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The tv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. Tweeters or paste a comment on our facebook page. [inaudible conversation] hello and welcome to the 21st annual texas book festival. Thank you for coming out today in support of our author, the festival and celebrating great literature. As you may know, the texas book festival is a Nonprofit Organization that works yearround to strengthen literacy in texas by awarding library grants and with reading rock Stars Program sending nationally recognized authors and illustrators into title i schools and donating books to those students. By being here today and buying books to you are funding these important initiatives. Thank you. Now may i ask you all to please silence your cell phone. Clinton hill and i will be signing the books. The books are available in the sale ten and we will be signing in the main author ....
The books are available in the sales tent, and well be signing in the main author tent just around the corner here. Now, before we begin, clint, did you want to Say Something . Hello, austin [cheers and applause] its great to be back near the hill country where i spent a great deal of time. A great deal of time with lbj. And were going to tell you, were going to give you a glimpse into our book, five president s, now as much as we can for about 35 minutes, and then well open it up to questions and answers for the last portion. First, i have to figure out how to make this thing work. [inaudible conversations] he said it takes a bit. All right. Takes a minute. Clint hill was born in 1932, the middle of the great depression, and his mother realized she couldnt care for him. So she had him baptized and dropped him off at the north dakota Childrens Home in fargo, north dakota. Fort ....
After this session. The books are available in the sales tent, and well be signing in the main author tent just around the corner here. Now, before we begin, clint, did you want to Say Something . Hello, austin [cheers and applause] its great to be back near the hill country where i spent a great deal of time. A great deal of time with lbj. And were going to tell you, were going to give you a glimpse into our book, five president s, now as much as we can for about 35 minutes, and then well open it up to questions and answers for the last portion. First, i have to figure out how to make this thing work. [inaudible conversations] he said it takes a bit. All right. Takes a minute. Clint hill was born in 1932, the middle of the great depression, and his mother realized she couldnt care for him. So she had him baptized and dropped him off at the north dakota Childrens Home in fargo ....
His father was instrumental in the election of president john f. Kennedy. Bill green served as a congressman in 1976, during which time he took on the Oil Companies and helped defeat the Oil Depletion allowance. He became the meir of philadelphia the mayor of philadelphia and i am pleased to say i was in his administration. He took on on a lot of special interests, and actually implemented the first deadly force policy in the united states. He also said a lot of interesting things i wont repeat here. About the worst legislative body in the free world. [laughter] we always had a debate i might also add that his son helped fight back the wholesale closers of the the library branches. Without further ado is made privilege to welcome bill green. [applause] we were great friends and worked together ohad workedtogether oni was the mayor and has done more for the city than you could i ....
Who climbed aboard the president ial limousine as it sped to Parkland Hospital with the dying president. I still have a sense that that we had a responsibility to do that day st. We failed in that responsibility. The way i was brought up was that if you have a job to do you carry it throw the end result and in that day i wasnt able to. And thats what has always bothered me is that i wasnt able to do anything. Because i was the only one who had a chance. Rose a historical appreciation of president kennedy and a conversation with clint hill, the secret Service Agent who climbed aboard the president ial limousine as it sped to Parkland Hospital. Next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We chose ....