A little novel about new york, openair mental institution. Everybody working around each other can say to each other, in the subway. Yes. [laughter] ork, okay, at any rate, we have three beautiful books, vivian, the odd woman in the city, david, sidewalking and then luke santos, the other paris. Thank you for coming, thank you for your time. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, if youre interested in joining the next panel, you dont have to leave. Youre welcome to join us for the next panel. Thank you. Next panel looks Historical Research in writing. Welcome, my name is nick and i am the president and dean of brooklyn law school. We are a school thats one of a kind. Some of you know we are the only ones in brooklyn. We are the best law school in the big apple in the empire state and the greatest nation on the planet. So we have that working for us. As you can tell we dream big here. In our recent dream alex trabek gave me the answer to final jeopardy, a center for learning on how to improv
After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] wed have no kennon institute, no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. Who knows how many friends, how much wisdom we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegation, and he took us all on a tour of the creme lip. Kremlin. Priceless. Jim, your command of russia, its history and its culture shows up everyone here. Y
Gentlelady from new york and the gentleman from connecticut also wish to speak. Mr. President , senators their states who have been very hard hit should have the opportunity to speak. Im going to take my rebuttal of the coburn amendments and just abbreviate them. With the exception of being willing to accept the amendment where you cant get Emergency Assistance if you are a tax cheater or if youve passed away, with the exception of a funeral benefit i really object to the coburn amendment. My objections have been so well articulated by the gentleman from new york, mr. Schumer; by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Menendez, im not going to preet them. Im going to ask unanimous consent that my written rebuttals be in the record. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Mikulski and in the interest of time, i think were all agreed the very intent to save money by adding delay and bureaucracy will cost money and will cost time in terms of getting people back on their feet in both thei
Thank you, guys are coming. Sandy will be appear. She is happy to sign copies of her book which are for sale if you dont have one at the Cash Register at the front. Thanks again. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] cspan to providing live coverage of the user Senate Floor Proceedings and key Public Policy events, and every weekend booktv. Now for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by the cable tv industry invented by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, lik like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Historian joshua zeitz examines Abraham Lincoln president ial tenure through the eyes of his secretaries, john a. And john nikolai, next on tv. [applause] thank you all for braving this weather, low as i understand it last week might have been worse. I probably picked the right week to be here. I mightve been delivering this from the airport if we don had e this last week. I want to begin our sto
Some way, and head off a possible holiday strike, which could create the same traffic who are horrors. He says the public expects them to resolve this as quickly as possible. This afternoon we talked to at ufrment president and she is saying that she doesnt agree with this version of events this, is agreed to back in june. She doesnt understand what the fuss is about at this point. Live in San Francisco, abc7 news. Either way, an unexpected mess. Thank you very much. Family and friends of a teenager burned by another student are hitting the streets tonight to show support the 18yearold sasha flieshmans skirt was set on fire. Were live tonight with the story. Carolyn . Reporter sashas mother and father were among marchers in a show of solidarity with sasha. Sasha flieshmans story resonated with marcher whos deal the teenager was victimized for being different. The 18yearold identified as agender. And was wearing a skirt set on fire while sasha was sleeping on the bus. We talked with sas