Focuses on international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century. In particular the era of the world wars and the cold war. And in addition to the age of eisenhower, dr. Hitchcock is the author of the bitter road to freedom, a new history of the liberation of europe which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a winner of the george lewis spear prize and was also a Financial Times best seller in the united kingdom. Following dr. Hitchcocks remarks, ann compton who you all know will join dr. Hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th president of the United States. Ann is a pioneer of journalism in america. She was the first woman to cover the white house for Network Television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. Her longevity and her impact are inparalleled. Anns career at abc news span seven president s of the United States, ten president ial campaigns. She anchored from the white house, from capitol hill, and president ial travel that took he
Australian singer helen reddy won a grammy for her 1972 feminist anthem, i am woman. This morning, her family says in a statement, reddy has passed away at a celebrity care home in los angeles where shes been living with dementia. Helen reddy was 78 years old. Turning now to the race for a vaccine against covid19 and a promising now study about one of the potential vaccines in development. Dr. Ali, thank you for joining us. A new study is out this morning on one of the potential covid19 vaccines and how effective it could be for older people. What are you hearing . This is a very good question, mona. Because im a geriatrician, i see this all the time. Older adults traditionally have a more hard time trying to mount an immune response with a vaccine. Thats why vaccines are not always effective. You see, as we get older, the immune system weakens, we have fewer tcells and less working bcells. So the phase one trial results were published in the new england journal of medicine showing tha
Code 19 rules to avoid even tougher restrictions. Religious or union denied the pandemic prevents pakistani and indian pilgrims from marking a sikh anniversary together. And hoping for help but doubt for any will come we beat some of the farmers in villages lost everything in sudans floods. The number of people who have died from corona virus in the u. S. Has now topped 200000 on the day that threshold was passed President Trump moved again to cast blame on china in an address to the Un General Assembly he slammed the country he said unleashed this plague on the world china in response call for unity in the fight against corona virus is our diplomatic editor james bass like all the other World Leaders speaking at the u. N. President trump speech was prerecorded his words or his controversial example. We have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy the china virus which has claimed countless lives in 188. 00 countries in the United States we launched the most aggressive mobili
They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co
Good morning. This hearing will now come to order. I am pleased to welcome our distinguished panel of Witnesses Today is the economic and security subcommittee. He focuses on the very important topic that i think has a lot of bipartisan interest in. And that is the economic and geostrategic challenge that the rise of china poses for the United States. Much as today, but in the future. China, communist party, Peoples Republic Party of china. Unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft and market manipulation and very prominently in my view, m nonreciprocal treatment. Not just an economic room but in many realms. It has been a force in the Global Economy that undercuts the resiliency and strength of the u. S. Economy. China has been one of the worlds Fastest Growing economies. Averaging close to 10 percent growth from 1979 to 2016. In 2014, china was the Worlds Largest economy and nursing power bases according to the international monetary. I believe there is a strong bipartisan