then, donald rumsfeld on his meme roar, and bruce riedel looks at the global jihad movement. on c-span tonight, federal chairman's first economic outlook news conference. until today, the federal open market's committee report on interest rate changes was released in rating. today, he answered reporter's questions about it. it's on 8 eastern tonight over on c-span. >> now a discussion on the difference in wages for men and women. former massachusetts lieutenant governor evelyn murphy is head of the wage project and eliminating age discrimination against women. she spoke to students at the university of massachusetts in boston on april 14th. this is just over an hour. >> good evening, i'm the directer of the center and prm of women in politics and public policy in u-mass public boston's graduate school. thank you for being here tonight. tonight's program is called "i want my million dollars, and why everyone should be concerned about the gender wage gap." this event is brought to you by the women in public policy at umass boston. studentings are with us tonight in the front ro

then donald rumsfeld on his new book, "known and unknown," and bruce riedel talks about the u.s. relationship with pakistan. >> coming up next, book tv presents "after words," an hour long program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. best selling author susan jacoby tackles the myth of old age in her book, "never say day," and she claims the american culture deludes the american population to believe 90 is the new 50 and discusses growing older and aarp with editor sylvia smith. ♪ >> host: susan jacoby, welcome, the author of a new book "never say die: the myths of marketing the new old age." what is the myth of the new old age? >> guest: the myth of the new old age is that we are all -- and by we i really mean people who are not old now, the aging boomers, people in their 50s and early 60s now and in their 40s that all old age is lived in a way that's totally different in the way in which old age was lived in the past, that we are going to all be sky diving, i like to think about that. >> host: like the former president? >> guest: that we are simply going to get o

we would be a very carefully thought out occupation strategy which donald rumsfeld did not agree with and did not do. we went in without the number of troops necessary. with no plans how to employ the iraqi army. and almost overnight decision to disband the iraqi army, essentially telling them this couple hundred thousand armed people who can't keep your guns but there's a place for you in the new iraq. what did we think would happen after the? president bush acquiesced with this decision without ever seriously questioned it. after the insurgency started as a result of that decision, for three years the president failed to fundamentally rethink how we were doing the iraq war and how to change it. and i think unfortunately, well, it's a necessity. it's for those sort of force heirs, or unforced errors, things present bush could have should have asked questions, thought about things carefully, made the right decisions and ultimately made the iraq war be asked a. had gone well, have we done the occupation well, i think it's quite possible we could have democratized iraq or help democrati

donald rumsfeld lives in this guy's home. that was in the "washington post." so what i'm saying is we have these neoconfederates. i'm beginning to wonder who won the war. i came up in the car yesterday by the national archive and robert lee's picture is just as big as lincoln's. and i guess when we get more tea party in there, it will be larger. but anyway, we have these people and i think as an african-american and being acquainted with the african-american tradition i can read the signs, i can read the language and i can decode things. so when senator demint wanted to bring barack obama, i knew exactly what that meant. and i want to say on behalf of the south that the south is 50 years ahead on the media. in the terms of personnel, the percentage of african-american personnel -- if you go to ole miss, which is i think that's where faulkner was, it was like the deep south. these are people segregation. there's the highest percentage of black enrollment in ole miss. and georgia is one of the five states with the highest number of black officials. if you go to

. >> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld on his new book, detailing his role at the ford and george w. bush administrations. spirit we talk about what are all the things that can go back. and one of them was we may not find weapons of mass disruption. i mean, it was right there, sent around to the members, sent to the president. we thought about those things. i was on a program with all right not to long ago and he can't say why didn't you tell us? why didn't you tell us the things that might go wrong? and i said a wonderful idea. let's tell the enemy every conceivable thing we think we might have a problem with so that they can get about doing it. no. that's not the kind of thing that you tell the press, or talk about publicly. but there's a list of, i don't know, page after page of things that doug and other people in the government thought about and we talked about. and that was circulated and people who are worried about. >> watch this discussion from the hudson institute tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. tonight on c-span to a discussion on race in america. you hear from hip

at 9:00, former defense secretary donald rumsfeld talks about his memoir. after that, pakistan's role in the global jihad movement in his book "deadly embrace." >> this weekend, on "american history tv," catherine mayor on medical science during the civil war and the advancements made by the north and south. bob dole looks back at his political career during the nixon administration, and an examination of the disputed presidential election of 1876 between rutherford b. hayes and samuel j. tilden. but the complete we can schedule at c-span.org/history. it also have the schedule email ed to you. >> saturday, >> screaming at c-span not work. >> and the white house today released president obama's birth certificate saying that he was born to an american mother. shortly after that, the president came to the white house press room -- the briefing room to speak to reporters for just under 10 minutes. >> i was back there listening to check saying it is amazing he will not be talking about national security. [laughter] [laughter] >> as many of you have been briefed,

rumsfeld on his memoir, and at 10:15 author bruce riedel looks at the global jihad movement. >> live saturday, the black tie dinner starting with the arrivals and later remarks from president obama. our coverage includes past dinners. it's streaming live on c-span.org and c-span. >> the keynote speaker today was the head of the boeing commercial airplanes, james al albaugh talking about threats facing l airline industry and security and it included a lack of an educated labor force. we'll show you his comments during this broke. >> well, good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for the introduction, carol. you can see i vice president had a good -- haven't had a good time of holding on to jobs. i keep moving around. i'll touch on commercial aviation, but defense and space as well. it's good to look at the crowd. i see a lot of good friends. here, a lot of good customers and competitors. i should have checked the program because i see allan mcartor is talking after me. i wanted to talk after him, but we're great friends and a healthy competition, and it's good for the industry. i want

rumsfeld was so complex, it didn't lend itself to a bumper sticker. at one point they made a bumper sticker that said it's un-bumper stickerable. after today, i think it should say, don rumsfeld, he got us out of iceland. thank you. >> today the commission on wartime contracting is holding a hearing on how u.s. tax dollars were spent on contracting in iraq and afghanistan. witnesses will include the special inspectors general for reconstruction in iraq and afghanistan, the department of defense inspector general, and the former chairman of the federal commission on army acquisition reform. we'll have that live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span2. today on c-span -- a discussion on the state of same-sex marriage in america. you'll hear from chad griffin, the political consultant who helped lead the federal lawsuit to overturn proposition 8 in california. also, republican consultant matt klink at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> this week on "q&a" performer mike daisey. his one-man show has featured the economy, steve jobs, and the american theater. >>