Biography is alienating those the way the visual presentation there, the way they are written so i wanted the reader to feel like they had never read the president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book at the beginning of each section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts so that was part of it, i did think a lot about my reader and the other part, washington has been called by an adams family series editor, president ial editor. They edit the papers. Called him that to my face. [laughter] adams which you cant compare, there too much fun. The thing is, you can break him out of this mode, he can be fun and interesting but you have to have fun with them, its a whole different thing but a lot of the things you see are the way i organized it in my head when i was trying to make sure that things across and i decided to be vulnerable and share with everyone. I do think there are certain things that help you understand, i can tell you
And im James Fletcher we will get to those headlines here in a moment, but we do want to begin this hour. With a check of the weather and job john in the so i miss my couch guys, im so glad to be i think graham is a little sad that his moment, a famous but yes, were looking outside there. So i was like well this kind of feels got today a lot of people i think probably going back to work we gradually see more and more cars venturing onto roadways as wolf were slowly getting there at least looking out there at berkeley this morning skies are nice and clear definitely no fog anywhere across the bay whether youre at the coast or further inland were going to be looking at some pretty clear skies on through the afternoon ahead of us and just a nice calmer day ahead with the slightly warmer temperatures too. Now current winds pretty calm for field to her breezier spots well common napa and oakland. Windy enough that in fairfield in others parts of Solano County we actually do have a red flag
I was about to say how special this night is that you all beat me to it which is great. Welcome. I am the executive director of the Jfk Library Foundation and on behalf of our colleagues in the library we are thrilled you could be here all forms are great but tonight it is a treat because its also the beginning of the centennial weekend and we planned this months ago we literally thought would be the best pair a speaker and moderator we could get for this historic time . This is we have and we are thrilled they are both here. [applause] first a few brief announcements first the underwriters and sponsors including our media is spent on sponsors and for the centennial. We are kicking off the centennial about what were doing over the next few days but over the next few days there are opportunities from seeing a new exhibit with 100 items with those that have never been seen publicly before opening tomorrow. Doing a peace corps day we have an astronaut here as part of the attribute to nasa
Booktv. Org. And no one book tv, were showing you some programs about u. S. President s. First this past february, lexus took talks about a biography of George Washington bridge offers her thoughts about why her book is different than other books on the same. She spoke with no times colonists in politics and prose bookstores in washington dc re read. I want to president ial history because the presidency and especially the one who it was it bill sora, who everyone pressured into it. Its really important that everyone understands him in the presidency. But i think the biographies are alienating those in the way that they their visual presentations, there title some of the way they are written. So i really wanted it the reader to be like that if they have never read a president ial biography, they had everything that they needed at the beginning of the book and then at the beginning of the section come to equip them to feel they are ready the experts. I really did think a lot about my re
Worst jobs report since the 1930s and the great depression, how do we dig ourselves out of this hole . Michael it will take a variety of things. We have a government ordered supply side shutdown of the economy, so we could not produce a lot of services because people could not go to work. At least substantially for good health reasons. And that morphed into an added demand side problem as people were not getting incomes, etc. The congress and the president have taken action to try to cushion on the income side. The fed and to some extent the congress with various Small Business loans have tried to enable firms to bridge to the other side. Many of whom have retained workers even though demand for their products is way down. But this unprecedented shutdown of the economy has caused a substantial amount of harm. We have got lots of people unemployed. The data that came out today of course is a snapshot of what was going on in the middle of april. Since then, additional people have filed c