bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world whe

bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world whe

previously george w bush had _ is it? no. previously george w bush had a _ is it? no. previously george w bush had a couple _ is it? no. previously george w bush had a couple of - bush had a couple of colonoscopies, the procedure that president biden had today, and he transferred power to his then vice president, dick cheney, and so there is a process for this. in order to transfer power you send a letter to the speaker of the house, speaker pelosi, and the most senior senator in the senate, which is senator leahy right now, and that transfers power to the vice president, so kamala harris became president for, as you said, 85 minutes today. and then, once the procedure was done and joe biden was coherent again, another letter was sent and congress signed off on that, and he resumed his powers as president. now, there was a president. now, there was a president who did not follow these rules, and that was president trump. as we know, he was 12 not always necessarily follow protocol. allegedly, his press secretary, stephanie gresham, wrote in her book that president trum

bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world whe

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bush and his son george w. bush and the artist who painted that portrait. 41 and 43 because it was the way to distinguish them. >> president clinton told me once, i think his chief of staff told me i think it was 43 who called president clinton 42 wants and president clinton, it made his day. he told his staff all my gosh, i'm pretty sure it was 43 he called him, he just called me 42, i am like a member of the family, i thought that was funny. >> so president bush was reagan's vice president for eight years and is a question about, they were adversaries and i'm not sure president bush ever thought he'd be picked for the vp so talk about how that relationship grew between the two of them. >> i should say whoever asked the question, i apologize, it predates my book and predates from when i was in president bush's inner circle, do i know the answer? i do, it's from being around 25 years, president reagan sort of chose george bush to be his vp candidate in the 11th hour at the reporting convention. it was former pr

bush, jim or george washington? >> man brave enough to use his middle initial george w. bush. kennedy: that's right. gary is on the board -- that's right. george w. bush he got it right the recall this is for you, which of these presidents worked as aak fashion model prior to taking office? jim carter, chauvin coolidge, gerald ford ord joe biden? >> you gave me this before. i knew it then and got it right then, i'll get right now. gerald ford. kennedy: that is correct. recycling a question unless you've beency looking in our database which is possible. it was featured on the cover of cosmo april 1942. i love a man in uniform. all right. olivia, which of these wild animals once kept in the white house as a presidential pet alligator, giraffe, or a koala bear? >> honestly, i have no idea but i will have to guess a koala bear. kennedy: it happened in australia in the u.s., john quincy adams gifted to him by lafayette. good job. gary, question number two, which of these presidents fought for the british army? abraham lincoln, george washington, thomas jefferson or mary poppins? [l

walker bush do solemnly swear -- >> by the time george w. bush became president, a new wave of conservative lawmakers were ready for politics as war, but once again, another bush disappointed them. >> the president of the united states! >> i remember actually sitting in the state of the union address, the first one with george w. bush, where he was talking about no child left behind and some of these kind of big government programs that mike pence and i were kind of aghast at. we felt like minutemen who had finally got to the battle and the war was over. >> that disappointment would turn to rage. during bush's failed war in iraq, and the financial crisis and the bailouts that bush supported. >> he just destroyed and discredited everything he was trying to do and left the way open for different kinds of radicals to struggle for power. >> it was, of course, race, the issue that republicans had happily exploited that would finally push the party to the edge. a black president in the white house triggered a dramatic response. >> afro liberalism

mark mckinnon, former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain. there's still among the cohost of the circus. apparently a unity fan as, well on showtime. good evening and welcome to you both. mark, let's start on youngkin. what percentage of youngkin's win, was a well run youngkin campaign? and what percentage was because of the entitlement of the mcauliffe campaign, the unforced errors of the mcauliffe campaign, that grants in the youngkin and his team jumped on. >> in order to win in a state that won ten points of joe biden, had to be a combination of everything, start with a great candidate. it's one of the best run campaigns that i've ever seen. super message that was hyperlocal. and also blessed by the opposition. until the remark by mcauliffe, remind me of john kerry in 2004 when he said i voted for it i voted against. that became the whole campaign. that obviously said everything the youngkin campaign wanted. he said it about himself. i was just thinking about the numbers, vicky may have the exact numbers, but i think about bush we talk ab

