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you. in the grand scheme of traditions, we want to thank you very much for joining us. [applause] have a wonderful day. >> next on c-span, a special friday night edition of booktv. . please join me in welcoming captain smiley to the 2012 savannah book festival. [applause] >> thank you, linda. thank you for making this happen and please, again, ill thank your wife later this evening. im honored to be able to speak to you this afternoon. i wrote my autobiography, and ill cover that in th...

know you were going to write this book when you first lived there? did you keep a note? did you keep a journal? are you just relying on what you remember? >> it is a good question. we did not know we were going to write this book and we didnt keep any notes. the only notes we had were the stories we had written and we had a good archive of at because of pieces i had done for fox and that greg had written but it is amazing how memories work. really strong memories dont fade. the good st...

on the palestinian side because you have the division between hamas and the 5 top leadership. the years we spent in jerusalem, most foreign correspondents spend three years max covering the conflict because you get burned out and felt it would leave feeling there was no hope, dont want to hear about it anymore. there is quite a dearth of writing by correspondents who lived in jerusalem. a lot of it had to do with the fact that we were working journalists. not that easy to move two jobs...

>> setting aside the politics that we would like the americans and the israelis and the arabs, what do you personally feel would be the equitable solution israeli .. never going to be a perfect solution. these are two peoples that have been there for centuries. they both have legitimate claims to the land there. theyre going to have to find ways to share it. and as i said. its not incompatible. israel needs -- the one thing israel really needs is security. and they deserve it. the one ...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with ken burns and his take on the magnificence of americas national parks. >> this is the declaration of independence applied to the landscape. its a theirive thats so closely parallels the larger american theirive that you can find in the crevices of the park us. >> rose: we continue with part two of our conversation with former fed chairman paul volcker >> my tax philosophy would be if we cant deal with our expenditure load wi...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this eveng with ken burns and his take o the magnificence of americas national par. >> this is the decration of independence applied to the landscape. its a theirive thats so closely parallels the larger americantheirive that you can find in the crevicesf the park us. >> rose: we contin with part two of our conversation with former fed chairmapaul volcker >> my tax philosophy would if we cant deal th our expenditurload with the prent tax syst...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with ken burns and his take on the magnificence of americas national parks. >> this is the declaration of independence applied to the landscape. its a theirive thats so closely parallels the larger american theirive that you can find in the crevices of the park us. >> rose: we continue with part two of our conversation with former fed chairman paul volcker >> my tax philosophy would be if we cant deal with our expenditure load wi...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. we begin this evening with ken burns and his take on the magnificence of americas national parks. >> this is the declaration of independence applied to the landscape. its a theirive thats so closely parallels the larger american theirive that you can find in the crevices of the park us. >> rose: we continue with part two of our conversation with former fed chairman paul volcker >> my tax philosophy would be if we cant deal with our expenditure load wi...