Know, kennedy was killed 20 days after the vietnamese president was killed. So Lyndon Johnson gets handed the totally collapsed government and army of south vietnam. And eventually, he made his own decisions about sending american combat troops. But johnson went to his grave arguing that kennedys assassination or overthrow and assassination of the vietnamese president , johnson was a big supporter of the president , was the reason he ended up committing combat troops. Patrick sloyan is the author of the new book, politics of deception jfks secret decisions on vietnam, civil rights and cuba. Thanks so much. Good evening. Good evening. Again, welcome to the library of virginia. Im happy to introduce tonights distinguished author, former governor wilder, who as you heard has a new memoir entitled son of virginia a life in americas political arena. As noted, im the states politic editor at the Richmond Times dispatch, and im proud to be in sort of whats become a select fraternity of Virgin
The door burst open and doug wilder bounds in with his son and chauffeur, larry, intel. This just goes to show you that he was and is a force of nature. But this grandson of slaves was a public figure in virginia years before first historic run for statewide office. The first black member of the Virginia Senate since reconstruction, he served in the state senate for 16 years before he was elected Lieutenant Governor, becoming the first africanamerican elected to statewide office in virginia. Four years later he followed that up in 1989 when he became the nations first elected africanamerican governor. As governor, doug wilder guided the state through a difficult recession. A democrat, he briefly saw his partys 1992 president ial nomination, then years later in 2004 he became the first popularly elected mayor of the city of richmond in more than 50 years. Governor wilders memoir is filled with rich details and revealing reflections on his historic journey. Raised in segregated churchill
Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , two weeks ago, the New York Times accomplished an article on Congressional Democrats plan for the rest of the year. It boiled down to one thing campaigning. Thats right, eight months out from the election, democrats in congress have given up on legislating. Instead, theyre going to spend the next eight months focused on show votes which will and i quote from the story be timed to coincide with campaignstyle trips by president obama. End quote. While these he votes wail focus on quote pocketbook issues democrats hope will appeal to voarkts, the votes arent designed to accomplish anything. The democrats concede, the times goes on to say that making new laws is not the point. Rather, theyre trying to force republicans to vote against them, end quote, thats
Among the most innovative and ambitious dollars teeeighteen chose to understand the history of thought and the practical history of thinking of the many mundane and overlooked activities to transmit ideas. Teeeighteen received his ph. D. In 1998 and taught at princeton and rutgers and the European University institute before his current position at usc and has been honored by the Philosophical Society and the and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and most recently the Macarthur Foundation who awarded him a genius grant in 2012. He has authored numerous articles and editorials including one called avoidance by the numbers each book is the formative role of a different intellectual practice in the shaping of modern politics. In his first book with the birth of political criticism the remarkable influence editors and publishers had to make a mockery of really treat is with the text that i came to be. Vicki practice was archiving the affirmation master of the Intelligence System examines
After i finished the book, i was speaking with the former head of the dutch archives, eric, who is a brilliant guy, and he showed me that i had missed, no one pointed it out, there are huge number of accounting paintings which im going to show you in a second. This was a big tradition. So he had this tradition, warning paintings. This is quite fascinating. What happens though, 1681, the seven provinces from north break off from spain from the empire in become the first modern republic to emerge. Its a commercial republic. Its a fascinating place because it is partially managed by not only a famous humanist who is also a master of the waterworks but who is the most important teacher and the most influential accounting offer in holland in the late 1500s. Simon stevin assessing no because did he teach accounting to the prince who was the stockholder of republic, hes he taught it to prince maurice, he writes about his relationship with prince maurice where he teaches and he says this is in