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
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It as well and this scene all unfolded earlier today around 00 30pm in the afternoon and while the investigation was centered on this block neighbors say that police were also searching the area of the home thats known for causing trouble in the neighborhood. Texted me and said the police are out front i heard shots. I said how many and he said about 12 shots told. And then he and i called him and he told me it was a series of 8 shots with a brief pause and for more. This is what he said neighbor Nicholas Jerry says shots rang out in his hayward neighborhood wednesday afternoon he would police say it was an officerinvolved shooting that left one man in his 20s dead. Police say the man was a suspect in another case, and they were performing a traffic stop in the area of wildwood in kelly streets when they fired their out was a man being sought in the shooting death. Fixed rate. During the Contact Officers discharged his Service Weapon at this point were still investigating to determine
Weve got another 15 months to get more than our fill of 2020 president ial campaigning. Here we are going to take a few moments to remember a man who won it in 1988. Thatemed the longer he led lived, the more loved and appreciated became. I was struck like many others i think by this national outpouring of respect in the days leading up to and through the funeral of George Herbert walker bush. At the funeral of his wife barbara, seven months earlier, al gore said he served our nation with extraordinary integrity and grace. [applause] the country seemed anxious to separate those qualities last november and december. A world war ii hero before he began his long political career. By and large, history looks back pretty favorably on his residency. Brookings institution surveyed nearly 200 political scientists earlier this year asking them to rate all 44 president s, the elder bush came in 17. He drew praise for foreign policy. His popularity sank as the economy sank. He did not win reelect