lela puts it this way. life for israel's jews is not focused on death and destruction but on life and construction. they have built a wonderful country and are still building it. there is one final audience that i might mention and that would be israelis. they might be curious how they look or rather all the things they take for ranted about life, so perhaps some israelis will pick this up as well. let me conclude with one final point and then get to some questions and let lela have her piece. as i mentioned at the outset, and i thought it worth mentioning, there is much poetry in this book. some poems, some jewish, some non-jewish including our own. more generally want to say there is much collection in the book as a whole and the people and the events she describes and i have a number of personal favorites which i think ought to exemplify the poetry in the book but we will perhaps talk about that as we go along. so, you can now tell me what i got wrong about the book. either in answer to my questions or a

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fife children and a numb of grand children later, lela remembers the night when mr. right popped the big question. >> he came running down the street, i had gone to the movie and went to the post office to see if this was a letter from him. by the time i got halfway to the post office he had caught up with me. he says let's get married tonight. i says we cap get marid tonight. he says, yes we can. no we can't yes you can. >> yes you can. the couple will continue loving each oh forever. they have a numb of children, five children and a number of grandchildren as well. a great story to end the newee. loren, your reaction was? >> awe, so cute. easy commute so far. we have traffic restrictions. >> shutdown at 11:00 tonight. we have some type. >> you will be fast asleep. go to abc2news.com. >> grab the coats. >> freezing outside. the story about the cox family, the anniversary is available at facebook on the facebook page, head over there and wib them a great new year and congratulate them on 70 years of being together. thank you for joining us.

. >> host: day que very much , lela. anything else you want to say? >> guest: no. [laughter] i have said the net. >> host: go out and buy the book "saturday people, sunday people". [applause] >> host: is queen elisabeth rollback to a republican or democrat? >> we will never know. sheathe is scrupulous about maintaining neutrality. it is a great guessing game. the better question would be whether she is a laborer or tory party but in the course of the 60 years she will get along with every -- her 12th prime ministers from winston churchill who was born in the 19th century and served in her great great-grandmother's army to david cameron who was born after her youngest child prince edward. she has opinions which she will express and private, but extremely careful to not make political statements in public. i was told about one that was amusing that robert title one of the american ambassador's during george of the bush came for the presentation of his credentials and then there was the congestion tax that was a political hot potato and being imposed to keep them from

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. >> thank you very much, lela. is there anything -- any final thing you want to say about -- >> no. >> go out and buy it. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. [applause] >> booktv as on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> from the 12 and a national book festival in washington, d.c., and interview a national viewer phone calls with "washington post" senior correspondent an associate editor rajiv chandrasekeran who discusses his book "little america: the war within the war for afghanistan." it's about 20 minutes. >> we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, d.c. this is day one of two days of coverage. the book festival has now expanded to two days, and booktv will be live both days. if you want to see our full schedule go to booktv.org. we are pleased now to be joined here on our booktv set with rajiv chandrasekeran, an associate editor at the "washington post," and most recently the author o

clause's wife is name is lela. >> she slept with eric clapton. >> who said that? >> i don't know, but it is apparently true. >> mrs. claus' name is leayla? >> when you are done with the show you will go to your come -- computers or computer phone things and type in layla clause and you will see i am right. >> she has santa on her knees. it is a lyric. >> wow. >> in my here i just heard, i caught that. >> don't feel special, he did the same thing to me. couple things, advertising journal says of this ad, quote, the ad exudes warmth and talks about old people are entitled to their happiness and privacy. first of all, let's get to the heart of the matter. i don't care about santa clause. i don't want to see commercials about any old people being sexual. >> i will go a step further. i don't want to see anybody being sexual. whatever you can do in a bedroom i i don't want to see publicly. i find it distasteful. >> unless you are paying for it. it >> you know what, it is not old people. santa never gets old, you jerk. you wouldn't know that would you, andy. >> santa is