Recent Q&A Copyright 2007, National Cable Satellite Corporation 2008-05-16T02:30:00Z C-SPAN Archives http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&tID=5&src=atom&atom=recent_q_and_a.xml&products_id=205000-1 2008-05-02T11:00:00Z

Justice Scalia talked about his book, [Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges], published by Thomson West, which he wrote with Bryan Garner. The book gives advice to lawyers on presenting oral arguments. An audio clip of his interaction with attorney Seth Waxman in [Boumediene v. U.S.] was played. He also talked about his concern that too many of the "best and brightest" are becoming...

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Doris Buffett, sister of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, talked about her involvement with The Sunshine Lady Foundation, a private, family foundation incorporated in 1996. Ms. Buffett talked about her years growing up as Warren Buffett's older sister during the Depression and the Midwestern values instilled by their parents. She told of the beginning of the Sunshine Lady Foundation and the...

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Edna Greene Medford talked about the state of scholarship on the life and career of Abraham Lincoln. She said President Lincoln must be looked at in the context of his era. She responded to authors such as Thomas DiLorenzo and Lerone Bennett who had published books critical of Lincoln. She also discussed current racial issues, education, and the possibility of the first black president. <br...

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Richard Miniter talked about terrorism and his books on U.S. efforts to counter terrorist organizations. He also talked about his background, the process of writing, and his interest in government and public policy.<br /> <br /> He was the author of [Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror; Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror]; and...

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Historian Gordon Wood talked about his book [The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History], published by Penguin Press. This book is a collection of his reviews of works by other historians. He discusses the works of such historians as David McCullough, Barbara Tuchman, David Herbert Donald, and David Hackett Fischer, among many others. In these reviews, he looks not only at the...

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In the second of a two-part interview, Roger Mudd talked about his memoir [The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News], published by PublicAffairs. In his book former CBS correspondent Roger Mudd tells the story of years at CBS, from 1961 to 1980. Mr. Mudd talked about allegations that senior CBS executives told correspondents to "go easy" on President Nixon in...

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In the first of a two-part interview, Roger Mudd talked about his memoir, [The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News], published by PublicAffairs. Mr. Mudd told the story of his years at CBS from 1961 to 1980. He talked about Dan Rather being chosen as successor to Walter Cronkite in 1980 to anchor the CBS Evening News, a position that Mudd thought was going to be...