Nowadays the Vice President does not do that unless his vote is needed to break a tie. Truman never learned anything from zero fdr or his staff. It was a transition zero knowledge that this not happen anymore. Got a phone call from the white house. It to the phone right away. I pick up the phone. At the other and they said to the white house as soon as you can. He grabbed his hat. Heout. He dashed out. They had a car for him. He went to the white house. He was taken to the second floor, which was the family f loor. He looked up and said harry, the president is dead. He was in total shock. He said what can i do for you . She said harry, what can we do for you . You are in trouble now. From his early life through his presidency aida donald looks at the light of Harry Trumans sunday night at 8. President obama spoke with reporters today. This is his first News Conference since early this year. Good afternoon, everybody. Please have a seat. I hear you have some questions for me. But let me
Just think of that. 12 democrats, 11 republicans, Something Like that. Today we have over 60 House Democratic women. [applause] not enough. We want more. But all of us who were there, that dozen of us for the time, we took responsibility to try to put more women in congress across the country. I am proud that in california our delegation of democrats is a majority of women, not even counting our two senators. Women are empowered in california. I also want to acknowledge that although our members are great here, two of our colleagues have gone on to the senate. Senator elect Tammy Baldwin [applause] senator elect mazie hirono. Only the second woman of color to serve in the senate. That is very exciting. Unfortunately we do not have kathy hochul this next congress, but the future is soon coming upon we know they will be making a great public contribution. So here we are. We are still finishing up some of our campaigns. We are very proud of the success as you see here today. Why is it imp
This is the description of de l la idiotidiots. These were rebound, published later in the nineteenth century. But what they document is Napoleons Campaign in egypt and artists rendering of the landscape of egypt, pyramids, architecture, architectural elements, elements of the hieroglyphs, egyptian pottery, maps, diagrams of the layouts of pyramids, different historical sites around egypt. This is an era where there was no photography. This was a way to document and detailed the things napoleon and his army were capturing and a way to account for the riches of egypt that napoleon was hoping to bring back into france to the empire and also used as points of study for french architects and artists. This piece was another in a set from 1792 published during the french republic. About the history of louis the sixteenth. This is talking about the history of king louis and the start of the revolution. This kind of material gives us a perspective how the contemporaries, people who lived durin
We sat down with several local authors and took a tour of a local bookbinder. And coming up sunday, well be live for in depth. Bing west joins us for three hours to answer your questions. Mr. West will talk about the many books hes written on the vietnam, iraq and afghanistan wars as well as his experience during the vietnam war and his time as assistant secretary of defense for International Security affairs during the reagan administration. Visit us at booktv. Org. Sean strub talks his about life and aids diagnosis in the 1980s. He became the first openly gay hiv positive person to run for congress. This is about an hour. [applause] very lovely, thank you so much. Thank you. I, you know, i tell people about this tour that im going on, we have 40 some events, they say, oh, my god, youre going to be so exhausted. But i love it. I really enjoy getting out and talking to people, having the kind of conversations that have been arising at some of these events already. So im going to read j
Helping folks navigate the public assistance system. So its a great way to get sort of a peer to peer type employment client relationship which we think is really beneficial for our clients. Anyway, by extending from 6 months to a year it allows them to meet those minimum qualifications for many city jobs including clerks and eligibility positions and the like. So, mr. Rourke, what is on average the suction diper employee . We have been kind of an iterate process. Weve been adjusting it back and forth, but right now i believe its 5,000 and its spread over a number of months. Basically what were trying to do is sort of mitigate the r ifk to a private employer to taking on someone who they might feel has some barriers to work. We prescreen them, we train them, we actually help them get that job and we know theyre qualified but it allows folks to engage. In the early jobs now program while in the stimulus act we subsidize 100 percent of the wages in the private sector so someone could be