Thatans, rice, sugar thing. At least now they are part of the program, and i am hopeful i have been hopeful ever since that the fruit and vegetable and would begin to organize and organize more arongly to be a part bigger part of what we might call production agriculture in america. We need more fresh Fruit Farmers in america. We need more greenhouses in places around the country. Thing, but at least now they have their foot in the door. Can yout know reduce some of the other things . Yeah, maybe. It is not as much as it used to be, i will tell you that. It is not as much support as there used to be for peanuts, cotton, rice. Of course, tobacco went out some years ago corns, beans, that kind of thing so it is not so much direct payment as it is just support mechanisms out there. Michael thank you, senator. Sen. Harkin ok. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for it
Tweet us at book tv or post it on your facebook page. Good evening. Im the director, and on behalf of our staff, as you know we are finishing the festival week of programming with this lecture. This series focused on mexicos culture, mexicos politics. We had a fence on on drugs, mexican politics, cuba and we actually did a mexican category last night. Talking about this lecture tonight, this is the quintessential point of the festival. This is the Arthur Miller freedom to write lecture. We find work that is relevant to us in the recent years. The lecture has a symbolic place in the programming. Its actually in the last couple of years has been a remarkable occupation. I also have to mention that this year for the first time in the history of the festival, we collaborated collaborated and hopefully our collaboration will continue. Let me bring us the next speaker who will introduce our author. [applause] good evening and thank you to all of you for being here. The mission is to both cel
That should be the second thing you read after her book, the review in the wall street journal. Were really privileged tonight to have joining an anja in conversation about the book. Both anja and steve are cofounders and principles at the hadley gates group and i will give you a brief sketch of both of their biographies because theyre so wellknown to all of us in this room. Anja is a lawyer, a former investment banker, teaches at stanford university, and in government, among other things, handleed the asia pour feltol for the undersecretary of state for political affairs. She is on the board of advisers which is not least of her accomplishments. Steve hadley serve as National Security advisor, deputy, and assistant secretary of defense for interNational Security affairs among his many positions. This book is really a wonderful work, and it is important and comes at an important time when so many of our policymakers, Business People and others, are trying to determine precisely how to
Invented the most precise and beautiful watch ever created and snapped it to the tail of a wild jackal. Im talking about the fact that most americans dont appreciate the fact that the book means a lot, and their opinion means a lot. So they have the ability to have their voices heard and acted upon in a great democracy but they dont take advantage of it. So we have this reallydont incredible democracy that gives the average person power and the average person does not vote. I think its a shame that of all the developed democracies in the world, the United States is last in voter participation. That really bothers me because if we dont keep our eyes on the prize and if we dont understand how we have to constantly be monitoring whats going on and taking the steps to rectify any problem, these problems are going to multiply and we end up like we are not, very divided and at each others throats. That should not be the case. But it must the people to participate in this democracy, thats wha
Take a tour of moons rare books to see Brigham Youngs copy of the book of mormon as well as an original copy of Thomas Paines common sense. I think like ive been collecting rare books for the past 30 years. I decided to relocate to provo after selling my bookshop in dallas which also sold new books and in the past 10 to 15 years sales of books have suffered with the abandoned ebooks and everything Going Digital but what i found is the interest in rare books has increased. In my shop right now there are about 1000 books but in my inventory there about 5000 books. I wrote two books through here and i specialize in four different areas. I specialized in rare bibles, bibles from the past 500 years. Being in your tie specialize in early mormon books, classics in literature and Early American History. One of the items i enjoy collecting our bibles or really just text that belong to wellknown historical figures and being from utah one of the more popular items that i like to show people his B