National book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. And welcome to another summer evening with booktv is binge watch series. Tonight were focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was nellie tapp who recalled her time in the white house in her 1914 memoir, recollections in four years. Since then another for slaves have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women with serve in a position in the last few years. First up, Rosalynn Carter, she served as first lady from 19771981 and shes the author of five books. In 1984 for bestselling memoir, first lady from planes, was released. Her subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. A subject chess champion throughout her life. From 2010, here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be a tonight and really pleased to see so many people in interested in my book. Ive been on a book tour this week. I started on monday and i get the same two questions every time i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how did you get involved in Mental Health . And the second one is, why did you write the book . So im going to tell you what i got involved in Mental Health. I was campaigning for jimmy carter you cant hear me . I was campaigning [laughing] i was campaigning 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 he lost the first time. We got in late. Our leading democratic candidate dropped out, and this was 66, a long time ago. Im pretty aged. [laughing] and so nobody would run against him. He was very popular so jimmy said we cant just let them have it so we got in. We didnt have long to campaign and i never had campaign but a cut 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 Mental Health act was passed and this was 66 and they were beginning to move people out of our central state hospital, big institution, overcrowded, terrible conditions into the community that there was no community Mental Health centers yet. I had so many people ask me, what would your husband you with a loved one at central state sf he is elected governor . And i said, i hope and weary, you could tell how tired she was from working all night. And i hope when you get home you can get some sleep. She said i hope so, too, but we have a mentally ill daughter and we struggle to pay for her care and my husband stays with her at night while i work and i stay with her while he works. And that haunted me. What was she going to find when she got home. I worried all day whether or not a son or daughter, she didnt say which, was awake when she got home and i was thinking about whether or not she got any sleep or not. So that time, that same day i was riding around and i came to a town that jimmy was going to be in that night. I told you a disorganized campaign and i stayed in the back of the room, he didnt know i was there, it was a big rally. And i was in the back of the room and people coming up shaking his hand. I dont know about whether you stand in receiving lines and its part of my life and talking to somebody like this and reached for the other and he had my hand, and i got in front of him, what are you doing here . And i said im look to go know what youre going to do for people with Mental Illness, and he said im going to put you in charge of it. He didnt put me anything in charge of it i didnt know anything about it. And when he was governor four years later, he was i think he was in office only about, not even a month before he established the Governors Commission to improve service to mentally and emotionally handicapped and i worked on that for four years and we actually put community Mental Health centers in 123 communities, but they were not comprehensive. Some of them most of them well, maybe not most of them, some of them were offices in the center of town where we could go to find out where to get help. But i was really proud of it when i left georgia. But and then when i campaigned for president , because it had in am i bio i was interested in the work on Mental Health issues, everywhere i went in the country i campaigned for a year, two states and and everywhere i went, the people had Mental Health, wanted me to see it. If it was good they wanted to show it off and there were few. And if it was bad they wanted me to help when jimmy was president so i developed this real, real responsibility because back then, people were still putting them in institutions and nobody wanted to talk about it. Wouldnt even talk about Mental Illness. When he was governor, somebody heard me at that meeting that night and i always say that all the advocates in atlanta descended on me, all five of them. And thats what it was, five people. And then when jimmy was while he was governor and i would have a meeting, it was a long time before we could get many people to come and we never did get really a buildup of really big advocacy. But my five advocates were always there and for a good while, just a few Government Employees just because my husband was governor. Nobody wanted to talk about the issue. So its been a very long time since i got involved and the Governors Commission, the president s commission and now have a really, really good program at the Carter Center in atlanta. We live in plains, georgia. About a two and a half hour drive south and at the Carter Center and we dont get home as much as id like to. Anyway, thats how i got involved. And we got the october of 1980 passed. We worked hard, got it passed and in october of 1980, and [applaus [applause] in the 1980s, a new president was elected and my Mental Health the whole legislation was abandoned. Now, we had even passed legislation and funded it and it was not perfect, but it would have made a considerable difference. And it was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. Well, thats how i got started. The other question was, why did you write the book. Well, when you heard how i got started in the situation then and moving out of the institutions nowhere to go, and now, ive worked all this time, i think help for Mental Illness goes in cycles. Patrick kennedy, i heard him this morning, it goes in cycle without somebody in thats interested and maybe the next president doesnt care about it and nothing happens and you drift along. Jimmy did great funding, and grit funding to research. And then it drifted a while and then when president bush, the first president bush came into office, he a decade and added to the research. Today we have learned so much. We have from research, we have new treatments, new medications and we now know that people can recover and what the reason i wrote this book is because we spend 120 billion dollars a year on direct health care, this country does. That does not count supportive housing, supportive employment. And anything else, just direct Mental Healthcare, and millions are still suffering. And i am so distressed about it. I am angry about it because to know that people can recover and not have a system that works, it just hurts me. So i thought i wrote the book because i want people to know what i know so we can get over the stigma which holds back everything we try to do and go on to do whats good and right for people with Mental Illnesses. So my book focuses on four major themes, recovery today, as i just said, people distresses me so much, people can recover from Mental Illnesses. Our Mental Health illness, were going to have to shift away from controlling the Mental Health illness and so many people who will