Host we are focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was known one who recalls her time in the white house 1914 and since then ten other first ladies have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women who have served in that position in the last 50 years. First up, Rosalynn Carter who served as first lady from 19771981 and she is the author of five books. In 1984 her bestselling memoir, first lady from plains, was released. Missus carters subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. This is a subject she is championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book, within our reach ending the Mental Health crisis. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] i am really pleased to be here tonight and pleased to see so many people interested in my book. I have been on a book tour this week and i started on monday and i get the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how did you get involved in Mental Health . The second one is, why did you write the book . I will tell you why i got involved in Mental Health. I was campaigning for jimmy carter, you cant hear me . I was campaigning that does make a difference. Im telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I was campaigning for jimmy when he ran for governor the first time and lost the first time. We got in late and are leading democratic candidate dropped out and that was a big segregationist and this was 66, a long time ago. Im pretty ancient. [laughter] so, nobody would run against him and he was very positive so jimmy said we cant let him have it. We did not have long to campaign but i got in the car and drove from one town to the next and passed out brochures and went on to the next town. A very disorganized campaign but 1963 the community of Mental Health act was passed and they were beginning to move people out of our central state hospital, a big institution, overcrowded, terrible conditions into the community but there was no Community Health centers yet. So i had so many people ask me what would your husband do if a loved one in central state is elected governor and so people kept saying that and when we were standing at the gate of a factory in atlanta, georgia at 4 30 a. M. For a shift change that was a good place to be because a whole bunch of people coming in and allots coming out and passing out brochures and this woman came out and she was small, elderly, head you could tell she was weary working all night and i said i hope when you get home you can get some sleep and she said i hope so too because what we have a mental ill daughter and we struggle to pay for her care and my husband stays at night while they work and i stayed with her in the daytime while he works. That haunted me. What was she going to find when she got home and what would we do whether or not the son or daughter and she did not say which was awake when she got home and i was thinking about whether she got to sleep or not so at that time same day i was riding around and came to a town and it was a disorganized campaign. I stayed and got in the back of the room and he did not know i was there and it was close to the election and i got in the back of the room and he was shaking hands and i dont know about where you stand on receiving lines but it is part of my life. You would be talking to somebody like this and reach for the next hand and he held my hand and when i got in front he said what are you doing here . [laughter] i said i want to know what you do with Mental Illness and he said weve got to have the best program in the country and i will put you in charge of it. [laughter] but he did not put me in charge of it because i did not know anything about it but then we were governor four years later and i think he was only about not even a month before he established and the governor commissioned to help the emotionally ill and mentioned emotionally handicapped and i worked on that for four years. We put Community Health centers and 123 communities but they were not comprehensive and some of them, most of them or maybe not most of them but some of them were offices in the center of town where people could go to find out where to get help. But i was really proud of it when i left georgia but then when i campaigned and because i had in my bio that i was interested with work on Mental Health issues everywhere i went in the country and i campaigned all year and everywhere i went [inaudible] if it was good they wanted to show it off and there were very few if it was bad they wanted me to help them when jimmy was president. I developed this real response ability because back then people were putting them in institutions and nobody wanted to talk about it or even talk about Mental Illness. When jimmy was governor, well, someone heard me at that meeting that night and i always say that all of the advocates and atlanta descended on me, all five of them. [laughter] and that was five people and then when jimmy was governor i would have a meeting and it was a long time before we could get many people to calm and we never did really get advocacy but my five advocates were always there and for a good while just a few southern employees because my husband was governor and no one wanted to talk about the issue. Its been a very long time since i got involved in the president s commission and i have now have a really, really good program at the institute in atlanta. Its about two and half drive south but we spend one week a month that we schedule a year ahead of time to be at the Carter Center and then we travel with our projects and i dont get there as much as i would like to but anyway, that is how i got involved. The Mental Health act of 1980 passed, we worked hard to get past in october 1980 and [applause] and my Mental Health, whole legislation was abandoned and we had even passed legislation and funded it and it was not perfect but made a considerable difference and it was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. Thats how i got started and the other question was why did you write the book . When you heard how i got started in the situation and living out of the institutions with nowhere to go now i have worked all this time and i think with helping them with Mental Illness because i heard dont want talking and it goes in cycles and someone is disinterested and then do pretty good and then maybe the next president doesnt care about it so nothing happens and youre just along for a while. We had great funding for research and then it drifted a while and then the first president bush came into office it was yet a decade of the brain and he really added to the research but to date we have learned so much and we have from research and new treatments and new medications and people can recover and the reason i wrote this book is because we stand 120 year billion dollars on healthcare and that doesnt count for Supportive Housing and supportive employment but downright Mental Health care and millions are still suffering. I am so frustrated about it and i am angry about it because to know that people can recover and not have a system that works hurts me so i wrote the book because i want people to know what i knows right we can get over the stigma which holds back everything we try to do and go on to do what is good and right for people with Mental Illnesses. My book focuses on four major things, recovery and today as i just said, people it distresses me because people can recover from Mental Illnesses and our Mental Health system is beginning to happen and we will have to shift away from controlling Mental Illness and i have so many people and one young man was an artist and dreamed about being a great artist and a teenager and i think he was in college and he developed and talk to the doctor and thought he would be [inaudible] and the doctor said you will never do that but thats what happened and so we now are having to shift from the negative part two peoples strength, enforcing their strength so they