that was already -- that is a texas thing. one of those little things about texas and illinois is this. every mistake a losing candidate makes gets magnified, and everything the winning candidate or military campaign or does, tends to be not important because you want. so when the allies were off laying in a beach and, that's not important here because you win. and nixon in the last week of the campaign flies out to alaska to keep the 50 state pledge, and all historians go, that's the dumbest thing. that's like, why is he doing this? aside from keeping his word which is like something you don't associate with richard nixon, but it's like, okay. jack kennedy is having the same problem. he wants to be in california, and he is stuck by his campaign people in new england, which is stupid. if -- alaska had been projected for democrats, richard nixon takes it, now if he doesn't lose -- or if he doesn't take alaska and he takes illinois and texas, say there is no fraud, and he doesn't get alaska's three electoral votes heeded loses a

his family owned lands and the slaves in texas. and his father was a member of the state legislature. but he works his way down on the social and political scale. when he is in the legislature sam johnson and sponsors a bill to have a road constructed by there hometown. by the time it is to be constructed, johnson is not only a former member of the state legislature but working on the road crew doing manual labor, pushing wheelbarrows, that is how far the johnson family had fallen. very, very quickly. and lyndon johnson and the sort of like scarlett o'hara and "gone with the wind", it does not promise to go hungry again. he promises never to be the idealistic fooled his father had been which played a promising political career in two working on that word crew and lyndon thought he would succeed not only in the most nefarious of ways politically but also that let everybody know how clever and nefarious he was. he works himself up from congressional aide the united states senator elected to the u.s. senate by 87 votes. those are high

we get for the price of three presidents, we get to new england, iowa, california, texas and virginia. but it's pretty scattered. each comes from a different era and the nation's history, the pre civil war 1840's, 1920's and '30's and 80's and 90's. my thing that they did all have in common was that they each failed to win either renomination and reelection. as presidents of the united states which marks them if not outright failures not the most successful presidents. so the question and, looking back over your works on these prospective people, what was the most underappreciated virtue or virtues of your president? and what was his signal shortcoming or shortcomings? gary. >> i think determination when andrew jackson and learned that tyler had become president t said, god, that imbecile. he's now president. one journalist described tyler as a weeping willow as a character. henry clay said that he -- his greatest shortcoming was he lacked the moral character. it's hard to contest jackson -- >> the one thing that jackson and clay agreed about. >> these people in american history. but

>> guest: i wrote an article for "the new yorker" in june were inducted to communities in texas where there was malpractice reform and after substantial malpractice reform there has not been a damping down of the cost and then when you compare the two communities, to counties on the border that had similar public health populations, they had one community that's than twice as much money for health care sphere of there and what you saw was business incentives and home care agencies and others that have cropped up to take a damage of the insurance system and you saw really fragmented disorganized care, where doctors had not organized to make sure we are taking care of the good primary-care up front, avoiding overtesting in even more if you saw two to three times as much surgery in the population. as a surgeon, we really are doing surgery just to protect ourselves from malpractice suits. winstead you have gray zones. you have the patient with a gallbladder attack. do you watch to see if there are more rdu take up the gallbladder which the first attack? the textbooks say you wait but when

and -- and in the -- the -- texas, working on some of those privatization issues. so we have had people like that, but it is not -- it is a non-partisan organization. and so if people are involved in politics, they're involved -- either if they're gonna run for office, they have to leave their jobs, or they're involved as individuals and... c-span: where do you get your money? >> guest: we get th -- we get our mag -- money primarily from our readers and in -- from individuals, and now some of those individuals give us, you know, $25 a year and some of them give us $25,000 a year, but it's -- reason magazine is very fortunate that we have a very diverse funding base. and the advantage of that is it gives you a great in -- a lot -- a lot of independence. the disadvantage is if you hear that joe smith, who's this fantastic writer, is looking for a job, you don't have mr. money bags that you can go to and say, 'oh, you know, please give me some money to hire joe smith.' and -- and the reason foundation, as a whole, also gets money from some foundations and some corpora

to bring rural electrification to this backwater in texas. roosevelt and want to do it, and so johnson gets into see him and before he could say anything roosevelt says to him, lyndon have you ever seen a russian women make it? [laughter] johnson is mystified and he starts telling him about harry hopkins had just been to russia and johnson, what he told them about the russians etc. at etc. before you knew it roosevelt's eight came in and said time is up mr. congressman samples johnson of a room. reagan was no fool that way. he was a very astute politician who had learned some of his lessons from a master like franklin roosevelt. anyway there is a couple of associations that came to mind from your talk. >> i will tell one other story. it is true, reagan grew up as a democrat. he became fiercely anti-communist in the late 40's and the screen actors guild. he became generally conservative in the 1950's, particularly on economic issues but remains a democrat until 1960. there is a wonderful story. he is a democrat, but he likes eisenhower. nixon

