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Good evening, everyone. My name is john highbush and i have the honor of being the i have the honor of being the executive director. Of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for joining us this evening. In honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world if you please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under...

It was published anonymously, and the story is they were meeting, and sarah hellen pointed it out, and said, have you seen the poem . He said, why, sarah, i wrote that for you. The signature is in pencilunderpar the poem. Our collections really represent the reading interests of populos at the time. The combination of reluctance of the Founding Fathers and librarians that continued to work here and didnt want to discard anything, we retained many of the collection, and so now those collections r...

Arrive at the top of the steps and look in and see the shelves filled with books. It is inspiring. I love when we have visitors coming for the first time. A walk in the front door and usually the first thing i hear is a giant gas. And then the next word out of their mouth is that this is what a library should look like. Part of what i find overwhelming the totally gratifying is that this institution has existed for hundreds of years. Everyday when i come into work i get to contribute to history....

Characteristically barely rights or says anything but creates a and literary interview with Whittaker Chambers. Again be c. Chambers bare his soul directly to a young admirer, a friend and colleague. Reading parts of the books i was struck by the deep emotional intensity in humanity that flows from the pages. He tries to account to himself how he made his choices. Where he fell and plundered but there is no going back and doing the right thing can mean everything. For his family, a country, a ge...

Is but heres a point that people miss. Seven other times the president has decided himself that parts of the law were unimportant and the law he side in fact was not going to endure. What about the preexisting Condition Program . This law was sold on the backs of people with preexisting conditions across this country and yet when someone showed up on february 1st of this year to enroll in the pcip program, they were told, sorry, sister, the program is closed. For 11 months people with preexistin...

You have a book here, any thought of conducting a tour . The m t the Monument Foundation did that and is doing that. We call it in the footsteps of the Monuments Men and its something we are going to be doing to italy in 2015 and also to europe so people can follow the story as they took place in italy and also in the Monuments Men. We had on humans accompany us when we were on the trip last year and one of the stops we made was at the cemetery to the grave of the monuments officer who was one o...

This stuff and jesse could run and barack, all these things sound good but they really, they really simplify a much more complicated history and that complicated history really involves so many africanamericans, women and men who proactively dismantled racial segregation including rosa parks. Rosa parks was an activist. She didnt just refuse to give seat by accident. Do us a concerted strategic effort to try to transform democratic institutions. Up next on booktv, after words with guest host jan...

Stay, if you will, and well continue this on line captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org captioning sponsored by Comedy Central theme song playing Stephen Colbert presents, the Colbert Book Club, tonights selection. Everything, the catcher in the rye, by j. D. Salinger. Stephen Stephen Stephen welcome to everybody. Thank you for joining us, in the studio and all around the world. You are joining us for an historic evening. This is the sec...

Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org captioning sponsored by Comedy Central theme song playing Stephen Colbert presents, the Colbert Book Club, tonights selection. Everything, the catcher in the rye, by j. D. Salinger. Stephen Stephen Stephen welcome to everybody. Thank you for joining us, in the studio and all around the world. You are joining us for an historic evening. This is the second edition of the Colbert Book Club. Tonight, we ...

But now i do have this book club, which is why i have been chugging chardonnay since noon. And pitching about my sisterinlaw sharon and the way she feeds my kids when they are over at her place. Dont tell me they had dinner if all you gave them but a gogurt and a cliff bar, you bitch [ applause ] speaking of drinking heavily, f. Scott fitzgerald. That is the author we talked about last time. Tonight, we will be talking about the biggest initials in 20th century literature, j. D. Salinger. A man ...