And responsibility commitment needs to be kept and contracts are binding advance Purchase Agreement needs to be respect today we have developed a system that will allow us to know whether vaccines are being exported from the e. U. This increase transparency will also come with the responsibility for the e. U. To authorize with no Member States these vaccine exports us drug from johnson and johnson is the latest Pharmaceutical Company expected to apply for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in the u. S. Next week they said single dose job appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing coronavirus the dutch court of appeals has ruled that Oil Giant Shell was paid compensation to a group of nigerian farms cuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 or spills. Memos military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last years election it says it was fraudulent and sense that shes governing party won a majority of s
Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
For those watching on zoom some housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight, that means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest by writing your question in the q and a box. The moderator will be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonights program and to introduce the moderator it is my pleasure to pass the program over to doctor robert citino. Doctor robert citino, Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in louisiana, we have a special guest with us tonight. A friend of the museum. My friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll, one of those people who doesnt need an introduction as we like to say. The introduction, he is extremely accomplished scholar and writer. He is the author of the epic story of the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacic war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight twilight of th
2020 president ial election and the latino vote. No question that 2020 will be a year of intersecting crises in the midst of a pandemic and the most consequential election in a lifetime. More americans voted in the 2020 election than any other in modern history with 65 of eligible voters casting a valid and for the first time in our countrys history latinos were the largest ethnic minority in the electorate with 32 million eligible voters for record numbers of latinos turning out the vote, highest numbers of latino and latino youth in the previous election cycle. Donald trump and president elect joe biden benefited from higher turnout of latino voters across the us yet the support they received from this diverse and complex electorate buried in different parts of the country. The majority of latinos lean democratic when it comes to faith levels there are differences that cannot be so easily counted on by either party. Todays conversation will highlight have record levels of latino turn
A virus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective during a trial in the United Kingdom the company is now expected to apply for regulatory review preliminary analysis also suggest the vaccine is effective against the new variant of covert 901st found in the u. K. Germanys Vaccine Panel looks likely to recommend astra zeneca as jab only for people under 65 years old the Committee Says there is not enough data on how effective it is on those who are old european regulators are said to issue their decision on the vaccine on friday. Brazils president jaya bolzan otto has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity falls brazilians are angry at the governments slow vaccine rollout want to see an archive has more from rio de janeiro. On the one side hes saying that hes going to vaccinate brazilians fast on the other side hes he and he has changed his tune with china as well he has been attacked in china and china is working with brazil to produce the co