Tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an email. Nonfiction books every weekend on cspan2. And now from the 17th annual texas book festival in austin, texas, a discussion of president Lyndon Johnson and first lady ladybird johnson. This is just over 50 minutes. Hi, and welcome to the texas book festival. D my name is carol dawson, and iw love being a moderator every year at the texas book festival, and i particularly love this task this year. Task this year i have had the privilege of reading two books that interlock so beautifully that it provided one hold 360degree experience in reading them. Before we begin, and i introduce our authors, i want to remind you all that all proceeds of book sales at the texas book festival goats the libraries of this great state. So, please avail yourself of the book tent and after a recession is over the book signing tents where you can get both of the signatures of
Which is to say colleges, this year in particular, are starting to see buyer resistance. People are thinking very hard about whether they really want to spend 50,000, 60,000 a year and up. Everytime people fine out what the tuition is, its like, i cant believe how expensive it is. Theyre not seeing that as a good buy. Especially if its financed by debt. Right now a lot of colleges are dealing with this price discrimination thats what Financial Aid is, they figure out how much you can pay and thats the price for you because i like you. Thats what is going on. Youre seeing some schools actually having a Credit Rating downgraded bid moodies because they look at their Business Model and doesnt see it sustainable. Enrollments are dropping, and within colleges youre seeing Humanities Departments done New York Times has a piece on this recently. The Humanities Department losing their majors majors and enrolles because people dont want to major in the humanities because theyre concerned about
The shoals. And some more ships would sail up the bay under captain peter parker to disrupt communications and further confuse the americans. And hes able hes able to persuade ross and Admiral Cochrane to go along with this. Ross, he takes them ashore, in st. Marys county and ross sees how poor the defenses are. And ross is, you know, an aggressive commander himself. He certainly has proven himself in the european wars, and hes eager to get home. Hes got a wife who is not at all happy hes been sent across the ocean to fight in this new war. So what they agree to is they dont commit to an attack on washington, but they agree that theyll land the forces at benedict, and go try to trap barney and based on the resistance they meet, they can make a decision as to whether or not to continue on to washington. Cockburns plans are zealously endorsed by one of ross officers. This is lieutenant george de lacy evans. This picture was taken much later, during the crimean war, where he commanded a d
And most of them i think were built around either boston or philadelphia. In supporting the war, and particularly the naval war, did jobs ever come into any of the equations in 1812, or looking longer through American History, when did jobs become an issue of National Policy . All right. When did jobs start driving our defense policy . Yes. Not during this war. I dont see any evidence that federalists said, well, weve got to support expanding the navy because thats going to be jobs in our commercial ports where were often in a majority. Ive not seen that hint of that. And this is a rare war, in that the we really did bad economically during the war. Sometimes we do very well during a war, i think its more typical that the massive spending in the ploumt, world war ii being the best case probably, generates economic activity. But not in this war. And thats largely as Andrew Lambert will be happy to remind us, because of the overwhelming power of the british navy. Which established a bloc
Americans of this high cost of this war and to so humiliate the government of James Madison that they would be forced to make peace on british terms. In the summer of 1814, john stewart skinner, who was an american prisoner of war agent, who incidentally would later be Francis Scott keys companion watching the bombardment of ft. Mchenry, skinner travels out, sales into the potomac to meet with cockburn to exchange some letters and gossip. And cockburn mentioned to skinner as theyre walking along the deck of albeon, the flagship, that he doesnt see much way out for the president. He says, quote, mr. Madison will have to put on his armor and fight it out. I see nothing else left. There is nothing subtle about this, and cockburn was aware that this word would get back to washington and madison pretty quickly. But cockburn was so unimpressed with the american defenses that he didnt mind sending this word. He knew that there was nothing really the americans could do about it. In its third y