I hope at least its a start and that others will come forward and continue to tell the story. You can watch this and other programs on line at booktv. Org. Next Kevin Mattson recounts the president ial election of 1952 and Richard Nixons checkers speech delivered on National Television on the speech was given in response to allegations that nixon misuse political donations. The author recounts nixons usage of this family dog checkers to denote his every man status and save his Vice President ial nomination. This program is about an hour. Good evening everybody. Before we begin if its okay to come up closer, its not church, synagogue or a mosque. Mosque. I am very pleased that our friends from cspan are here, so this will be broadcast at some point, sooner than later i am sure. They always do a great job and i want to welcome cspan again to politics and prose. It has added to cspan has added to our civil discourse and whatever bookstores you come to, they are generally independent and c
Conflict, the crisis in syria, and the longterm impact of the 2003 u. S. Invasion. The mistake was to invade iraq third having indicated , and i would be probably very unfair, but i am tempted to was aat every time there choice between something right and something wrong, not very often the right option was taken. We will also speak with a and freedomlomat fighter Lakhdar Brahimi about his own country, algeria, and it struggle for independence from the french, and the classic anticolonial film, battle for algiers. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Have seized the Islamic State of iraq and to control, is said 75 of by e. G. Seizing the refinery would be a major coup for isis forces, handing them a rack pot large a source of the mystic fuel. In other violence, at least 18 people were killed and over 50 wounded tuesday in a pair of suicide bombings in baghdad. Speaking earlier today, airing in president Hass
Conflict, the crisis in syria, and the longterm impact of the 2003 u. S. Invasion. The mistake was to invade iraq third having indicated , and i would be probably very unfair, but i am tempted to was aat every time there choice between something right and something wrong, not very often the right option was taken. We will also speak with a and freedomlomat fighter Lakhdar Brahimi about his own country, algeria, and it struggle for independence from the french, and the classic anticolonial film, battle for algiers. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Have seized the Islamic State of iraq and to control, is said 75 of by e. G. Seizing the refinery would be a major coup for isis forces, handing them a rack pot large a source of the mystic fuel. In other violence, at least 18 people were killed and over 50 wounded tuesday in a pair of suicide bombings in baghdad. Speaking earlier today, airing in president Hass
I know it is probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details and maybe read the print, so what we did or actually, what petes staff did, was actually include this in your maps and handbooks book. If you turn to page nine, you will see this map in their. You might want to refer to this. It is probably a little easier to read. I will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. As general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u. S. Grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. As you know already, the two most important of these offenses were those of the army of the potomac here in virginia, and that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. Grants orders to sherman for the campaign, dated april 4, 18 64, were pretty straightforward. Grant told sherman to move against the conf
Trump was vilifying an imaginary threat from his opponents toward the american way of life, he downplayed the very real threat posed to americans millions and millions and millions of americans from the coronavirus saying most cases are totally harmless. Now, we have tested almost 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases. 99 of which are totally harmless. Nope, nope. Thats not true. Today White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany defended his comments saying that he just meant most people will recover. But that wasnt the only unhinged vision donald trump spelled out over the weekend during not one but two speeches. First, standing in front of mount rush more on the eve of Independence Day and again on washington on the 4th. Our nation is witnessing a mersless campaign to erase our values and indocket rate our children. The goal is not a better america. Their goal is to end america. We will never allow an angry mop to tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our ch