. >> i know you from texas but come on. it's not that cold. >> i cannot stand the cold, man. i'll tell you it is cold as hell. >> do you see how cold it is out here. look at our breathe. it is cold out here. >> we cannot see you it's not that cold. >> whatever. [ laughter ] >> he is a little soft. >> it burned my rear end. >> anyone who thinks they are doing color on the game for fox said there are a few players away. it is completely fooling themselves. >> i want to go back to the motion they he did. i'm standing on the sideline doing my report, the first thing i think is what is he doing. bill bert arenas is getting himself in deeper legal trouble by acting the way he is because what it shows is that a disregard for the rule of law. >> thanks for joining us by the way, thanks for showing up. >> nice for to you show up. >> pulled over. >> 37 minutes late. they should not be talking on their cell phone. >> when you look at the team the people here treated like is the soccer team. youth soccer. they love everything. they wanted to give them twinkies and cool pops. >> it bother

but also larger states like texas. but 11 states have significant one year declined. that is more than 5%, even when we include the stimulus from the federal government. the states, like california, michigan, ohio, washington, and virginia, all home to celebrate public research universities. at uc berkeley alone, research has led to almost 2000 inventions, and its alumni have founded over 250 companies. the university of michigan has licensed close to 50 startup companies and just of last five years. my friend jim duderstadt, the former president of the university in michigan, has said about state funding, public universities have gone from being state-supported, giving state assisted, then state related, and now state located. i would suggest we are sometimes state of salted. complicated the decline in state support are two factors. one is unprecedented enrollment growth, largely spurred by the country's recession. and the other is a growing need to prepare more students to a higher skill level. so our institutions, so our situation is clear. public higher education

i found an art teacher in texas. he said if anyone would do a thing about, and burial would. and merrill lynch in paris. pics i sent her a federal express letter and i got back the school district handwritten letter which said i might indeed have what you're looking for. however, i can't part with the but if you could see yourself coming to paris i would be glad to share it. i was on the next icelandic flight to paris. she did indeed have her unpublished grandfather's memoir, which allowed me to show a different side of joseph, to show the civil rivalry from a different side, to show the early temperament. the reason she had hidden secret from all this is that when she came to paris in the 1950s to become a religious sculptors, she worked in a small church, what is the da vinci code movie, you know what church i'm referring to. our workshop was on the top. because when she started doing her work and she is the name billeted pulitzer, they all say you must be related to the famous pulitzer. and if you want to make it on your own if you don't want it. so she took her mother's m

texas this had a strong malpractice reform that went into place and it didn't help improve their cost picture there. >> host: last call, louisiana. this is bobby on the republican line. good morning to you. ical kind of fellow. is it necessary to achieve all the reforms we talking about, to create an entirely new branch of the federal government to compensate for this? guest: it i don't have the easy answer to that question. there is a bunch of the functions we have to have agreed although i am someone who would have liked to have seen a government insurance option as a backstop around the country, and the plan does not have that. the private insurance plans that would be offered -- even there, a >> even resorting to a world where it is private insurance, we have to have a structure called the insurance exchange that can make it so you have a panel of options available to you. if you have no insurance or access through an employer, it feels that in order to have reform, there are new rules for government, of rules to get rid of pre-existing exclusions and enforcement, and then we have

prestige and importance of its governor was akin to the governors of california, illinois, new york, and texas put together today. and monroe was not only governor of america's most important state. he was a national hero in the revolutionary war. in other words, he was a giant in his day. and i don't understand why historians ignore him, which is why i wrote this book. to restore him. to his rightful place in american history. as the most important president in the early days of our nation. now, some historians elevate john adams to historical prominence and they deity thomas jefferson and george washington. but they were disastrous presidents. they left the nation worse off than it had been when washington seated acceded them to the president. john adams -- declared a naval war of the french. he strips americans of their first amendment of free speech and freedom of the press. thomas jefferson imposed a trade embargo that bankrupted the nation. and james madison declared war unnecessarily on britain. which had just signed a peace treaty. those three presidents left the nation still threatene

