Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu
[ bells tolling ] good morning. I am kirk cox, speaker of the Virginia House of delegates. Im absolutely delighted to welcome everyone here at jamestown settlement in the recreated church in james fort and those viewing these proceedings online or watching from beyond for the 400th anniversary today. Of the first and oldest continuous Representative Legislature body in the western hemisphere is our forefathers did on this very day 400 years ago, we assembled right here at the birthplace of american democracy, jamestown. Freedom in the form of Representative Democracy began here in virginia. The unforgettable and inspiring event that happened here, what began here has changed not only virginia and not only america, but much of the entire world. Special occasions, the commemorations like this offer us an opportunity to pause and reflect on history of 1619. As a retired schoolteacher, i taught government for almost 30 years. I know the year 1619 was pivotal, as well as complicated. That y
Marshall, who became a virginian, like dr. Esper. He spent the majority of his life in the armed service, the u. S. Military academy at west point. He continued through his carrier in the Army Active Guard reserve, service to the white house, service to this body. In fact, dr. Esper has seen it all as an active guard and reserve member. Work in the private sector, think tanks on National Security policy, service to house and senate committees, service to individual senators, and service to republican administrations. You are familiar with his biography, but i wanted to share two instances of working with dr. Esper, which has led me to the conclusion he is the person of character who should lead the department. One of the first phone calls i received after introduced legislation to address challenges with the and with the unacceptably high Unemployment Rate of Military Spouses was from then secretary esper. He thanked me for the legislation, and talked about his own concern about this a
January. Mr. Esper, currently Army Secretary, was asked about u. S. Policy toward iran, cybersecurity, and Nuclear Deterrence, among other topics. This is just over 2. 5 hours. Requirede the 8 questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. If you would hear to the regulations of interest . Yes sir. Have you taken any actions that would appear to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising your responsibility makes it important that this committee, subcommittees, and other appropriate committees if congress received testimony briefings, reports, recordings, records, and other information from the executive branch on a timely basis. Do you agree, it is confirmed, to testify before this committee . Yes, sir. Do you agree to provide records, documents, Electronic Communications in a timely matter when requested by this committee, subcommittees, or other appropriate committees of congress, and to results with the request or basis of
debate and others. plus, concern for house democrats in several races. they should have, they believe, locked up by now, including the seat of their campaign chief. we ll have that new reporting. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, october 26th. along with joe and me, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico and author best seller the big lie jonathan lemire and eddie glaude jr., a professor and punch bowl news jake sherman, msnbc political contributor. mika is under the weather this morning and hope to see her tomorrow. joe, we ll start it in pennsylvania just your first impressions what you saw there from john fetterman and dr. oz. first of all, mika under the weather, actually means she s going to probably only run seven miles this morning instead of nine. so her devgs of under the weather is a little bit different than ours. you know, it s v