, wall street conspiracies. i mean, i get ten of those a week. i wish i found a really good one, but i have not found a true one yet. i write about people who gamed the system or figured out a way to make money from a corrupt system. that's what ugly americans is, rigged is like that, but bringing down the house in a lot of ways, there's a system in place, but there's a way to make money off of it. you know, i'm not a big p
. >> host: roger, ohio, you're on booktv with author ben mezrich. >> caller: anyway, i hadn't herd of mr. mezrich, so i looked him up on the internet, so that gives me questions. >> guest: that's scarry. i don't know what you find on the internet. >> caller: there's one obvious one, it was either rigged or of the ugly american, maybe both was about a guy who used the stock markets to -- rigged the market to make a lot of money, and according to occupy wall street, that's...
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and we all remember douglas fraser and roger brooks, the wonderful drivers, and they would be horrified. but the point is this thing. that friendship, that friendship made governing possible. they were not questioning each other's motives, much less their commitment to the country. underlying many of those across the aisle, and even more remarkable, across the dome, congressional friendships was the relationship among the wives. over the last few days we have a probally celebrated betty ford for an incredible courage in the face of her own challenges, and impact that coach has had upon millions of lives. but in her wisdom, she knew that the part of her life that would be given little notice would be heard many years as a partner of a member of the house of representatives. so that's why she asked me to talk about it. it was a tough job, more often political we don't than political life. the duties range from showing visiting constituents around the capital. it was a big deal in those days when somebody traveled from michigan or from louisiana to washington, to helping run the social ser
and we all remember douglas fraser and roger brooks, the wonderful drivers, and they would be horrified. but the point is this thing. that friendship, that friendship made governing possible. they were not questioning each other's motives, much less their commitment to the country. underlying many of those across the aisle, and even more remarkable, across the dome, congressional friendships was the relationship among the wives. over the last few days we have a probally celebrated betty ford...
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address was the former location of sportsman's park, and the first stadium because that, no, that's where rogers and dizzy dean and stand and bob gibson and all those great players played. so just for a fan like me seeing that was an experience that i wanted to have and this will, as i said, be displayed in my baseball museum in my office. thank you very much. [applause] told cnn that if ron paul won the republican nomination he would not vote for him. he's a congressman paul was out of line with mainstream republican viewpoint including his stand on israel and iran in september 11th. misgovernment announced an agreement on the sale of f-15 fighter jets to saudi arabia. officials from the state and defense department say the nearly $30 billion sale reinforces u.s. commitment to stability and security in the region and would support over 50,000 american jobs. the first delivery of aircraft is expected to be in early 2015. this is about 20 minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. before we do our regular daily briefing we have a special briefing today on u.s. sales to the kingdom of saudi arabia. wi
address was the former location of sportsman's park, and the first stadium because that, no, that's where rogers and dizzy dean and stand and bob gibson and all those great players played. so just for a fan like me seeing that was an experience that i wanted to have and this will, as i said, be displayed in my baseball museum in my office. thank you very much. [applause] told cnn that if ron paul won the republican nomination he would not vote for him. he's a congressman paul was out of line...
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rogers and mr. dicks have been working hard and others have been working hard to get our appropriations bys done. we have urged that we not put controversial items in that and we showed our good faith on that representation when we passed the mini bus, 165 democrats joined 135 republicans to pass that legislation. so again i would urge the gentleman to -- if he feels strongly about that, and i know that he feels -- he said labor is for that bill. labor is for that bill. i think i'm for that bill. i want the gentleman to know. so this does not come from my particular opposition to this bill. i am concerned about the alignment and the aquifer. that's a legitimate concern. but i think that that oil is gb -- is going to be drilled no matter what we do. it seems to me it's better for us to have it than for others to have that and have that availability. but having said that, gratuitously putting it into a bill that the president has already said, i don't agree with that, is simply playinging chicken on -
rogers and mr. dicks have been working hard and others have been working hard to get our appropriations bys done. we have urged that we not put controversial items in that and we showed our good faith on that representation when we passed the mini bus, 165 democrats joined 135 republicans to pass that legislation. so again i would urge the gentleman to -- if he feels strongly about that, and i know that he feels -- he said labor is for that bill. labor is for that bill. i think i'm for that...
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benedict are its headquarters in montrÉal, can't their fort william henry, snow should where robert rogers met catastrophe 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book, judy and i've seen our wonderful teenagers, grow to adulthood, graduate, find institutions of higher learning, traveled the world, go to war and return from it, mary, and he began having children of their own. they are spirit of adventure, love and good humor have inspired, and the joy of the company would not the least of this offers pleasures. with her kind, patient and wise mother's permission, i affectionately dedicate this joining us. this point we will conclude. hungry graduate students. >> no is there a nonfiction author of book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> its authors night at the national press club. several different authors are here. selling their books to support charity, and one of those authors is jeremy. booktv has covered him for his book, a new voice for israel. first of all, what is j street? >> j street
benedict are its headquarters in montrÉal, can't their fort william henry, snow should where robert rogers met catastrophe 250 years before. during the times i worked on this book, judy and i've seen our wonderful teenagers, grow to adulthood, graduate, find institutions of higher learning, traveled the world, go to war and return from it, mary, and he began having children of their own. they are spirit of adventure, love and good humor have inspired, and the joy of the company would not the...