As most of you know, they had the most expensive arts from jews and others, as part of the project to eliminate all jewish culture and identity. On ten occasions, they had the honor of hosting the restitution ceremony. Other artifacts that were stolen, have been returned to the rightful owner. [applause]. Thank you. Some of you were with us last year. They had the u. S. Attorneys office in the Southern District of new york here and we presented that was stolen from her grandfather she was given that back. Were proud to build on that. We hope that you will join us for the next event, it will be recovering art. Two lawyers who have led the fight to find the stolen artwork. Legal and ethical issues in recovering the art. October 17th at 7 00 p. M. Right here. Tonight we welcome mary ann lane, the author of hitlers last hostages. The traces, and obsession with art. The authors of former former chief european art reporter for the wall street journal and european art contributed for the new
Rain. Center was in a 52 after being 51, rain mendocino county, lake county, also moving in from the bay to inverness, san anselm Russian River. The systems on its way but it will be here until late saturday early sunday. Which allows us to get two days of a break starting tomorrow. Today 60s and 70s. Lets see, i think there is some good news out there. A little better on the situations . Were we to talk about that, were going to look at some of these other commutes. The good news part comes from the 680 drivethrough concord into pleasantville and creek. You will see that traffic is moving along pretty well as you drive through. We do have an update on that situation in southern san jose. On 85, we have five pictures of that. This is the scene on 85 southbound where four people were killed in that overnight crash on 85. Southbound traffic is diverted, Elissa Harrington tells us what they are saying about how this collision occurred. Reporter according to the chp this suv was packed wit
In your home, we are trying out this new mode of communications. But its perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As all of you know, we were founded in 1961 i first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had the vision at such a young age in such a short bit of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to get nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the standard of the white house but also an education mission, to teach at to tell the stories of the white house and its history going back to 1792 when George Washington who we are talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. Creating educational materials and content is a core part of her mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the cater house and around the country, and our online social media content and website content. And this is an
Weschler. We will give her the word. But Lawrence Weschler as often his books have always had Something Interesting going on. I say this, he sort of in the singular way writes about, has written about unique people or sometimes theres some extra situations is welcome often at the heart of his books are these unique and unusual and distinct people. And this is a time with often it feels like a lot of the force of our work to try to make assaulting exactly alike and something conformed and conventional. Hes done this, the last time he was here in seattle was just a couple of years ago with a man most of what well known in the world of film, walter murch who but they kept in touch and for all this work is done as a film editor, one of the foremost, i mean, oscars and everything, is also an astrophysicist by heart. With sort of rogue theories in the book calls ways passing in the night was a dialogue about what he was doing. Hes done this in various ways and various times. Tonight he is he
Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th