This is a statement on how pathetic things really are in government, they imagine themselves to be solving a great case in a quote, in the global war on terrorism. Getting three kids in miami beach, stopping them from shipping ammo to afghanistan was them winning the global war on terrorism. And that literally is how it was discussed inside government. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And now from politics prose bookstore in washington d. C. , Nprs Steve Inskeep provides a dual biography of Andrew Jackson and cherokee leader john ross in the leadup to president jacksons signing of the indian removal act of 1830. Our featured attraction, of course, this evening is the great Steve Inskeep who im sure is already familiar to many of you. Certainly, those of you who listen to National Public radio. Hes been an onair presence there for 19 years, and for over a decade now hes been one to have hosts of morning edition, the most widelyheard Radio News Program in the
House in 2011 and left in 2016, as a special assistant to the president and senior president ial speech writer. Described as the comic muse for the president , he contributedded jokes to president obamas speakers and was a lead wry writer on four white house chanter leader presentations. He was the head write are for funny or die d. C. Are hes Adam Davidson is a staff write at the the new yorker. He has been a frequent contributeyear to to this american life. Hi work appeared atlantic, harpers, gq, Rolling Stone and other publications. They bring us tonight mr. Ly itts new book, thanks, obama, my hopey, changey white house areas. Barack obamas eight years in the white house were defined by young people. In 2011, david litt became one of youngest white house speech writers in history. Until leaving the white house in 2016 he wrote on topics from health care to climbed change to criminal Justice Reform and took the lead as president obamas goto comedy writer. Now in this refreshingly hon
Rise to world dominance . It would have been totally unpredictable from the perspective of, say, 1600s, before america was even begun to be settled. North america was largely wilderness, very lightly settled. There were a disparity number of diverse native american cultures and all of a sudden you have an historical time, you have the world dominant civilization in terms of military power, economic power, culture, here in north america. So, often today the politically correct answer is america rows to world power because america is uniquely guilty of exploiting slave labor, guilty of committing genocide against native americans, spoiling the environment, prepping people, engaging in imperial abroad and slatiering millions. You hear that in many universitied but thats not every significant american leader has believed. Those leaders have believed that the rise of the United States occurred through Divine Providence because they dispensation buy a higher power to uplift the whole world.
This. Robert and i are wishing, we usually do a lot of the advertising. We didnt even have to advertise this one and everything sold out right away, so we have a lot of returning people, a lot of firsttime people and its great to have three great friends here who ill introduce in a moment and im also very thankful for cspan. We have cspan here, and i think this is the first time that cspan has been here to our beautiful campus. I love cspan. Everything that they do, they just bring the camera and no filter, right . No comment tear, they just see whats going on and they let it speak for itself. Ive to give one credits, because hes one of the people on the he said, ive never seen a lineup like this. Theyll come. Youve got to invite him, and he was right. He called that exactly right. So i have five minutes right now to set these up and introduce these guys and get out of the way because we go until 11 00, and i was thinking how do you introduce the topic and this is the 100th anniversary
Program library and, i would like to welcome you all, the book is entitled on war and politics the battlefield inside washingtons beltway which i think the friends of the library. And the cheese and fruit, and the reception. When i asked about your cell phones, interrupt the presentation, tonight i have the introduction, the author talk and a question and answer session. There will be a mike set up in the center aisle to approach the make. After the program, and there are others who are interested. And have wine and cheese. This program will be taped by cspan and will be airing at a later date the next few weeks. I will turn the program over to longterm friend and colleague Major General Arnold Punaro. Please join me in a warm welcome. [applause] turn your cell phones back on while i am talking. It is an honor for me to be your mc and the role the author has seen me play a number of times in the days together, Science Application International corporation and this is the second time in