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Introduce our distinguished speaker. A veteran of more than 20 years of Human Rights Research and activism is a professor of law at ucdavis who grew up in algeria in the United States served as a Legal Advisor Amnesty International todd wreckers in university of michigan why the publisher of fundamentalism and counterterrorism please welcome her professor. [applause] is an honor to be here i would like to think the Commonwealth Club for inviting me and for court the being the event and also the ...

7 00 p. M. . Stack i was in the white house in my office on the ground floor. Waiting to see whatever mrs. Kennedy needed. I was standing by. The Birthday Party was going on. And it was on the second floor and we allow that to be very private with family only and that is the way they want wanted it. Did you have another question . Thank you. [inaudible question] [inaudible question] the question is about George Hickey. There has been a Television Program on a book written claiming that George Hi...

And one of the most amazing coincidences in pakistan a man who was at the exact same place of a speech was actually shot and killed by supposedly a lone gunman. The individual was shot several times it even though he was subdued by the crowd and take it away they shot him six times. See you would never know who was behind it to. So today there is speculation of the 56 years before because of id honor of that private mr. Because i found it interesting and they are assassinated to take to the Mili...

I put all of these ideas, and you dont yet write a 30 page proposal. 10,000 word essay on why i want to write it this way. The first was simply i should write a hymn to this country. A story in some detail why i had fallen in love with it, in a dramatic way. That wasnt ever a good idea it all. And then, because i love Railway Trains, i realized its impossible to across the entire United States on last 30 freight railways. You can go all the way from maine to a little town in far northern califor...

[applause] thank you very much indeed. First of all, it is slightly weird to be writing a book called the men who United States at a time when given all the recent troubles in washington in seems more disunited than for a long time. I know good people turn off their cellphones but i can so i am going to play you a short clip of music at the end so i hope that nobody telephones me during this presentation or i will feel like rudy guiliani. I dont know if you remember when he had to answer a phone...

And those organizations, i would love to have a one on one with bill oreilly, not on fox news. Hear any mutual place. I welcome that, bill, if youre watching, or joe scarborough. Because hes just as guilty. Or whats the guy who runs hardball . Chris matthews. These men have gone out of their way to the horrific things about americas muslims. And i think the fact that the rhetoric, we talked about words, the rhetoric goes uncontested and no one really challenges to some extent these comments. Con...

Everyone thinks of congress as passing laws, the budget, create a new law am appropriate new money. If you look at the history of congress, oversight is viewed from the beginning as a dual and almost as important a function. Oversight is how we see how the money is being spent. If you look back, the history goes back to george washington. The first oversight action is by one of the first congresses. It is when, i cannot remember the general, but almost the entire u. S. Army is eliminated in indi...

We decided that level of censorship was counter to the principles and we decided that we would not operate in china as long as that was part of the plan. The historic decision that most other companies would not have made. Oh. [laughter] good answer. [laughter] thank you very much. [applause] so ladies and gentlemen, that is how google works. Its been an honor. So when are you applying to work for ask lex [laughter] [inaudible] he wants to run for secretary of state. You heard it here first than...

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On about books, we delve into the latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books, the latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspans book tv. Welcome to the about books podcast and program. Joining us in just a few minutes is regional dwayne bett, hes an author and founder of an organization that provides books for incarcera...