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Helen thorpe, welcome. Thank you so much. Im gonna pretend that we dont know each other. Stipulate, weve been friends for a long time, decades. 25 years, longer than that. And you know, the thing about this book, which made me cry, and i think is wonderful and is the best of your three books is, im overwhelmed with admiration for what youve accomplished here. Thank you so much. Its a great book and its a great book right now because of the world were in and the issues that are before us. And im trying to understand, even having read the book and having thought about what you must have been thi...

I thought, a comedy about chappaquiddick . audience laughing oh, right its not a comedy. No, its not a comedy. Its the actual chappaquiddick. Its a look at the story that really kind of affected ted kennedys life completely arguably changed history, right . If you believe the idea absolutely that ted kennedy was going to be president at some point, and this might have been the thing that disabled it, right . Oh yeah, beyond a doubt. And its also interesting given our current political climate, like what ted kennedy got away with, the entitlement and stuff like that. Its a really fascinating lo...

This is a big book. It is a big book. Its a Coffee Table Book and as advertised i went, oh okay, im going to look at it. Its going to be all pictures and there be little captions. No, this is a book, book. Yeah. You wrote the heck out of this book. They told me i would be writing some text for a picture book. I thought i would be writing captions. This literally, you could have written this as a regular book. Yeah, it is a relatively substantial history of his eight years as president , as told in the New York Times style journal. Except there was not a george w. Bush Coffee Table Book. There ...

Thank you for being here. Happy to be here. We spend a lot of time, in the era of donald trump, asking the broad question, is donald trump good for the Media Business . Let me be specific and ask you, if donald trump is good for the conservative Media Business . You know, hes a challenge for the conservative Media Business. Why is that . Maybe cause hes not a conservative . That has something to do with it. Right. laughter the reality is that, over the course of the past half century or so, the conservative Media Business and its flagship, National Review magazine founded by william f. Buckley...

Applause bob schieffer, welcome. Thank you very much. So good to be with you again. Well, you and i have been friends for a long time. Long time. Its nice to see an old friend. Watching what youve done down here and the role that the Texas Tribune is playing in journalism right now. Youre the template right now youre the template right now for what needs to be done. Well, i appreciate you saying that very much. This book is a terrific tale of tales, right . Its a collection of tales of people who are attempting to solve this problem that youve identified, correctly. The world is changing, the ...