Receptor. Marijuana works we tested it at the cancer society. It was a fun time to walk down the halls. [laughter] it worked in making people eat and having less nausea and vomiting. Now theres other ways of doing it then using marijuana. Two questions. Why does all the research all have to happen within the confines of the u. S. System . And how fast, wheres it going and the other part of my question which is, we all look at things in technology is such a massive part of this and we think literally timewise and we have been pushing for 40 years since the one cancer began. Now here we are, what what do you think the timeframe is . The next five years can be much faster than the last 40 combined. I think we are going at an accelerated rate. Its worse if you pick up a medical journal. Every issue there something new and exciting. I think the timeframe has accelerated. We are doing two things, and then i dont want want to take up too much time. Converting some cancers and chronic diseases. The best example is chronic leukemia. We took care patients at this disease and they are uniformly fatal. Now they can take a pill and they live a perfectly normal life after while the pills dont work the pharmaceutical industry has developed five followup pills that to work. So the patients with that chronic disease are living normal lives taken a pill every day like a vitamin. They still have the disease but its a chronic disease so we can cure them, to a chronic disease. I i think some immediate they are paid some immunotherapy are going that way. As far as the confines of the United States the thing that cancer acted was it opened up a grant system to all of the countries. We support Cancer Research in many european countries. We set up a Clinical Trial in europe and an operating office in belgium and now they do very well. It was the Cancer Institute that set that up. People have major discoveries, that was marys big point. We did not know where a curate might come from and therefore we should not restrict the grant to the United States [applause]. I would like to thank the dr. For this informative discussion and i hope everyone will come up and meet our speakers. Thank thank you so much for coming. [applause]. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] im next on book tv, in depth with author and former fox news horse eric berne. The author of several books including infamous scribblers, 1920 and his most recent, the golden most recent, the golden lab. He discusses work in answered your questions earlier today. Host author and journalist derek burns is journalism, the first draft of history. Guest yes, and is one of the reasons history make so many mistakes. Journalism is done quickly, according to deadlines, it is very often wrong is something that i have noticed and i understand this is selfserving peter but something that is meticulous in writing history is there are a lot of mistakes in history if you dont go to the primary source. I think that is because journalism is the first draft. What is one of your favorite mistakes . One of my favorite mistakes in history in terms of how it was written . I have to pass and let that percolate. Host we will do that. From your book all the news you write that samuel adams told more lies in print than any other figure of his time, a distinction from which history is not forgiven but honored him. Guest and you would like me to ask blaine that comment. Interest adams made up incidents of british soldiers on the streets of boston. They were there, have in their way with american women, starting fights with american men, abusing, physically abusing american children. He did it because he wanted this country to be independent from Great Britain. He had a tremendous form, the boston gazette which was the leading paper in boston at the time. He thought of himself as a patriot whose weapon, so to speak was journalism. And he was forgiven by history, he was lauded by history because history seems to have proven that our being independent from Great Britain was a good idea. Therefore, however we got there, even if it meant a lot of contrived joururururur means justifying and. Host where did the idea for all of the news on fit to print come from question. Guest actually it was not a book that i really wanted to do. The book before that, infamous scribblers, which is a phrase of George Washingtons, the Founding Fathers in the rowdy beginnings of american journalism. Im sure you will get to that so i will not get to that. It was about journalism in colonial times which was so abusive that people who think highly of the founders, which they should would be very surprised. A publisher i got in touch with my agent and said can he, meaning me, bring that information up to date about falsified journalism. I could and i did. By that time i was little tired about writing about journalism. So you are holding the book open now and it is because he found a mistake it was because i was getting tired about writing about journalism. Host you write sense of omission are often calculated. Guest sins of omission are a good way to tell lies without telling lies. I do not say to you that is a gas lee looking tie, which it isnt. I just do not mention your tie. That is hardly a sin, but leaving out major facts, residential debates are wonderful example. You can easily and im nothing people have done this, because now that im not in journalism anymore i do not Pay Attention to, it is wonderful i recommend it to most americans. But if you are biased towards a particular candidate and that candidate does something foolish, said says something foolish, behaves in any way and i foolish manner, you omit it. Therefore, you tell a lie about the overall scope of the debate. By not including information that is not for your point of view. Host what was fox news watch . Guest it was a halfhour weekly, very highly rated program that analyzed not the events of the past week but the weight those events were covered. The reason i smiled was that fox is a rather controversial place when it did not reflect my particular political views. People who