Like a big relief, you know, its been 10 years in the work to make this book and so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to be able to talk about it, to talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Really a page turner. Outland, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. Robert proctor at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You had three giant box out there, and you took a risk. Guest yes, but but i really feel as though with those three books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor whole corpus of work, the biggest of which is called golden holocaust, i i really feel as though i was standing on the shoulders of giants. These are fantastic works and my work is tremendously indebted to them, but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco, i wasnt approaching the same way that they were. They were very much coming at the story of tobacco from the angle of industry and when i be
Steering us through this confrontation that could have ended up in a terrible nuclear war. Later it was revealed we had actually traded outmoded missiles in turkey and a promise not to invade cuba for removal of the soviet missiles but that wasnt disclosed at the time. It was a deft communication strategy. My concluding point, kennedy, unflappable, the guy, completely misread, failing in his own defining moment that kennedy really understood the stakes involved in the risks that were taken but he pursued in the end a crude and sensible way of dealing with this and is given credit for that. Lyndon johnson takes over after kennedy is assassinated. This is the vietnam war photograph from the tet offensive in 1968, a surprise move, the north vietnamese and the vietcong, basically the United States and south vietnamese won most of the battles. The problem was we were a long way from winning in vietnam but even though president johnson said they were there was light at the end of the tunnel.
Committee on Small Business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. Today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid19 response for the next package to Small Business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. I would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. I appreciate your cooperation so that we can protect ourselves and our hardworking staff. Three weeks ago when congress created the Paycheck Protection Program we did so with the goal of providing a lifeline, the program experienced Unprecedented Demand and proven successful, helping more than 1. 6 million entities to support employees. As a result we will be replenishing the Program Later today. While we are moving quickly to provide an additio
This tuesday. We had a vote yesterday evening the first we have had in some six weeks here, as i walked over to the chambers just now, its 4 00 oclock on a tuesday afternoon, from the heart building the only individuals i saw were the extraordinary men and women of the Capitol Police who are here in the building but to suffice to say these are strange, unusual, challenging and difficult, difficult times as we face the covid19 pandemic. W we address the challenges that our constituents, friends, family are dealing withus at home whether it is the impact of the virus itself on our health and health facilities, or whether it is the impact, truly the economic devastation we are seeing in all corners of the nation. So the opportunity to be together as a body to address the challenges was important, its challenging for us as we adapt to this time and situation to be wearing protective masks to be separated from one another to be teleworking as we are. We are adapting, we are facing that chal
Buy . And that is not necessarily really how we want an economy or Innovation Sector to function. Announcer watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. And our question we started with this morning, should religious gatherings be exempt from stay at home orders . Our lines for you 2027488000 for the eastern and central time zones, 2027488001, mountain and pacific and if youre a religion leader, that line is 2027488002. Well be right back. Announcer tonightannouncer at 9 00 eastern on afterwards, netflix director of inclusion and former u. N. Official Michelle King with her book the fix. We are often in denial the challenges women face at work. It is something i discovered in my own research. People assume places of meritocracys. There is this belief that everyone is the same because everyone is treated in the same way. If people dont have experiences of work and without logic, we are not only do lot denying difference but we are denying inequality. Announcer watc