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Good evening. Im larry temple. As chairman of the lbj foundation, its my true privilege to welcome all of you to this program tonight. I happen to think that the lbj library has set a pattern or is setting a pattern. Three weeks ago we had two stars on this stage; bob schieffer, moderation, in conversation with former secretary of state madeleine albright. Well, tonight weve got two more stars on this stage, john avlon and Mark Updegrove. Johnjohn avlon is a true risingr in this country in the media and journalism world. John got his start as a speech writer for Rudy Giuliani both when he was ...

We do kind of share the same work ethic. We both sort of we had to hit a deadline they set for us wimple had tone could churning out words. But lin is a very rare specimen. I have got top work with a lot of very talented people, and theres something unique about that guy. About how closely he listens, thing you dont think he is picking up, the speed his brain is moving all the time, even when you think its not. It comes out when he does improve improv. He is part of a hiphop team and is funny and comes up with things that are moving. So, yeah, you sort of have to be on your toes when youre wit...

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Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things th...

Of books. We keep one up about a month. Sometimes maybe had two or three books that i am reading. Do you ever post reviews. We just dont have a lot of time to write reviews. What are you reading right now. I thought i would take a little break. This is one of the cases where you see the movies they want to read the book. I think andy we are. I got intrigued by this new netflix thing the man in the high castle which is an old book i used to read Science Fiction when i was a kid. I did not read that one. Those are the light things just finished up a biography of the wonderful one on washington. ...