Hello, and welcome to morecambe. Cheering. As thousands of Street Parties and Community Events are taking place across the country. Over the next 90 minutes, well be criss crossing the uk and dropping in on some of those celebrations. Many of the parties are being held in celebration of yesterdays coronation of King Charles Iii and Queen Camilla. Some people are taking the opportunity to spend the day getting to know their neighbours and Building Community spirit, and others are simply enjoying a get together on the Bank Holiday Weekend. Well, im here in the Lancashire Seaside Town of morecambe, which is hoping to host the longest street party for the coronation in the uk, more than 500 Picnic Tables Cascading along the seafront. And we think around 10,000 people will be taking part. Ill be hearing from many of them throughout the programme. And well also be live at parties and events across the uk. Well be with Paddle Boarders at Bude In Cornwall wholl be celebrating with the help of
In the meantime, back here at home, philadelphia cheered by immigrant groups as what call a sanctuary city, meaning limited cooperation with the feds when it comes to deporting immigrants. That could change before mayor nutter. The man who signed the office leaves office. Lauren mayk joins us live from city hall to explain the controversy. Possible move isnt making the mayorelect or immigrant groups happy. Reporter good evening, keith. The remarkable thing is its happening less than two months before the new mayor takes office. I spoke with him today and he tells me he encouraged the current mayor not to do anything on this yet, but if he does, he told me what hell do. When the irish came here, they crawled off ships without papers, they didnt have documents. They crawled here because they were starving to death. Reporter jim kenney is quick to talk about his own Irish Heritage and the immigrants who came before him. The man who will be philadelphias 99th mayor. Nobody wanted us here e
Book called mercury rising, which is the story of John Glenn John kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. Jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters degree in history from oxford. His previous books are on fascinating. X in and of themselves one on Franklin Roosevelt and his tussle with the us supreme court. The other is speaking of tussles on the conflict between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and so we were just talking before we went on camera. Jeff is just so good at developing dramatic tension and i would say about this book, which i thoroughly enjoyed and i think i may have mentioned to him. I certainly did others that when im getti
The president ial Oral History Program. Its great to have you with us today to join us for what i know will be a fascinating conversation with our guest jeffsell, and this is about his book called mercury rising, which is the story of John Glenn John kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. Jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters degree in history from oxford. His previous books are on fascinating. X in and of themselves one on Franklin Roosevelt and his tussle with the us supreme court. The other is speaking of tussles on the conflict between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and so we were just talking before we went on camera. Jeff is j
Operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. He also has a background in history from Brown University and was a Rhodes Scholar and so has a masters degree in history from oxford. His previous books are on fascinating. X in and of themselves one on Franklin Roosevelt and his tussle with the us supreme court. The other is speaking of tussles on the conflict between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and so we were just talking before we went on camera. Jeff is just so good at developing dramatic tension and i would say about this book, which i thoroughly enjoyed and i think i may have mentioned to him. I certainly did others that when im getting ready to moderate a book discussion. I assign myself so many pages of the book to read a day so that i make sure im finished with it by the time the discussion begins and this one i assigned myself some time ago 10 pages a day, but it was li