w bush, shonda, who code and how served a secretary of state along with laura bush and also hillary clinton for the secretary of state herself and a presidential candidate. in fact, the only former president of recent times that is not that is donald trump, a man who called in paul a described as dangerous and with whom there was little love loss. he's going to be you the joyce by 3 people. he's going to be utilized by richard armitage, who served on the colon polish deputy secretary, also madeline albright, who herself was one of his predecessors and his son michael as by mark this law say mark is achievements and his passing in october, october 18th, when he died from those complications as a result of a cobra, 1900 infection, he was vaccinated. but he was also in that high risk on the rule a category. he's suffered from a number of medical conditions for my blood cancer parkinson's disease and it was not which ended up taking his life feel. tell us a little bit more about who column. how was and his role when he was for me, you a secretary of state. yeah, i mean he was, well, it

and former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain, apparently a ut fan as well as on show time. welcome to to you both. mark, let's start on youngkin. what percentage of youngkin's win was a well-run youngkin campaign, and what percentage was because of the either entitlement of the mcauliffe campaign, the unenforced errors of the mcauliffe campaign that granted youngkin and his team jumped on? >> listen, in order to win in a state that went ten points for joe biden, it had to be a combination of everything. start with a great candidate, add a great team. it's one of the best-run campaigns i've ever seen. super focused on a message that was hyper-local, and also blessed by the opposition. i mean, that remark by mcauliffe reminded me of john kerry in 2004 when he said i voted for it before i voted against it. he said it about himself. i was just thinking about the numbers. vickie, you may have the exact numbers, but i think about bush -- we were trying to expand the tent and we talk about wanting to get at least 40% of hispanic vote in 2000. i think that youngkin got more than 50

by the time george w bush left office, and by the time obama left off, as it had skyrocketed to nearly 75 percent as the continued increase in defense spending combined with the government's response to the great recession. so who owns all of this debt? the 2 largest and these are actually right here in the united states, the social security trust fund, and the federal reserve that's public. that's the debt of the people. now beyond that, china and japan both owed more than one trillion dollars in us treasury securities, followed by the u. k. ireland luxemburg and brazil. so what is the significance of all of this debt and what would it mean at the us where you actually default? well, joining us now to the got ours, especially richard, was posted the economic update, peter ship chief economist at euro pacific capital and steve king, the economics professor, a patriot. it's great. have you all on the show today and professor wolf. i want to start with you. now when we look at the way the debt has grown, how we just come to expect that congress will continue to spend more as time goes on

w bush in 2000, one. but it's one of those things we read of autobiography and stories at the time that it was a very tough decision for them to mate at least from the outside. but on the inside it wasn't. i think it's difficult as people thought he he was even feeling was is is is is is calling and there's much more. they keep talking do otherwise. it's it's interesting, too, because when you think about how he. lot of times when he was in that stood in to recommend between the the joint chiefs of staff and 2000, begin a devoted himself to the to the times works people don't know this much for developing. working behalf of underprivileged kids and quite frankly, a lot of white minority children getting them. i didn't. you cation. opportunity, things that that he knew that he had a tough time when he was going to be chosen times get started his journey to give back to to his community and something which continued all the way up until is passing what with the foundation that he created for the privileged

bush was over with reagan and you had ford, and nixon and george w. bush in the middle, that conversation was broken by the 2016 election, it was interrupted. president biden is doing all he can to restore that kind of coherent conversation, not that we're all gonna agree on everything, but we can actually see politics as a mediation as opposed to an unrelenting war. it's not quite a generational struggle, i hope, but it is a presidential term struggle, and so what i think we saw this week with the passage of the bill led by speaker pelosi is -- with the censure of the congressman who was tweeting of, posting of threats about fellow members and the president, as i recall, mccarthy's long speech, which as you were just saying seem to have an audience of one, at mar-a-lago. you take all of these things and what you see is we have a president who, as you pointed out we might support and try to help when i can, and i consider him a friend, he is trying to do something immensely important for us which is preserve and protect the constitution itself. that m

