Dday was a pivotal Turning Point in world war ii. Dday was the beginning of the end and thats where we are today. Make no mistake, it was not the end. Months and months of hardfought battles occurred and it took diligence, courage, and strength to eventually achieve victory. Trace the North Korea Post has another word for it vday. Team fox coverage with analysis from dr. Marc siegel. John roberts at the white house. We begin with mike tobin live in portage, michigan. Good morning to you. What is happening at the pfizer plant today . You can see the trucks are back in place. After yesterdays historic days with the first boxes of vaccine leaving the docks the followup today is more boxes of vaccine when leaving the docks. Yesterday 189 boxes were shipped out of pfizer plant here in portage, michigan. That worked out to more than 920,000 shots in the arm. Today 400 boxes or 1. 9 million doses of vaccine are scheduled to be shipped out of here. Within hours of the first Shipment Leaving Up
Hi, there, im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen, they are George Packer whose latest book our man, richard holebooke and the end of the century, and peter baker, this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of James A Baker iii, two good books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holebooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer. Holebooke, a democrat, Foreign Service officer. Student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories, but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this was 0 m a man with great ambiti and that was even before he came to washington. It was. He was part of a houston aristocracy. His family basically built modern houston. He was expected of great things. He had a father who impressed on him the legacy. One thing they were n
Even i can say that its a vast understatement to say that we are living through a moment of profound upheaval by the domestic landscape. The american primacy is in the Rearview Mirror and the road ahead is in preoccupation. People lose perspective and to lurch from the illusion of neatly restoring our yen up oral dominance and the equally illusory idea that we can disengage from the rest of the world and focus on ourselves. What rebecca and mira have done in this illuminating book in an extraordinarily thoughtful and historically grounded am at least sensible approach to reinventing u. S. Foreignpolicy mindful of the limits of our power but optimistic about its possibilities. Their strategy of openness marries the crucial importance of discipline and restraint in an appreciation of the potential of the hand that we still have to play and a number of other players especially our allies and partners who share a broad interest in the world. None of that should surprise us because mira and
Monuments. This is in washington d. C. And they hosted the event and provided the video. I am pleased to introduce todays discussion, during the last several years, how we remember and memorialize the civil war has been a topic in the United States and we have seen a renewed interest in these conversations in the recent weeks. At this site of Political Violence and national memory, we see our work as looking not only to the actions of the past but also how the passed informs to these circumstances throughout the country and the world, people raise questions about the purposes of the leaders who supported or profited from slavery, whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in stone, memory, monument, and myths that has explored questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year, we find the spring has brought new and urgent crises that requir
Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families