have been made member of the texas state legislature. but, he works his way down on the social and political scale. when it's in the legislature, sam johnson sponsors a bill to have a road constructed near their hometown. and by the time that road is to be constructed, sam johnson is not only a former member of the state legislature, he is working on the road crew doing manual labor, hauling dirt on his back, pushing wheelbarrows. that's how the johnson family had fallen so very, very quickly and lyndon johnson's youth. and lyndon johnson, sort of like scarlett o'hara in gone with the wind, while lyndon doesn't promise never to go hungry again, he promises never to be the idealistic fool his father had been, who played a promising political career into working on that road crew. hamlin did not comment even to succeed, and he was going to succeed not only in the most nefarious of ways politically, but also that he would be a president who knew how clever and nefarious he was. he works himself up onto additional aid. the congressman of the

they include the well-known research powerhouses that we're all so familiar with: the university of texas at austin, university of california at san francisco, the university of wisconsin, the university of michigan at ann arbor. they also include smaller four-year institutions and, yes, even two-year institutions, the fastest-growing sector of higher education in these united states. those two-year institutions enrolled almost half of all the undergraduates that study in this country. last year the share of young people attending college in the united states hit an all-time high, and that increase was driven solely by two-year colleges. cuny's six community colleges are among them. i called community colleges the sleeping giants of fire and educatio. in new york state that to public-interest, the one that i am connected with cuny and state university of new york together serve over 650,000 students at research institutions to liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. and we talk about college students and college faculty this assume you're talking about. all these students and facul

. >> host: james, houston texas, hello. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is going to center on the proliferation of the radical people that are cropping up in the pashtuns region of pakistan in the afghanistan. with an air wing version of islam promoting jihad and with the influence from the saudi and persian gulf entities financing in this school's which also have military training seem to be giving to the taliban a new group of writers -- what are we doing as a nation or a group of nations to get these countries. >> off and support of the school's? >> host: mark moyar. >> guest: i think we argue behind working behind these issues and it's important matter and as you mentioned a lot of the insurgents are coming out of these madrassas. we've also talked about other efforts to promote education in a rural afghanistan. you've hit on one of the earlier caller is mentioning other question about three cups of tea in can use that approach and i think he has done great work in schools that are critically important but i would add that you can't just b

california has one in and anything related to texas. legislators have a tough time moving. >> what

oregon, california, min minneapolis, rhode island, colorado, and next week i'm going to pennsylvania and texas. so he continued to start the revolution. and then he said here, this one other letter was written in 1997, he and i had worked on his play, and i got to know him through that. and he came back here several times to talk about the play, and he was so excited about this play. it's a play about karl marx coming back to clear his name because the soviet union had given communism a really bad name, and he was here to be back, sort of ascend from the heavens to clear his name in 1992. and he said, and we talked back and forth about the script, and he said, i made at least one change which should please you. he added, he said, do you remember how you were horrified as jenny telling marx to shut up? jenny was marx's wife. a woman in iran would never say that, you pointed out, and we all know that jenny was an iranian. well, she wasn't, so that was supposed to be funny the. [laughter] he says, well, i've changed that as you will see in the script. i've also cut down on the number of times shi

i went to austin texas and hyde park and some places i can't stand other places i stayed in a hostile sleeping in a room with 46 other guys because i like to eat well so that's what i did. so that was the second serendipitous event and then the third one occurred one day as i was walking out of the navy department library at the end of the day's research. a gentleman coming out of the adjoining building noticed i was walking towards the bus stop and he said where are you going and i told him and he offered me a ride. he turned out to be a navy historian who had published a work on naval operations during the cuban missile crisis that had a few pages on guantanamo. and he not only offered to give me a copy but he invited me to use his unclassified files that were in the secure area where he worked and they contained a lot of information that was most informative but is now in my book and would not be there if this chance encounter had never happened. the main argument of my book briefly stated is that from 1898 to the present guantanamo has endured in large part because it serves both

