We hope this will be a conversation you will join in too, essential libraries for reason because libraries have played a special role in many cultures for many years and i have had the privilege of working in challenged communities where libraries were lifelines for so many people. And with the library of congress we are extending our role in terms of being the largest libraries. How can we reach out in the book festival is part of that. The two books excuse me if i say this title many times. The badass librarians of timbuktu and the worlds most precious manuscript and im surprised the library of congress has a connection to the city of timbuktu in maui. In 2000 for the library of congress entered a cooperative agreement with a major library in timbuktu to make Available Online important manuscripts. We also put the manuscripts on tour. The first exposure of the badass librarians of timbuktu in the united states. Everyone here had an opportunity to see what was out there before it was
Either in northeastern u. S. And prepare for emergency. We have several hundred National Guard and will be stationed in new york city and long island area primarily. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. I am manus cranny. A warm welcome. We will be speaking to the new ceo following the companys firstquarter results breaking right now. We will be speaking to the philips ceo for his first interview of the morning. And their earnings are coming fast. Just into the bloomberg terminal. First quarter matched analysts estimates. Upset by gains in other divisions. Profit from socalled industrial operations fail 4. 1 to four point 8 billion euros and that matched the average estimate of six analysts. While some divisions provide at the live performance, Health Care Needs to step up is efforts and need a more comprehensive concept to return to historical margins longerterm. Kaiser has been expanding fossil fuel extraction and Energy Supply operations since taking the reins
Appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from Appomattox Court House National historic park on both april 9 and 12th as historians including ed ayres reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenact its of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and we will open our phone lines to take your calls. The surrender at appomattox live april 9 and 12th, here on American History tv on cspan three. Up next, we hear from Staff Members at the three president ial libraries based in texas about their collections documenting the white house years of Lyndon Johnson, george bush, and george w. Bush. The george bush president ial library and museum hosted this event. It is about 90 minutes. As we say here in texas howdy. My apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. Welcome to the bush library. Im the director here. We have t
And the Johnson Library in austin. Since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. Michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein and barbara klein. Christina is the registrar. We have our new archivist and our registrar. What we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three president ial libraries in texas. We are the only state in the country that has three president ial libraries. They will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. If they go too long, they have to leave the stage. Hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. The ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have thought about during the program. We release in question time at the end and i will moderate that. I will pick you out. There are microphones. Tonight is being taped by cspan. There will be microphone so if you raise your hand, you will be passed to microphone so we can get the question on camera