Something that happens. When his father died he just got involved in activities. When his wife died in the life is gone out, he died he would never marry again, he goes to the badlands and is just on a horse for 10 hours a day. He said finally bit that night because constant activity prevented over thought and then he did come back and eventually marry and have a fulfilling marriage with edith,s girlfriend and monitor as much as they couldve loved anybody. The little girl who was born when his wife died i think represented the dead wife he couldnt remember and didnt want to remember because he had to move forward. Its a terrible thing in some ways. So we did give ally to his sister for a while but edith, the new wife in old friend brought her into the family. In his memoir he never mentioned the name. And comprehensible and just the opposite of somebody who wants to believe the more you talk about the people you loved, the more you keep them alive, he just had to keep moving forward. W
Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2012 and november. If we voted in president ial elections at the same level, i mean in local elections at the same level that we vote in president ial elections a lot of this stuff that you are fearful of right now will dissipate, go away. Guest we have to do what we can wear began as a professor. I ran the center for the state of democracy and we are organizing a national dialogue. This ear ferguson is on our minds. I think locally it has to be these ferguson problems are local problems. They ar
[applause] we are very honor today to have Doris Kearns Goodwin is our special guest. Before i give her background for a moment and start some questions, how many people here have read a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin . Okay, all right. How many people have read two books . Three books . For . Five . Six . All of them. Okay. How many people are going to buy her book today and get it autographed . Okay. So Doris Kearns Goodwin is obviously a leading president ial scholars. She is a person who has written books on some of the most important president and today well talk largely about her new book, the bully pulpit, which is about Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard taft and a bit about the muckrakers. Before we do so, a little more background about her another book shes written. Shes of course written works on lincoln, eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and a book on Lyndon Johnson with whom she worked when she was a white house fellow. She is from brooklyn. [cheers and applause] a big fan of t
Back to wanting to talk about israel. And madiba in a very stern voice, he had used their , your enemies are not our enemies. And he said, im going to read a paragraph. Then i will be done. I think it is him at his best. He goes, apparently you have not listened to my argument. If you had done so you have not been serious and examining. Tried to picture ted koppel. I replied to one of our friends here that i refuse to be drawn into the differences that have existed between the various communities in the united states. You have not commented that i am going to offend anybody by refusing to inform myself and the internal affairs of the usa. Why are you so keen that i should inform myself i dont think he meant to inform, but in the internal affairs of cuba and libya . I expect you to be consistent. Now, think about television, all right. Ten seconds of silence. One of the Amazing Things about this was, television came to south africa in 1976. Sun Nelson Mandela, you know, was already had
Still thinks he is a bit of and not, but at the same time says that he is growing as mandela grew. As i said, at the end of the conversation i was shocked because she said that he is really causing a big stir in parliament, and her expectation is that he may eventually take over this predominately white party, which is the only serious Opposition Party to the African National congress to it if he might take to the democratic space fact, the democratic alliance. Ibook just at what i was trying to a moment ago. We are dealing with a story that is not just complex but filled with contradictions. There is no one thing that is necessarily true. In my own book i see mandela as having many faces, played many roles, including the role of Nelson Mandela, which he invented. This man was in place. He played creon in antigone, and he played Abraham Lincoln in a performance. He was an actor on some levels, and he was able to bring those talents and those skills into politics without losing a beat a