tell me about that and one young man was an artist, dreamed of being a great artist and he was a teenager and, well, i think he was a junior in college, and he developed went to the doctor and talked to the doctor and told him he wanted to thought he would be a great artist and hoped he could get well and the doctor said youll never be through that. See, thats what happened in the past. This is it. And its going to be for your life. So were now having to shift from a negative part to peoples strength and enforcing peoples strength and saying you can recover and we can help you. And thats what our Mental Health system has to do and recovery is one. Provenance is another. One in four adults in this country develops a Mental Illness every year. One in five children develop a Mental Illness every year. And Mental Illness does not discriminate. It happens to everybody. It happens to people on the street. It happens to poor. It happens to rich. It happens to home leless, employed, unemployed. It happens to ceos. It happens to anybody. It can happen to anybody. So, its everywhere. And recovered prevalent stigma. Stigma is so distressing to me. It just, it holds back funding for programs. People dont feel like Mental Illnesses can be helped so they the politicians and the policy makers who like people like me who really try, have a hard time convincing our officials to really work for Mental Health issues. And i think thats going to i hope thats going to change since we got the parity bill and health care, the new Health Reform bill, Health Care Bill, has Mental Health and Substance Use disorders in the basic health package. Im real excited about that. Thats preexisting conditions, has great, great priority for training Mental Health officials. In 2003, in 2002, president bush had another meant Health Commission at that reported in 2002 and do you know that when i looked at the recommendation, they were the sim o same ones, almost the same i did, and it distresses you and looks back and sees what it is. And the report of that was Mental Health system in the United States is in shambles. Theres no way to fix it. We need to start over and so with these two new bills now, and with the Consumer Network of program that is developing because consumers have originated and done the research on recovery. There was a woman named Judy Chamberlain who in 1978 wrote a book called own our own. That was a subtitle, but it was about consumers helping others. And then she started meeting with she had had a bad experience with the Mental Health system so she started getting together groups who were living with Mental Illness and talking about how they could help each other. And it just grew into a movement and one of my friends who is on my Mental Health task force was one of her early people who were drawn in. He started the first Consumer Program in the State Government in alabama. My other friend, who is from georgia and has lived with bipolar and is in recovery was one of the others. And he started the first Consumer Program in the government in georgia. And he also then started working 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. They need housing. They need a job. And so the Consumer Network helps them with those things. And people recover. Some recover arent even taking medication anymore and some take medication and therapy, but they recover and live good lives in the community, raising their families, working, young people going to school who have been living even with the major illnesses, people can recover. And that in georgia, can you hear me in the back . Now in georgia the one who started the Consumer Network in the government, the Consumer Program was able to get medicaid for the consumers peers, that were counseling their peers and there in georgia we have 500 peer, i guess 500 peer Mental Health specialists, certified Mental Health specialists and they go from communities and just meet people. A lot of people now call to come see them, but they go into communities and if this he if they see somebody homeless suffering from Mental Illness, they fold them in. Its a Wonderful Program and now hes spreading it across the country. I think its in 40 states, but im not sure, but theres one in maryland, i know, because somebody i had a book signing this morning and somebody from the Consumer Network had me sign a book to my Consumer Network friends. And so i know its in maryland now, i dont know other places where it is, but, 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 so forth, and from the consumers being able to help people recover, i dont think i think the movements too strong now. I just dont think they can set us back. And particularly, since the government and the new Health Care Bill and the new parity bill. And i have always that if insurance covered Mental Illnesses, it would be all right to have it. To have them. [laughter] it legitimized them and meant an awful lot to those with Mental Illness, the future. And the next thing is prevention. Theyre now learning more about prevention, about building resilience in children, and we have learned that Mental Illnesses sometimes develop Mental Illness is developmental and i think 50 of all Mental Illnesses are diagnosed in children by age 14. 75 by age 24. And we have also learned and for any parents here with babies, and we need Parenting Classes because when babies are growing, children are growing, they need deep attention. They need to people need to watch their babies to see how they they have a have a nurture, have the nurture with their parent develops. They need to watch the age at appropriate milestones, whether they crawl at the time or walk at the right time. And they need, even when theyre starting to Nursery School to see how they react with their peers. And we need to get this word out because now, we have we know that if you detect the illness earlier and intervene, the interventions that work that mitigate the problem from developing, sometimes that can prevent it from developing into a major Mental Illness, always mitigates it, not make it as bad. So, those are the things in my book and im really pleased that you all came out and im so excited that youre interested in Mental Health. And you can help because you can go to your policy makers and let them know how important this is. And you can go to a community Mental Health center and volunteer. They always need volunteers. The thing that people who are interested and care about those with Mental Illness can really contribute and i just, im just pleased to be here and i think im going to be signing books for you. [laughter] thank you very much. [applaus [applaus [applause] well, every saturday evening book tv is opening up the archives and binge watch with a wellknown author. Tonight is different, were looking at books written by former first ladies. Up next is former first lady barbara bush, from 1989 to 1993 and was the author of five books, including two memoirs and she was very wellknown for her Childrens Book about her dog millie. Now, her two memoirs were published in 1994 and 2003. Here is the late barbara bush discussing the second one, reflections, at the texas book festival in austin. And i loved writing my memoirs and the urge to write was still there. I met my good friend Mary Higgins Clark once at a book thing and told her that and she suggested that i write a novel. 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, and wont let her Say Something, she knows s