w bush in 2003 pal address c u n. where he falsely accused a rock of having weapons of mass destruction. so this is for my deputy secretary of state, paying tribute here at the memorial. okay, those are the headlines. i'm emily angland states you now for democracy, maybe part of the time must always on good luck. so we are the ones grappling the extra mile where auto media don't go. we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. ah, all the me me id and i don't know why my life when. how would i, how about how math by one cup co help me out. i got you know, what have you but i wasn't being at performing to me funny but hey, i'm i yeah, i've been by me me me and my family was golf. have a p o money when, when, when, because you were back in my family might be home and i had a long but have high ha ha ha ha i'm he, my dad got me home from home. i come back home with me and paul told fees. oh god when why i ah around noon ah ah oh a when so how do you the elk up p pin green lawn while amanda and i will. i hav

w. bush never would have existed it's absolutely incredible if we can make the avatars tell their story. >> and then in the stern of the ship with that particular structure it is designed to secure the ship and this is the main deck so if you go further toward that tiny captain's cabin on the left you can just see the stick on the left that was a relatively small stick that controls the steerage of the ship and then the best cabin on the ship this is where we believe the mayflower compact it will you see the pictures of the compact before they set sail above the cabin on the poop deck i don't want to say that but to contain weapons to contain maps and hopes to feature but it is very empty at the moment it is nowhere near the space and then to put in many more piece of cargo furniture, animals. and it is tiny. but it was something for the accuracy from that visit and you can see it is just behind it may be the rope ladder i don't know that the mechanism coming down from the deck above the

in comment, president george w. bush, won virginia by eight points, only for democrats tim kaine to win the gubernatorial race by five points. what was seen in the national committee comey to, -- and the disastrous handling of hurricane christina. the most visceral backlash came into thousand, i'd that's after democrats claim thousand 2008 elections including barack obama winning virginia by six points. which stunned a whole lot of observers. and then just a year later, following, year bob mcdonald went on to become governor of virginia defeating his opponent by a whopping 17 points. that's a 23 point swinging points in just one year. and to put it mildly, this was seen as very bad news for democrats. just listen to how nbc opened its nightly news broadcast the day after the election. >> good evening, a year ago, we were talking about a sea change in american politics. tonight we are reporting a small change which could also be anonymous development for the year old obama administration. republicans were elected gov

he came together with a republican and with president george w. bush. there was another basic bargain. if you wanted to raise money from the public, you had to provide financials that were audited. and your auditor had to be subject to inspection. nearly 20 years later, companies from over 50 jurisdictions have allowed their books and records to be looked at. for the auditors to be audited. congress last year said annette is enough. let's put a three year clock in place. we have to suspend trading. david: you are too modest to point this out. you helped crafted. gary: there were others involved as well. it was after enron and worldcom fell. congress stepped in and said they had to up their game. david: both of us are from baltimore. we did not know each other growing up. i am 10 years older than you. were you in a very wealthy family? or was it a blue-collar family? gary: neither of my parents went to college. my dad started a small business after world war ii. it was a vending business. it sent all of us to college. they help pay down the mortgage over

for an administration like george w. bush or barack obama or donald trump or now joe biden to decide the political decision to get involved in afghanistan or to stay there a while or withdraw, these were policy decisions. what underlies that policy decision is an assumption of conditions in the world and whether the tools you have, u.n. dispatches and security council, stamens from the white house, -- statements from the white house or military power, how useful they are. it is hard to wage war by committee, it never works well. in article two of the constitution, the first paragraph -- well, second one -- talks about the role of commander-in-chief, given to the president to be that person to whom the nation looks for using the military tool to secure u.s. national interests. later in article one, congress is supposed to provide for these tools, and army and navy, now a space force and cyber command and those sorts of things. when we have a situation life afghanistan and we have the secretary of defense, chairman of join

it is the game of george w. bush, obama and others don't want to finish it. amy: in september of 2016 democracy now! traveled to the standing rock sioux reservation to document the uprising against the dakota access partnership line. >> criminals. get your money somewhere else. >> we are standing at the construction site of the dakota access pipeline. it looks like there are at least three bulldozers that are to people's surprise at this moment actually bulldozing the land. there's a helicopter above. there is security and hundreds of people have been marching when they heard that the construction site is actually active right now. people have gone through the fence, men, women and children, the bulldozers are still going and they are yelling at the men in hard hats. one threw one of the protesters down. and they are marching over the dirt mound. some of the security have dogs. >> amy goodman, this guy hit me in the face. it is all over my sunglasses. he maced me in the face. all over me. >> that dog, i was walking and even without think warning look at this.

