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To have a lot of access to members. So i looked at newspaper articles, internet services, all kinds of Public Record documents. I interviewed a couple of them, but after a while i decided to stay away from the interview perspective and i really tried to take the view of ion the outsider. If somebody wanted to find out about numbers of congress in the outside and obviously im an overly interested outsider so im not the typical outsider, but if somebody wanted to find out about members, what would...

Reporter around the world. You are a specialist, youve written a book on organ music. Living with guns. How did you come to this topic . Guest precisely because i had lived abroad for so many years. I would often be asked by friends in those countries what is it with the United States and americans and guns . Why do you have such a love affair with guns is the way some of them sometimes put it, and i do my best to explain but i realize that i didnt really know myself, so i thought when i retired...

Cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivist of the United States and is a pleasure to welcome you to the National Archives in theater this evening. A special welcome to our friends at cspan and the other Media Outlets who are with us tonight. We have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the National Archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himse...

I do my best to explain, but i realized that i didnt really know myself so i thought when i retired, when i had time, i would try to do research and find out why do we have the Second Amendment and how has it been understood during all the years its been enforced, and the book was the result. Host i read the book with interest covering the history, the legal battles, covering whats going on current day, and lets go through a lot of that, and starting with the history. What surprised you the most...

Can you talk about the driving force for you is right teeing drink . Guest it is decades old liger up with an alcoholic mother who was cross addicted to valium like much were in the 50s and the 70s depending on mothers little helper. A stay at home mom and a poster girl for that era. I have always been interested why she dropped and i said i never would but in my fifties i had a bad patch in my own life and i would say a poster girl for this era. Welleducated, highly professional, the other, and...

We dont always find newspaper editors and area embracing reporting. Its not just economics. Is the discomfort that investigative reporting often causes in the newsroom. Because its troublesome. Its that more than the economics. If youre going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful that gives those people running into complaint to the publisher and destroys their legion over those and we are fortunate to go through the 70s and really almost all of our careers to work for people who are reall...

Crisis and important for you to get the message out . Guest we are seeing a global problem a closing of the gender gap between men and women. Weve always known that men drink more than women do but what has been happening now is men have been declining a little bit in their drinking. Women are not adderall and this is global. The more developed the country, the smaller and the gap between men and womens consumption. Places like britain for instance where we almost seeing it. We see young girls i...

They should read this book. Pitino, nonlatino, a fabulous book. As i read it, two words came to mind. Identity and empowerment, two words that describe Luis Gutierrez. A commitment to your roots for your puerto rican identity. Its a Fair Assessment of who you are quite yeah, i think we try to describe for the reader, what is it that Luis Gutierrez has a vocation for immigrants and Immigration Reform. Why has he made that a priority . Is to read the book on the begin to understand my mom and dad ...

The former editoratlarge at canadas mclain magazine talks about the gender gap between women and the risk of drinking. This program is about an hour. Host hi ann. How are you . Guest its so nice to be here. Host i am excited to talk to about this new book called drink very intriguing and very provocative and like i said it are minded me up when i was working in treatment, about the relationship with alcohol and women and i guess one of the questions i wanted to ask you right off is why is the su...

You advised of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Youre now professor at Boston University and the director of the south and central asia institute. You write ostensibly for the new york times, the wall street journal, the International Tribune to name a few of the publications. So you obviously have an inside view of this relationship. And i think just the title is a strong indictment of u. S. Policy towards pakistan. And in your words if i may quote, you said the u. S. Pakistan relationsh...