"How come I haven't been invited to any of the reunions?" filmmaker Michael Moore asks Margaret Hoover after learning they are distant cousins through President Hoover. "It should be a very interesting Thanksgiving between us Hoovers," Moore notes of his newly discovered family ties. | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Margaret Hoover and other great-grandchildren of Herbert Hoover gathered at his West Branch, Iowa, presidential library to talk about his life and legacy on the 150th anniversary of his 1874 birth. Watch 'The Presidency: Herbert Hoover's Great-Grandchildren on his Life & Legacy' on 10/26 at 9:30pm ET on #CSPAN2 | American History TV

In his new biography, author Sam Tanenhaus describes Bill Buckley as an arguer, not a thinker. “Bill Buckley lived and thought in the moment,” said Tanenhaus. “If a debate came up, he would almost always have a striking, original, or at least sesquipedalian answer for you…But if you asked him to step back from that and put all the arguments together, then he really struggled.” Check out part 2 of Margaret Hoover’s interview with Sam Tanenhaus on PBS, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. |