Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 harriet lane spent quite a bit of time traveling with her uncle James Buchanan. They entertained International Visitors during their time in the white house as well. One of the most interesting groups they had visit them was the japanese delegation. The japanese delegation came to the white house in 1860 and they came bearing all types of gifts. What we see are some of the Little Things they brought, beautiful little shoes, paper folded objects, origami. This is a dictionary in japanese. Miss lane and her friends found all of these things very intriguing. While were learning about diplomatic visits, patricia on facebook asks, is it true that harriet lane hosted englands prince of wales the future king edward vii at the white house. This visit was described as one of the great successes of the administration. Humge success. Why is this. It was the prince of wales, the son of the reigning monarch. They hadnt had anybody over here and
D get re going to go an started and thanks for joining us despite the rain. Its difficult for many of you. My name frank, welcome to usip. For those of you not familiar ip theyre dedicated preventing mitigating or resolving conflict. Global hot spots that has dell youded peace for many years at the korean peninsula. President trump and chairman kim north the border between korea and south korea which rekindled prospects of who incoming progress try to make on peace. Sticking point has been north korea asking for sanctions relief in order for the kim regime to survive and thrive it conomy andevelop the e sanctions impeded these goals. Ion stated dministrat provide ll not sanctions relief ml north korea akes steps towards denuclearization. How do we offer sanctions relieve to incentivize diplomacy . The same time, not minimize uickly. Erage too q so weve assembled this town of speakers. One is running late so well have him join when he arrives ut ive asked them as a group to help explain
Get started. Thank you for joining us despite the rain. I know it was difficult for many of you. Welcome to u. S. Ip usip. Are not familiar, we are a nonpartisan, independent institute dedicated to the proposition that peace is possible. We are funded by congress and we are focused on preventing, mitigating and resolving conflict. Thatf the global hotspots has eluded peace for many years is the korean peninsula. Canident trump and chairman met at the border with south korea, which has weakened the prospect of returning to measure returning to negotiations. In the coming weeks, they will try to make progress on denuclearization and peace. One of the sticking points has been north korea asking for sanctions relief. In order for the kim regime to survive and thrive, it needs to generate hard currency, and develop its economy, and sanctions have impeded these goals. The Trump Administration has stated consistently that it will not provide sanctions relief until north korea denuclearize den
Same time that they are moving towards normalizing relationships. Anything not been like this in the past. Does not mean that over we cant two years anticipate them taking certain up ions that we may end finding deeply troubling. Either inside of cuba or with respect to their foreignpolicy. That could put significant on the relationship. Thats true of a lot of countries out there where we have an embassy. Normalizing int of relations is that it gives us a greater opportunity to have with that government, then not. The uld be surprised if cuban government purposely is now o undermine what effectively policy. Wouldnt be surprised if they take actions that we think are a problem. In a position to actions to whatever they take, the same way we do with a whole range of countries around the world, when they do things that we think are wrong. But, the point is that we will be in a better position to actually have some influence. There maybe carrots as well as we can apply. The only way to sen
Microphone down their people can come up as questions and after which there will be a book signing in the rectory right next door. You are all welcome to produce they cannot. For those of you who did not a chance to have your book signed at the reception iq will be right first in line, but there will be plenty of books and opportunity for tim to meet everyone and personalize your books. So we at the iv bookshop are really delighted and think the church for being the host site. This is the first of hopefully many events we hope to collaborate with with the church and we thank them for opening their doors to the public and also want to thank the Special Olympics of maryland, the wonderful work you do and for all the great work you did for us and let them rest of maryland now about this event and so we thank you for tweeting and face looking and letting your friends know about it. Let me talk a little bit about tim. Hes a graduate of Saint Albans School and he earned eight ba from yellow