The moment of silence, the reading of the names, and the ringing of the bell. Cello athlaying wreathlaying ceremony. Coverage of the 18th anniversary of the 9 11 terrorist attacks on atpan, cspan3, and online cspan. Org. Or listen free on the cspan radio app. Speaks atal candidate a breakfast in New Hampshire. She has eventsys planned through this weekend. Welcome. Director. Ecutive [applause] thank you. Herehe executive director at the center for politics at the institute of politics. This is a special series we have and we are continuing on today. President of saint anselm college. This is his first politics and eggs. This is a wonderful occasion. We probably will have a little bit more activity between now and february. I would like everyone to recognize him. [applause] and of course our sponsors here are the people that allow us to have these breakfasts. Wonderful new sponsors. We also have their board chair and his wife. Just a side note that carol works for senator kennedy in the
University of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore the dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 through 1973, thats from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the Miller Center. We do it offsite as well, because so much of our work these days is browserbased. But we publish work through the university of Virginia Press and its electronic imprint, rotunda. The president ial recordings digital initiative, digital edition, is our publication. We
Youve 70 bucks a lot of people think of you mostly as a political conservative but in your book radical son where you talk about you are someone that rates well. And in this book why did you decide to write this book. That is a story of our political transformation. At what point did you stop describing yourselves as a marxist. When a woman that i have accrued it to for the black panty Panther Party was murdered and that was really the end of my career in the left. On the white power structure. It is what they do today. Only they blame it on trump a lot of people dont remember at this time the violence of those years. Before we get into that new book mortality and faith and in faith and it picks up your story with your seminal book i was raised by communist cardcarrying, our whole community. Where were you raised and raise and what is that community. The Upper West Side of manhattan yes. But sunnyside, i lived in the development of world houses. Eleanor roosevelt broke the ground there
Visit booktv. Org for the full schedule. Now we kick off the weekend with New York Times chief washington correspondent carl hulse on filling Antonin Scalias Supreme Court seat. Good evening, everyone. Can everybody hear me okay q it is not on. How about now . That is better. Okay. Thank you for coming. I am Laurie Gillman and im happy to welcome everyone here tonight. Anyone in this crowd here for the first time . One person . Welcome. We are very glad you are here. Normally we have half the crowd here for the first time but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening so i hope everybody behaves for you. We are always happy to have all our repeat customers back and some of you we see in here often and i want to say a heartfelt thank you to everybody for supporting the bookstore. Before we get started if you logistics. Please silence your cell phones. When i forget to say that i always rejected it so please do that. Books are for sale upstairs for anyone who missed that. If you hav
And there hadnt been a good book on race in washington, d. C. , for about 20 years, so we wanted to fill that void. The reason we made it 400 years is because most of the books about the city ignored many racial populations in the city, in particular the native american population. So, we wanted to start in the historical beginning, the first time we have written records of washington, d. C. , which john smith came up the potomac and went to the native american settlement. Lets focus on the from the beginning, the racial makeup of the city, once congress got here in 1800, was about 20 africanamerican. D. C. Was carved out of prime plantation county. There were plantations in the middle of where the city is today. There was already a Large Population in the area. As the folks who were building the capitol decided to employ slaves and in certain cases free blacks on the Construction Projects of building the capitol, that population remained relatively constant through the antebellum peri