So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.
Good afternoon. I am Christopher Nixon cox, grandson of president Richard Nixon. And on the half of my family and the board of directors of the Nixon Foundation i want to welcome you to another important event here at the Richard Nixon library, birthplace and use them, the of which is right behind me here. Today we are honored to have secretary of state mike pompeo to have chosen the Nixon Library to make a major speech about u. S. China relations. Like we do so often at the liberia, we are going to begia program with a prayer here would you please remain standing and welcome greg laurie, the Senior Pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship for an invocation. [applause] lets all pray together. Father, were so thankful to live in this country, the United States of america. And one thing we treasure so greatly is the freedom we have from you to pursue life, liberty and happiness. We have the freedom to speak our minds, the freedom to worship and the freedom to proclaim the message that jesu
Honorable michael pompeo. The honorable pete wilson. Christopher nixon cox and hugh hue it. applause good afternoon. Im Christopher Nixon cox grandson of president Richard Nixon. On behalf of my family and the Nixon Foundation, i want to welcome you to another important event here at the Richard Nixon library birthplace and museum, the birthplace which is right behind me here. Today, we are honored to have secretary of state mike pompeo to have chosen the Nixon Library to make a major speech about u. S. China relations. Like we do so often in the library, we are going to begin our program with a prayer. Would you please remain standing and welcome greg laurie, Senior Pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship big. applause let us all prayed together. Father, we are so thankful to live in this country of the United States of america. One thing we treasure so greatly is the freedom we have from you to pursue life, liberty and happiness. We have the freedom to speak our minds. The freedom to
With us tonight on the developing story, doctor king, the niece of Martin Luther king, she wants to share with us her thoughts on the new american moment, how it reveals who we are as a country as there is outrage from coast to coast on the killing of george floyd. Doctor king wants to talk to us how this is a chance to rearticulate to be an american is against in a task to live up to. Its about humanity of america sees a unique dignity and all of us as individuals and what good can be made from hardships. Well talk with evita king coming up in moments, also a top rnc official for california on the breaking news of John Ratcliffe, releasing the new declassified transcript of phone calls between Michael Flynn and the Russian Ambassador. Showing there was no there there to prosecute Michael Flynn. We will break it down, all that and the Justice Department will declassify even more documents that could spell out what was the predicate, what was the probable cause, was it solid enough, the
She wants to share with us her thoughts on the new american moment, how it reveals who we are as a country as there is outrage from coast to coast on the killing of george floyd. Doctor king wants to talk to us how this is a chance to rearticulate to be an american is against in a task to live up to. Its about humanity of america sees a unique dignity and all of us as individuals and what good can be made from hardships. Well talk with evita king coming up in moments, also a top rnc official for california on the breaking news of john ratcliffe, releasing the new declassified transcript of phone calls between Michael Flynn and the russian ambassador. Showing there was no there there to prosecute Michael Flynn. We will break it down, all that and the Justice Department will declassify even more documents that could spell out what was the predicate, what was the probable cause, was it solid enough, the case with the russia kahlua probe, grind out abundance those, there was no doubt with