Im chris goodwin. Welcome to the heritage of mississippi series panel. Katie blunt is the director of the Mississippi Department and a longtime member of the Mississippi Historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. Pleased to be here. I want to begin by recognizing our sponsors. Thank you very much for making this panel possible. I want to thank you all for joining us here in the state capital we are very proud of this building in it was recently designated a National Historic landmark. Its very appropriate in our bicentennial year. Im pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a by centennial initiative. The series will cover the mississippi history in 17 volumes. Seven of them have already been published and there are seven scholars working in their fingers to the bone on the next volume and then a few yet to be signed. The series as i said it is meant to cover the
Been investing heavily overseas and ultimately a lot more Chinese Companies will have to come out. If they are just selling within china are already very established brands in china. A lot of Chinese Brands had to buy talent market. So the internet may create a new base for them to develop. Thats been the case which uses scarcity mark eating and fan clubs to take on no ps and apple, even though they are lowerpriced point. Chinese are frustrated, name a chinese car. Volkswagen. The thoughtful about what they are keeping the volvo named. I know that you cant really create a global brand. One note though sounds vaguely italian, but they did actually buy the idea. So its not like the japanese way that they just buy stuff and hope it works out. There is some crazy things happening. Two weeks ago, almost they are developed the Waldorf Astoria Hotel that nobody seems to justify. Theres a lot of money sloshing around china. There is also a sense that they need to keep talent and keep brands. A
Political Science Department here at the university and also a Research Fellow at the peace corps center. So it is my great pleasure and honor to have this conversation with mr. Nisid hajari, the 2016 winner of the recipient and winner of the famed norwich colby award. What we are going to do today is have a conversation. You have read his bio im sure. You should take a look at the pamphlet that was handed out. Hes a very famous journalist. He helped set up by magazines asia edition. He lives now in singapore and works or bloomberg. And hes written this book called midnights furies, and what we wanted to do today is unpacked this book. And nisid, i have not intentionally not read the entire bio because i think it would be of more interesteintereste d audience for us to have a conversation and put the book in perspective. So this book deals with events that happened in countries far away, over 70 some odd years ago but i would contend that the book is so timely and some of the to where
Chosen successor to follow macarthur. The second part part of it is that roosevelt is already working in the depths of the depression to be given to prepare the country for some level of mobilization for world war ii. It is great to have a conservative republican leading guy go up to the hill as army chief of staff and take some of the flak when saying that our military budget needs to be increased. To note note the military budget was a 1935 . Total military budget for the army part, it was Something Like 400,000. It is rather incredible in that. I think there there were reasons to keep him around. Theres no indication to try to get rid of him . Im sure sitting in the house not too far from here there are many times that roosevelt wanted to get rid of macarthur. There are always reasons why he didnt. Ill be glad to sign books. Thank you all for coming. [applause]. Every night on cspan through august, book tv is in prime time. Tomorrow we will highlight our guests in indepth and afterw
The Senate Permanent select Intelligence Committee, providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies, and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 19 28, which we know as fisa. Two former Staff Members of the Church Committee are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and help us understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see. Frederick Fritz Schwartz is with our studio is elliot maxwell, who was counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Lets just start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . What was the impetus . Mr. Maxwell most of it came about from a series of articles with activities by the Intelligence Community within the United States and followed by many people. This was in the context of the postwatergate resignation of president nixon. By still continuing the vietnam war there was the thought that the intelligence agencies