Hello, my name is kai bird, from cuny, City University of new york. And were from the foundation to do events like this to promote the arts and crafts of biographies. And weve been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some yea years. Were here on a session off the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. Were going to be talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals. Harold holzer is one of the leading lincoln scholars. Currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer, the author of eight books. Professor widmer is on the faculty of mccauleys honors college. Today well discuss his latest book, lincoln on the verge. A story about the 13day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington d. C. To be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, well, not so mini, its a subst
Hello. My name is kai bird. And executive director of the leon leavy center for biography at City University of new york, and we are sponsored by the Leavy Foundation when we do events like this to promote the arts and crafts a biography among other things. We had been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years, and were here on a session with of the 20th anniversary i chose of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholars big is currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books. Professor is now on the faculty of holy Honors College for today will be discussing his latest book, lincoln on the verge, story about a 13 day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington, d. C. , to be inaugurated as president. These are two
Steve thank you very much. Im going to walk 20 feet over to the big plastic desk because the second hour of fox friends started 40 seconds ago. [laughter] brian we begin with a fox news alert. The american citizens detained in iran you are looking at them before a controversial 6 billion prison swap have now landed in the u. S. You are looking at video with us together for the first time. Showing them walking off a plane in fairfax county, virginia. And reuniting with their families. Lawrence thats right. President joe biden set to address the United Nations General Assembly just hours from now and the president of iran will deliver remarks this afternoon. Jacqui heinrich joins us live from the u. N. With the very latest. Yack question . Good morning to you guys. You know, while todays story is about who is here at the u. N. General assembly including iranian president ricey after yesterdays Prisoner Swap Anat R of the five members. Permanent members of the u. N. Security council, the
InterNational History from 1914 to 1965. [applause] tom, for very much, that introduction. Thanks to the Herbert Hoover Library Foundation for organizing this conference. Its really impressive. If you get a chance to come at you should go and look at the exhibits because theyre great. Woodrow wilson was the most important president that hoover had a relationship with. Its hard to see how hoover could have advanced as far as he did in american politics. Of Woodrow Wilson that hoover went from being a relatively unknown mining engineer in 1914 to just six years later being a serious candidate for the presidency. He was good at the task the administration had him perform. Hoover was an exceptionally able administrator of largescale complex organization dealing with a wide variety of war related problems. Even Wilson Administration officials who clashed with wilsonsuch as , wouldry of the treasury have admitted that hoover was effective at managing his assignments. Still, being an effectiv
Hate the war. Love the warrior. Peace out. Thank you. [ applause ] the cofounder for the center for earth energy and democracy and the director of the naacp environmental and Climate Justice program take part in a discussion on Climate Change and globalization. The new republican hosts and we have live coverage tomorrow starting at 9 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspan3. Voters in the uk vote on june 23rd whether to remain part of the european union. The Heritage Foundation hosted discussion on the Global Implications of the referendum. Thats live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Stan rather and peter arnett now talk about their work on the front lines of the vietnam war. This panel part of a conference at the lbj president ial library in austin, texas, on conflict. From American History tv, this is an hour. Thf i think this is the second or third day that i was in vietn vietnam. They were trying to get to a ridge line. Just before you get to the high ridge over there. Then as they began to