Many of the people who had taken to the streets the last few years. Theres been a shooting and seemed like its happening for s one it wasnt one of the massive nights, but i remember seeing that and just, and making a note in my notebook that day that it captured a lot of the feeling that id been seeing and hearing from demonstrators. Host what was your experience in ferguson . Guest so i got to ferguson two days after Michael Brown had been killed. At the time i was a National Reporter for the post covering politics, i was covering congress. A very different beat. And i happened to be free. I had a bag packed. Id just gotten back from a trip to cover a senate race in michigan, and we were having a conversation around the office about, hey, you guys see whats going on in missouri, whats our Coverage Plan . I initially offered, hey, i can call some of the congressional c representatives, maybe theyll call for a federal investigation, get a d. C. Ish scoop, right . Finally an editor said,
Terrific. He started over 50 years with admiral arley burk and to years we were at 18th and k, and less opulent surroundings to sale the least. Thats putting it mildly. We would have doing this book talk in basement with no windows and would never heat gotten here with pture an and to have the james James Kitfield here whos wherein another remarkable book. You know his bio. One of the best, best military reporters to ever work in this town. He is one of the best authors. He has the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about, and the respect of his readers and the respect of fellow journalists. Thank you for saying that. And certainly of the policy community, who consider him to be someone of just impeccable talent and character, and we have all learned quite a lot from James Kitfield over the years. The book is terrific, and i know that all of you, the holiday are coming up so dont buy one, buy two. For those of you at home who are watching on the webcast or cspan, theyr
Men. Didnt teach the students, didnt have detailed responsibility anymore. The administrative board, joint administrative board, had responsibility for the progress and wellbeing of the students, the Extracurricular Activities were merged. The dorms were coresidential. So, the notion that there was a college there was frankly part of the same, like the thing that for decades, and engaged in some important endeavors for alumni and also that they a difference to students, older women who could serve as mentors, but college i think what finally happened when neil was president of harvard, linda will son president wilson, president of radcliffe, they engaged in two years of pretty quiet negotiations to try to establish as a fact what had been reality for many, many years. There wasnt a college left that never had a faculty. It had there just wasnt anything left as a real college to preserve. So the the amazing thing is that radcliffe survived survived 1,999th, not that it ended as a colleg
Good evening everyone. I am the Senior Vice President and it is my honor to host james and were doing this in partnership with the center for the study of the presidency and congress. Reword just talking upstairs wonderful things about the presidency and congress that was founded by the late david capture and he was a remarkable man who was well loved and he loved live to see the building which was terrific he started scsi as over 50 years ago and for years and with less opulent surroundings to say the least. We would be doing this in a basement with no windows windows, we never would have gotten here without david so it is an honor to be working with the center and of course, to have my friend James Kitfield here who has written another Remarkable Book you although his biography you dont have to read it one of the of best military reporters to work in this town one of the best authors and the respect of the people that he interviews and writes about one and his readers and fellow jour
Host here are the front pages of international papers. France and United Kingdom taking a look at the tax attacks in paris. The response in the Washington Post this morning and editors have this. Again, those are the thoughts of the Washington Post this morning as far as the reaction. For the first 45 minutes, we are interested in hearing from you on how the world should respond to these attacks in paris. Again, the numbers to call in. President obama was in tennessee yesterday to talk at a Community College. He remarked on the incident in paris and the u. S. Response. [video clip] we have been in close touch with the french government throughout this tragedy. The moment that that attack took place, we directed all of our Law Enforcement and counterintelligence operations to provide whatever support that our allies need in confronting this challenge. We are hoping that the immediate threat is now resolved. The french government continues to face the threat of terrorism. It has to remai