You ar if you want to get in line here as well will be taking questions from the audience aso well. Well for Doris Kearns Goodwin, live on booktv on cspan2. Oodwin le n 202 5853890 if you live in east and central time zone. 202 5853891 for those of you1 in the central or the pacific time zone and the Mountain Time zone as well. Well we will begin taking those calls in just a minute. Go ahead and ireland. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2 and we have people in line. We will begin taking those calls as well. Ms. Goodwin thank you for joining us here on booktv for another 50 minutes worth of calls from our national audience. Lets start with this gentleman right over here in line. The relationship between lincoln and Frederick Douglass in terms of bringing the end of slavery because we often in a sense celebrate the emancipation emancipation proclamation and remarsary but in a real sense blacks were not freed until they were behind the union lines, so there is that time in 1864 we are now
Of the Civil Rights Movement. They awarded andrew young for the legacy award for his contributions to the African American Civil Rights Movement in our country. It was clear to me that the movement has had wonderful successes, but the movement continues, so the theme of civil rights is so appropriate as we continue to share the experience, the history and the progress thats been made for all so many years. Im particularly proud of having a very strong relationship with the African American Historical Society and the African American culture complex. Our staff does a remarkable job in working to provide a whole sra variety of programs in our libraries. We have an amazing relationship with our African American community at our African American center at the main library. I want to call out some of the staff thats been doing a tremendous job of planning over 80 programs. Let me call to your attention this pamphlet thats going to be available for all of us at the south cord afterwards afte
And six Security Officers are dead. Three floors of the mall collapsed. There are 11 terror suspects in custody. A dimpt and welcome sight at Dulles Airport where an american citizen just arrived from kenya. She was inside the mall on saturday at a cafe when she heard the deadly chaos break out. I was eating on the terrace and we heard an explosion and started crawling out. We were in the back of a home goods store. It was pretty crazy. It was very, very, very scary. She was understandably overcome with emotion while reuniting with her parents today. Well have more on the return and the latest coming up at 5 00. President obamas historic overture to iran. It began today during the speech to the United Nations general assembly. Heout lined the policy for north africa now and the remainder of his term. He underlined his commitment between peace of the israelis and palestinians. The u. S. And iran were isolated from each other since the islamist revolution back in 1979. This mistrust has
Decade has not just her and run defense budget, modestly 1. 6 billion increase. It would be nice to see it continue, but everyone watches very carefully to see the leading indicator, which is us and what were willing to do. Taiwan is a country rushing to the exit to make sure nothing comes between it and china and therefore i would argue the same credibility over whether the United States would intervene and i Taiwan Strait scenario, but we can expect the support and could even see treaty allies that would be required, for example, logistics and the like want to stay out of it because they question whether we are committed to it and it said it would drag them in and leave them exposed to the situation in which stability had to start good to conflict and violence. Just really quickly because freds comments reminded me of a concluding remark i wanted to make in the opening statement, but its important to bring us back to the larger political discussion. Not only are we failing to manage
Championship, we have a great news. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 skojdeconds. And will to the best of my ability defend the constitution of the United States. So help you god . So help you god. Congratulations, mr. President obama. President obama begins the second term in the white house. Thousands of Security Officers are getting ready. City officials expect as many as 70,000 people. Hes going to address the crowd, the nation and the world. Expected to lay out his vision for the world in his second term. Measures to help the economy, energy. I think immigration is really the big issue, frankly. The most significant event of the weekend, i love her bangs. The deaths in algeria has reached at least 81. At least one american is among the dead. Very Cool Temperatures across the midwest. Windchills down to minus 50. This time the swearing in flawless. And when he was done his daughter sasha took note. I did it. All tha zone for the touchdown the 49ers