ambassador to the united nations who went to afghanistan to bring the taliban to texas to negotiate who was a unical worker as well. and he brought a taliban delegation -- "the washington post" described it back in 1996 as being seen having a codial dinner about pipelines. it was all about the pipelines through afghanistan. not 'cause afghanistan had the oil for the pipes. -- pipelines but they had the place to put it. that's still the great disadvantage of afghanistan. it's in the wrong place for a location. >> it's location. >> location, location, location. >> exactly. where does al-qaeda play into all this? what's the relationship to al-qaeda and the taliban? >> the relationship between al-qaeda and the taliban was one of convenience. the al-qaeda organization, mujahedeen factions. certainly all the people around bin laden were using weapons provided by the u.s. money funded through pakistan by the isi, saudi money mostly. so this was part of the usual crowd. they became extremist in the context of opposition to u.s. troops in the holy land of saudi arabia. their opposition was to th

together to do that but what galvanized is that we were afraid other regions would get their water like texas that has their eye on everybody's water. they managed somehow to get congress to pass the act that affirms that great lakes compaq that says none of the water in the great lakes region will be allowed to be exported outside of the watershed. we will see what the supreme court has to say about a but that is an interesting development. i promised a little history and i read like to do that before i turn back to what i think are some of the opportunities for the united states. many of you eyesight is already the grand canal but i would like to go further. this book also covers the rise of the roman empire for example, on the mediterranean but also built the vast aqueducts which brought fresh clean water not just to the city that due to an enormous size and made urban is setian possible we improved on that after a long hiatus in the 19th century with the revolution that started when we were polluting ourselves of the industrial waste of the initial burst of the industrial revolution and c

sure it would give kurdistan an outsized share of the total oil resource because there is so much in texas in this topic and frankly the certain oil in the sunni areas. this is a matter that was never explored. >> okay. right here. >> i think we should get to another that has kind of a long question. i will talk to after is not a. >> i with the northern community college. with regard to afghanistan, the assistance of the heroin trade i think should be a threat to not only are will being but to the whole world. so why do we make that a major focus of effort. there's also major funding for the taliban itself. >> well, i will take a crack at that. i think we have done everything since 9/11 except really focus -- we have made effort against al qaeda, but we really focused on iraq, and we got into nation building and drug interjection and afghanistan, and actually drug eradication. i think everybody in afghanistan makes money off the drugs, not just the taliban. of course, the best thing would probably be to cut the demand off by a really radical solution would be to legalize drugs in the u.s.

. >> james, houston, texas. hello. >> caller: hello, good evening. thanks for taking my call. my question is going to center on the proliferation of the radical madrassas that are cropping up in the pastun region of pakistan and afghanistan. with the narrowing version of islam promoting jihad and shahada and with the influence of persian entities and with military training seem to be giving the taliban a new group of fighters. what are we doing as a nation or as a group of nations to get these countries to back off support of these schools? >> mr. moyar? >> yeah, i think we are doing things behind the scenes to work on some of these issues. and it is a very important matter. as you mentioned a lot of the insurgents are coming out of these madrassas and we also talked about other efforts to promote education in rural afghanistan. i do want to hit on something -- one of the earlier callers mentioned was a question about greg mortoson "a cup of tea" and these doing a great job. but you can't add beat the insurgents through education. because we've seen in case after case, you kno

there is nixon tapes and.org with a texas university system you can hear what we have reported here. we tried very hard sometimes there is no way to get to sources. sometimes only one person may know something. we do spend a good deal of time which we can check. i'd like to pick up on tom and the vietnam issue. what bothered the kramerite the most with vietnam, not winning and by giving up arms control power, projected power the opening to china. and also to deliver this message and that is the toughest part of the book to write because in a sense in order to accomplish the foreign policy goals and affect he was leading us out of via non. he could not get the quick end that he wanted and as a result he turned to what was called vietnamization. that was a slow withdrawal of american troops and continued battles. >> withdrawing 10,000 troops by my definition is not slow. it was a very rapid withdrawal. >> to understand how the opposition and galvanized and why kramer would be so welcome at the pentagon because kramer says he will have to win the war. you cannot come out of there lookin

there was a congressional candidate in texas, a fellow by the name of george w. bush running for congress from there in 1978 and he had a conservative primary opponent, jimmie reese, the mayor of otas -- reagan contributed to the campaign and this didn't sit well with the bush family as you can imagine and as a matter of fact ambassador bush called then governor reagan to complain about him and forcing his son's opponent. so you already had that situation and then of course bush is running in the primaries against reagan, and the age issue again is i can't underestimate how big the issue was in '79 and '80. we shot through every story that was written or report on the radio or tv about ronald reagan. was he too old, up to the task and all of this, and bush is trying to exploit this and the other campaign would comegys jogging for the media. he goes to the ymca and concord, new hampshire call and does pushups for the benefit of the national media and all these things. it's all to exacerbate the age issue. so you had that, and then on top of that you have bush atta

