The city of washington. Net emissarys name was Frances Blair and he has an extraordinary offer, he said will you lead and the union army to crush secession . Remember the story, blair tried in every way to convince robert e. Lee to say yes. He said the country looks to you, quote, as a representative of the washington family to save the Union George Washington forged and that is not an exaggeration because the son of George Washington son in lot of George Washingtons adopted child. So now only one word separated robert e. Lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from command of what would be the largest American Army ever raised, from glory perhaps that no american since George Washington had known. What did robert e. Lee say . He said he opposed secession and he did oppose secession, he thought secession was illegal. Equally significantly he thought George Washington was opposed to secession and that was no given at the time. People on both sides of the conflict claimed George Washing
There are two different one. First term in the second term. We see more africanamerican president. He knows who he is and hes not ashamed. First term he had to be strategic. There was a fight in the white house. He was the president who gave the payout after waiting for that money. He was the president who did that but at the same time it wasnt necessarily im going to do it. It took tactics. Are you surprised that barack obama didnt make a stronger case in his first . Know because looking back he had to be who he was. You can watch this and other us online at tv. Org. Ofat the chief of staff of the air force assembles a list of books he recommends for servicemen and women. Heres the 2015 list. We rarely see politicians on the left as contributing to this in fact we usually see them as the champions, right . At the time the congress was charging. Fullstop had for steam ahead with this law and order approach, then the senator joe biden basically not only cheered them on that helped them
What is Private Banking it is the minister will take your money and put it same place safe. That is a little footprint of thinking is and we will help to hide resource flows. So, why do small caribbean islands host trillions of dollars of deposits because of their great banking sectors . No. Why do some of the largest Multinational Companies collect their profits in bermuda . They did it in stanford so why are the tactics with the international profits going to bermuda . Because it gave them a free pass. This is what has to stop. How can we give way to powerful interest . I am going to conclude by reading you two sentences from the book. I have explained the historical geographical burdens are not favorite destiny they are the reasons of action and its our job to understand how the end of poverty can be achieved and then act to make it happen. [applause] just outside at the same time a person was standing on the i95. He was a cop and was arresting anyone she could find that she suspect
Jeff spent 13 years at the washington post. Im not sure that is where you learn how to write well but that is certainly where you learn how to get a good story and by the end he was running the outlook section and then he went to the new yorker and was a Senior Editor there for nearly 13 years and that is a place where you learn to write well and help others write well. Besides writing nonfiction, jeff has written three, four, i guess four works of fiction. So this is someone who understands the importance of narrative and of a good story. He brought those talents, for some reason, to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon and i want to begin by asking you, jeff, why did you choose that particular marriage . Because as to be focus of this because it was really a great story. 2 began with two people who really doesnt know each other. One was American Hero of sort we dont have anymore. Fivestar generals, no more fivestar generals. The man credited to leading allies to victory in e
Statewide numbers add up. If youre philly and your vote this is like some guy living in the suburbs where the vote is more important. You live in a big city never lived in a state that really was a close call. I guess the saying about florida . Only three kind of people down here, those who vote, those who count and those who cant count. Stupid joke. [laughter] always had a different number. Always say, this thing called im sorry. Gore. Hi, chris. Quick question, i guess, the last one. Im a big fan of worldwide government, and what . Worldwide government. Federal recallism. Just a different government in Different Countries around the world, whether it be in israel, china, different places, watching their government work. I always think of that my career, ending gold to travel around the worldful see how democracy is doing in different cubs. The thing that confuses me about america is the twoparty system. Do you think well get to the place without a twoparty system . It will be like in