I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi
For tonight. Visit cspan. Org for more on this weekends television schedule. International financial diplomat William Rhodes talks about the current economic and financial challenges facing the economies of europe, japan, china, and south korea. Next on book tv. This is a little over an hour. [applause] okay. First of all, it is great to be back. We enjoyed our relationship that way. Tokyo has been the headquarters of our asiapacific operations for 25 years now. We enjoy a terrific relationship and a lot of different ways. One of my colleagues who is with me, Doug Peterson who just joined us from the city, and he is setting up. We welcome you, doug. Dougie is all over the world. As such, he has lived quite a bit of time in japan himself. Its great to be with you tonight as well, doug. Lets see. In terms of this whole notion of the book, by the way, a very modest title, banker to the world. When i heard of this, and i am a very close, personal friend of bills, like everyone in this room
Im jame mcgrath boreas and were here and behind me stands in her name preferences stuck about the man who revolutionized newspapers. When i first had to recommend the book, people react with recognition than they said i was writing about this appellate her. But it is clear they need to name and not anything about his life because blitzer shares his state of the wellknown for a prize, but not for what he did in his life. Very few people remember he was an explosives maker. Carnegie, morgan, rockefeller, all these people. Pulitzer payday Critical Role in the industrial age, the age that made america the way we think ourselves today. Thats right before his time, we didnt have the media we now swimming every day. The notion of americans checking is on their phones are going to cnn or watching cspan picked his relatives thinks cultivated in that. Good it turns out pulitzer nonelected and historical row, let a fascinating life are good at reading, the influence yielded solicitous today. The
I first came to washington, d. C. In 2000 as a Congressional Correspondent for the associated press. After spending several years in colombia South Carolina and albany new york. Now, i am originally from mississippi, the son of two Public School teachers come in and being from mississippi, the one thing my parents made sure that i knew was my history. It was almost a state requirement in mississippi to know where you came from. So, when i left mississippi to go to South Carolina, i had this desire to history and i studied the history of South Carolina. I didnt the same thing when i went to upstate new york. I got involved in learning the africanamerican history of upstate new york which, by the way, is very vibrant. A lot of the underground railroads ended in upstate new york city have a very vibrant Africanamerican Community and history up there. But when i left albany new york to come to washington, d. C. , and i knew i was hitting the mother lode. Washington, d. C. On a new had to h
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