[laughter] up been or again minneapolis colorado and next week will go to pennsylvania and texas. he continues to start the revolution and says one other letter here in 1997, we have worked on this play and i got to know him through that and he came back several times to talk about the play he was so excited, it was about karl marx coming back to clear his name because the soviets did have given communism a bad name and he was back from the heavens and talking back and forth he said i made at least one change. do you remember you were horrified telling jenny to shut up? a woman would never say that you pointed out and reno jenny was not iranian. she wasn't. that was supposed to be funny. i have changed that as you have seen in the script also have cut down the number of times shit appeared. i realized it was causing diarrhea. that is the type of humor that he had. when we heard that he had died, it was passed to me in a note we were on suggests -- c-span. thank you c-span for covering this program this. [applause] i was interviewing phyllis benefit who just had heard latest print

ken starr was from texas nearby. they grew up in many ways -- well, they obviously grew up in the same time, but in many ways with similar upbringing. very religious, but slightly different. so they take these paths, each of them coming to the peaks of their careers at this moment. ken starr having been solicitor general of the united states. bill clinton becoming president of the united states. i like them both. i have to tell you. both of them deserve a lot of credit here because when i went to ken starr, he was the first person i went to when i decided to write this book because i figured i had written something that could have been viewed as pro-clinton during the impeachment because i did not think it was an impeachable offense. i concluded that if ken starr was not interested in talking i did not write the book. ken starr knew what i had written. knew about my background. he cooperated fully. he gave me access to personal papers that i tried to leave, letters to his kids that show the human side very much. he i

where do you think that texas? >> guest: obviously it's taken us where we are now where the economy hasn't recovered in the way that it should have. our national debt is much larger than it would have been had we done the right thing. but when you talk about conservative, what is in the american tradition, there was one aspect of that that i found particularly disturbing and that is when they were pouring money into the bank's other than going with an usual rules of capitalism firms often lined up owning more than they could pay and going to bankruptcy and you get resolved. you can go into bankruptcy, convert the shareholders lose everything, the bond holders become the new shareholders in the case of banks with a very similar process. what we do is a college conservatorship. what you do is shareholders and everything, the bond holders become the new shareholders and because government insured depositors sometimes it has to put more money in and sometimes it puts so much money and it becomes the effective owner and

and oak is up on texas as they played on. byu, down by 20. unlv. 74-54678 baylor is struggling with texas a&m. back to baton rouge. there is a deep big flow this year, here it's kentucky in the lead in season one z yet, it's lsu outscoring. >> there is lsu changing the plan, going inside and being aggressive around the basket. there is things offensively. and they did not do early in the game. so nice adjustments by trent johnson for the second half. >> ball hosted away. warren gits it back for tigers. spencer going inside. comes to warren. >> the ball is again at the rim. and when l su. trent johnson wants for this team, right now. and tiger's fight on despite being down 28 at the half. >> there is this is a great shooter. stretches out the defense. got to step out on the floor and guard at will. >> there is two turnovers. and there is up to cousin who's fouls. there is kinsly who might have taken the brunt of that one. and there is attacking baskets. storm warren. the images from haiti are heart-breaking-- homes, hospitals,

it's run by a person in texas with the texas university system. you can hear a lot of what we have reported here. so, we tried very hard -- sometimes there's no way to get two sources. sometimes only one person knows something. you can check some things around. so we do spend a good deal of time pointing to our sources which you will be able to check. i would like to pick up on tom and the vietnam issue. the three issues that bothered the kramerites most were vietnam, not winning it, and they believed we were giving up our arms controlled, projected power. and the opening to china. but vietnam was the real burr in this. we weren't going to win the war. nixon told kissinger to deliver this message, and that was the toughest part of the book to write, because in a sense in order to accomplish these goals, he was bleeding us out of vietnam. he couldn't get the quick end he wanted and as a result he turned to something called vietnamizeation, and it was slow withdrawal of american troops, and continued battles -- >> withdrawing 10,000 'troops a a mont