Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
I would like to introduce someone that i met and we will speak for a few minutes and then we will talk about the book i did not follow my own rules. [laughter] i tried to sell now people actually do follow less on twitter so bad as i have the phone out and i apologize for not following will rules enough of that. Said tonight we are pleased to host a live the discussion if not downright depressing because raven rock is a fully researched book writing for politico and really dug into this for you were given a script option so you have to look keep the microphone but interestingly enough competition is fair and square. But the book raven rock and i dont want to step too much on top of Garrett Graff but with a continuity of government we remember september 11th the Vice President cheney said many times how they shoved him into the undisclosed location and there is a whole big history behind fact we are excited why garett can speak to that and how it came about and its legacy to the Current
For international peace. We are trying to show you as much as we can before things get started. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming. First of all we are into the season where the city tends to empty out, so we are all delighted that you are here to discuss a problem that, you know, is arguably as important in the us as it is around the world where we will focus on it. Lets me briefly introduce myself and who will be conversing with today. Im sarah cheneys. Simon is going to kick us off, simon taylor who is one of the founders of Global Witness, which is in my view one of the most innovative and effective organizations working in the space around the world and its very interestingly combined with advocacy with extremelyadvo regressed investigations and thats one of the things we will talk about today is a recent report by Global Witness about shells activities in nigeria. He also helped galvanize the coalition of Civil
Historians hosted this 90minute discussion at their annual meeting in st. Louis. We will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived and others may trickle in after lunch. My name is beverly gage. Im a history professor at gail and i will be here mostly chairing and timekeeping and asking some questions, but before i introduce the panelists , i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it, and some of the issues i hope we will be able to address. This year, 2015, marks the audience anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees, certainly, of the 1970s, and i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century, and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee was chaired by idaho Senator Frank Church and the committee began its work in the spring of 1975, and the Church Committee held hearings performed investigations, dug into Background Materials on the American Intelligence Services this was the first mass s
Did cheney and paul ryan and other leaders boca a Memorial Ceremony for bob michael at the capitol. This is one hour. [inaudible conversations] please stand for the presentation of the colors in the National Anthem in the retirement of the colors. Please remain standing for the invocation. Let us pray god of heaven and earth, the work of your hands is made in node did and didnt the alliance of the los that formally win in year and release phone negative grace. We remember the life and work of son of the very proud city of peoria. As a longtime missouri leader he was safe, modest man whose impact entailed in in of a pass to is a better but it was his characteristic of his ushered through a Democratic House much of what the agenda and evidence of the extraordinary ability to legislate within our constitutional structures. But be present with us my bacon that the member his legacy. Blesses gathering in comfort us as we convert one another that if we remember a Great American in a genuinel