A conversation about his career and unique approach to image making. Good evening. Welcome to a conversation between photographer David Leventhal and our senior curator of contemporary interpretation, joanna marsh. It is always a treat to hear from an artist and i can tell you that david is a great storyteller. We are in for a delightful evening. I also wanted to pause and not only recognize david but his family who has come from far away, from utah and california, nephews, sisters, please join be me in welcoming david and his family. [applause] after this program, i invite all of you to join us for the reception for the celebratory opening of american myth in David Leventhal photographs. For those of you who do not know me, i have the pleasure as serving as the director here at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and also our branch museum, the renwick gallery. Very often i hear from people, once i introduced myself as the director, whats on view . Im always happy to share that news a
Leventhal and our senior curator of contemporary interpretation, joanna marsh. It is always a treat to hear from an artist and i can tell you that david is a great storyteller. We are in for a delightful evening. Notso wanted to pause and only recognize david but his family who has come from far away, from utah and california, nephews, sisters, please join be in welcoming david and his family. [applause] after this program, i invite all of you to join us for the reception for the celebratory opening of american myth in memory David Leventhal photographs. For those of you who do not know me, i have the pleasure as serving as the director here at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and also our branch fusing, the renwick gallery. People,en i hear from once i introduced myself as the director, whats on view . Im always happy to share that news and the exciting programs and exhibitions we have going on, but it is truly the curious questioner who says why. Why this exhibition . Why now . I
University. Chatting with marco rubio supporters here. Traveling with the cspan bus. Defense secretary Ashton Carter outlined the pentagons budget request in a speech today, it includes increased spending to counter russian, iranian inpluns in the middle east and threats of Islamic State and north korea. From the Economic Club in washington, this is an hour. Were very honored today to have the 25th secretary of defense as our special guest. Ash carter has had a distinguished career in Government Service and in academic life. Very briefly, he became the secretary of defense, the 25th secretary of defense, february of last year. Prior to that, he had served as deputy secretary of defense for two years and prior to that had served as undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics. In the clinton administration, he had served for four years as the assistant secretary of defense for International Security policy. For those services in the Defense Department to date, he
This thing. I remembered more than two weeks after the bombing we went over to lockerbie, and i saw my mother crossed the room and start lecturing Margaret Thatcher about how justice had to be done. I thought, what is she doing . But that was just her getting started. Her good friend, and mclachlan, i remember kathleen on the phone with her. We were not getting much sleep back then. I remember her yelling at her friend, saying, i will not have my son die in vain. Justice has to be done. I knew then that even though my brother was dead that our lives were going to change. When ann was asked to leave the commission to investigate what happened and how i could have been prevented, she knew she had no choice, or kathleen would have killed her as well. [applause] [laughter] kathleen helped work with frank and and on the commission as a pseudostaff member. She quickly became a force. She made many trips back to new york to join protests at the u. N. People in the situations often use their g
The obamas are spending christmas in hawaii. We will begin on the issue of the u. S. Allegation to the sochi Olympic Games and get your comments. It is sunday morning, december 22. Welcome to washington journal. Our phone lines are open. The numbers are on your screen. Host this is the question. Using the olympics to address social issues. You can also send us a tweet. Here is how we posted it on our twitter page should the president use the olympics to address social issues . Here is the story on the sunday morning from usa today. The headline is that the president has made a decision by naming a veil of the delegation and sent a message to russia. They are delivering a strong message of opposition. The delegation will include an openly gay athlete, billy jean king. It will not include the president , first lady, or Vice President. They have all headed previous delegations. Time sincethe first 2000 that a president has not been a member of the delegation. Ins is slated for february so