were of the liberal persuasion who watched my show were very defensive about telling me they liked it. It would always be i dont use watch fox it just happened to be on in the background and it sounded okay. So theyre always had to be a caveat at the beginning. Thus why, i understood that the thing that bothered me was someone from the far right would say to me, hey that is eric byrnes, you go get them liberals. I was not going out to get anyone. I had for panelist on i was calling on them to speak. Thats all. Spee1 what kind to speak. Thats all. Host what kind of topics would you cover . Guest the topic that every other show cover. All of sunday morning talk shows, but we covered how they were covered and the two liberals on the show therefore panelists. They always found conservative bias and vice versa. But were all friends. I tried to be lighthearted, witty, comical in the dressing room, in the dream room so we went out on stage and good humor. We never really, in the ten years i did the show, we all liked each other so theres never the kind of contentiousness they see another shows. I dont want to talk about Television Much and i hope you dont. One thing thing ill say about boxes that people misunderstand what it has done to journalism. Theres nothing wrong with having a Television Network that has programs on it that slant to the right. There are newspapers that do that, magazines that do that, radio shows that didnt. What fox did those more harmful to society was it introduced a degree of contentiousness and argumentativeness that had never been there and made civil discourse on civil. Host did the show and . Guest well i ended. I had a a contract that was not renewed. The show went on for a while and i am told now that it is not on. There is a show that does the same thing. But it has a different name. One of the other things i have treated myself to in addition to political ignorance is i do not watch television very much. If the steelers are not playing, i am not watching. Therefore the super bowl is just three hours of filler to meet. Host you say you dont watch it but you spend a lot of time in television at fox, at nbc, at minneapolisst. Paul and you write about television. Your book, invasion of the mind snatchers, televisions televisions conquest of america in the 50s. In your view, does five ot bonds worth deserve a statue in the capital as he has . Well, considering the influence that television has had in this culture, yes. Most people do not know with any invention including the light ball, the automobile, it is very hard to say who the inventor was. Henry ford tonight about the automobile. There were like bulbs before edison but the people we tend to credit as the inventors are the people who got something working to a certain practical point of view. Fonts worth did that with television. When he wanted his patent and copyright he came up with against embassies general David Sarnoff who had more money, more money means more lawyers, even back then it was the same the legal system was the same as i was today, if you had enough money and he was regarded as the father of television. He came as close to anyone man to inventing television. The book to me is not so much the invasion of mind snatchers, its not so much the invasion of television as it is the history of the fifties, as television for perpetrated. I wanted to write a history of the 50s which had been done money times. It had never been done as television per traded. How are africanamericans pretrade on television . Women, religion, bishop sheen had a prime time show which vehemently denounced abortion and that was fine back then. So i wanted to write a history of that. , Television Just happened to be the prison. Host you also bring in the intersection of policy and television. Estes farber is the only member of the house or senate to win an emmy. One of the most gripping events of the early days of television and only came to be known as the key farber hearings. There investigated organized crime. Stores that sold televisions, they would have televisions in the window with some kind of apparatus, loudspeaker rigged up. People would not only block the sidewalk but blocked the streets to watch. America was memorized by mesmerized by this look into organized crime which though Many Americans to know existed. These rough sounding, ruthless names. Im half italian, the half that is in burns. I remember my grandmother when when i told her i saw the godfather she said why do they have to give all those men i tell you names. What im thinking back to the key farber hearings and i think grandma we did it. So he chaired the hearings and those hearings did lead to somewhat of a reduction in organized crime and to a great deal legislation and to an emmy. Host senator key farber regretted the televised hearing. Guest he regretted them largely from a personal point of view. He was a serious man who, because he became a Television Start which was a phrase that did not even exist then, i think he was taken less seriously. I think if you are a member of the senate you probably do not want to win an emmy. Emmys are for actors. He was not an actor, he was, he was a man who had a serious interest in helping to rid this country of organized crime or lessen the impact of it. He thought the overwhelming he thought there is such a thing as too much popularity and most of it fell on him and because of it he was not taken seriously. When you look at the actor who plays robin to batman and never gets another role. How actors complain they had one role they played it for ten years on television, they were so popular, no one took them for granted in any other way, this is an aside but we have a great deal of time here, a really startling moment, the movie that jane fonda starting, Donald Summerlin was a private eye, there was an intense moment when jane fonda went creeping through a factory of some sort, very dark, very quiet, near the end of the movie, climbed up the stairs and she saw light in the office. She open the door and who was there, but jean stapleton. In other words, Archie