Charlotte it is an honor to get to talk to you about your new book today. Thank you for doing this interview. I really enjoyed reading it a kind of felt like part memoir part selfhelp. Obviously Vice President mike pence. And i wanted to ask you a little bit about your decision to write the book. In the process. You went through this. The reference to parts of your diary. Entries that you did along the way on the campaign. I was wondering if you could talk us through a little bit of the process of writing it. Thank you so much for having me. It is so great. I originally kind of said in the book i always knew i was gonna write this book i knew i wanted to write about my family about my dad specifically and i think that this book originated a long time ago when i was a little kid. I wrote in middle school a book of things you have taught me about the things my dad have taught me and i have just written on every page a little sentence of what he taught me along the way. And he still has t
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There are two words right at the outset want and is participation and the other, before i get anyone else to tell people you can submit your questions and comments. One is through email at brookings. Edu or on twitter with the. But all of you who have joined this call today, we are deeply grateful and hardened by those who wanted to join this conversation and lift every voice the urgency of civic duty voting. Thank you to all members one of the best groups i have ever worked with. Its an Extraordinary Group of people that contributed so much. And to the center for democratic governance for their support. Thank you to my dear cochair who is an absolute dynamo and a blessing to work with and then the Vice President of workings release these governance programs. He has been extraordinary also. Things to everyone. I should say nobody can do that better than john lewis and so for us to talk about voting at a moment the whole nation is rightly honoring his life encourage and achievement on b
Grateful and hardened by those who wanted to join this conversation and lift every voice the urgency of civic duty voting. Thank you to all members one of the best groups i have ever worked with. Its an Extraordinary Group of people that contributed so much. And to the center for democratic governance for their support. Thank you to my dear cochair who is an absolute dynamo and a blessing to work with and then the Vice President of workings release these governance programs. He has been extraordinary also. Things to everyone. I should say nobody can do that better than john lewis and so for us to talk about voting at a moment the whole nation is rightly honoring his life encourage and achievement on behalf of Voting Rights he very nearly gave his life and was willing to give his life. And thats why i want to read a statement he issued on behalf of us all. A towering figure in the history of this Country Representative lewis dedicated his life to fight for the ideals that represented th
Them, the only thing that i heard you say that im disgraceful that this president is a disgrace but please remember we are going to leave this program to take your life to a discussion on elections and civic engagement. This is live coverage on cspan2. Before i get to anything else, i want to tell everyone out there that you can submit your questions and comments two ways, one is through my email and it is events at brookings. Edu, were in edu or on twitter with the universal voting. When it comes to thanks, above all all of you who have joined this call, we are deeply grateful and heartened by the number of people who wanted to join this conversation on the new report with every voice the urgency of universal civic duty voting. I want to thank all members of our working group, one of the best groups i have ever worked both. And i have been with a lot of groups over the years, its an external group of people who contributed so much to this, thanks to the governor Study Program at brook