Cspans campaign 2020. Your unfiltered view of politics. This comes from Purdue University with biographers looking at political history. This talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking political history. Its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you that youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography and political history. Randy robert has written so many. Youve written half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre. Weve obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we again, let me introduce the panelists. And as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre. First we have larry maslin in the graduate acting program
This conference from Purdue University continues with biographers looking at political history, this talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking american political history, its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. We will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully we will convince you that the made the right choice, hanging out with you to talk about media and biography and political history. A lien between the four of us weve written at least 17 biographies, it might be more than that i was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many, youve written more than half of our total number i think. So, we have a lot of experience in this genre, weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So, before we begin lets introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could stand a minute or two, telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it
Conservative credentials. The Trump Campaign is playing it down expectations for tomorrows a summit with house because paul ryan. They told fox news and they dont think ryan will offer an endorsement after a single meeting. Sources also say ryan is support isnt all that important for trump. A two on a scale of one to 101 person told me. I have a lot of respect for paul and i think well have a good meeting. Hes a very good man and he wants was good for the party and i think well have a very positive result. To a mix of praise and criticism ryan has said hes not yet ready to throw his support behind trump. Sources say trumps proposed ban of muslims and is slowed denouncement of the kkk supporter david duke stuck in ryans craw. These are conversations were going to have. I dont know him. I met him once in person in 2012 2012. While the two differ on some significant issues trump says they share Common Ground on the principles of job creation Economic Growth and tax cuts. Stop ryan today s
Moving toward us during the course of the day. The clouds are thin enough enough star light and sunlight through them. Worcester at 41. 32 freeze 32 freezing in nashua. Freezing at keene at 30 degrees freezing at keene at 30 degrees. Freeze freezing in morewood at 30 and even plymouth at 36. 30s and 40s this morning. By 7 a. M. , still in the 30s and 40s. But you get that little bit of sunshine as the sun is coming up. Not going to be all that bad a start of the day, but by lunchtime, clouds thicken up. Middle 50s. But by afternoon in time for the evening commute. We have that rain moving in with high temperatures today close to 60 but later i will time the wind and the rain. But now Julie Grauert north of the city. Julie route 1 looking good through peabody and saugus into boston. 93 south also moving along at a decent clip. Pike looks good from framingham through the weston tolls and a live look through brighton 10 minutes on pike from speen street and washington treat. 9 minutes on
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