Michael neiberg who is inaugural chair of world studies and professional history of Department National security and more strategy at the army war college. Mike and i were actually colleagues. Might this goes back a ways, about 2006 or so. In the history of department at the university of southern mississippi. Weve state untouched over the years and seen each other quite a bit as we have both moved on to other things. We have always had a set of shared interests. Mike, it is great to be here with you today and have a conversation on a subject that is extremelys timeless. Responding to crisis. Obviously, what needs to be said for our audience, and they have seen on the audience they can of a current crisis, the coronavirus crisis, economic downturn that is going to be a serious issue for leaders, for everyday people, for a while to come. It seems a good time to talk about two major 20th century crises at the end of two world wars and how leaders responded and to raise the issue about wh
[applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the newseums night tv studio and another addition of inside media. I am the director of programs here at the museum. As the 2020 residential election rapidly starts to invade our daily newspaper, and with joe bidens announcement fueling the fire this week, what better time to look back at the history of the presidency and to examine the character and dignity of the men who has held office . We dive in deep to that topic today as we discussed the new cspan book, the president s, ranking americas best and worst chief executives. The title tells it all and just a moment, you will hear from susan swain, the coceo of cspan who will discuss how the book came together. Based on its historians survey of president ial leadership. Following susans presentation, i have the distinct privilege of speaking with brian lamb, founding ceo and chairman of cspan, who over the course of many years conducted the interviews with president ial hi
Director, kari watkins, discusses the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its sunday, april the 19th. Ahead, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has surpassed 700,000 in the u. S. And the death toll in our country, nearly 39,000. A number of states are beginning to bend the curve, leading to a new debate on how quickly can or should reopen. That is the starting point on this sunday morning. Join in on the conversation. If you live in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. Ut west, 202 7488001 is your state ready to lift restrictions . Tell us where you live and what you think. You can always send us a text , onage, 202 7488003 twitter, or on facebook. Look at the numbers around the world, courtesy of Johns Hopkins university with total confirmed cases at 2. 3 million and deaths around the world in excess of countries. Ths in 185 yet today at the white house and the Daily Briefing the president at this about sta
Here are some of the details. There is a lot there. Can you unpack what that all means in terms of testing and the Lessons Learned from these missteps. Guest thank you very much. Premier Health Agency in the world. Any countries have renamed their Public Health agencies cdc, itluding in china where doesnt mean ending. This is highly uncharacteristic of the agency. It does appear that something ,appened with the testing kits 47 days after this was announced by china, thats how long it took until we had testing in the United States. What we probably should have had was widescale testing starting almost immediately. I would say that the fact that we didnt have widescale commercial testing very quickly at the end of january like some countries like south korea has defined this outbreak for us at this point. It continues to define this outbreak. Testing is going to be necessary as we think about reopening america again. Do isre thing we need to decrease transmission. The first thing we need
I want to mention, there have been pundits that were professors actually there was a professor here a couple of months ago who led a group of us to egypt. There has been a famous writer by the name of samuel clemens, mark twain. A father remembers as 12yearold boy he used to sit with other kids of dublin at the feet of the great writer and mark twain would read some of his latest work. Of course, most special of all, the white house connection was the 300 pound president. William howard taft secretary of the treasury built the house in 1902. William taft visited twice. One of the times he visited, they invited the whole town. The good president shook hands with 600 people for the supper and my grandfather was one of the guests. He brought along his 12yearold son, my father. 40 years later, daddy bought the place. It had been empty for 15 years and he bought it for literally a song. This evening is sponsored by the dublin area gop. We have a wonderful chairman who is full of energy and