Lifetime and opportunities and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting. And certainly people will face china challenges rather a typo help should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. I was blessed to live in the great United States of america. And i hope to share in the story with other people. Peter the book is relatively revealingly will go through some of the things. But was that tough to expose yourself like that. Joni it was very hard. Ive been through an number of significant challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman rated with my first boyfriend. In a really suffered from that. And then moving on and going through an episode of Domestic Violence and just really difficult time in my marriage. Those are all things that i really did not want to share publicly. But i was obviously going through a very public divorce a couple of years ago. That information came out through that process. And so many other women and men who
Volunteer the true story. When joined today by author jack fairweather. And the author of the good work. As the daily telegraph, and as a video journalist for the Washington Post in afghanistan. In interviewing jack today is doctor robert. One of the main authorities on history. From 1997 98, robert young developed a master plan and participated as an Expert Witness in the case against the british historians and author. Robert young has published on camp and served as historical advisor and the Evidence Room which would be visited at the center. So before we get started i wanted to do some quick housekeeping things. We will have time about 15 minutes or so for audience q a. And i sure do have questions from the end and we will try to go back and get as many as possible. And please note that this program is being recorded it will be available on Youtube Channel within the next few days or so. I will followup with registers on todays program. And probably tomorrow with a link to it. And
Something timely literally this morning we heard about the hacking of twitter trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook has had a lot of criticism over the years i wrote a column recently on why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Why it is this relationship between facebook and the white house and free speech . I will throw a big question to launch off. Thank you for doing this. Its good to connect with you again. Like a lot of things you cant just pull out one problem of facebook from its dna and origins and in the case of trum trump, obviously he was not a factor in the early days in the dorm room but by the time the Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook with the messy way it dealt with controversial content and the same way in 2015 when trump posted stuff that was anti muslim and it actually did violate the companys community standards. But facebook decided not to mess with that. Even though it may have violated the st
We will be remembering lewis, who spent decades in congress with reports from lee could you wan and others. And then we turn to the future. Even as the nation debates how to safely reopen its schools, an equally baffling issue faces employers what it will take to game guarantee that a day at the office will be safe for every returning worker . A question john black stone will tackle in our cover story. The office, as we have come to know it in recent years is one of those things that the pandemic may have changed forever. Is it time to say rest in peace, the open office plan . The open office is over. It was already over for a lot of reasons. It was too noisy and you couldnt concentrate and it was well on the way out of the door. A new office with a new normal ahead on sunday morning. Pauley choir directors havent been able to say altogether now, at least in person, to their singers for months, which has not stopped the maestro david probe. We will introduce him. These days choirs cant
Good evening. Welcome to mt. Vernon. My name is kevin butterfield. And it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the Mount Vernons lady associations and Ford Motor Company which sponsors a free monthly book talk to learn from the greatest historians. Thank you for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the Program Shortly well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident and executive officer of cspan and coauthors of the president s. Shell be joined by brian lamb, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating and esteemed group of historians in discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is as you know a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. In the constitution, theres not as much said about it as you might imagine. Article i is quite long, ii much shorter and the key phrase is about as short as you can imagine. The executive power should be vested in a president of the United States of america.