[applause] its great to be around this table once again today because we have got some wonderful breakfast, and the people from all over the world, in due course we will have a chance to visit with all of them. The conversations go beyond breakfast. They continue on until everything going on in the world. Diplomacy might better contract with our congress, our administrations, others in washington, the leaders. I am excited about taxes the idea. Of course, it really follows through with work that course and my friend, john shaw has done an inspired me to have a new chapter in my life after the senate the continuing to think about the rest of the world, think about ways in which those who withdraw for service might be more effective and more humane. Let me just say at the outset that this is an exciting day to talk about a new book above john f. Kennedy, the pathway to the presidency. It is an exciting book. When i first read i wrote back to him. He may recall this very short letter. Joh
Ago the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world. A promise called the promise of a land where a man could build. His own raise his children in freedom. They call from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. Themselves new and Higher Standards of living and yet in one of the great River Valleys of america something went wrong. Here in the Tennessee Valley three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people. Living in a ruined land for these children the hope and the thomas were dead for them. The only future was poverty ignorance drudgery. The struggle to scratch a bare living from the reluctant soil even the older man had forgotten that the valley had once been bright with promise and with hope Horace Higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. Whats the use he said . Fill up those gullies in the first rain washes it away. Its the same with all the land around here. It may have been good land once. But its bad land now. Badl
Ago the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world. A promise called the promise of a land where a man could build. His own raise his children in freedom. They call from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. Themselves new and Higher Standards of living and yet in one of the great River Valleys of america something went wrong. Here in the Tennessee Valley three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people. Living in a ruined land for these children the hope and the thomas were dead for them. The only future was poverty ignorance drudgery. The struggle to scratch a bare living from the reluctant soil even the older man had forgotten that the valley had once been bright with promise and with hope Horace Higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. Whats the use he said . Fill up those gullies in the first rain washes it away. Its the same with all the land around here. It may have been good land once. But its bad land now. Badl
For myself, im reading this one mother of the groom. The next book im recommending is the israeli solution by Caroline Glick and also Lynne Cheneys book on the life of james madison. And again you cant go wrong with some Light Reading as well, so thats what im reading this summer. What are you reading this summer . Tell us whats on your Summer Reading list. Tweet us at the booktv, posted or Facebook Page or send us an email, booktv at cspan. Org. Booktv continues now with more nonfiction authors and books. Harvey kaye because president franklin d. Roosevelt a public acknowledgment on january 6 of 1941 of 4 freedoms, but all people should be entrusted with. Which included freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The author argues a reminder of the four freedoms because todays political and social issues. This is about 45 minutes. First of all i want to thank National Archives staff are invited me to speak. Ive always had a special a
Administrations, others in washington, the leaders. I am excited about taxes the idea. Of course, it really follows through with work that course and my friend, john shaw has done an inspired me to have a new chapter in my life after the senate the continuing to think about the rest of the world, think about ways in which those who withdraw for service might be more effective and more humane. Let me just say at the outset that this is an exciting day to talk about a new book above john f. Kennedy, the pathway to the presidency. It is an exciting book. When i first read i wrote back to him. He may recall this very short letter. John, i wish that i have had this book before i tried to run for president in 1995. It really has been most destructive, and some of the things i learned from the buck in retrospect, although i do not intend to run again for presidency. I want to reassure you well that you really have to want to do it full time. As this book will illustrate, from the time that jo