Thank you. It is great to see all of you. Many of you are old friends. It is nice to come back. It feels like the homecoming. We have a great panel and a huge subject. How to know where to begin . This is about the first ladies as influence makers. That is the term that is itself subject to perhaps misunderstanding on multiple definitions. You have written among other about the book explicitly first ladies of the 20th century, which presume there is someone Something Different about them. Influence . Ou define it is a vault. It has evolved. We saw the influence begin as one that was ceremonial and focus, and since the beginning of the 20th century, and since 1960, we have seen the president ial spouse assuming more influence. It goes way beyond hello talk. Lady bird used to say that the first lady was the only one who could tell the president to shut up. And then, not be fired. That influence has taken various forms. Sometimes, the concerns of the first lady become the concerns of the
Squirming around on the floor, and i said, you werent thinking about 911 when you were robbing me. This is the real deal. This is an automatic. Do not like automatics, and now i have to kill these guys. Caught on camera, armed and dangerous. Panic erupts when three masked gunman storm a restaurant, demanding cash and jewelry. Its all caught on surveillance cameras. Feel like, at one point, that i was going to die. All you got to do is pull the trigger and he was shot in the face. I felt more helpless than anything. April 23rd, 2011, houston, texas. Its just after 2 00 a. M. , and hungry partiers move to the 24hour waffle house to wind down the night. One of the partygoers Favorite Places to eat, so it gets full. Everybody at waffle house that night had come from a club. Thats what people usually do. Patrons just arrived for a latenight snack when three men burst in with guns. Surveillance cameras record the violent ordeal as it unfolds. We hadnt been there five minutes because we hadnt
In the end, Sir Keir bottled it and allowed Diane Abbott to stand, writes Eddie Ford. But will he have to pay a political price? Almost certainly, Sunak will exploit his dithering