Welcome to a whirlwind tour of the panamapacific International Exposition. Thank you so much to the California Historical society for hosting tonights event and especially adam, jason, and the director, and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to c. H. S. For copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If youd like to hear about other events, you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be presenting a brief introduction to the great worlds fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you a little background on the fair, why and how it came to be built, and then we will take a short tour of the grounds before peering into a few of the exhibits and finishing off with a jaunt down the midway. Afterwa
Director, and to lillian for putting together this lovely event. Also thanks to c. H. S. For copublishing my book. You can see why i felt the book had found its home when i spoke to malcolm. If youd like to hear about other events, you can sign up on my mailing list which i will have after the show. Also, we are going to publish them on the site. If you want to hear about other topics, please sign up. Tonight i will be presenting a brief introduction to the great world fair held in 1915 also known as the ppie. I hope you will enjoy the stories i selected tonight. First, i will give you background on the fair, why and how it came to be built, and we will take a short tour of the grounds before peering into a few of the exhibits and finishing off with a jaunt down the midway. Afterwards, i will be happy to take questions. Here we have rueben brooks hale of the department stores. He first suggested San Francisco host 1915 worlds fair in january of 1904. He wrote the occasion could be adve
I think both broad and domestically they are not going to forecast what we are going to be going through as we are traveling home to see loved ones but we are on high alert. Mostly abroad. I think there was significant concerns in thailand, pakistan but, thats the world were living in. Wonder, but at some point that is part of it but when will the enhanced threat end. This is something for the long term. Well, thank you both for being. Tomorrow, a federal budget analysis. That will be part of the discussion hosted by the brookings institution. That is live at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. 3. We were also have live coverage it later in the day from the Economic Club of washington dc. That is live at 7 00 here on. Span next, Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance. He also discusses the recent Senate Report. This is from a conference on privacy and Civil Liberties posted by the Cato Institute. This is one hour. While we arrange for him to be able to be heard and to hear u
Other ways includes markets. Other ways includes everything we do in society. There are ways to pursue what were after. Obviously our political system well, maybe not its not obvious but our political system would work better if more people participated. I think they want fewer people to vote, which is nuts. And shouldnt be what they want. Thats not to say that if everybody wotevothed we would know what if everybody voted we would know what everybody wants. It is a way of answering some very important questions about what our government should look like. I think more people should be involved in offering those answers. People in public life should want that, should want more people to be involved and more people to be voting and that should be everybodys goal this democracy. I would just add so that. Its partly why its critical why some of the market based ideas are critical for people being able to express their differences. If you have no voter turnout in one party wins and they want
This has been a great panel, and thanks to all of you guys for talking with us for an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] , on the next washington journal, priorities of the 114th congress. And of the Nonprofit Organization one in four. And later, a look at some of the issues that were portrayed in editorial cartoons. The head of the association of the editorial cartoonists join us. Well also take your phone calls and look for your comets on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is live every day at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Now google executive chair eric schmidt talks about Data Collection by private companies and other issues pertaining to google and the Tech Industry. He is interviewed by Washington Post reporter craig kimber. From the cato institute, this is 30 minutes. Thank you all for co