More head planetarium in the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in about ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee chapel hills first African American mayor and the first African American mayor elected in the majority white southern city. Then, in about 30 minutes, the history of uncs Basketball Program as we tore the North Carolina Basketball Museum. Well also speak with author jay smith on the academic scandal that involve the universities athletic department. We will end our special with a local royal rufus edison talking about delivering a subpoena to president nixon in 1973 and his other experience as a deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate committee. Howard ali was the first African American elected mayor in the majority white southern city. Coming up we sit down with mr. Lee to talk about serving his chapel hill mayor in the 19 sixties and seventies and the challenges he faced while in office law. Mayor, why did you decide to run for mayor of chapel
Im jim byron president ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. 50 years ago tomorrow, after four years of delegate on and off again negotiations and military actions by the Nixon Administration, secretary of state William Rogers signed the paris peace accords for the United States. What was not on and off again and was in fact very consistent, was the approach that president nixon took in leading his administrations attempts to leverage great power rivalries and competition for americas benefit. The overriding objective of which was to end the war in vietnam. To discuss nixons grand strategy for ending the war in vietnam, im pleased to welcome pier assal, the Dwight E Stanford chair in American Foreign relations at San Diego State university. Neil ferguson milbank family senior fellow at the hoover institution. Rana mitter professor of the history and politics of modern China University of oxford. My colleague mark up grove, president and ceo of the lbj foundation in austin, texas, will m
You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] in the new book, James Baldwin escape from america, we have plenty of copies up front, so we do encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three so we can stay in this neighborhood as a community space. [laughter] okay. Im going to do this very elegantly. So, first, let me introduce our panelists. Carol weinstein is the mother of taan yell Baldwin Daniel baldwin, also on the panel, and was a partner of david whom she met in 1964. Later, jimmy would refer to her as his sister out of law, and when jimmy bought the house in st. Paul [inaudible conversations] thank you, david and carol first visited jimmy there together in 1977 from amsterdam where they were living at the time. They drove there to celebrate his buying the house. Carol also visited in 1974 and then again several summers from 1975 into the 80s with daniel. She and daniel also made nostalgic visits several years later after jimmy died, and d
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Spent because he was trying to build the ranch of good intentions. That took a lot of his time. See all of our programs today at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Tinsleyed admiral david is a retired meteorologist and expert in climatology. The penn state meteorology professor recently talked about the effects of Climate Change on security and public policy. This was hosted by Westminster College in fulton missouri. It is an hour. What is that . What is that black thing with the numbers on it . It is a sextant. Shat do you sextant for . Navigation. It is for shooting the stars. Maybe the professors here remember. I doubt if anybody else does, there was a time in this world where do you did not just pull this thing up and it told you where you were within 10 meters on this planet. Ship,ou went out on this this was my first ship, i got to be navigator, the coolest job in the navy. You got to tell the captain where to go. Nobody else got to tell the captain were to go. There was no p