A country which is useful at this time might suddenly be a place receiving 20,000 refugees in three days or Something Like that. One of the things that we are already doing and have to do more of is theable to surge staff between posts and also between functions within the Foreign Office in london so that we have a more flexible structure is that can respond to reseissly sh reseissly the reality that priorities can change and change rapidly and we need to respond in a way that is appropriately agile. Can i ask you about another area of your budget. At the present there is still an fco grant to the British Council. Is that one of the areas that you may well be getting rid of, and what are the implications to you do, for the branding of the British Council and the sense of its identity with the soft power of our country. Well the British Council plays a vitally Important Role in projecting the u. K. Soft power. But it has been generating an increasing proportion of the resources it needs
In his book, you lie jack cashill chronicles what he argues are president obamas falsehoods. This hourlong event was hosted by the Jackson County Republican Club in lees summit, missouri. Thank you, jim. Thank you all for coming out tonight, and thank someone for the fact that theres no baseball game tonight. [laughter] you know, there are several major religions that believe the Second Coming will be in Jackson County, missouri. [laughter] and they may be right. It may be sooner than we think. Okay. Five years into the obama presidency, heres what liberal constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley said of the president. Quote barack obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. Liberal First Amendment lawyer James Goodall was harsher still president obama will surely pass president Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of National Security and press freedom. As they say, if your friends are saying about you, imagine what your enemies are saying. [laughter]
These Tall Buildings outside the reading room. All you could see with sky. So its really a place where the city has grown up around the library. Host weiser called the reading room . Guest the rose family made this reading room in honor of their children when it was renovated in 1998 and during the renovation, every square inch of the surpluses in this room are touched by a. So its really restored to its original splendor. Host do you know about the paintings . Guest deserve murals that we have to actually recreate. They were in such a bad state of disrepair before the renovation. These were created in a studio on canvas and installed here. They are not paying michelangelo style. Host how much of the librarys collection of artifacts are available for people to see . Guest all of them are collections or more than 51 million items and we have all kinds of things from books to manuscript and archival role materials to photographs, prints, and menus, maps, all kinds of materials. Host one
Four years. Most cabinet secretaries dont stay past the first term. We have an interesting moment where the president asked the secretary to stay on anything shes been doing a fantastic job. He says will you stay and someone told us he didnt put the screws to her this time and she didnt want to stay. Guest we had a situation where leon panetta told him on election day that he wasnt going to stick around and the successor susan rice the one that obama wanted to put into the job was getting absolutely destroyed on capitol hill over benghazi in the talking points on the morning talk shows in addition to that her charms to maneuver some of the senators to her side. Chanted that getting so hes looking at a situation where he will have to have a new defense secretary and that new secretary of state. He has someone who has become most loyal and strong advisor to him. If we keep Hillary Clinton in here for a while we can resurrect susan rice a little susan rice a little bit. An interesting mom
Saturday, 12 and 9 p. M. On sunday, and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online youre kind of booktv. Org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. Welcome today to a booktvs live coverage of the 2014 texas book festival held in austin, the state capital. Over the next six hours will hear from nine authors on such topics as social change an instant, the Death Penalty, the global history of train travel. Author and professor ilan stavans starts off with a discussion about his latest book, a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. Hello and welcome. Happy sunday morning, everybody. I name is nathan. Im here with ilan stavans, professor of latin american latino studies at amherst college, author of last time i counted about 10,000 books. The latest of which is a most imperfect union a contrarian history of the United States. It is do you call it a graphic novel if its nonfiction . We have in