My name is kevin butter fooerfi. Im t it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the mt. Vernon Ladies Association and the Ford Motor Company which each month sponsors a free monthly book talk just like this one, an opportunity for people to the community to come and learn from some of the greatest historians in the field. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the program, just shortly, well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident , chief executive officer of cspan, and coauthor of the president s which will be discussed tonight. Shell be joined by brian lann, founder and executive chairman of cspan, in moderating an esteemed group of historians in discussing the american presidency. And 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 1 is quite long. Article 2 much shorter. And the ke
Series against the president. The first article, abuse of power, charges the president with soliciting a foreign power to help him cheat in the next election. Moreover, it alleges and we will prove that he sought to course ukraine into helping him cheat by withholding official acts two official acts. A meeting that the new president of ukraine desperately sought with ukraine at the white house to show the world and the russians in particular that the ukrainian president had a Good Relationship with his most important patron, the president of the united states. And even more perniciously, President Trump illegally withheld almost 400 million in taxpayerfunded military assistance to ukraine. A nation at war with our russian compel ukraine to help him cheat in the election. Astonishingly, the president s trial brief filed yesterday contends that even if this context if this is proved, there is nothing the house or senate may do about it. It is the president s apparent belief that under ar
History promotes the study of the u. S. Presidency and it does o through its teaching and research. Through Public Outreach event such as this one and through its project which ry is an oral history run by staff who film and record archives of people who ad been in various administrations as well as local officials who work closely with those administrations. Also runs a very robust postdoctoral fellowship program. Effect for about five years and its raply become robably the most influential and famous fell he ship program in this area of its kind. Has published a a k or contracted a book at Major University press. Nd they all get jobs and were very proud of that. [applause] for president ial history, tremendously the workts complements we do, their own teaching and complement the department of history as well as the center for southwest histories. There are a lot of history buffs here, were bucking the National Trend and were getting more and studying history nd becoming history major
Oh, maddening. Not frustrating. Modining. Shop owners in San Francisco say theyre fed up with breakins of stores. Those burglaries are happening on union street. Thats where abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard is tonight. You heard from pretty angry store owners. Reporter yeah. We really did. Many merchants here on union street are outraged about the breaks in summer which some believe are on the rise. A toy dog isnt enough protection for some Business Owners on union street. Out of control i think. Reporter eleanor carpenter owned just jewels for 35 years and had the front door smashed recently. They got over there and ran at the front door and threw their bodies and the alarm went off and scared them. Reporter thieves made another attempt to break in through the front window but only cracked it. Frustrating . Maddening. Not frustrating. Maddening. City has to do something besides about the garbage. Reporter merchants said theres eight to nine breaks in the last several months. In the
The Business Owner is offering a 5,000 reward for any information leading to that suspects capture. Months before andrew lucks stunning retirement, patriots star Rob Gronkowski said goodbye to the nfl. And hes now speaking out about his decision to step away in march just before he turned 30. Gronkowski said a string of injuries took away the fun. A quad injury in his final game, super bowl liii in february, was the final straw. I needed to recover. I was not in a good place. Football was bringing me down. And i didnt like it. And i was losing that joy in life. Like the joy. Im sorry right now, but oh, dang. Let me oh. I really was. And i was fighting through it. And i knew what i signed up for, and i knew what i was fighting through. And i knew id just have to fix myself. Oh, you can see him get emotional there. Gronkowski says he could barely walk after the super bowl win. He now plans to advocate for players to be allowed to use products containing cbd to relieve pain. Gronk will be