president george w. bush worked with them on something called the act. there was another basic bargain. if you wanted to raise money from the public, you had to provide financials. your auditor had to be subject to inspection. basic bargain. nearly 20 years later, companies from 50 jurisdictions have allowed their books and records to be looked at. the auditors to be audited. two jurisdictions have not. china and hong kong. last year, congress said that enough is enough. they said a three year clock in place. if we don't work this out, if the auditing firms of these china related companies don't open up their workpapers, that what congress said is, we have to suspend trading. these companies should not be able to access markets throughout our stock exchanges. david: the senator principal staff person drafting this was gary gensler. you know this pretty well. gary: there were others involved as well. i learned working for a senator, it was all there. if it went well, it was theirs. if it went pear-shaped, it was the staffs. i do know it. it was after enro

h w bush. george bush senior. about one of the regions he was... apparently bill clinton's ability to apologise, to shed tears, to talk about the underwear he wore on chat shows were all things that george h w bush couldn't conceive of doing and couldn't understand why the voters would want to hear it. in essence, he was a bit tone deaf. maybe mrjohnson is a more agile. joe, do you possess a pair of red corduroy trousers? trio. laughter. corduroy trousers? no. laughter. that's corduroy trousers? iiru laughter. that's one nailed down! make of that what we will. do you want to take us down to another story on the front of the telegraph? this is just further down. forgive me, it's actually the i. i'm out of date because it was on the last list. rail plans a scaled down. this isn't going to go down well in the red wall seats. no, it's not. it's well in the red wall seats. no, it's not- it's going _ well in the red wall seats. no, it's not. it's going to _ well in the red wall seats. no, it's not. i

george w. bush versus al gore. >> the decision desks are looking at this, scratching their heads unable to call this race. >> again. all of a sudden, you see a need for an alternative source and a different source of news, it is just like all of a sudden, a lightning strikes, more and more people say, oh, yeah, let me check out what fox has to say about this. >> billed on three big stories, one was clinton-lewinsky, the second 2000 election and third aftermath of 9/11. i think we did a good job on 9/11 covering that story, but in aftermath we looked at it differently from other media. when the dust cleared we were number one and have been since. >> you get to 9/11 it was you know a freight train, that nobody could stop. >> it was palpable the concepts of fox news channel getting on the map, you could feel it after three years there was finally some traction. and it was going to survive. >> i came to fox news after the twin towers one down went down. >> that is the way it has been, mujahidh woul

george w bush did in the early 2000s, ronald reagan did it, george h w bush did it. so, with biden undergoing the routine physical and the fact that colonoscopies are routine for someone of his age, it was not surprising that he invoked the 25th amendment, which governs incapacitated presidents can temporary hand overpowers to kamala harris. anthony zurcher there. we have a truly inspiring story next about the musician felix klieser. he plays the french horn in an orchestra in southern england. but felix was born without any arms. the bbc�*s andrew plant reports. ready? yeah. to be a world—famous french horn player, you need good lungs. what you don't need, though, are fingers. felix klieser warming up with an instrument he fell in love with when he was just three years old. the thing i can remember, really, is that i wanted to play exactly this instrument and nothing else. 27 years later, he's now artist in residence with bournemouth symphony orchestra, a growing reputation worldwide and a technique most unique among top musicians. it should be so difficult to d

george w bush did it in the early 2000, ronald reagan did it, george h w bush did it. so with biden undergoing a routine physical and the fact that colonoscopies are routine for someone of biden's age, it was not surprising that he invoked the 25th amendment of the us constitution, which governs incapacitated presidents to temporarily hand over presidential powers to kamala harris. some lovely pictures to end now — from the longest partial lunar eclipse. it could be seen from japan, chile or the united states. nasa says the partial eclipse — lasting for 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds — was the longest since 1440. a solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between the sun and earth, leading the moon's shadow to be projected onto earth's surface. before we go, a reminder of our top story. president biden said the verdict in the kyle rittenhouse case would leave many americans feeling angry and concerned. but in a statement he said thejury had spoken and its verdict must be respected. winsconsin's governor, tony evers, called for peace, saying no verdict

