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Go to booktv. Org. The before Columbus Foundation presents the winners of the american book awards in San Francisco, calif. I am the chairman of the board of directors and i want to thank our friends for their sponsorship for this afternoons awards and my colleagues on the board of directors for their presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent and i would say even medicinal organization. At the beginning of this year january, the United States lost one of ...

Chris hill recounts his diplomatic career. Gail sheehy remembers her journalism career. Alan west discusses the political landscape. For a complete television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Booktv continues now. David rothkopf discusses the triumph and failures of American Leadership in the world following 9 11. Its about an hour ten. [inaudible conversations] im going to hold your book like this. [laughter] good eve...

Borders open immigration yea or nay . You will get a copy of this on leaving. I will let introduce the panelists. That would be superfluous. I want to point out is not true as some people have suggested that we hired barack obama to the advance publicity person for this conference. That is not true. He did it on his own initiative but we are delighted that he was able to bring such focus to this important issue. I think it is an important debate and there are no easy answers i think. Alex nowest...

Island when my father was recruited to work at a Textile Factory there. My parents, like the parents of those who might be eligible for deferred action under the president s executive authority, came here in pursuit of the American Dream for their children. Last month, president obama announced policy changes that bring muchneeded humanity and transparency to our immigration system. The president s actions are well within the scope of his authority. He is relying on the doctrine of prosecutorial...

Were nine conversations over the span of six months. Coming up next, gannon draws on clips of the footage to focus on the days leading up to and right after nixons departure from office. He recalls working with nixon on his memoirs. This event was sponsored by the Richard Nixon foundation. Have mark updegrove, the director of the lyndon b. Johnson president ial library. He is a president ial historian. With him, the start of our show, frank gannon. Nixon aid. White house [applause] thank you. We...

Leading up to and after his departure from office on august 9, 1974. He recalls working with nixon on his memoirs. This runs about one hour and 20 minutes. Let me not hold up this great program. Director of the linden pain Johnson Lyndon library, and we who was a gannon white house staffer during the nixon administered. Lets not hold them up. [applause] welcome, everybody. Tonight, we are going to see eene very littles interviews with Richard Nixon conducted by frank gannon. What strikes me abou...

Fully to our society. Reasonable minds might disagree on the politics or whether this is even real good policy. But what issen deniable is that the status quo is wholly unacceptable. Lupita, the brave 13yearold who is in the audience today, understands the psychological trauma the threat of deportation can cause. I met her over eight years ago when her father was detained in a large Los Angelesarea raid. During the years that followed, lupita suffered and struggled. Most americans understand tha...

To make a 30second comment on what you just said. I am not going to yield to you. Im going to ask my questions of the gentlemen. The president has dispensed the law, suspended the law until he says otherwise. That is not what you normally think of as prosecutorial discretion, typically involves suspensions of criminal law, not the Immigration Laws, at least the civil aspects of immigration. And president obama sites an opinion of the justice Departments Office of Legal Council to justify his exe...

This may not have been the epicenter of this mornings quake but it is definitely the epicenter of the damage. The earthquake at 3 20 a. M. , magnitude 6. 0. The largest the bay area has seen in 25 years since loama prieta in 1989. Can you see from our nbc chopper. In all 33 buildings condemned. The quake left gaping holes in walls and in some cases, walled pulled away from each other. We should add more than 100 homes have been redtagged, meaning you cant go inside. Many locals, filling up the n...

Oh my god. What an extraordinary thing. Its a great privilege for me to be in this room. I had to spend most of the evening to prevent myself from falling over actors that i have long admired. I apologize mr. Duvall. Being among these actors in this category is an extraordinary thing. This was a huge privilege, stephen, jane, jonathan and the hawking family let us in their lives and entrusted us with their story and Stephen Hawking has lived passionately and full of humor was one of the great ho...