And hugh hewitt, the president of the Nixon Foundation who youll hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests here today. Many former officials from the nixon and other administrations and staff and friends of the Nixon Foundation, and were honored to have you here tonight. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States. Under her leadership, the white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program, but its very important to us here at the White House Historical association as a core part of our mission which was inspired, as most of you, or all of you know, by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy, to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservation, preservation, restoration of those beautiful state homes in the white house for the acquisition of
On this weeks after Words Program Ellen Silbergeld talks about that new form farming efforts affect consumers. Ellen is a pleasure to have you here. Here i am this port city boy who became secretary of agriculture which is one of the greater jobs ive ever had as congressman beforehand but before we talk about your book which is my father and Atticus Finch i thought maybe you might talk about yourself. How did you get into this whole area of agriculture especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Guest at something of a story that begins with the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious eruption of a toxic organism in the water that is some kind of a narrow toxin causing fish to die and a lot of reported illness and fishermen. It was never really figured out that one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs from poultry waste that went into the water. That was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going
Surely this is an old case, old at least by newspaper standards. The condition had occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper, i saw that it hadnt been covered at all and the reason was that brian regan was arrested two weeks before 9 11 and he was convicted one month after the us invaded iraq so it was almost this story was kind of book ended bythese two major events. And it was sort of lowhanging fruit for me to go after. To rewind a little bit, your interest in going to this cryptology us, do you have a background in science writing so you were comfortable solving into it. As you get to the cryptology section, i think everyone except that hardcore cryptology us are going to say, let me get a cup of coffee, this is serious. Can you talk about what was your interest in cryptology before that . Were you working on something . I didnt really have a specific interest in cryptology. Im a science writer, i worked at Science Magazine for many
Endangers workers, animals and consumers, i thought you might talk a little bit about yourself. How do you get into this whole area of analyzing agriculture, especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Well, its something of a story. It begins with syria and the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious irruption of a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of a neurotoxin that caused millions of fishto die and a lot of reported illness in fishermen. They never really figured it out but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs of nutrients poultry waste that went into the water so that was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going to a lecture and listening to the speaker talk about food borne infections and how these were really big problems and he said it was particularly a problem because many of them were drugresistant and i knew nothing about the subject. So Infectious Diseases li
Made in his administration. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus will serve as chief of staff. , former ofn Breitbart News, will be chief counselor and strategist. We want to get your thoughts in the first 45 minutes on these appointments, what they suggest to you about the administration of present elected donald trump. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. Independents, 202 7488002. If you want to post on twitter, do so. You can also post on our facebook page. Journal haseet the pictures of both of these appointments. Not to serve as chief strategist, steve bannon, he is formally of Breitbart News. There is some biographical information. Priebuscomes to reince and his ties to the president elect, saying that the relation developed during the campaign providing a bridge to the gop establishment. He urged mr. Trapp not to run as an independent and and to sign a pledge to support whoever was nominated. He also gave access to donald trump to the party g