Something he needed help with. It had been started early in 2001. Its an idea that really came from laura bush. She asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. He said there isnt yet but there will be. So i came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival. The idea was to do to the mall and a series of tents that was set up for the first year. It turned out that any sponsorships that were going to be more difficult than they thought it would be. He asked me if i would get involved and i told him i would do to and i began to be a sponsor and the cochair of the event. Ten years or so. Its very important to me that i enjoyed a great deep deal. Its a great gift for the country. As you know we get about 200,000 people come to the day of the festival every year. This year is going to be liberty weekend the saturday of labor day weekend. See map first of
Welcome to day number three. [applause] our speaker is a peabody awardwinning Communications Specialist who is a producer and contributor to Wisconsin Public radio to the best of our knowledge. Now conducts Media Training and outreach at the university of wisconsin madison her newest book has won praise from reviews to offer this take that her own literary voice is an encouraging supportive and cheerful was hard to imagine anyone who would not benefit from her advice. In a sea of selfhelp books for women this stands out for its unique perspective and concrete recommendations. Please give a big hand to veronica. [applause] thank you so much. And i will take this out right now if you ever have any doubts the voices and instrument. Wow. That was incredible. Thank you so much for coming out tonight and a huge thank you for having me here and i am delighted to be here gathering together listening to voices. This means a lot to me and im very grateful to be here. My hope is that this challen
Good evening, when. My name is jim byron, im the executive Vice President of the Richard Nixon foundation and it is always a pleasure to welcome you all here to the beautiful Nixon Library in orange county, california. I like to thank all of your president Society Members for joining us and if youre a remember, would you please stand up and be recognized. Come on, theres couple of you here. There we go thank you. [applause] the president society is an exclusive group of members that supports the ongoing works of president nixons foundation which applies to the legacy and the vision he had to opportunities facing the nation or world. If you are interesting in joining me, track me done on an associate and anybody can get you signed up. Want to tell you but a few special events. On august 20th, well host Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino for the new amazon number one best seller, justice on trial, but the Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings. On september 11th, well host two programs, the
Musk and ford, a rough road ahead for the automaker. Those shares head for a lower open today well tell you why all this earnings news plus an ecb meeting. The European Central bank expected to lay out the ground work for policy easing down the road and this could put more pressure on fed chair Jerome Powell to do the same. Its thursday, july 25th Worldwide Exchange on cnbc begins right now good morning welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan the dow looks to be hovering around flat at the open. We would open up around 24 points for the dow if these futures gains hold into the start of regular cash trading. The nasdaq and the s p 500 coming off alltime intraday record highs and closes. The dow is less than a percentage point away from joining that alltime high club as well. On the bond market side of things, were watching yields as we do every morning here a tick lower tenyear note yields moving to 2. 3 thats a sharp move to the down side the twoyear note yi
Academies but also the teachings of the philosopher. Has been an airstrike on a migrant camp in libyas capital tripoli at least 40 people have been killed and dozens more were injured the area has seen fighting between the forces of world Khalifa Haftar and those loyal to the internationally recognized government well lets meet our correspondent mark went up to wahid whos in tripoli for us would talk us through what youre seeing i believe you as a hospital around a number of people have been injured. One indeed and this time its its so tragic its unbelievable and the. The one the migrants do not really know whats happening next for them because as you know they were detained because they were trying to cross Media Training into europe and they were detained and sent back to Detention Centers in the capital tripoli as you know this is like. That tug of Migrant Detention Center in a neighborhood thats been the eastern suburb of the libyan capital sue unbelievable its the migrants who sur