Of Georgetown University and author of lets get free. Also this week in the presentation of the J Anthony Lukas prize for nonfiction writing. Former army officer and historian looks at us involvement in the middle east. War correspondents christina lamb, Janine Giovanni and kim barker share their reporting experiences and we talked to local authors and visit literary sites in mississippi. For complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and office, television for serious readers. We start with erin mchugh who talk about political blunders throughout history. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome, thanks for coming out here on a brisk spring evening. Appreciate you being here. If you would take a moment to look at your cell phones and make sure they are turned off. Following todays reading and question and answer you will find me outside, we have plenty of books available including one new were than todays. Great Gra
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Im going to test them against the national interests, test them against principles and values, and what i and my advisers think is doable here. Then how do i address the probably . I think thats the way it would work, so its going to depend upon each specific issue that comes before the commander in chief. Im going to follow up in a second. I think its important for those who will be president to communication their vision of the Foreign Policy they intend to bring, and its important to do that in some detail. I hope we can have that during the course of this campaign. I think its important for the next president to communicate that with confidence, because as we both discussed here today, the United States is and has the resources to be the leading nation in the world and should be, and i think its required to lead leading nation in the world. I think its important for us to focus on Economic Growth, and i think there needs to be an important focus on allies. And the value this unique
Outgoing president of the chapter and were grateful for the gracious support youve given us throughout the year. Youve meant so much to us. We are endebted to our distinguished panelist who have come together to celebrate the distinguished legacy of justin Antonin Scalia. Todays stewardship spence, mr. Kevin walker and mr. David derek. Todays event is an existence to the brilliant and storied legacy of Justice Scalia. He served on the Supreme Court nor nearly three decades, one of the langest tenures on the institution. Marking one of the milestones on the court, chief Justice Roberts said since scalia came on the Supreme Court, the place has not been the same. Indeed, kagen remarks that Justice Scalia will go down in history as one of the most transformational Supreme Court justices of the nation. His views on interpreting texts have changed the way we think and talk about law. All interpretation and sub species originalism and constitutional construction, his principle and courageous
You can see that live here on cspan at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Then, sunday on cspan, utah congressman rob bishop, the chairman of the Natural Resources committee, hell talk about puerto ricos debt crisis, the u. S. Territory is 70 billion in debt and has already missed millions of dollars in debt payments. Congressman bishop will answer questions about efforts in congress to help puerto rico restructure its debt. Newsmakers on 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan unday. Book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend and here are some programs to watch for this weekend. On saturday at 10 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, don watkins, author of equal is unfair. Don the reason i say unequality is not a problem, its not a concern of how much money do you have but how did you get it . Did you get it through something that is fair or through a process that is unfair . And when you try to equalize people that earn honestly, thats what were challenging and saying thats no