Ceasefire, a 72hour ceasefire. Very nice. [cheering and applause] thats three days. Heres what im hoping for, a threeday ceasefire somehow miraculously returns into an eightday ceasefire and suddenly we got ourselves another hanukkah working, a whole other miracle. Obviously this is something a lot of us have been hoping for. We continue to support diplomatic efforts to end the violence between israel and hamas. The president has put his presidency behind the efforts to try find peace in the region. Jon and now we got three days of it. [laughter] a long weekend of peace. Its still too early to really know what brought this about, but we do know that the break came after this israel has made a request for resupply of several types of ammunition. As one defense official said to me, they have been using up an awful lot. Jon thats, of course, the correspondent from the understatement times picayune. So maybe thats what happens. Theyre just running out of [bleeped] to blow up. Maybe what ha
Characteristically barely rights or says anything but creates a and literary interview with Whittaker Chambers. Again be c. Chambers bare his soul directly to a young admirer, a friend and colleague. Reading parts of the books i was struck by the deep emotional intensity in humanity that flows from the pages. He tries to account to himself how he made his choices. Where he fell and plundered but there is no going back and doing the right thing can mean everything. For his family, a country, a generation. Bill buckley was a dramatic and emotional man. It is unsurprising chambers of moves profoundly. And bill buckley had influences but the common one in his life of the chamberses the most mysterious and intense. I applaud the work of witness to follow god and man at yale for the second eight annual Buckley Program conference. To get started we have three distinguished gentlemen who know much about the subject. Lee edwards the distinguished fellow from conservative thought at the heritage
Welcome to th the report, everybody whether you know it or not, i have big news for you now. You have joined us on an historic night. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Milhous jowlsworth nixon. laughter we were going to have a balloon drop in his honor, but, instead, we just decided to secretly drop them over cambodia. laughter this is a solemn day for me because nixon is my alltime favorite nonreagan president , noncheney Vice President , and nonoats quaker. laughter to this day, nixons 1972 Campaign Poster hangs in my office. It reminds me of a simpler time in america, when my parents seemed very tall and youd get a gold star just for using the toilet. laughter folks, before we delve into the socalled scandal that cost us this great leader, lets get to know the man. Richard nixon was born in 1913 in yorba linda, california. Even at an early age, he refused to wear makeup, which is why even his mother preferred kennedys baby pictures. laughter after se
You have joined us on an historic night. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Milhous jowlsworth nixon. laughter we were going to have a balloon drop in his honor, but, instead, we just decided to secretly drop them over cambodia. laughter this is a solemn day for me because nixon is my alltime favorite nonreagan president , noncheney Vice President , and nonoats quaker. laughter to this day, nixons 1972 Campaign Poster hangs in my office. It reminds me of a simpler time in america, when my parents seemed very tall and youd get a gold star just for using the toilet. laughter folks, before we delve into the socalled scandal that cost us this great leader, lets get to know the man. Richard nixon was born in 1913 in yorba linda, california. Even at an early age, he refused to wear makeup, which is why even his mother preferred kennedys baby pictures. laughter after serving in the navy, nixon was elected to congress and rose to political prominence as a member
Coming up next on booktv encore booknotes from january 2000. Arthur herman discusses his book Joseph Mccarthy. Professor herman reassesses cart these legacy and argues the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing there was a real communist threat inside the u. S. Government. This is about an hour. Cspan arthur herman, author of Joseph Mccarthy, why do you think we needed to reexamine the life and legacy of americas mosthated senator . Guest well, there are a couple of reasons. One is that we now know a lot more about the times and the context in which mccarthy had his political career and built his career of notoriety. We also know a lot more about joe mccarthy, the man, and about his own life. And what i wanted to do was to really put it together in a book that would give people a broad introduction, both to the period, but also to joe mccarthy, the man; to understand who he was, why he has the kind of tremendous rereputation and notoriety that he does and to understand where t