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truman or eisenhower collapsing before the convention, he says, well, you tell those people that any link who sits behind his >> if you were to describe what vision was for the u.s., and society, in this country as he found it and chose to make his home, do you know what that would be? >> i dont know. its a very good question. what would he think of us now. he had to fly through an airport, go through tsa? you know what i mean. i...

but it proved to me, it might hold something more interesting. >> his identification with the navy represented not just one of his interests but was, in fact, a very basic part of this character. a very real extent of, his entire intellectual world you around his understanding of the navy. he did not see the navy is part of his world view. he understood the world based on his view of the navy. that was an interesting idea. the case, his entire political career, especially his years in...

ideas about longevity should be worth taking seriously and be worth listening to. >> host: such as? >> guest: aubrey argues that aging should be viewed as something not immutable but something that we can study and understand and perhaps fight effectively. and that we can do more about aging now than we ever could before. those are ideas that i think the consensus is building around. although aubrey himself is extremely eccentric and extremely controversial, with good reason. most peop...

>> the only freshman to try to come across from paris to new york, a harder route. he was very romantic and he was thought of as the glamorous night of the air. he also had flown in a couple of hollywood movies, one of which would not be released until after his death. their were no complications in this. it was easy to understand these people as they were presented. the storylines were very simple. because of that they became infested with the hopes and dreams of millions...

beginning of those who inspired documents, the declaration of independence and the constitution and of the coming century america will play a leading role on the world stage by virtue of our commitment to those exceptional principles. >> for more information on this and other summer reading lists visit booktv.org. >> clint hill recalls his day-to-day actions with jacqueline kennedy during the four years he was assigned to protect her including his actions to shield the first lady from ...

to the sahara; i forgot about that. yeah, were going back to the sahara, and listen to what life would be like there. and so, if we could, lets go to st. macarius monastery in the deserts outside of cairo. >> the word monk , or monastery, monasticism, from mono - mono means single, one-say but one. here is all the monastic ones - mono, monk, monastic - they lived as hermits alone in the desert. now we live in a community together, so we built a wall all around the land but till now, we...