[laughter] every Good Organization needs a Pulitzer Prize recipient on the staff. Here at the bush center, we have bill mckenzie. [applause] thank you for convincing us to join you in hosting this. It is very exciting for the bush center that you are here. All the members of the Pulitzer Prize board as well as the representatives from 41s library and i forgot lbjs number. [laughter] as a history buff, i aim thrilled that jon and annette and ron chernow are here to be interviewed. [applause] in order to get my book reconsidered, i thought i would share an anecdote with you. I was tasked to talk to Vladimir Putin about the necessity to have a free press in order for the society to be a wholesom and vibrant society. He had just suspended the independent press. This was in slovakia. I couldnt identify it during the debates. [laughter] mr. Bush i said, vladimir it is very important that you have a vibrant press. He said, you are a hypocrite. You fired the famous newsman. I said what the hel
Professor eric foner examines the socialist party in new york city and milwaukee and the socialist party of America President ial campaigns of eugene debs. This class is an hour and ten minutes. This is a class at columbia university, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early femininism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on
These are to watch cspans washington journal of life beginning at 7 00 eastern on monday morning. During the discussion. Next, the acceptance speech of green party potential candidate jill stein and Vice President ial candidate. A discussion on the general Election Strategy of republican president to candidate donald trump. Another1 00 p. M. , chance to cq and eight a with author and civil right civil war historian james robertson. On saturday, physician and environment to help advocate still stein was officially nominated to be the green Party President ial nominee. Also with the green party to nominate in the 2012 election. Dr. Stein was introduced to her Vice President ial running Mate International human rights advocate. This is just under one hour. Are you ready to make history . [cheers] i am so honored to be with you this afternoon. It has been a tremendous experience the last couple of days. Before i get into my remarks, please allow me to thank my dear sister. I want you to un
Lets get started. I would to thank everyone for coming today. We will have a question and answer session as we move into the street i want to start off first by giving everybody a chance to introduce themselves, tell you and tiny bit about themselves and then we will get into some moderated questions and we will open it up for all of you. First, with the bank for much for being here. Especially at 9 00 a. M. If youre like me were out extremely late last night and this is super early. Thank you very much for taking the time to come here and participate. With that, i would like to give each panelist a chance to briefly introduce themselves. Startingith alexandra rojas. Hello, everyone. My name is alexandra. I used to work on the Burning Campaign as a Digital Field manager on the distributed organizer team. Shortly after, granted congress is not an old concept in women talking about it for quite some time. The founders, it is not shortly after, granted congress necessarily a new idea. A g
Announcer now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the Death Penalty and the potential for the Supreme Court to in the practice. This is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. It is about an hour. Thank you for being here. One of the greatest decisions a Society Makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the Death Penalty to. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where it is going. I cant imagine a better group of panelists. Steve is the president for the center for human rights. In my mind, the leading Death Penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. Traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. He had a big win in the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. He has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. Mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant perspective of indiv