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Step up to the microphone appear so that the audience can here the question. Keep the spirit going all year long with a subscription to the tribunes premium book section. Also, feel free to download the trip books out for more information as well as access to our digital bookstore. Finally the lit fest love social media. Feel free to take pictures, post messages and upload them to twitter histogram or facebook using the hashtag puerto rico lf 15. Please silence your phones caught in the flashes off your cameras. I will introduce our moderator. [applause] i like a short but sweet introduction. ...

Finally, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce our first moderator, the great Bob Schieffer. As all of you know, bob is the cbs news chief washington correspondent and the awardwinning host of face the nation. Bob made some news of his own earlier this month when he announced he was stepping down from face the nation. Im hoping we will all help change his mind before lunch today. Bob has been a reporter for more than half a century and is has virtually won every award in broadcast journalism during his august career. Including 8 emmy awards. Please give me a big round of applause for Bob Sch...

We thought it would be important to look at the complicated early history of medicare and how difficult it was for previous administrations to enact legislation that so many of us now take for granted. Besides myself, our first panelist includes lynda bird johnson robb, the eldest daughter of president and mrs. Johnson. Lynda is the former chairman of the board for reading is fundamental, the nations largest to childrens literary organization. And she serves on the board of the lbj foundation. She is also the former first lady of virginia and another proud alumnus of the university of texas in...

Or private sector alternative Medicare Advantage. Yes, the woman is correct you give up some choice to get more benefits. But it is a much better economic deal if you are feeling pinched and that is why many of the people who have chosen medicine cache advantage are Medicare Advantage are low low income not qualified to get medicaid but not able to buy their own medigap. They get to make it every year. So that they dont need to make the decision once and feel like they are locked in as bob said, the question about how other countries do it is a big topic and either at the end of this session o...

Decades later that symbol symbolic for all that could go wrong. 50 years ago the tension and frustration simmering for years between the residents and police came to a boiling point. What started as a routine traffic stop evolved into a race war. The riot served as a wakeup call for those in power, and the powerless. With deadly incidents involving police use of Excessive Force grabbing headlines, tonight, on the 50th anniversary of the riot, we examine what, if anything, was learnt from the tough lessons, decades ago. The economic depp rah vasion, social isolation, ibb adequate housing in gen...