BookTV will air former congressman Jim Rogan's talk about his new book, "And Then I Met … Stories of Growing Up, Meeting Famous People, and Annoying the Hell Out of Them," on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Rogan gave the presentation to a standing-room only crowd on Independence Day at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum, where he told stories from his recently published book.
CSPAN was on hand to video the speech by the former congressman, who in 1998 as a Republican on the House Judiciary Committee found himself helping to lead the impeachment of the president of the United States, Bill Clinton.
Clinton was the same Arkansas lawyer who advised Rogan to go into law and politics two decades earlier.
A former gang-murder prosecutor in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Rogan was a freshman member of the House Judiciary Committee when he helped lead the prosecution of Clinton.
He serves currently as a judge of the Superior Court of California and is an adjunct law professor. But that is just part of a life story that contains more drama than found in 10 lives. Born to a single mother – a cocktail waitress and convicted felon on welfare – Rogan grew up without knowing his father, who abandoned him before his birth.
After a rough-and-tumble childhood in San Francisco's hardscrabble Mission District, he was expelled from high school; became a bartender on Hollywood's Sunset Strip and in a Hell's Angels' biker bar; and worked as a porn theater bouncer.
Along the way he met a young Arkansas lawyer and politician who advised him to study law and become a member of a different kind of bar. It was Clinton.
In time, Rogan scrapped his way through college and law school, becoming a gang-murder DA in Los Angeles prosecuting Crips and Bloods. He then became a state court judge and majority leader of his state legislature. Finally, he won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Southern California.
WND Books released Rogan's latest book "And Then I Met … Stories of Growing Up, Meeting Famous People, and Annoying the Hell Out of Them" earlier this month.
It's a collection of humorous, adventurous and sometimes poignant boyhood stories of doing everything possible, short of breaking the law, to meet and get advice from many famous politicians, athletes and entertainment figures he met as a kid growing up in San Francisco.
Through Rogan's diaries and photos, you'll meet and get rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of people such as Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Hubert Humphrey, Barry Goldwater, Cary Grant and Willie Mays. Rogan seemed to have met everyone – from the last surviving witness of the massacre of General Custer to stars of "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz." The stories and photographs brim over in this delightful compilation.
Rogan is also the author of two other books, both published by WND Books.
He tells his amazing life story in his acclaimed autobiography "Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington" and his epic "Catching Our Flag," detailing how, despite a fawning liberal media, a 75 percent approval rating, a united Democratic Party covering for his multiple crimes, and a cowardly and fractured GOP congressional leadership at the helm, he and a small handful of his colleagues demanded constitutional accountability and refused to back down. In the end, they pulled off a stunning feat, forever tattooed Clinton with the constitutional stain of impeachment and neutered his further assault on the rule of law.
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