Hello. This is Hillary Clinton. I want to thank you for letting me speak with you about an issue that is central to our childrens future and critical in our fight to restore this nations economy, solving our Nations Health care crisis. There is no prescription or role model or cookbook for being first lady. The future is created every day. The future is not something that is out there waiting to happen to us. The future is something that we make. Well, i have said, and i believe, that theres a good possibility that sometime in the next 20 years we will have a woman president. Hillary clinton logged many firsts in her role as first lady. Political partners since law school, the clintons survived scandals and even the impeachment of president bill clinton. As she considers another bid for the white house herself, Hillary Clintons story is still being written. Good evening and welcome to cspans year long series first ladies influence and image. Well tell you the story of Hillary Clinton.
Few core issues that have in many ways given thematic intensity to the 1960s era. Weve been trying to think about the meaning and reality of equality in the United States in the 1960s era. Weve been pondering what Democratic Practice could and should look like in the United States, and then very pertinent to what well do today, what role the United States should play internationally. What role should the United States play in a world that was fast changing in the 1960s . So weve gotten to the point in this class where weve reached a point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the United States in vietnam. And the reasons have been fairly compellingly laid out by johnson between 1964 and 1965. With the gulf of tonkin resolution in 1964, the president made his case that there was aggression coming from North Vietnam pointed at the south, and pointed at the United States as well in the attack on u. S. Ships in International Waters
Where you are. Thank you for joining us for this Virtual Event on the po postcovid global outlook. Im a senior fellow and vicepresident of the economy and Development Program at brookings. The Global Economy is sharp, unprecedented in its depth. And the pandemic and responses have brought countries and economies to a standstill disrupting billions of lives and jeopardizing decades of development progress. The june edition of the World Bank Global economic prospects which motivates todays conversations envisions a 5 1 4 contraction of global gdp in 2020. This is the deepest global recession since world war ii and the largest collapse in per capita income since 1870. Its a timely report thats informed by assessment of the fundamental drivers of longterm growth, including the collapsing investments which will slow capital formations and in Human Capital and the location of trade and supply linkages among others. The pandemic is having a proportionate effect on lower Income Countries where
And online censorship by countries such as china. Richard gere chaired the International Campaign for tibet testifies at the Senate Finance subcommittee hearing. The Senate Committee on finance come subcommittee on International Trade cousins and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually, but i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because its a growing effect on business in the United States. Last fall, for example, the National Association had its Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not even allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topic has
From Merrimack College and masters in phd from university of illinois at urbanachampaign. As a former magazine writer and editor her Research Interests include 19th century print culture, womens magazines and radical or alternative press. Before we begin the program i would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who will be joining virtual nhs program for the first time. If youre not familiar with the Massachusetts Historical Society with first historical site in america and had been collecting, preserving, publishing, sharing our history since 1791. We hold an amazing collection of 14 million man script pages including papers the first three president s of the United States. abim sorry, three of the first president of the United States. We are continuing to collect a today if youre interested, we are currently collecting material related to the covid19 experience. We have a special initiative designed to record peoples experiences during this unusual time and preserve a deserved s