in some ways george h w bush was politically vulnerable. gorbachev was enormously vulnerable and was practically toppled by a hard-line coup. giving away more in the middle east would have only accelerated that process by which the hardliners sought to end his rule over the soviet union. >> a couple of points. when jim baker spoke everyone knew he was speaking for the president of the united states. when kissinger spoke everyone knew that he was speaking for nixon. when john kerry spoke it was quite clear he was not necessarily doing so for the president of the united states at the time. when he tried after the historic trip to jerusalem to try to get the parties together before camp david, he was certainly not the charismatic, strategic figure that kissinger was or the tactician baker was. also, it was clear that he was clear that he was not necessarily speaking for the president. the president himself but his prestige on the line at camp david. he himself. one last point on leverage, there was a huge debate within the carter administratio

let's bring in ron christie, former advisor to george w. bush. it's great to see you. is the lesson of last night that the republicans did better without trump on the ballot? ron: what we learned is the republicans listened to voters. they listened and heard that inflation is making an impact, gasoline prices are too high, food prices are going up. the issue was education. parents have not -- parents were alarmed about they have seen some students' curriculums look like. reading the tea leaves, maybe the democrats are doing too much too fast and hold onto promises instead of moving in a far different direction. laura: was an interesting how president trump terrified suburban voters but republicans did really well in the suburbs last night. can mr. trump be the candidate in 24? ron: it's interesting. i'm already hearing glenn youngkin should be on the ballot in 2024. what he did was important. he was able to straddle the line of mobilizing trump supporters, those deep red districts, while at the same time appealing to suburban people and saying i am a dad, i hear you. t

treasury under the george w. bush administration. this experiences taught me invaluable lessons about how financial -- is made and how that can lead to devastating financial crisis. my work has been focused on safeguarding the building and resilience of our financial system. in 2008 i saw what happens. and then leave the american taxpayer to foot the bill when the speculative boom turns bust. we cannot afford reputation of the destructive scenario. especially now in the aftermath of the global pandemic. if i'm concerned to lead the office of the control of the currency my priority listen to guarantee a fair and competitive market where small and mid-sized badges that invest in their neighbors homes and small businesses can thrive. and where everybody community, regardless of wealth, geography or history has access to safe and affordable financial serves. a critical part of that is preserving economic growth and creating jobs and prosperity. i'm thinking here of my own local community bank in ithica new york where they know every one

in 2001, george w. bush invoked executive privilege from 2013. in 2009, barack obama voted not to invoke executive privilege from george w. bush. it has been the current guy, the current guy. joe biden has been making that same argument in court. one thing so important to remember, however, even if donald trump can somehow invoke executive privilege, that is not going to be the end of it. they will have to do a balancing act like they did in the richard nixon case. what is the need for the documents to come out and how important is it they remain secret. . >> even if he's not successful, it takes time. which may be the point here. walk us through what is next and how long in total this could take >> yeah. we're in front of the district court now. now, the judge has an interesting history here. she has gotten several of the january 6th cases relating to the criminal cases against rioters. and she's made interesting statements about the way she views what happened on january 6th. she said in one case, quote, a violent mob seeking to overthrow the l

president george w. bush had gonzalez. neither one had great legal minds. they were effective though and the time in which they were there in carrying out the president's agenda. i would contend that began in earnest with tom clark working for henry truman. >> we are going to come back to him because he becomes one of the supreme court appointees. but is truman thinking that at the time? >> there's every indication that he is. >> you get some traction immediately with abortion. the real moment for truman's vincent. this is the guy come if there is a treatment appointee that has a legacy that is probably him? >> yes. it's a stage in a sadly how literally unknown he is today among americans. at the time of his nomination for the chief justice ship, he was one of, if not the biggest names in washington. not including the president or him, but he held so many jobs of a monumental importance to the american economy. he had been treasury secretary. he had been director of the time as emergency management dealing with the war praise been a district appellate court

