Contagion. Struggle against epidemics is a global one. Sunday, at 4 00 p. M. On real america, the 1948 film the eternal fight. From a disease infected zone, the traveler became unwittingly a carrier of deadly germs. The germs stayed and spread. Sunday, at 6 00 p. M. John hancock created a committee as a whole to gather amongst ourselves an individual caucuses and decide how we should proceed. Do we really want independentsy and then he committed a committee of five men. From the tour of monticello and bill barker you know i served 40 years in Public Service and yet i have often thought if heaven had given me a position to migrate it would have been on a small spot of ground, well watered and near a good market for the produce. Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on cspan3. Every saturday night American History tv takes you to College Classrooms around the country for lectures in history. Why do you all know who Lizzie Borden is and raise your hand if you ever heard o
The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted the event. [crowd conversations] ok. We are going to get started. Good evening. I am pete peterson, dean of the pepperdines graduate school of Public Policy. It is a pleasure to welcome you to our calabasas campus for tonights discussion with dr. Gene kopelson on the relationship of ike and reagan. Those of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became known and praised for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. President reagan, first as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. One
Reagan. That may be some of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans overall political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became so widely known and praise for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. In fact president reagan, first , as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. But one of those that jumps out at me, a few weeks ago, we had our annual Pepperdine Associates dinner in Beverly Hills at the beverly wilshire. This was on february 9 of 2020. In her remarks in talking about the future of pepperdine under our new president , our chancellor, sarah jackson, remarked tha
Its 5 am here in the russian capital thanks for joining us our. National guard. Well the u. N. Human Rights Office has released a report identifying 112 companies which it says all supporting illegal settlements in the west bank the findings have come in for a shop criticism from israel though its called the document shameful unsuspended toys with the body. Who have a boy good will be bored to the human road going sue is a buzz buddy that is devoid of influence the state of israel will not tolerate this discriminates he and he israeli policy and will take action to prevent the implementation of these kinds of decisions the United Nations was referring to the israeli settlements that are constructed in the west bank post the 19676 day war. The 121 officially recognized settlements house around half a 1000000 Israeli Settlers these places offer places of worship homes and businesses that serve the region for the israelis this list included 112 Companies Operating in these settlements the
Takes years to do it, too. So we try to subsidize good working biographers. I mention this because the deadline for the next years fellowship is coming up january 6, so if any of you are biographers have no of people who would love to do a biography, go on our website. George packer is a staff writer at the atlantic and the author of the unwinding and enter history of new america which is the winner of the 2013 National Book award. His other nonfiction books include the assassin date american iraq a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize and blood of the liberals, when of the 2001 robert f. Kennedy book award. Hes also the authohe is also to novels and a play, betrayed and the editor of a two volume edition of the essays of george orwell. Hes really one of the countries best working journalists today. With that introduction, im going to sit down and begin to have a conversation with George Packer and we will talk for about 30 minutes, 20, 25 minutes and then we will have time for questio