Not just casualties, they were dead as a result of the civil war. And then sunday morning at 10 00 on road to the white house rewind, the 1988 campaign of democratic candidate gary hart. We begin with a former colorado senator announcing his candidacy in denver and then facing questions about an alleged marital affair what w a woman. And then his plan to reduce from the white house. And the life of civil rights activi activist huerta. And they would beg the union to send anyone but her to negotiate contracts. However she was at the forefront of that effort for a reason and her name above which is interesting, because among in of the participants of the Farm Workers Movement, when you interview them and hear about them, they talk about her. And at 8 00 on the presidency. He just kind of tensed up and said those doson of a those partners, did they ever invite me to play golf at their fancy country clubs or did any of them invite me to their clubs and he goes on and on. And his lip was qu
Productive engagement in the work force. And, therefore, for realizing the full productivity potential of our economy, and when Food Insecurity affects children. As youll see in the hamilton projects facts that we handed out as you came in is happening far too frequently in this country. Were reducing the prospects of our economy for decades ahead as well as i said earlier being involved with a morally outrageous situation for this the richest country in the world. Todays discussion is about the startling number of people who are still experiencing Food Insecurity in america today. Supplemental nutrition assistance programs, s. N. A. P. Which is designed as you well known to address this issue and recommended policy changes to make that program more effective. Let me recognize the director of the hammentilton project. The managering director of the hamilton project and the policy director of the hamilton project for the work they have done in creating the intellectual construct for thi
Eastern, here on cspan2. Thursday a talk on security challenges in the middle east. Former president of the American University in cairo Lisa Anderson delivered remarks at the center for strategic and international studies. That is live at 10 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. In both iraq and afghanistan, i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort of facilitator of agreement on key issues among afghans. The influence is considerable and has the government anxious to meet with you. Sunday night on q a. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the United Nations discusses this journey. We saw the extremist and how we corrected it toward the end of the period i was there by the surge and reaching out to the sunnis and building up iraqi forces and establishing a government to bring about security and violence was down. But unfortunately we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers. A discussion on the book, the smartest places on earth, looks at innovatio
Welcome. Im delighted to welcome Lisa Anderson to present the third in our series of three talks on the middle east at an Inflection Point. This is an activity which is support bid the general funds to the middle east program. And it just seems to us as we were looking forward to a new administration five years after the beginning of the arab uprisings it would be useful to take stock of where we are. In my mind, there could be no better guide than our speaker today. Ive known lisa for 25 years and shes always impressed me. She just left from the fiveyear tenure as in cairo where she served as provost for two years. She was the dean of the Columbia School of the foreign affairs. A professor of International Relations. Lisa has not only had a distinguished career in administration, but as a political scientists i think she has really had a remarkable record analyzing and describing in real terms what is happening and why things are happening in he middle east in an incredibly tumultuous
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