The National Book festival celebrating the library of congress, the champions of the book, they are also an amazing archival resource and are champions for the kind of Archival Research that goes into writing this sort of history that i wrote and continue to write that could not be done without these amazing washington inste at the Washington Convention center. We are now joined by author chasten buttigieg. His book i have something to tell you came out originally in 2020. The young adults version came out this year. Chasten buttigieg, you tell a story at the beginning of the book about going from starbucks to washington, d. C. In 18 years. What happened . Chasten the stickiness of starbucks helps if you adjust to washington, d. C. I fell in love with the mayor and did not see my life going from Teaching Middle School to running for president. But it has changed life in many ways. I really miss teaching but i am also very happy to be on tour with this oak. I feel like im in a larger cl
And i want to finish off by saying that while we are here at the National Book festival celebrating the library of congress, the champions of the book, they are also an amazing archival resource and are champions for the kind of Archival Research that goes into writing this sort of history that i wrote and continue to write that could not be done without these amazing washington instive at the Washington Convention center. We are now joined by author chasten buttigieg. His book i have something to tell you came out originally in 2020. The young adults version came out this year. Chasten buttigieg, you tell a story at the beginning of the book about going from starbucks to washington, d. C. In 18 years. What happened . Chasten the stickiness of starbucks helps if you adjust to washington, d. C. I fell in love with the mayor and did not see my life going from Teaching Middle School to running for president. But it has changed life in many ways. I really miss teaching but i am also very h
Kevin my name is kevin butterfield. It is my great pleasure to introduce you that todays speakers. Our center is one of the sponsors we are proud to bring americas most beloved writers to this room. We want to welcome everyone joining us live on cspan. Our next panels records of survival escaping genocide and human trafficking. His new book is waiting to be arrested at night. A memoir of chinas genocide. The founder and director of resilience force. His book is titled the great escape, a true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams. He is a lecturer in princeton. Our moderator writes for the Washington Post opinion section and is the author of prisoner, my 544 days in an iranian prison, solitary confinement, and the extraordinary efforts it took to get me out. Join me in welcoming them. [applause] i want to thank everybody for being here today and for watching me at home. This is an extraordinary honor and privilege for me. Over the last couple of weeks i have got to know him intima
At 10 eastern, nikki haley will announce if shes dropping out. The wall street journal says she will not immediately endorse donald trump but will urge him to win over independents. If haley wants a political future, shell have to make up quickly with mr. Trump because trump is now the almost certain republican candidate in november. Super tuesday was a runaway win for him. He has won every state except vermont9. That was haleys only state win. In his speech, his victory speech, trump called for unity which he said, quote, would happen very quickly, presumably unity within the Republican Party. Now, President Biden, he won his primaries although there was a very large uncommitted vote, nearly 20 in minnesota. He did not hold a victory rally, he did not appear on camera. He issued a statement saying in part he, trump, is driven by grievance and grift. He is determined to destroy our democracy, end quote. As of now, it looks like a rematch, biden versus trump in no. Now, you will see nik
not told where. oh, wait, in his wilmington garage. and then yesterday, a fourth batch discovered at the wilmington house. i m not going to argue this is exactly like donald trump s case. he kept saying he d turned over all the classified papers only to have fbi agents find 100 more curl that curl that raid on mar-a-lago. bind voluntarily cooperated, it s different, nothing to see here. but once robert hur was appointed to investigate biden s mishandling of classified documents, the media s tone gradually became more skeptical. republicans are jumping on the discovery of classified documents at president biden s privacy office, equating it to former president trump s large stash of government materials stored at mar-a-lago. apples to oranges really. thanks to joe biden, america s most sensitive secrets were floating around in an unsecured office that was bought and paid for by the ccp. of course, joe biden doesn t need to defend himself. why should he? he s got don lemo