So thank you for supporting book passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of that fact. Thanks for coming to our location. We also have a beautiful store in the building in San Francisco if youve never been there. Its a beautiful store. Go in by a few books and go have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember book passage is so much more than just a bookstore. We bring to you probably a thousand author readings every year if you can believe that. In addition we also have all kinds of classes, language classes, writing classes. We have a group simply of childrens classes and finally im proud to say we are going green. We have been introducing a paper newsletter which i know some of the received in the mail starting in march. We are going to do email only so if we dont have your email and you arent getting our email letters please sign up. You can register at all the re
And just fascinated by the program i have for you tonight. And in that vein would ask that you turn your cell phones off because you will not need them. Youre not going to look at your the next hour. You are going to be completely mesmerized by our offer that were so proud to bring you today. So thank you for supporting book passage. E. We are an independent bookstore, one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very, very proud of that fact. Thanks for f coming to this location. We have a beautiful store in San Francisco. If you have never been there, it is a beautiful store. The b win, by a few books and tn question in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. And remember, book passage is so much more than just a bookstore. We bring to you probably 1000 off the readings every year, if you can believe that. An addition we also all kinds of classes, language classes, writing classes. Weve booked booked groups, childrens classes. Finall
It was like some kind of muzzling mausoleum with no one visiting, no dinner partys just a solemn gloom and pending over all things. On january 27 ohio representative clement blending him wrote to his wife. Im able to do no good here. So i sit and im applied to sit. Condemned as one who watches over the couch of a loved mother slowly dry dine with consumption. Americans who have taken their nations mortality for granted new that things would never be the same again. The empty seats in the house and the senate. In terms more graphic than any words of the have been spoken under months passed. Gloom shaded interfere that events or spinning out of control. And the worst might really come to pass. Worrying rumors flew through the air that the defenseless capital would be attacked by a virginia mob. That it would come any day now. Unexplained fires around the city were part of a terrorist plot. An uprising was so likely that he might have to send her to safety somewhere in the mounds. Others
The senate. Fall of 1998, the house of representatives taking up articles of impeachment against William Jefferson clinton. Well see some highlights but joining us in the studios is alexis simendinger. Lets begin with the political environment in 1998. What led to the impeachment of clinton . One of the interesting things we might forget all this time, forward, is that bill clinton was under investigation or almost his entire presidency. And ken starr became the counsel. Nt ken starr had begun to investigate the whitewater 1994. Ment deal back in so by the time were in the fall clinton and ident his entire house were very used to being under investigation for a whole variety of allegations relating to his past in arkansas. And even his Fundraising Efforts when he was president. Fall of 1998, he was elected to a second term but into the midterm what ken starr as the independent counsel had of vered was a whole series alleged relationships that the president had had in the past, investig
[applause] ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out on yet another rainy day in kentucky in 2019. Let me take a moment to ask you to take your time now to check your cell phones and make sure it is turned off. Thank you all for coming out today to another historic moment for the history of the Mcconnell Center here at the university of louisville. Ive decided to handle it this way. I will not call you out. Thank you for bringing her today out in the rain or dragging her through the rain here today. This is a historic moment for the center, one of many in our history. I was thinking about it this week the very roman statesman, one of those important and one of the most important statesmen of all time in his book on duties as it seems if we were going w to live in a free socie, we would have duties. One it seems to me is to remember, to learn from our past and pass on to the rising generation. The two authors today have done that with the buck that we launched to the world. We also