And taught High School History in new york. He is also native of new york and an Intelligence Officer in the naval reserves and the book he is going to talk about tonight is his first book and were really pleased to have charles here, the author of nation builder. John quincy adams and the grand strategy of the republic. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you very much for the introduction and also for helping me set up here this evening. Id also like to say im really excited to be here at island books, supporting a local independent book store which we should also purchase many, many books from and id like to thank judy crosby, the owner for inviting me here. For those in the audience, you look up, theres a boom mic. Of you look back theres a camera. This means that cspans booktv is filming this event, and shy tell you as an historian, as a professor, as a nerd i have hit nirvana. I have made it. Im very excited to be speaking here on booktv as well. Most importantly though id like to tha
Many of the problems we saw at the end began at the very beginning. I spoke about the attempt to control all institutions and all parts of the economy and political life and social life. One of the problems is that when you do that, when you try to control everything, you create opposition and potential dissidents everywhere. If you tell all artists they have to paint the same way and to artist says no, i want paint another way, you have just made him into a political visited. Political dissident. If you want to subsidize housing in this country and the populace agrees that it is something we should subsidize, put it on the Balance Sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it costs. But when you deliver it through these thirdparty enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mac, when you deliver the subsidy through a Public Company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way of
Made substantial that we have one pointed peaks the american its on the ground in afghanistan over 1000. By the end of this year over 10000 and that is part of a trend that at the end of 2016 we will have our military personal act into the embassy. The kind of fulfillment to wind down in to wind down at a very responsible way. Last week the administration and you took about great pains to talk about executive actions. There has been a tremendous amounts of Fact Checking at the washington post. Understanding it is preference that george bush take action not nearly as statistically represented by this administration. Will you either retract that or stop using that in the future . I will not, major. The fact of the matter is the Bush Administration to take an executive action and did have an impact on 1. 5 Million People living in this country and that is about 40 of the population at the time. That has beening reported by the Associated Press, New York Times and the Congressional Researc
Facebook. Com booktv. Really it was what convinced regulars that an electric car was a viable Consumer Option and it caused them to develop a set of rules that would come to a much larger package of air pollution related rules that essentially set out a timeline for innovation and said in 1998 2 of the cars that are sold in california have to be electric. And by 2003 10 have to be electric. But that failed. I would say it didnt feel. It was postponed, and one of the good things about this policy was there was a builtin mechanism. Every couple of years didnt come back and say this is working, is it not working, what isnt working, is Technology Ready . And then they would also fight a lot with automakers about it. How did the automakers feel about the cost . I dont think you like dimensional, probably tasseled likes them but its been an evolving relationship to address times the relationship has been more or less saw but in general relationship has been characterized by a series of very
This is a Landscaping Company along the 400 block of north park avenue in lower providence. Now this fire started shortly before 9 00. Its been going for about an hour now. Right now we have no reports of any injuries. Of course well bring you more as this news warrants. Meanwhile a mystery surround surrounding a missing moment county woman. The 20yearold was last seen leaving home friday night. State police found her car within the last hour. But deidra is gone g evening im iain paper page. Im lucy noland. Dave schratwieser spoke to her family hes live in king of prussia where state police found her car. Dave . Reporter lucy, these are the missing persons flyers going up around the area the last couple of days after deed today disappeared friday night when her car broke down off 422 here. Police tell us tonight no indication of any kind of foul play but we spoke with her mom tonight. She just wants her daughter back home. I dont know where she was was heading at all. Reporter for beth