Reagan. That may be some of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans overall political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became so widely known and praise for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. In fact president reagan, first , as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. But one of those that jumps out at me, a few weeks ago, we had our annual Pepperdine Associates dinner in Beverly Hills at the beverly wilshire. This was on february 9 of 2020. In her remarks in talking about the future of pepperdine under our new president , our chancellor, sarah jackson, remarked tha
University of kansas. She was an editor of the University Daily kansan, and you can see that she was a frequent guest on msnbc. Thank you. Ms. Chambers thank you for being here, and i would jump into the introductions of the rest of our panelists. Margaret talev is someone i have had the opportunity to know well because she is a white house correspondent, and we have desks that are a couple feet from each other at the white house. So thank you for being here today, margaret. She also covered the 2016 president ial campaign. Campaign,th on the but she is that Foreign Correspondent for bloomberg, and she is president of the White House Correspondents Association, and a conservator as well. , he isonto tony fratto the founder of the Hamilton Place strategies. Before that, you were at treasury. He can provide a lot of economic context when we get to the tax cuts. Psaki, whoe have jen worked for president obama where you are Deputy White House press secretary and deputy to medications secre
The president ial primary for the examiner. Francesca graduated from the university of kansas with so thank you for being here today, margaret. She also covered the 2016 president ial campaign. We were both on the campaign, but she is that Foreign Correspondent for bloomberg, and she is president of the White House Correspondents Association, and a conservator as well. Moving on to tony fratto, he is the founder of the Hamilton Place strategies. Before that, you were at treasury as well, though you can provide a lot of economic context when we get to the tax cuts. And then we have jen psaki, who , it also worked for the white house for president obama, where you are Deputy White House press secretary and deputy to medications secretary. You came back to the white house where you were to medications director and you are now can to bitter at cnn. So i was saying before this , panel started that we like to start with that 30,000foot question, like tell me what your thoughts are on the fir
A look at the impact of entrepreneurs living in the worlds poorest countries, and a book on the rise of chinas military and economy. For a complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Youre watching booktv. Up next, historian h. W. Brands recounts the life and political career of americas 40th president , Ronald Reagan. Henry william brands is a man of the american west. Born in oregon, earned graduate degrees in mathematics and history in oregon and texas. He taught at Vanderbilt University and texas a many and university before going to the university of texas at austin where he holds the jack s. Blands senior chair in history. Professor brands teaches history with and writing to graduate students and undergraduators. Hes written several dozen books on American History and politics politics and is no strange err to the bestseller list. Two of his books about fdr and Benjamin Franklin, were finalists
Years of the 20th century, by the way. Thats whats interesting. The jim crow rules, thats when they came in, when i talked about that transit, the boycotting the Transit System being segregated in mobile. I mean, up until then it was a very different world. Up until then black people could go to the restrooms. Not that they often had the money to go there, but they could go to white restaurants. So that changed. And the south is at a crucial juncture now, and well see which way things go. [inaudible] okay, thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next up, former white house president ial events director josh king talks about his book, off script an advanced mans guide to white house stage craft, Campaign Spectacle and political suicide. Mitchell schwartz, andrew frank and steve barr, swaggering advance men who learned the craft on walter mondales campaign against reagan in 1984, served as my role models. They were the democratics answer to Michael Dever during that sum