Archie bunkers wife. In the time between the movie, the movies wrapping and the start of all in the family, she had gotten that role because of it, this incredibly tense moment turned out to be a comedy, oh my gosh, theres edith bunker and it completely ruined the scene. Would. Would they be in favor of the house of representatives today. Yes i think so, it would focus on not one man but what it would focus on so many men and women, back then it was meant that it would be more fair to say that it focused on process than on people. I think he wouldve favored making the process more clear tell the people. Host back to the news that is on fit to print, you write about russell long and his habit guest do i . Host you do. Guest could you give me more of a hint . It has been ten years. Host you talk about how journalists and this goes back to the sins of omission and how he spent quite a bit of time drinking but it was never reported. Guest thank you very much im sorry i needed all that help, i really did write the book. I generally go from one book to another quickly. Im being interviewed about one book i might wind is totally on another. In this case quite a few books have intervened. That was an era when sexual peccadilloes, thats too too lighthearted a word of adultery, but lets say if they were not reported. Drinking was something may be members of the press corps were not committing adultery but they were all drinking so they certainly were not going to report on a legislator who is drinking, especially a man as powerful as long. In a sense, and my friend cal thomas makes a good point here. Back in those days, when members of a house in the senate were not so concerned about campaigning constantly, especially members of the house who went every two years, they tended to stay in washington over the weekend. Journalists got to know legislators. Legislators got to know each other and there is less hostility when it came to compromise. Legislative compromise. Now you have so many legislators and members of the house leaving on thursday night, first thing on friday morning to campaign, coming back monday midday and they dont know, they dont have friends among their fellow legislators. My friend cal thanks for that reason we have the kind of roadblocks that we do today legislatively. Host eric berne is our guest this month. He is a journalist and author and we will show you some of his books and then we will look at the connection of all of these books. Our author broadcast blues came out in 1993. The autograph in modern fable, his one novel the spirit of america, social history of alcohol came on 2004. Infamous scribblers, the founding. Infamous scribblers, the Founding Fathers in the body beginnings of american journalism, 2006. The smoke of the gods, 2007. Virtue, value, vanity, the Founding Fathers in the pursuit of fame came out 2007. All the news on fit to print that we have been talking about, 2009. Invasion of the my end snatchers, 2010. His most recent books, 1920 the the year that made the decade roar came out last year. The golden lab, the haunting story of quinton theater roosevelt as his latest book. Eric, you have the colonial era turnofthecentury, the media, what is the connection between all of these books . They all have topics that interest me. Im an avid reader. I personal library at home has about 2000 volumes in it. Ill be damned if i can find a connection between topics but i read, in the case of the most recent book which has a subtitle the haunting story of quinton and Theodore Roosevelt, i have read a lot of buy biographies, i have 14 in fact, 14 of those 2000 books and everyone, i came across an incident that was sometimes footnotes, sometimes a sentence or paragraph, but it struck me as a fascinating story, fascinating way to get inside roosevelts mind. Nobody did it. Now the reason is that roosevelt probably held more government positions at various levels than any other man in our nations history. You could write a whole book about theaters job as Police Commissioner in new york. Or theater roosevelt as a conservation. I saw something in my reading that was a small section in that painting. I thought of that section were explained in great detail, the right colors, the right shading, there are be a story about the return roosevelt would not only be fascinating, that would probably be changing minds of people about roosevelt. Give give people Something Different to think about. There some people who dont know the story so i would like to pretend that i am a suspense novelist is not going to blow the ending. I will tell you the three elements i saw on the other books but i saw could be put into one story in which is what the golden lab does, he was the most man ever in the white house. He was the best father, best parent, okay father is the word. I dont know about mothers in the house. Best father in the white house. His son quinton is his youngest and favorite. Those are the three elements which are joined with a few certain stances that had nothing to do with personality that led to this book. So in this case the topic came from my thinking that something very interesting have been neglected. Host you also get into roosevelts relationship with Woodrow Wilson, with with William Howard taft in this book. Guest i had a very different motive for this book. Most books about Theodore Roosevelt and i measured are between one and a half and 2 inches thick, the ones that i have. I dont know if it is easy for viewers to tell and these are peters notes, this is not one and a half or 2 inches thick, the way i wrote this book was to see how much i could leave out. Because i wanted to tell, i wanted to concentrate on the center of the mural, not all the important events on the outside. Yes i left in his feelings towards Woodrow Wilson, all of the major events of his life for their. But, and all places i include his reaction is somehow involved. For instance when he decided not to run for a second full term. Mckinley was anasinated and served one after being reelected. There was an incident in which theodore and quinton were watching