can recover and that is why our Mental Health system has to do. Recovery is one and one in four adults in this country developed a Mental Illness every year, one in five children develop a Mental Illness every year. Mental illness does not terminate. It happens to everybody. It happens to people on the street and happens to poor and rich and homeless, employed, unemployed and it happens to ceos on happens to anybody. It is everywhere. Stigma is so distressing to me. It holds back funding for programs that people dont feel like Mental Illness can be in politicians and the policymakers who people like me who really try have a hard time convincing our officials to really work for Mental Health issues. I think and i hope that will change since we got the bill and Healthcare Benefits reform bill and as Mental Health and Substance Abuse disorder in the basic Health Package and thats exciting because they have preexisting conditions and it has great priority for training Mental Health professionals. In 2003, 2002 president bush had another Mental Health commission that reported in 2002 and do you know that when i looked at the recommendations they were the same one almost all of them that i didnt 1978. It just, it just distresses when you look back and say what it is and the report of that commission was that the system in the United States is in shambles and there is no way to fix it. We need to start over. With these two new bills now and with the Network Program that is developing consumers have originated and done the research and there is a woman named Judy Chamberlain who in 1978 wrote a book called own our own. That was the subtitle with about consumers helping others. Then she started meeting and had a bad experience with that Mental Health system so she started getting together groups who had been struggling with Mental Illness and how they could help each other and it grew into a movement and one of my friends who was on Mental Health task force was one of her early people drawn in and she started the first Consumer Program in the State Government in alabama and my other friend from georgia and lived with bipolar and is in recovery with one of the others and he started the first Consumer Program in the government in georgia and he also then started working or the Consumer Network they started meeting and they started bringing in people that they knew were living with Mental Illness and talking to them and mental ill people need respect and they need housing and they need a job and so the Consumer Network helps them with those things. When people recover. Some recover and not even taking medication anymore and some take medication and therapy but they recover and live good lives in the community, raising their families, working in young people going to school who have been living even with the major illnesses people can recover. In georgia, can you hear me in the back . Now, in georgia the one who started the Consumer Network in the government and the government was able to get medicaid for the consumers that were counseling their peers and in georgia we have 500. , i guess 500 Mental Health specialists, certified Mental Health specialists. They go from communities and just meet people and a lot of people now come to see them but they go into the communities and if they see someone homeless suffering from or living with Mental Illness they just fold them in and its been a wonderful and now theyre spreading it all across the country. I think it is in 40 states but there is one in maryland because i know somebody i had a book signing and someone from the Consumer Network had me sign a book to my Consumer Network friends and so i knew it was in maryland now and other places where it is what i mean, others but it is growing and the reason im optimistic about the future is because with what we know about medication from research, medications and treatments and from the consumers being able to help people recover i think the movement is too strong now. I just dont think they can set us back and particularly the government and the new healthcare bill and the new parity bill and ive thought that if insurance covered Mental Illnesses it would be all right to have it. [laughter] it would legitimize them. I have high hopes it will be a good future. The other thing is prevented. We are now learning so much about prevention and so much about building resilience in children and we have learned that Mental Illness sometimes develops or Mental Illness is developmental and i think 50 of all Mental Illnesses are diagnosed in children by age 14, 75 by age 24. We also learn that for any parents here with babies and we need Parenting Classes because when babies are growing, children are growing they need deep attention and people need to watch their babies to see how they, to see how they, how they nurture with their parents develops. They need to watch the ageappropriate milestones like whether they crawl at the time or walk at the time and they need even when they are starting in Nursery School to see how they react with their peers. We need to get this word out because now we have, now we know that if you detect the illness early and intervene interventions at work that mitigate from developing sometimes they can prevent it from developing into a major Mental Illness, always mitigation, not make it as bad. So those are the things of my book and im pleased that you all came out and i am so excited that you are interested in Mental Health. You can help because go to your policymakers and let them know how important this is and you can go, they always need volunteers. The things that people who are adjusted and care about those with Mental Illness can really contribute and im just pleased to be here and i think i will be signing books for you. [applause] host every saturday evening the summer book tv is taking the opportunity to open up our archives and binge watch with a wellknown author. Tonight our focus is a little bit different we are looking at books written by former first lady. Up next is a former first lady barbara bush. She served as first lady from 19891993 and was the author of five books including two memoirs and she was very well known for her Childrens Book about her dog, millie. Her two memoirs were published in 1994 in 2003. Here is the latest barbara bush discussing the second one, reflections at the texas book festival in austin. I loved my writing my memoirs and was urged to write and it was still there. I met my good friend Mary Higgins Clark wants at a book thing and told her that she suggested that i write a novel and she said it would be very, very easy. She recommended i do what she did. Pick a plot, know the ending and then work back. Mary told me that when her characters talked to her she wont let them Say Something or not let them Say Something she knows that she is on the right track. It is if they tell her i wouldnt do that or i wouldnt say that. It certainly sounded easy so i set forth to write a mystery novel and made up but i thought was a rather interesting plot that centered around two female roommates, a Flight Attendant and a secret Service Agent. He never stayed in long tong long enough to meet any intelligible men and they decided to get in touch with an escort bro, a dating service. All the men one woman dated ended up dead. Like mary i knew the killer and i worked my way back and i had one huge problem. My characters never said one word to me. I spent hours waiting. Nothing. Besides that my conversations were deadly stiff, awkward and really boring. I decided to leave the imagination for the real writers and to stick to what i knew and after all, life had not stopped after the white house. The last ten years have been filled with travel and new experiences, making new friends, working on causes that we care strongly about and the usual ups and downs of a large, close family. Some very exciting moments. I bet you did not note that outlaw biker magazine declared me first lady of the cen