It seems like it wasnt too long ago when this was a lot of talk, at least in this city, about mexicos promise, mexicos moment. A new administration. A political pact among its main parties. And latin americas most ambitious and wideranging reform agenda that seemed to enjoy broad support. In fact, many important measures were enacted in a short period of time. Lately, however, the news from mexico has been of greater concern. Security and human rights issues, rule of law challenges generally have come to the fore. The disappearance of 43 students almost a year ago highlighted in dramatic fashion these persistent problems. Last month, on july 11th, the Cartel Leader Joaquin Guzman El Chapo Escaped from a maximum security prison, exposing what many see as systemic corruption and contributing to a loss of confidence in the government. Corruption allegations have dogged president pena net toe and his administration. Less than a week ago, last friday, in fact, mexican photo journalist Ruben
Welcome to concord, New Hampshire, on booktv. Located about 70 miles north of boston, it has a population of about 42,000. Settled in 1725, this capital city is home to the oldest statehouse in the country and has the largest state legislature in the nation with 400 members. It was also home to franklin pierce, the 14th president of the United States, and christa mcauliffe, the teacher who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle challenger disaster. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next hour well feature the areas Literary Community beginning with dante scala on New Hampshires role during a president ial election. New hampshires role is to be the primary that is first of all the primaries mt. Nomination process in the nomination process. And thats a spot on the calendar that weve held now for about a century, and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically n
New hampshires role is to be the primary, that is first of all the primaries in the nomination process and thats a spot on the calendar that we held now for about a century and its grown in importance over time as the president ial nomination process became more democratic with a small d. New hampshire and iowa Work Together to basically narrow the field for the rest of the country. New hampshire primary has been the first in the nation for a century and it actually happened by accident. Two accidents. The Fortunate One is for us. One is that New Hampshire decides to hold its primary in conjunction with town meetings which occurred in the springtime and that wasnt to be first, that was essentially to save money, to have multiple elections on the same day. But when we started the president ial primary, we were not first. There were a couple other states ahead of us but remember the time, it wasnt the case that primaries decided who the nominee was going to be. Even though some states he
Literary life. We have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seen to our viewers. You can learn more at cspan. Org citiestour. The New Hampshire state library is the oldest state library in the country. It dates to 1717. Location in at this concord since 1896, when we built the state library and Supreme Court building. The purpose of the state library is to provide information to the citizens of the state. Clearly, that means we have to elect materials that have the materialsn collect that have the information, and we have to keep that information up to date and make that available to citizens in a number of ways. The traditional materials we have that date back to 1718 and the latest things we have, reports from state agencies, which are in digital format and available on our website. Our major goal is to collect materials that deal with New Hampshire specifically, so we have an extensive collection. We like to think of ourselves as the place to go for information about New Hamps
Financing of additional nato reserves. Neil those are foreign leaders snickering at President Trump, snickering at the man who leads the country that they pays the lions share of natos bills and it is simply asking could you guys just help pay up . Im told in the Group Picture organized, they virtually ignored him, offended. This is the new leader of france, leader of italy, ignoring, laughing, snickering at president of the United States simply because he had the gall to say, you know, it would help if we all stuck to that original goal when we came up with the nato concept of every member country forking over 2 of their budget to these defenserelated matters. And they laughed. But something tells me they didnt nod laugh in the past when we were there in world war ii. When we were there in great rebuilding of europe with the marshall plan. They did not laugh and do not laugh when they couldnt handle a dictator in their own midst. Anyone remember the name milosevic . Then we had to int