A power sharing deal was signed. And the tough life lessons found is in tajikistan send their children back to school knowing they may return with coronavirus. A big moment in the race to the white house says the Democratic Party holds its National Convention to formally name joe biden as its president ial candidate coronavirus pandemic of course still raging so this years event is being held virtually we will have the vermont senator Bernie Sanders speaking a little later and also former 1st Lady Michelle obama headlining the 1st night speeches weve already heard a small part of that speech i know joe he is a profoundly decent man guided by faith. He was a terrific Vice President he knows what it takes to rescue an economy beat back a pandemic and lead our country and he doing this since he will tell the truth and trust science he will make smart plans and manage a good team and he will govern as someone whos lived a life that the rest of us can recognize more now with alan fischer hi
Blue and Herbert Hoover came to the white house is trained geologists, an experience world travelers who were successful in both the private and public sectors. But just months into hoovers term, the market crashed. First Lady Lou Hoover used her office to advocate volunteer is a man charity, but as the Great Depression deep into, theyre one term and it amidst great public frustration. Good evening, and welcome to first ladies influence an image. Tonight the story of Lou Henri Hoover the. Hoover administration in 1929 to 1933 and what an interesting life she had. Here to tell us about her years before the white house as we get started tonight is annette dunn lap. Historian author first ladies biographer scholar with the Hoover Institution and working on a biography of Lou Henri Hoover. What is to just interested you to dispensable years of your life looking into this one. I got interested in her with talking with a friend of mine through the library up in canton ohio and when i started
Policy while mayor is trying to get the minority vote. By the way, third in Morning Consult poll. And then theres this, Bernie Sanders, you think he looks sheepish on the flight there, why sheepish, because the socialist was flying first class, lets get to the market, nice way to open the show on valentines day i think, a long weekend coming up. Some traders on wall street are going to be thinking, wait a minute, do i want to hold stocks over long weekend, i cant fix anything until tuesday morning, who knows what will happen with the virus, in advance of that, we have the dow down just a point, not Much Movement there, s p down 2, nasdaq, im sorry, s p up 2, nasdaq up 14. All right, now this, china continues to report a surge in new cases and deaths from the virus. 121 deaths, chilling number for you, 1,716 medical workers affected since virus erupted in china, 6 of them have died. Carnival cruise lines have canceled 18 cruises in asia, lets get on with it, its friday, Varney Company i
Shoes visiting station w you uom in michigan public libraries. On april the ninth, 1865, general robert e. Lee surrendered and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. It remains the worst maritime disaster in American History. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Rshow wmu. Org. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. Obviously it is that it was painting but it does obviously it is a stylized voteing but it does the evoke what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had
History professor Theodore Wilson talks about their wartime experiences and how that later influenced them as future commanders in chief. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im not sure how much i knew about world war ii, but i do very much appreciate henrys very generous introduction. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im i am delighted to be taking part in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii in europe and particularly tonight in europe sponsored by the Truman Library institute and the Kansas City Public Library. Institutions with which i have enjoyed opportunities to cooperate and for which i have enormous respect as sources of intellectual inquiry in this region. One caveat before i take you back to the america of 1941 to 1945. Title of my lecture is a gloss on tom brokaws bestseller the greatest generation, which