Department are very happy to be presenting a talk by steve, professor of history at florida university. The university. He works and teaches on environmental history, history of capitalism, agrarian studies and other topics interest objectsubjects. Hes a writer of other works including the lean earth soil Anand Society in 19th century 1y america, the great delusion, a mad inventor stuck in the tropics into the utopian origins of economic growth. Tonight, hes going to be talking to us about his new book that will be released on november 21, just in time for the holidays, so please mark your calendars. The book is of course the ordeal of appalachia as you can see by the picture of its lovely cover. And i am excited about the talk and thrilled to have him with us at the new school. Theres been a lot of talk obviously about the places left behind, the sort of poor rural communitiecommunity, the white s who voted for trump, you know, and th they sense that the Historical Context of the post
Relationship with president trump. This is 40 minutes. Rick perry, as former texas, having served 14 years. What was the biggest learning orderyou had to take in to be Energy Secretary . Somebody. For i worked for the United States when i was between 22 and 27. A shortrked for my dad period of time and other than that, ive either been selfemployed or an agency head or the governor. So learning to be one of the orngs you know about texas you may not texas does not have a cabinetstyle government. The agriculture commissioner or Lieutenant Governor, youre elected on your own. Youre responsible, obviously, to the voters, but you actually dont work for somebody. I came to washington, d. C. And im working as a cabinet member was a little bit of a learning curve for me. Managements management. 12ther youre running the largest economy in the world as the state of texas is, or the d. O. E. re at thats got about 16,000 100,000 contractors and 30 billion budget, in the things, thats not a huge ag
And i worked for my dad a short period of time and other than that, ive either been selfemployed or an agency head or the governor. Selfemployed or an agency head or the governor. So learning to be one of the orngs you know about texas you may not texas does not have a cabinetstyle government. The agriculture commissioner or Lieutenant Governor, youre elected on your own. Youre responsible, obviously, to the voters, but you actually dont work for somebody. I came to washington, d. C. And im working as a cabinet member was a little bit of a learning curve for me. Managements management. 12ther youre running the largest economy in the world as the state of texas is, or the d. O. E. re at thats got about 16,000 100,000 contractors and 30 billion budget, in the things, thats not a huge agency of government. But youre working in the thenet for the president of United States. A little bit of a change for me. Job . why did you take the secretary perry i still thought you got to remember, i wa
An amendment that bears reminding that was one of the great contributions of the Republican Party to american life, second only to the abolition of slavery. For too long, we republicans have been content to lose the black vote. We found we did not need it to win. But when we gave up trying to win the support of african americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as part as the party of linkncoln. As the party of equal opportunity for all. It is time for us once again to reclaim our heritage as the only party in our country founded on the print for freedom for africanamerican. We know what democrats will propose in 2016. The same thing, the same thing the democrats have proposed for decades. More Government Spending on more government programs. And there is a proper and Important Role for government assistance and keeping people on their feet, but few president s have done more to expand government assistance than president obama. Today was and nearly 1 trillion per years on means tested an
Whats your name . Fran bailey. Fran . Yes, sir. The senate mississippi. You like it here . Yes, sir, i do. Good. Whats your name . Im suri from nepal. The United States can still do more yeah, hows your family . [ inaudible ] i like what you said. Thanks. I want to make sure i understand what were talking about. Are you saying that he thinks she is unethical or she was not i want to make sure the points that youre making. The main point is the floor vote. Thats number one. I did my homework. Yes she didnt. Should have been suspicious based on the record. Nine months before september 11th. Right. And then i believe the state Department Diplomatic corps at this time has to be above criticism. When talked about her ethics, do you mean she isnt ethical or caused the question to be raised . What do you mean . I said what i meant. You judge people by their actions. These are action thats people should be judged by. You said come home with no prosecution, you said if you have any more questio