This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
You about winston. Its been a lovely day and a half. Were more than experts on the family life of Winston Churchill. And it was very exciting yesterday to hear Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary at chart well. And part of the project were doing we plan to open the secretary room in 2020. So if you want to hear more about that, theres something in your pack act the project. In terms of churchill and island. I was thinking what we had in the collection. About that. We have a gift from london. Of a replica of one of my favorite items in the house. In the library. I was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee. Well hear more about that now. So we have another family of writers like the churchills here. We have the bews with us this morning. We have lord bew. Professor of politics at Queen University in belfast. And we have john. Who is professor of i have that wrong. So lord bew is the politics expert.
Talking about what it was like to be a secretary at chart well. And part of the project were doing we plan to open the secretary room in 2020. So if you want to hear more about that, theres something in your pack act the project. In terms of churchill and island. I was thinking what we had in the collection. About that. We have a gift from london. Of a replica of one of my favorite items in the house. In the library. I was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee. Well hear more about that now. So we have another family of writers like the churchills here. We have the bews with us this morning. We have lord bew. Professor of politics at Queen University in belfast. And we have john. Who is professor of i have that wrong. So lord bew is the politics expert. And john is the history professor and Foreign Affairs and Award Winning historian. Theyll give us an excellent take this morning. Starting off with john. Can we have a big wa
Ireland. And Clement Attlee. From new york city, this is about 45 minutes. Good morning everybody. Its such a pleasure to be here. In a room with fellow sharing stories. And finding out what inspired you about winston. Its been a lovely day and a half. Were more than experts on the family life of Winston Churchill. And it was very exciting yesterday to hear Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary at chart well. And part of the project were doing we plan to open the secretary room in 2020. So if you want to hear more about that, theres something in your pack act the project. In terms of churchill and island. I was thinking what we had in the collection. About that. We have a gift from london. Of a replica of one of my favorite items in the house. In the library. I was really interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee. Well hear more about that now. So we have another family of writers like the churchills here. We h
Mccains war record. Rivals pounce, but he shows hes not being hurt by the verbal sparring. And more than 50 years of cold war hostility between cuba and the United States coming to an end. We have a historic report. The top story. It the administration decided to clear the Iranian Nuclear deal with the United Nations before congress. Republicans obviously not happy Fox News White House correspondent kevin court has more. Reporter minutes into this welcome, president obama turned his attention to another country. Iran and the nuclear deal that he says has earned worldwide approval. Among the International Community and also among experts in Nuclear Proliferation and congress will Pay Attention to that. The consensus that he was talking about was a 15 to nothing vote in the United Security council. That creates the sanctions will be for iran. Although that we dont see this unity enough here at the u. N. , the countries of the United Nations did unite behind the cause of preventing this p