Capehart good evening. His life has been a series of firsts the first African American u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia, the first African American Deputy Attorney general, the first African American attorney general of the United States. His life has been committed to excellence and social justice. Tonight we are here to celebrate a life well lived, and here to help us is the amazing artistry of mr. Raul midon. [playing invisible chains] midon when i was a little boy vivid dreams were my favorite toy sweet music set me free i closed my eyes to see the invisible chains invisible chains now ive grown to be a man gonna make my way with my own two hands wish that i could be absolutely free from these invisible chains invisible chains where theres a will there is a way, mmhmm where theres a will there is a way oh, whoa, yeah where theres a will there is a way oh, whoa where theres a will there is a way making my way toward my redemption this prison is of my own invention, yeah w
Apparently mutual with trump regularly expressing his admiration of putins strength. Today, however, The American President seemed to place his russian counterpart on the other side of a purported war against Western Civilisation. During a speech in the polish capital, warsaw, he called on russia to stop destabilising ukraine and other countries and to end support for hostile regimes such as those in syria and iran. With the pair due to meet tomorrow at the 620 summit in hamburg, newsnights diplomatic editor mark urban has been exploring The American President s apocalyptic warning. Its the president s second visit to europe and todays speech was billed as a big Foreign Policy moment. Given in warsaws Krasinski Square in front of a memorial to the 191m uprising against the nazis, an appreciative audience had been brought in by the polish government. It fell to the first lady to do the warm up. The president of the United States, donald] trump. And with that, trump set out his stall of
History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Next on American History television, pulitzer prizewinning author eic foner on the challenges of establishing civil rights for friedman in the reconstruction period and beyond. Eric foner. With that, i would like to introduce eric foner. Eric when iuntered was a College Student thinking about becoming an historian and had visions of riding a good book. Then i read freemen, free soil, maybe ir and thought ought to stop now. I will not be able to write a book that good. Whatis is his first book, is he going to write . I ran away from antebellum history. You cant compete with people like him. I have come back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of erics more than 20 books. I would review the list, but we do not have that much time. I do want to say, and this is the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, i notice he has written a
Fareed, together with zakaria. I recommend to you, if you really want to get an understanding of the middle east, read davids novels. They are outstanding to get a real understanding of the very subtle and byzantine trends going on in the middle east. David, as i say, will go ahead and introduce the other panelists. Thank thank you to tod, you, all of you, for coming back after your coffee break. We are glad to see you. This really is a kind of conspiracy of old friends. Tod and i go back to college. Evan and i also go back to college. We began as journalists together at the hartford crimson in addition to being outstanding journalists with time and newsweek is now prominent, his most recent book is an amazing effort to get inside that extraordinary difficult personality. Evan is going to discuss an historian of the cold war, thinking about the issues that underlie our discussions today. Their reading list would begin with the book that evan and Walter Isaacs wrote. It would certainly
Away from antebellum history and became a contemporary historian. Because you cant compete with people like him. But eventually, i came back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of erics more than 20 books. I would read you the list, but we do not have that much time. I do want to say, though, and this is always the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, i notice he has written a book called dance for the city 50 years of the new york city ballet, and i can think of no better preparation for giving a talk today, at this moment, on reconstruction and the radical republicans who helped reconstruct the nation than somebody who knows how to move quickly on his feet. [laughter] and with that, i would like to introduce my good friend, somebody who i admire enormously, the winner of the lincoln prize, the pulitzer prize, and i think every other prize that is available, eric foner. [applause] thank you, Paul Finkelman, for that. T