Know, kennedy was killed 20 days after the vietnamese president was killed. So Lyndon Johnson gets handed the totally collapsed government and army of south vietnam. And eventually, he made his own decisions about sending american combat troops. But johnson went to his grave arguing that kennedys assassination or overthrow and assassination of the vietnamese president , johnson was a big supporter of the president , was the reason he ended up committing combat troops. Patrick sloyan is the author of the new book, politics of deception jfks secret decisions on vietnam, civil rights and cuba. Thanks so much. Good evening. Good evening. Again, welcome to the library of virginia. Im happy to introduce tonights distinguished author, former governor wilder, who as you heard has a new memoir entitled son of virginia a life in americas political arena. As noted, im the states politic editor at the Richmond Times dispatch, and im proud to be in sort of whats become a select fraternity of Virgin
James rosen looks at former Vice President dick cheneys time serving in the bush ministration. And this weekend, Michael Marmon will report on the factors contribute to Americas Health and wellness. Im talking about the way we organize our affairs in society, which impact on health and the unfair distribution of health, health and quality is judged by reasonable means to be avoidable. After words airs on book tv every saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous after words programs on a website, book tv. Org. Stacy schiff is next on book tv. Her book, the witches looks at the salem witch trials. Stacy schiff received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the humanities. And untoward in literature from the american had a mate of arts and letters. Her latest book, the witches salem, 1692 when a ministers daughter began to scream and convulse and ended less than a year later, but not before 19 million women had b
Liberal man meat hal sparks in hour number three. Even more exciting for political geeks like me, representative tim wall. Putting forth the petition for the middle class tax cuts in the house. Like that. Stephanie a Little Something for everybody this morning. Here she is, Jacki Schechner for everybody. In the current news center. Good morning, everybody president obama is meeting with Business Leaders again today to talk about the consequences of going over the fiscal cliff. Hes also claiming to call on congressional leaders to make sure we raise the debt ceiling without contention. The white house making the case that extending the bush tax cuts for the middle class is directly connected to the health of our businesses. Companies need to know consumers will be able to spend and in his first postelection interview president obama again rejected the House Republican counteroffer that is on the table. Unfortunately the speakers proposal right now is still out of balance. Were going to
[ theme ] this is the Stephanie Miller show and its not Stephanie Miller. 100 less stephanie. We have hal sparks. Hal i know it is amazing. Im so excited by the way to actually be able to speak before my theme song. It happens so rarely. We have the lovely and talented Jacki Schechner who is not going to be doing our news breaks but interjecting throughout the entire show. Cool. Hal elbowing us out of the way with facts and figures and a beautiful figure at that i might add. I was going to ask which hour i get to hump halibut apparently we get to hump him all three hours. Weve all been traveling. Tbone, we need some talc in here stat. Major chafing on the hump days with hal. Chris and jim will be with us. Chris will be scrolling through adult sites the entire show as normal. Get a load of that. Whoa hal now lets go to the news with Jacki Schechner. On that note. Good morning. Secretary of state clinton will testify today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the september
tonight. i was ust going to ask you - tonight. i was ust going to ask you - oo tonight. i wasjust going to ask you - do you tonight. i wasjust going to ask you - do you think- tonight. i wasjust going toj ask you - do you think he s ask you do you think he s going to get to this 50% that he s hoping for? he s hoping for? ironically, ou sa he s hoping for? ironically, you say that he s hoping for? ironically, you say that - he s hoping for? ironically, you say that - one - he s hoping for? ironically, you say that - one of - he s hoping for? ironically, you say that - one of our i you say that one of our old school political campaign guys, karl rowe i m sure you ve seen him before it was almost like it was killing him to say, i think he s gonna get 51%. i was like, come on, karl! squeeze it out. it wasn t so favourable for him. but what i m saying is that. the polls have him more in the 40s bracket fairly steady in every poll. do you think the weather is going