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Bipartisan policy center. Thank you for joining us with the release of the new book it is called white house and tevi troy is the author for commentary on the book. Let me start by introducing our guest and we are looking forward to having some of you ask questions as well. And then to be a person of action to be a scholar tevi troy hands work in many places to several departments and the department of labor but also at the white house also an accomplished author who has written in addition to this piece on the white house with intellectuals as well as the use of social media presence. I hope you will listen but also think about buying the book fight house. We have fourth of july and then to learn more about the white house. A person a scholarly refute someone his work most recently in the white house and the state department of the advisory and other roles and the director of politics and strategy at Carnegie Mellon university. There she has studied the presently written books on reag
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How many of you are between the ages of 20 and 60, who do not remember where you were when you heard about the tragedy of 9 11 . Udden, traumatic, unexpected events leave indelible images in our mind and in our psychies. On november s old 22, 1963. I was in the second grade, in a city called hayward, california. And the older sister of a girl in my class came to the door because it was raining outside and we couldnt go out for recess and said the president had been killed. Of course, i didnt believe her. Later that day, i went home, across the street to where my grandmother lived. I saw my mother and grandmother watching television and i knew it was real. That weekend, i Read Everything i could and watched everything i could on television about this extraordinary event. And that was the weekend that was the catalyst for my fascination, my wife would say obsession, with how the news media shape Public Opinion. In december of 2010, i turned 55 and started wondering, what do i want people
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