Booktv continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. Booktv recently went to capitol hill to find out what books are on the reading lists of members of congress. What are you reading . It is too big to say. Im in the process of five different books. I pretty much finished one of them. The latest one, grant by ron chernow. You talk about what informs my work in congress. It is vitally important to understand our nations history, to understand both the victories and the challenges we have faced in the past so we could make better informed decisions and i love as a military guy looking back at conflict and what led us into those conflicts and how we came out of this conflict a stronger nation. Grant is one of those books. As i read and learned the role my state of ohio played in the civil war and holding our union together, grant, lincoln had three prominent ohioans that encircled him. Selma chase was his secretary of treasury, 23rd governor of ohio, grant became his fighting gener
For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Strategies a former npc president and a cochair of the nbc Headliners Team which organizes these
To listen, watch, and follow along on twitter at the Hashtag Hashtag npc live for our cspan. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Str
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