Good evening and thank you all so very much. If you will all sit down. Thank you so much for coming out to night. Its heartening to see so many people here on this important day for our country. Before we get started i just want to mention that this panel will go a little longer than usual because its a very special program as you can see from our guests and because the topic is so important, so we will run longer than usual, but in every other way it will be the same as our other panels. There will be a discussion and opportunity for question if you can make it to the microphone that would be great because this is being filmed on cspan and also live streamed on politics and prose Facebook Page at its helpful if people can hear the question as the question is asked. Lastly, there will not be a signing afterwards, but we do have copies of all of our guests books at the front. They are all very prolific. We dont have all of all of their books, but we have some of all of their books, so p
But the next hour, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits fayetteville arkansas to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For seven years now, we traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the book seen to our viewers. You can see more at cspan. Org citiestour. Hi, we are standing here with jason, who will be providing us a driving tour of fayetteville. We are standing in front of the walkers stonehouse. We have a sculpture. That is one of the many public pieces of art we have here in fayetteville. What are we going to see today . , we are going to take a tour of the historic and entertainment district. We are going to head up to the university of arkansas. And we will also get a lovely view of the highest point in fayetteville. Are you ready to go . Lets get out of here. We are on our way. This is one of my favorite spots and all of fayetteville. It is a oneway street, pretty quaint. On either side we have gtx, we have we have boutiques, we have a few places for food. We
Will explore this city is literary life and we will hear from area writers including author and historian brooks lavished ensure the history of the ozarks and talk about stereotypes people face living in the region. Those stereotypes have been developing for a couple hundred years and they are strong in a kind of stick with us no matter what we do. As you seem come you got that in the cnn you travel around northwest at the fortune 500 companies, Major Research university is is all kinds of business and industry and hightech stuff going on out there, but those images and stereotypes, you know, theyll stick with us. They are part of our story. We begin our tour with a university of Arkansas Library. To learn more about the life and accomplishments of jay William Fulbright. James William Fulbright was a long time serving in arkansas from 1944 to 1974, 30 years. Before that he was a u. S. Representative from or fall, arkansas area produced president of the university of arkansas, and the y
Far more than they realize. Sadly, frequently, much more than they ever get a chance to fulfill. And so if everyone in the world has godgiven gifts and everyone in the world has potential, why is it that this country is so special . Why is it that more things have been more possible for more people for more places here than anywhere else in the face of the earth . I think it is because our founders knew what my mother taught me. Our founders knew that everybody has godgiven gifts. Our founders knew that everyone has potential, and so they founded a nation on what was quite a radical idea at the time. It is a visionary idea still and the idea was that here, you have a right to fulfillpotential. That is what they meant when they said life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You have the right to fulfill your potential in this nation, they said, and they said, that right and this was the radical pie part, that right comes from god and should not be taken away by manner government. Man
On display by some member of congress, mostly republicans, as it relates to the livelihood of the director of office of personnel and management, will be on display when it comes to protecting the identity of about 22 million americans. And if that requires additional resources, both to protect the system or to ensure that these individuals can be afforded the Identity Theft protection and credit monitoring that they should get, then well certainly look forward to the strong bipartisan support it should have. Would the president or director come to the conclusion that it would be much harder if not impossible to have those conversations if she remained at the head of the o. P. M. . Josh im not aware of discussion along those lines. The president is expected to deliver a speech on tuesday in philadelphia to the naacp. Considering the context of the moment, can you suggest to us what the president , will he have a new message in a same way . Josh the president will focus on the need to r