w. the latest survey of registered voters has the approval market 44%. that's down 2 percentage points from october 4 from september, 54% disapproval. the president's approval on the economy also continuing to slide just 36% approve of the job he's doing in our latest poll. that's down 3 points from last month. only 40% feel the administration is focused on the right things, 54% believe it's concentrating on the wrong things. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight from the north lawn with what else the poles are telling us and what the administration is focused on today. good evening, peter. >> there is a correlation the more the president pushes this new progressive spending package the lower his approval rating falls. when he got elected, biden said he was going to work with his whole heart to win the confidence of the whole people and right now he doesn't have it. >> i see all my senate colleagues i'm so unaccustomeds to them standing up for me. [laughter] >> joe

bush administration it happened twice when president george w. bush god put under, had anesthesia in order to have colonoscopy's, dick cheney was acting president for each of those times for a couple of hours. under ronald reagan as well, 1985, george bush senior, vice president happy bush was acting president for eight hours, while reagan had surgery for colon cancer in 1985. today it was just under an hour and a half, while president biden had a colonoscopy, as part of his physical, the white house released a long detailed readout from president biden's doctor about his health and everything they looked at in his physical. we learned or at least had confirmed as current the fact that the president takes a blood thinner, also cholesterol drug, he takes over the counter allergy medicine, he has a little bit of reflux, the doctor said he noticed president biden has been clearing his throat more often and he explained in great detail how they looked into that very, very closely in from every possible angle using tons of specials and in the end they

former chair of the presidents council of economic advisers during the george w. bush administration. watch book tv every sunday on c-span two. >> president biden announced his choice of jerome powell to serve another term as chair of the federal reserve and brunner to serve as the vice term. here is a look at the president's remarks. remarks. >> >> ladies and gentlemen, the resident of the united states accompanied by chair jarreau -- jerome powell and governor lael brainard >> good afternoon, please, please sit down. before i begin, i want to comment on the tragedy that occurred last night during the holiday parade in wisconsin. while we don't have all the facts and details yet, we know this morning that five families in waukesha are facing fresh grief and a life without a loved one. at least 40 americans are suffering from injuries, some of them in critical condition. an entire community is struggling to cope with a horrific act of violence. last night the people of waukesha were gathered to celebrate the start of the season of hope, togetherness, and thanksgiv

w. bush. great to have everybody today. emily, i will start with you because i saw a little bit of this reaction when kevin mccarthy was saying you know what these spending bills are like and know what the presidential agenda is like? it's like a weight on us and we're sinking. i thought of the word albatross. do you think that's what he meant? >> exactly. he told a great analogy that he shared in the past prior spending junctions. i was sitting at a meet and greet and a student asked me about it. he was a swimmer. i gave an analogy that had to do with swimming. after world war ii america is in the pool racing against other swimmers of other countries and asked america to put on a 10 pound weight and still won and a 20 pound weight and went up until we got to 300 pound weights and he said not only did we start losing but then we sunk. his point was we never once said take off the weight. we've only said america doesn't swim like she used to and made the point to say rather than take the

if he had not done that then george w. bush and george bush would've never existed because their descendent of john howland. the relatives and their descendents, they've got some -- if we could make these avatars tell their story, how fantastic that would be. so there we have it. going to the stern of the ship, that particular structure their which is designed to really pull in ropes and be able to sort of secure the ship and secure various pieces of cargo coming onto the ship. this is the main deck and this is where you've got the steerage office. that's called a captain. if you go further towards what would be the tiny cramped cabins on the left you can just see the stick on the left. that was a very small stick that controlled the rotor. rudder. deck control the steerage of the ship and then you have the captains cabin, obviously the best gavin on the ship. he had a little bed. this is what we believe the mayflower compact in which bradford had a large hand in. this is where you see the pictures of them all signing the

he discussed his book with harvard university economics professor and former george w. bush economics advisor greg. here is a little bit of that conversation. >> i think that there is something to be said for exploring the way in which may be it can stand on its own 2 feet. a big part of what i take aim at in the book isn't just the ideology in and of its own right but it's merged with capitalism which actually taints both the progressive values that the corporations are asked to be stewards of and relegating the purpose in and of itself so that is what the heart of the book is about more so than a criticizing one end of the political spectrum or another. >> host: now "after words" errors every sunday on booktv and you can watch all previous episodes on the website, booktv.org. and it is also available as a podcast on c-span's new app, c-span now. finally, here's some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to "the new york times." topping the list is a book we will not be covering on booktv, and it's memoir the storyteller. after that, to rescue the republic on