The but not to pay i95 or to deliver a package to my po box church. Pgo works book is a cry from the new middle visit the website booktv. Org and type the authors name or book title into the search box. To the of the program. Good evening thank you for joining us for the program today. My name is gavin im the director of programs, exhibitions and partnerships for the massachusetts Historical Society. Before i begin the program on extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not filming with mhs was the oldest Historical Society in america in a been collecting preserving collecting and preserving our history since 1971. Have an amazing collection of close to 14 million manuscript pages and putting papers of three of the first six u. S. President s. In these days of social distancing we take into hosting virtual events. We have Online Events planned for the rest of the calendar year exploring many subjects of u. S. And massachuset
Thai im Judy Woodruff im thrilled to be joining these three amazing others today. You see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book our man Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American Century and Susan Glasser and peter baker his book is out this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of james a. Baker to third. Two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer holbrooke a democrat a Foreign Service officer a student of foreign policy. Their lives took very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Picking up on that this is a man with great vision and it was there before he came to washington. It was. He was a family feud aristocracy. He was expected to great things. He had a very dominating father who imparted on him the legacy of his family or the bakers
As for the election, i want to focus at the top of our show what we know right now. And all of this has been changing throughout the day as we come to you from the state capital in harrisburg, pennsylvania. This is one of six states to be officially called by the fox news decision desk. Just over an hour ago our fox team did project former Vice President joe biden will win in the state of wisconsin. The Trump Campaign says a recount will be requested there. Biden is expected to deliver remarks shortly live from delaware. Well bring you comments as soon as he starts speaking that could be any minute. Well watch that. Look where things stand in the state of michigan as we flip it over there. 49. 8 , biden. 48. 7 trump. No check mark. Has not been called yet. Joe biden with a lead in michigan. Back in pennsylvania, the keystone state. Might take longest of the big three reporting those. Here is democratic Governor Tom Wolf was talking about that earlier this afternoon. He spoke here in ha
Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Across the plains of texas, from sea to shining sea. Houston and down to new york to valet whether pride in every american heart says it is time to stand and say im proud to be an american where at least i know im free and i wont forget the men who died who gave that right to me and id gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there aint no doubt i love this land god bless the u. S. A. And im proud to be an american where at least i know im free and i wont forget the men who died who gave that right to me and id gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there aint no doubt i love this land god bless the u. S. A. [crowd cheering] [chanting usa, usa] [cheering] hello, florida. [cheering] it is wonderful to be here in our home state. Thank you for taking the time to be here and for supporting the administration. We love you too. For those of you who are Still Deciding who to vote for on tuesday, i hope what i have to say will prove to you that a vote