you will follow alums like many of your parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, leaders like robert robinson taylor, the groundbreaking architect and administrator here who was recently honored on a postage stamp. you will follow heroes like dr. buoyantant robinson who survived the billy clubs and the tear gas of bloody sunday in selma. the story of tuskegee is full of stories like theirs. men and women who came to the city seized their own futures and wound up shaping the arc of history for african-americans and all americans. and i'd like to begin the day by reflecting on that history. starting back at the time when the army chose tuskegee as the site of the air field and flight school for black pilots. back then, black soldiers faced all kinds of obstacles. there was a so-called scientific study that said that black men's brains were smaller than white men's. official army reports stated that black soldiers were child-like shiftless unmoral and untruthful and as one quote stated if fed, loyal and compliant. so while the airmen selected for this program were actually highly educat

winners of the national book critics circle, robert pulido and francine gray. just waters, newberry winners of course neil, steve schengen, rebecca stead and jacqueline woodson. [applause] the prizewinner -- okay it's very exciting to your age prize winner and then finally the six winners of the national book awards, will alexander, edward, judy, of course ursula le guin. please join me in welcoming and recognizing these great writers. [applause] now i have have to thank a few people. okay. first i have to think amazon because that's one of the terms of my new vendor agreement with them. i actually do have to thank all of the financial supporters including amazon, barnes and noble, penguin random house, the book publishing macmillan, the foundation, google, harpercollins, perseus, deborah wiley and added to a charitable trust. [applause] please give them a hand. they made it possible for us to do this today. [applause] also a special thank you to the miami book fair really tremendous but they are doing for us. they've offered to fly all the national book award

senate in incumbent republican pat robert faces independent challenger orman. democrat chad taylor has withdrawn from the race but is included on the ballot. ksn tv policy has the race in a tie. at some of the ads running in kansas. >> so who is greg orman really, he's run against the democrats before. he's given 38 grand to liberal democrats. orman gave thousands to hillary clinton, harry reid and barack obama. like obama, greg orman will say elected.to get even pretending he's a conservative, like pat roberts. senator roberts. i agree with the senator. i don't disagree with the senator. senator roberts. by the way, just so we're clear, i agree with the senator. want to know when you're going to take abe stand and tell us what party you're with.to conference [cheers and applause] are you going to be a republican one day and a democrat the next and a democrat one day and a republican, where are you going to be? ormanny politicians like and obama are the problem. principled conservatives like are the solution. >> i'm pat robert. message. this >> if we want to ge

up next the first kansas senate debate between incumbent and gregpat roberts orman. chad taylor did not take part after announcing he has with drawn from the waist -- from the race that she has withdrawn from the race. >> welcome to the kansas state fair in hutchison. we bring you now the u.s. senatorial debate as the focus. i am former broadcaster with the kansas radio networks. i will be serving as the moderator for the units -- for the u.s. senatorial debate. before i introduce the candidates i will introduce the folks asking the questions. liz is with the kansas radio networks in topeka. we also have two people who were on the governor's panel, michael swanky, reporter anchor and nick sweeney, the managing editor of the hays daily news. our timekeeper is todd, news director in salina. the rules are similar to what we had in the governor's debate. two candidates will have 90 seconds for an opening and closing statement. they will have one minute to respond to questions. the candidate who answers first also will have 30 seconds of rebuttal time. you are not here to