Jennet conant who was the granddaughter of administrative tractor the Manhattan Project and one of our nations leading scientists of the 20th century century pages the author of New York Times bestseller the regulars and tuxedo park a wall street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of world war ii. She will be speaking tonight about her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us jennet. Said thank you. I also want to thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. Alas its virtually but im going to do my best. My first doom presentation so they are with me everyone. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking right now should have had a lot of wine but anyway here we go. Im going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. He once observed manic case only stumble across the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happene
My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
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President ial libraries are living institutions certainly it is my hope the Reagan Library will become a dynamic intellectual for him where policymakers debate the future. Now bringing events online to ensure we are still delivering worldclass content even if you cant watch it in person. This week we bring you a small us anchor Fox News Sunday and in the 50th year the broadcasting industry participating in coverage of nearly every Major Political event in securing high profile interviews of dignitaries and leaders broadcasting the sunday morning show live from the Reagan Library Chris Wallace is with us today to speak about his new book and unforgettable account of the lives of the ordinary americans and with those soldiers fighting in the pacific to launch a possible invasion in japan and the story how 116 days going from the Vice President completely cut out of the fdr white house to suddenly become the president also best date on of the play coronavirus. Coming from air force one an
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