Author tevi troy will be here as well as by Karen Skinner to moderate this book. We will talk a little bit. We are looking forward to have some of you ask questions as well. The reason im very excited about our book. There is a red rare thing to be a person in action. In a rare thing to be a scholar and be excellent at the study of something. Tevi troy brings that to the table. Teddy was someone who worked in many places in Public Service to several departments. But also very importantly at the white house which is what these books are about. He is also a published author who has written in addition to this piece on the white house intellectuals in the white house as well as Emergency Preparedness in the white house and the use of social media by president s. I hope you will take the time to listen but also to think about buying this book. We head fourth of july coming up. Anytime is a good time to really learn more about the white house and presidencies. Karen skinner is also a person
If you do think there should be, the number is 202 7488000. If you dont, 202 7488001. A special line this morning to hear specifically from those who have recently lost their jobs, 202 7488002. You can send us a text, 202 7488003 is that number. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on , andl media, cspanwj facebook,. Facebook. You can start calling in now on those phone lines as we show you a chart about what congress and the president have approved so far from it comes to coronavirus relief. Thattrillion, including inst spending bill from back march, followed by the Families First Coronavirus Response act, the bulk of it coming from the , 2. 7 trillion, and the additional money approved in the paycheck protection program, additional money needed to heat that going last month. Of course, the unemployment numbers we learned on friday, stand like this as of april. 14. 7 jobless rate, 27 million in the month of april. Economic projections
Nomination. Timothy hi, im timothy naftali, director of the richard museum, yorba linda, california. I have the honor and privilege weld interviewing william in new york city for the Richard Nixon oral history program. Mr. Weld, thank you for joining us today. Please tell us how you came to be involved with the inquiry . A call in the fall of 1973. I was an associate at a law firm asking me if id be interested in interviewing for a job on the impeachment staff. Point it really hadnt gotten off the ground. I said, no, i have to stay here i make partner and then i called the guy back 15 seconds made aaving realized i dreadful mistake and i said can i still interview for it and he had a telephone interview with sam garrison who was running the republican side was not yet who fully unified. Some thought it never was. Went down and had a good interview with sam and i was in shortlycome thereafter and reported for duty in december of 1973. Timothy tell me a little bit about, first of all, ab
Im eugene meyer, president of this aside im delighted to walking of the 15th annual memorial lecture. This lecture darted as many of you shortly after 9 11 [inaudible] this lecture started as many of you know shortly after 9 11 can you hear better . Sorry . [applause] ted olson inaugural lecture reminded of what a means to be an american and how our legal tradition is a critical part of our identity as americans. That reminder remind is perhape crucial today. Both ted who is here today and barbara understood this connection. We want the series to remind lawyers of it so they foster legal principles that advance individual liberty and personal responsibility and the rule of law. Others lecturers have included Justice Scalia, chief justice roberts, ice president cheney, judges ken starr, robert bork, ray randall, edith jones, doug ginsburg, jeff sutton and then judge not justice neil gorsuch, also included former attorney general michael mr. Casey, from white as counsel don mcgahn, john
So the book became a susan head of the idea come to you for telling the story at this time . Jeff when i try to do when i write nonfiction books is to go everywhere where the people i write about went. Id rather drive and that way you really get a sense of place. Somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted and we can get in a car and go anywhere we want to. I thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that and as always happens when you look into history, theres more to it than you ever expected. Susan your book begins and ends with someone thats a minor character, jeff bixby. Who was he and why was he interesting to you . Jeff one of the things that struck me as i researched the book was the vagabonds and edison and whoever may be with him on that trip could literally change the lives of anyone they met. They were considered magicians for everything they brought to