Future, solving the great problem offered our time, and at the spread of the coronavirus to the highs and loafs the economy, and teen election, 2020 will continue to be a process of change. He is here with us today to discuss his book and his thoughts on america. We now invites you to enjoy our Virtual Program from our air force one Leadership Academy with Newt Gingrich and Reagan Foundation and Institute Executive director. Speaker gingrich, terrific to have you with us at the Reagan Library. Also you know we originally had planned to have you live and in person as we have so many times. Want you to know when this pandemic is behind us and youre able to travel and things can be safer again, we still would love to have you out Reagan Library again with your new book or the next one you write. So, thanks so much for joining us today. I want to say first of all im a huge fan of the Reagan Library and particularly the educational work you do and the way you create learning experiences for
Route and that will polarize and poison the political atmosphere even more than it is now which is bad enough. To watch the rest of this program and find other episodes, visit our website , booktv. Org and click on the after words near the top of the page. Assistant director of an organization dedicated to unleashing the impact of libraries. We dont have a power point today because we divide this as a guided conversation. I want to be sure we make the most of our time today. I will have each of our experts introduce themselves and i am looking forward to what our panelists have to say and i hope you are too. Be sure to visit the resources page and we will put that link in the chat for everyone. In true librarian fashion we will have everybody introduce themselves in alphabetical order by first name. Go ahead and get us started. That is a curveball, first name. Im jennifer pearson, director of the Marshall County Memorial Library have between there and alabama. Ive been here about 5 and
Mr. Mccullough sits down to talk about this book on the american revolution. 1776. This is from cspans q a program. This week on q a, august is offering historian David Mccullough. On the genera general henry knom in maine. Host David Mccullough, you told audience outside of this general henry knox museum, days ago that everybody in american should know who henry knox is pretty white. David because these extraordinary historian an american who seem to be miscast. Seem to be fellow not prepared for the role of the history and for him to play and who not only lived up to the rule, but when over the top as it were. And as an example of a man who came from very humble origins, very little advantage in the way of education, or connections. Heroes to be one of the most important americans of his day read the men that George Washington discovered. And amanda George Washington counted on. Through nearly eight and a half years of the revolutionary war and who then counted on him as his secretar
Meantime i want to go to blake burman on this back and forth so far how the cases are going because this is happening we have had backtoback days of 30,000 cases reported in this country. Something we have not seen since the beginning of may. To you, sir. Reporter neil, yes, the number of cases growing across the country. Over here at the white house though they continue to be adamant in their view, according to public experts they talked to and listened to here there is not a second wave right now. The white house view at the current moment. Though we are continuing to see the Economic Impact of covid19 and what it is having all over the country in just about every pocket you look, the latest example in northwest arkansas because china has come out today and said it is not going to be buying poultry from tyson foods facilities in northwest arkansas. When you look at the numbers, neil, there is a reason why because according to that company there have been roughly 3700 employees been t
Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu