Other people treated me as though i wasnt visible. I was a ghost writer. But it was also because it was easier for people who needed a help bubble at work Earl Burstein i was a brief worker, i did some editing for them. Nagging,ling, depending on who it was. That kind of stuff. More taylor. He was a republican candidate in the president ial race in 1992. He was a Campaign Diary he did then henew republic of went on to write a book. You mentioned Hillary Clinton. Here she is on this rogue ran back on february 26, 1996. I started making a list. I just rely hands up and said i cant do this. I thanked her for watching did for me. She did for me for a number of months or i was thankful for the assistance she gave me. Host that would be me. That what isu see your reaction . I have seen that as so much more. Say acknowledgment pages can run into the hundreds of names. The fact that mrs. Clinton came that does not seem like a good reason to have an acknowledgments page, especially because it w
If you gun large scale begin large scale special forces impact, you are going to have an impact on that country. So what are you doing about the political impact you are having on that country. So follow up. What global warming, that our whole focus is going to change too. Yeah. Were going to lose interest. Yeah. Thats going to come pound it, were going compound it, were not dependent on oil anymore finish. Right. And maybe that is the solution. Yeah. And i was concerned, you know, we need some sort of, somebody who understands the culture right. How do you handle that. Yeah. I mean, its something we, we have were not well versed into what works. Right. You know, whether its helping people with their, you know, their hospitals or right. Or dealing with water problems and right. I think we buy a lot of goodwill with that. Yeah. And we have more, that kind of instead of threatening and intimidating people yeah. You buy goodwill. But thats only one approach. We need somebody, a cultural a
Occupations or ad hoc invasions that dont seem to be part of any kind of broader strategy. I think because we as a country are not willing to embrace the idea of imperialism or that we are going to occupy these countries and tell them what to do, and that all fine. Im not in favor of imperialism or of going back to the british control of the world, but im saying what were doing also doesnt make much sense because we go into these countries, we start a war, we invade, and then we dont really follow up with much of a political governance piece of that. Most recently you saw that in libya and syria, where we have had air campaigns but and we helped overthrow gadhafi but then we didnt do anything to resolve the fundamental political structure, and in syria its so screwed up now its hard to tell what policy we have. And in iraq, we invaded and then allowed the shia to dominate the government. So, im not suggesting that we open a Colonial Office like the british did where they had they actua
Coverage go to the book tab on our website, booktv. Org. Good afternoon and welcome to the session on trailblazing women. This is going to be an exciting channel and im glad youre here. This is the seventh annual book festival, thank you cspan for covering it and thank you to all you all rated the cold rain and whether even though we are in june. Im cheryl kagan andis my honor to be the senator for pittsburgh and ross well in the maryland state senate. On social media today if you are following along at home you can to at our authors and the book festival we are also on histogram and facebook and everything so im delighted to have marlene pressman and john noris here. Our country is at the brink of possibly electing a first woman president and none of that would be possible without some trailblazing women the two who have been profiled in these wonderful books were going to talk about today. I had never heard of Betsy Margolin before reading this book by marlene kessler. Youre going to
Disabilities. Later, the annual state opening of the British Parliament including the queens throne speech. At the white house today, the president honored 17 americans for achievements in science and technology. Recipients received awards for Ground Breaking research and invo nation in genetics, manufacturing technology. This is a half hour. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. Welcome to the white house. Today, i have the privilege to present our nations highest honor for scientific and tech know logical achievement. The National Medals of science and the National Medals of technology and innovation. The amount of brain power in this room right now is astonishing. [ laughter ] but, when you talk to these brilliant men and women, its clear the honor has not yet gone to their heads. They still put their lab coats, one arm at a time. Joining us to celebrate these achievements are members of cong