Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13
Mother of the murdered black teenager, steven lawrence. Lord [inaudible] a former assistant Deputy Police commissioner. Lady jones, a Green Party Politician in london. And lord finkelstein, columnist and a former associate editor of the times. To put all the new peers, in october a former first sea lord had a novel suggestion to make. And i wonder if the royal navy could come to the nations assistance again, ive been asking people to buy the third invincible class carrier, two having been scrapped, and i wonder if the house authorities would like to buy it to accommodate the huge number of new piers being created. [laughter] in fact, it can accommodate up to 700 people and has a bank, laundry and shop. The death of Nelson Mandela was a moment that parliament couldnt ignore. The first black president of south africa and father figure for his nation came to parliament back in 1996 and spoke in Westminster Hall. He was fully aware of the antiapartheid campaigns that ran in britain through
History with the possible exception of Eleanor Roosevelt has touched so many of us in such a personal way. Because i lost my mother to breast cancer, betty ford is a heroin to me. Because my family has been victimized by alcoholism and i know what it is to watch good, fine people stare into their personal despair, i will be forever grateful for the betty ford clinic and for the millions of other people whose lives have literally been turned around and often say you may not have gone to that clinic but went somewhere because she showed them it was not wrong. For a good person and a strong person to be imperfect and ask for help. You gave us a gift and we thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tomorrow night, our first dys encore continues with rosalynn carter. She traveled to latin american as his official envoy. She supported the equal rights amendment and she supported a bill in congress th
Good morning. Welcome to the campaign institute. Im candy nelson, the academic director. This is the 35th year that we have existed. We started as a bipartisan training institute. The first speaker today is charlie cook, editor and writer for the cook political report. Charlie is a political analyst for washington journal. National journal. He has always been very generous of his time and will start us off by talking about the political environment going into 2014. Charles cook. [applause] [applause] thank you, candy. First of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i dont run into somebody somewhere that didnt say, i met you, or i first heard you at the American University Campaign Management institute and ive been doing this for really long time. I remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late 80s or probably early 90s. A friend of mine. Leland bill sweeney was helping to run the prog
All to help children orphaned by the outbreak. We want to fight with everything we have and more to combat these virus. Quarantining them with disney movies and love and ice cream. Oscar de la renta, a man never out of fashion. How am i going to live, i dont know . Im having a fantastic time and i love every single day. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The department of Homeland Security announced that all travelers from Ebola Outbreak countries in western africa has to ark ratify at one of five u. S. Airports, checking the travelers temperature asking about possible exposure. They are new yorks jfk airport, washington, d. C. s dulles, chicagos a pair, new jerseys newark and atlantas hartsfield jackson. For nbc news, tom, before this was 95 of the persons coming from the countries, now its intended to be 100 . Lets put that into perspective. 150 passengers in total every day coming from west africa. There no direct flights. They are transiting through europe and london and b