I am laura shepard, director of events and im pleased to welcome you to our author event for comers new book grothman. In conversation with San Francisco columnist, we are pleased to have them here for the first time. I would like to find out how many of you have been to the Mechanics Institute before and how many are new . Please come back and we will give you a free tour of the library and show you the Incredible Library on the second and third floors. The International Chess club is down the hallway and we will tell you about our history. We were founded in 1854 and at the Mechanics Institute we have ongoing author events like this one, the International Chess club with their ongoing lectures and tournaments and book clubs and writers groups and on friday nights, we hope you will join us for all our cultural events. I would like to introduce our guest Roland De Wolk, an Investigative Reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism and a historian university adjunct and author. Du
The journal at cspan. Org. If you want to send an email. The New York Times this morning under the headlines saying republicans in turmoil. Here is a little bit from this article. After ms. Mccarthys announcement many were visibly shaken and upset republicans. Inside were so poor that some had failed to fully take in what had happened. Hadman with the most votes given up on what was once the most desired job in the house. Webster hasve offered to be the face of the Republican Party. And the speakership mr. Webster and a lowprofile former speaker in the house. So that he would assemble a principal based member driven caucus that would presumably play a great deal of power from the speaker. The other was mr. Chase it in ambitious lawmaker. Was the first member of congress to focus vigorously on the benghazi matter. Needrepublicans said they the time to contemplate todays votes. The republican of wyoming said we need a breather. We cannot elect a speaker under these terms. We need some ti
No more fdrs. When the 22nd amendment was ratified it had a grandfather clause. It wouldnt apply to the current holder of the job. In effect, harry truman was the last u. S. President who would be allowed to seek term after term in office before being limited by that constitutional amendment. It wouldnt have been his third full term but he could have run again in 1952. As that date approach, as the decision approached, harry truman did test the waters a bit about maybe running for a third term. He soon realized he was too unpopular. He was never going to make it. Interestingly, truman at one point, he had approached general eisenhower, he approached the fivestar general who led the allies to victory in europe and world war ii. This incredible war hero. He had approached eisenhower and tried to persuade eisenhower to run for president as a democrat. Truman offered ike he would scoot down from the presidency to the Vice President if ike would run as a democrat for president. Its an amazi
President would only serve two terms in office. No more fdrs. When the 22nd amendment was ratified it had a grandfather clause. It wouldnt apply to the current holder of the job. In effect, harry truman was the last u. S. President who would be allowed to seek term after term in office before being limited by that constitutional amendment. It wouldnt have been his third full term but he could have run again in 1952. As that date approach, as the decision approached, harry truman did test the waters a bit about maybe running for a third term. He soon realized he was too unpopular. He was never going to make it. Interestingly, truman at one point, he had approached general eisenhower, he approached the fivestar general who led the allies to victory in europe and world war ii. This incredible war hero. He had approached eisenhower and tried to persuade eisenhower to run for president as a democrat. Truman offered ike he would scoot down from the presidency to the Vice President if ike wou
first, here s my take. the controversy over the dececration of copies of iran and the murder of americans that follow is at one level, one moment in a long complicated war. it also highlights the difficult and ultimately unsustainable aspect of america s afghan policy. president obama wants to draw down u.s. troops, but his strategy remains to transition power and authority to an afghan national army and police force as well as to the government in kabul which would run the country and its economy. this is a fantasy. we must recognize that and pursue a more realistic alternative. the united states tends to enter wars in developing countries with a simple idea, modernize the country and you will solve the national security problem. an articulation of that approach came from none other than newt gingrich during a 2010 speech. the fact that we have been in this country for seven years, almost eight years and we have not flooded the country with highways, we haven t guaranteed