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[applause] [inaudible conversations]: : >> so i traveled the country for about 10 years, looking for people whose parents were slaves. were not talking grandparents or great grandparents, but people whose mothers and fathers were born before 1865. i started the journey back in 1997 during the white house race panel, and president clinton had part of the initiative to discuss race relations, and he had initiative to figure out how to solve race problems, and the committee of historians ...

it documents the atrocities visited upon the people of nanking by the japanese military during the early years of world war ii. ms. jiang died in 2004. this program lasts about an hour. c-span : iris chang, author of "the rape of nanking: the forgotten holocaust of world war ii," when did you first think about writing this book? >> guest: well, it goes back a long way. i mean,i learned about this event when i was a little child, but i really didnt think about writing the book until i f...

>> host: and theres a lot about your brother of richard nixon but the period between 1961 and 1968 when he lost the presidency to john kennedy you quote in the book whitaker chambers. who is the? >> guest: the key witness in the perjury trial that turned out of algiers yes and that really gave the spotlight to this man who the only thing he could see was the perjury aspect that had to be addressed. he agonized over a long time before he decided to pursue it and he won the case. and he ...

battles and the things that he did, making the kinds of decisions could not have been, so how you put all this together. the one end is the idea of this great guy going through the woods and this great frontiers men. and then roberts the pioneering guy. these are things that are so deep in the american myths of how we were created in what the frontier, how did the frontier really make us americans who we were? that is what i really wanted to get back, painting and more complex story of...

.. count on to help out with the print costs. >> craig ohara. >> july 20th 2009 marks the 40th anniversary to the apollo mission to the moon. craig nelson talks about the first moon landing and the people who accomplished it. its 50 minutes. >> not only is it a dream for going to the library of congress and working with documents but its a dream with the warm welcome you get when you come back -- when you come out of the caves of research and your book is actually on the shelves. so it...

government at a time. in the interview i did with him he was being very gracious, as people are when theyre trying to sell something, and he said is there anything i can do for you, anything you would like to see in my country? they just completed the first road over the high himalayas. .. camp and another--one helicopter to another base camp and then an alouette french helicopter, the only helicopter that can operate at 18,000 feet--at that time anyway--to take us up to the top. and i...