Hello im the executive director of the leon center for biography. University of new york. And where sponsored by the foundation. Events like this and promote the arts and crafts the biographies. And even the sponsor of the book festival for a number of years. We are here on the session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival right in the theme this years american ingenuity. Going to be talking tonight with two intellectuals. Harold is one of the countries leading scholars print is currently the director of the Roosevelt Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ten himself the author of eight books. Professor witmer is in the found guilty of the Honors College and today we will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge. The story the 13 date train journey lincoln talk from illinois to washington dc. To be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books. And hold up each of them read this is a mini biography, will not so any. It substantia
Hours. Chilly out there. Sunny conditions by noontime, in the low 50s. And by 4 00 in the afternoon we are looking at more sunshine. But a cool day today. We have several chances of rain to talk about for the week ahead of beginning tomorrow. Ill have my accuweather sevenday forecast in a few minutes. This morning the federal government is shut down. The senate failed to approve a shortterm deal to fund the government for another month. The bill had already passed in the house. At the heart of the debate, defefrd action for child hoold arrives, also known as daca. Democrats want to guarantee brokes for nearly 800,000 brought to american as a child. They want to shove aside millions of americans for the sake of irresponsible political gains. The blame you this crash entirely on President Trumps shoulders. This will be called a trump shutdown. The white house says negotiations on daca are off until the government reopens. Lawmakers are working through the weekend to try and strike a deal
And that historical president is not a good president. Advising them to review their contingency plans. Now the last shutdown in 2013 lasted 16 days in the event of another shutdown, u. S. Military operations will continue but Service Members wont get paid. However that lost pay will be made up, staffing at most Government Agencies will be cut to just a fraction of normal levels, except homeland security, youll still see the same amount of tsa agents at airports. It couldnt come at a worse time for the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the city has you know is facing one of the worst flu seasons in year. What is the local impact of this possible shutdown . Dr. Tom freedman was the cdc director during the last Government Shutdown, he recently tweeted this. The 2013 Government Shutdown was like a scene from a Science Fiction movie, empty labs and offices at cdc, shutdowns, he writes are not safe. On its website, the cdc assures clients it works 24 7 saving lives and protecting
And bill clinton, as well as their russian counterparts. This is about an hour. This is our second half of this panel. We will go to a little bit past 1 00. I have just met vlad zubok last evening over dinner and after dinner in which we had a fascinating conversation about khrushchev and kennedy. But two slightly different khrushchevs and kennedys about whom weve been speaking and it was mrs. Jacqueline kennedy and mrs. Khrushchev. We might save that for a later discussion. But i really enjoyed that conversation. Vlad is a professor of international historio London School of economics. Hes an expert on the cold war, and soviet russian history, and particularly intellectual history. Among his books is particularly related to our topic of this conference, a failed empire, the soviet union and the korld war from stalin to gorbachev. And i also noted among his books zhivagos children. I was drawn, of course, to that topic. Jeremi suri is a longtime friend of the Miller Center, were always
1 00. I have just met vlad zubok last evening over dinner and after dinner in which we had a fascinating conversation about khrushchev and kennedy. But two slightly different khrushchevs and kennedys about whom weve been speaking and it was mrs. Jacqueline kennedy and mrs. Khrushchev. We might save that for a later discussion. But i really enjoyed that conversation. Vlad is a professor of international historio London School of economics. Hes an expert on the cold war, and soviet russian history, and particularly intellectual history. Among his books is particularly related to our topic of this conference, a failed empire, the soviet union and the korld war from stalin to gorbachev. And i also noted among his books zhivagos children. I was drawn, of course, to that topic. Jeremi suri is a longtime friend of the Miller Center, were always happy to welcome him back. As we did recently, for an American Forum on his latest book, the impossible presidency which in light of the incumbent mig