Jimmy oh, my goodness. Thank you very much. Please [ cheers and applause i feel the love i feel the love [ cheers and applause thank you very much. Please, welcome. Welcome to the tonight show. Please give it up for the roots, ladies and gentlemen, right there [ cheers and applause guys, it feels like theres so much going on right now. Everyones talking about the barr testimony, and the royal baby could be here any second. Also the Kentucky Derby is this weekend. So is Cinco De Mayo. [ cheers ] its a lot to go over. So lets just jump in and cover it all at once first up, the barr testimony attorney general william barr admitted yesterday that he didnt review all the evidence before summarizing the Mueller Report some people are even saying his summary was a coverup in fact, democrats are betting on it. You know what else people are betting on the Kentucky Derby [ laughter ] the two most exciting minutes of sports. And while some people like placing bets on which horse will win, others
Throwers of change. Were not the same thing repeating itself. Then Senate Candidate Dianne Feinstein first appeared on face the nation in 1992. Miss feinstein is gender a plus or minus for you . Theres sop many men back there and we dont see anything happening. Reporter the californian was a pioneer, winning her seat in the year of the woman. The senate went from two female lawmakers to six. Feinstein said it was the first time she felt her gender wasnt a negative for voters. When she was elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors in 1969 there werent many women in public office. Feinstein became the first female mayor of the city following the assassination of two of her colleagues. Both mayor muss coney and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed. Reporter she never forget that experience and championed gun laws, including the 1994 assaut weapons ban when she reached the senate. I am quite familiar with firearms. I became mayor as a product of assassination. Im aware
Speaker marjorie j. Spruill an authority on the womens right movement. She is a professor of history and the awe thursday of the new women of the new south. She edited one woman one vote, rediscovering the suffrage moment. Which in fact, the New York Historical society will be screening on august 15th as a part of our centennial summer celebration. Professor spruill has served as an advise r for many museum exhibtions, documentaries and films. She is a former president of the Southern Association for womens hoist attorney. Her new book is divided we stand, dividing of women rights. Ladies and gentlemen, professor marjorie spruill. Well, this is an amazing venue i must say. It is so wonderful to be here. This is such a great tradition that this institution, these pair institutions has to get book lovers out here on these nice warm Summer Nights together with authors and talk about books, im pleased and honored to be a part of it and have a chance to talk with you about my new book. Divi
Speaker marjorie j. Spruill an authority on the womens right movement. She is a professor of history and the awe thursday of the new women of the new south. She edited one woman one vote, rediscovering the suffrage moment. Which in fact, the New York Historical society will be screening on august 15th as a part of our centennial summer celebration. Professor spruill has served as an advise r for many museum exhibtions, documentaries and films. She is a former president of the Southern Association for womens hoist attorney. Her new book is divided we stand, dividing of women rights. Ladies and gentlemen, professor marjorie spruill. Well, this is an amazing venue i must say. It is so wonderful to be here. This is such a great tradition that this institution, these pair institutions has to get book lovers out here on these nice warm Summer Nights together with authors and talk about books, im pleased and honored to be a part of it and have a chance to talk with you about my new book. Divi
[inaudible conversations] thank you. I appreciate you all coming. Im going to ask to talk about two books. Originally i was asked to talk about 30 day in september which i will do. But since i was invited to this conference, another book of mine has come out, a collection of my articles on terrorism, called the terror years. And so i will first talk about peace, and then ill talk about terror. And seems like a natural progression, right . I guest the best way of beginning this is telling you how i got started with 13 days. Gerald, jimmy carters media adviser in the white house, called me up out of the blue and asked if i would be willing to write a play about camp david, and his pitch was, a bornagain christian, an orthodox jew and a pious muslim go behind closed doors for 13 days and emerge with the only durable peace in middle east. So pretty good pitch. And it was affecting to me because my wife and i had lived in georgia when jimmy was governor, and when he ran for president. We ha