President and ceo of George Washingtons mount vernon, talks about how washington views the presidency and executive power. As always, you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Is next. Host good morning. 17th. Monday, february, we had to morning, mount vernon for a conversation about the first president and his impact on the office. We begin with a question about the qualities you want in the person who occupies the oval office. What do you look for in a president . In the eastern and central time zones, 2027488000. In the mountain or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can send us a text this morning. Hat number, 2027488003 please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. Start calling now on this president s day and as you are thinking about the qualities an want, we take you back to event last year, the release of president s. The [video clip] there was a preeminent little inist and and 1951 inhtin
My name is kevin butter fooerfi. Im t it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the mt. Vernon Ladies Association and the Ford Motor Company which each month sponsors a free monthly book talk just like this one, an opportunity for people to the community to come and learn from some of the greatest historians in the field. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the program, just shortly, well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident , chief executive officer of cspan, and coauthor of the president s which will be discussed tonight. Shell be joined by brian lann, founder and executive chairman of cspan, in moderating an esteemed group of historians in discussing the american presidency. And the american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. In the constitution theres not as much said about it as you might imagine. Article 1 is quite long. Article 2 much shorter. And the ke
And the ready to read program and some are read. Me will soon be announcing a winter read we will try to get the Community Reading just like we do in the summer we owe a debt of gratitude to our media sponsors and and our community sponsors. I hope you will join us later this month wrapping up the 2019 series we have kevin wilson in the meeting room downstairs. Also authors will be presenting the joy of cooking. Tickets are 50 but include a copy of the newest addition and a small sampling of the most loved recipes and cocktails. And now for the reason you are here today the moderator is a pulitzer prizewinning columnist the author of two nonfiction books and then to bring back here next year for that. Please do me too welcome to the stage miss connie schultz. [applause] elected to the seat with the Democratic Party beginning the political career 1975 and from secretary of state and has taught at ohio state university. With progressive senators who changed america. And with the eight me
House, now that we been able to reopen and have you all here. I hope you take time afterward to walk around if you have another chance to see what weve done. By the end of this year we will have brought over 15 authors to toledo and thats made possible through generous report of the Library Legacy foundation and gifts will allow us to not only bring world are nine authors to toledo but also help the library to be at abthat includes things like homework helpers, the ready to read program and our summer read. Speaking of summer read, we will soon be announcing a winter read so keep an eye out for that we will try to get our Community Reading just like we do in the summer through the month of january. In addition to the Library Legacy foundation we owe a debt of gratitude to our presenting media sponsor. Buckeye broadband and the blade supporting sponsors peer group and hcr manor care. And Community Sponsors runs of the library. As i mentioned, weve had a great year of authors so far and
I said for 28 years for the Library Congress and retired a couple years ago. He told me that the National Book festival was something he needed help with and had been started in 2001 as an idea that came from laura bush, laura bush asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001 whether not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she started in the texas, the texas book festival he said there is not yet but there will be. He came up with the idea of how to put together National Book festival, the idea was to do it in the mall in a series of tents that were set up for the first year end then it turned out getting sponsorships were more difficult than they thought it would be. So he asked me if i get involved and i told him i would do so and i began to be a sponsor and a cochair of the event, ive done that for ten years or so. It is very important to me that the festival goes well and i enjoyed a great deal is a great gift for the country to have a natio