Welcome back to our special, highlighting the feelgood stories of 2020, we take you to martinez, where an attorney is helping feed people who are in need of a meal amid the covid19 pandemic, christina tells us that he is also helping restaurants that need a boost in business by pairing the two together. The lunch rush has slowed a bit during the pandemic. Owner david getting a boost from a donor. Going day by day, wondering how you are going to make rent, somebody comes with a check for 1,500 out of just the kindness of his heart, thats something very amazing. It is one of 16 downtown restaurants gifted money from a program called meals to martinez. I think a lot of people when they hear about this, it doesnt make sense to them, they feel it is too good to be true. The local attorney donated 30,000 from the restaurants to the law offices with the help of the nonprofit main street martinez, the meal program is giving out 600 meal vouchers to people in need redeemable at one of the 16 re
My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
Worthy of a book, probably a series of books. He rose from defeat to become americas elder statement. He reinvented what it means to be a former president , serving as advisor to everyone of his successors. You may 29 foreign trips and world with worked with World Leaders across the globe. To tell this remarkable story, pipes. Joined by kasey he served in the administration of president george w. Bush and at later a senior fellow gettings college. Would you please join me in welcoming the author of quote after the fall, kasey pipes . [applause] thank you all very much. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. John and chris and the entire nixon staff. After hearing all of the people coming up later this month, later this fall i want to come back. Neil gorsuch as well. Hewitt,o thank hugh president of the foundation, who was indispensable in helping me write this book. You could not be in better hands hugh. Nybody else but thent to thank couple of archivists who worked with me, Greg
Rehabilitated his image and set , precedents for what presidency life could involve. This evening, we are pleased to introduce an author on the postpresident ial years of Richard Nixon. This very important and often overlooked part of nixons life is worthy of a book of its own probably a series of books. ,not one to be written off, Richard Nixon rose from defeat to become americas elder statement. Andhis period between 1974 he reinvented what it means to 1994, be a former president , serving as advisor to everyone of his successors. He made 29 foreign trips and worked with World Leaders across the globe. To tell this remarkable story, were joined by kasey pipes. He is a historian whose previous book on president eisenhower is well acclaimed. He served in the administration of president george w. Bush and was later a senior fellow at gettysburg college. Would you please join me in afterng the author of the fall, kasey pipes . [applause] kasey thank you all very much. Thanks for being he
Virtual intelligence with francine as we drive to the worlds challenges coming out of the imf. What is amazing to me today, just one observation, it is incredible in the major media on a monday morning, 22 days into the election, how joe bidens schedule, how his policies are buried. It is 100 trump, top to bottom, in the zeitgeist. You wonder how Vice President biden manages that in ohio over the next 24 hours. Francine i remember at the all hasg, telling us it to do with a referendum on President Trump. Tom never seen it. Francine turnout on november 3. Plenty more on that. Lets get to first word news with Corinna Mitchell. Corinna President Trump and nancy pelosi are blaming each other. Republicans are having a hard time with pelosi. Pelosi called the offer grossly inadequate. The two sides are about 400 billion apart. Even if there is an agreement, is not certain republicans would approve. Neel kashkari warns it needs stimulus. The economic recovery has flattened out. He says we wil