Gate the reason we here this evening. Please join me in welcoming david randall. [applause] thank you all for coming. Especially given the weather outside. It is nice to be inside where it is dry. Outside where its wet. One thing i realized, so my first book was about sleep science and when i went and talked about that book, i realize many people coming to the talks because they had their own sleep disorders. And they want to talk with someone about it. This book is about the plague. If you think you have the plague, this is not the place for you. I think theres hospital about three blocks that way, that is the better that is where you should go instead. One of the questions people always ask me is how did you get interested in this book . Well, the last book i wrote was about malibu, a family that used to own all of malibu and how they got it and lost it. In an extra one of the main characters comes up to San Francisco around 1900 and theres a little bit is watching this is the wicked
Number of times in the past the usual suspects, doral, Nicholas Gage so i looked for something a little bit different. This time i read a book that is called the silence of the girl. This is by a booker award winner a british writer and its the iliad is told from the perspective of a woman. On the lighter maybe darker side i read a couple of mysteries that are set in greece. One was called murder and make the most written by an expatriot whose name is jeffrey seager. A really good one that i read was the house on paradise street this is the story of a family that was torn apart by the great civil war and the communist versus the more conservative and like every civil war where family usually or often comes down on different sides that was written by sophia zanoviev. And then knights of rain and stars and thats the story of protagonist whose lives intersect. One of them is a College Professor on sabbatical so i can personally identify with that. There are different travel blogs on the i
My name is Jane Campbell and as president ceo of the United States Capitol Historical Society, i have the honor of serving as the master of ceremonies for this event. I want to acknowledge that several of my Board Members are here, i have to be especially nice to them. They are my bosses. Don carlson, my board chair, sean perry giles who else is here from the board way your hand. Thank you very much for all that you do to keep the society. The Capitol Historical Society was founded in 1962, chartered by congress to encourage in the most comprehensive and enlightened manner an understanding by the american of the significance of, the capitol, as the tangible symbol of their representative of government. And we celebrate the capitol every day before we get started with todays program, we to take a moment to the passing of my immediate predecessor, former congressman ron harrison, who served the third president of the society from 2000 through 2018. Rons tenure was characterized by streng
Society, i have the honor of serving as the master of ceremonies for this event. I want to acknowledge that several of my Board Members are here, i have to be especially nice to them. They are my bosses. Don carlson, my board chair, sean perry giles who else is here from the board way your hand. Thank you very much for all that you do to keep the society. The Capitol Historical Society was founded in 1962, chartered by congress to encourage in the most comprehensive and enlightened manner an understanding by the american of the significance of, the capitol, as the tangible symbol of their representative of government. And we celebrate the capitol every day before we get started with todays program, we to take a moment to the passing of my immediate predecessor, former congressman ron harrison, who served the third president of the society from 2000 through 2018. Rons tenure was characterized by strength in the face challenges, growth in that we serve the american people. So join me for
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] cspan was on capitol hill to get reaction from lawmakers following the president s speech. Heres what members from both Political Parties had to say as they were leaving the house chamber. On cspan here in cspan2 we are getting reaction from lawmakers were getting reaction from lawmakers who were in the room for the president s speech. Congressman andy ogles republican. What did you say to him w you know, i simply said, you know, laken riley, i pointed to my pin. He didnt have much to say to disappointed in his speech. A lot of blaming republicans. Republicans. Lets face the fact he owes the family of lakin a an apology for his border crisis pick what you said the name lakin riley what did you think of that exchange . Again he could not get her name right. I am disappointed in the president , h