Welcome. The 64th secretary of state, we are here to talk about her new book, health and other destinations which is an interesting book. I just finished reading it. I look forward to this conversation about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you. I enjoy talking with you anyti anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building of the library congress, shes in her home, i should disclose weve had a longstanding relationship between us, we were young staffers under president carter and i have followed her career ever since then with great admiration. This is for seventh book since you left secretary of state. Did you ever imagine when he finished secretary of state, the first woman to ever serve as secretary of state, he would write seven books in addition to the other things we want to talk about since you left secretary of state . It never occurred to me that i would write this but it is important people who served in office to write their memoirs because it is the basis of peo
Thats still a threat a new stimulus plan high seed out still but maybe this is a buy on the dip day for big tech. The big five are off to a good start, you will see it all in a moment, plenty of green on the screen this morning, the debate joe biden says the president is not smart and he does not know much about Foreign Policy or domestic policy and he will come out swinging in the debate tomorrow night. The president wants biden to take a drug test before the debate and hes asking where is hunter biden, 36 hours ago, get separate tv ratings record, judge barrett facing harsh personal criticism, democrat activists are calling her a white colonizer for adapting to haitian children in senator feinsteins attack on her catholicism keeps popping up all over the place. Judge barrett starts makin meetg tomorrow and several refused to meet her including senator schumer, the hearings can begin in two weeks around october the 12th getting close, what a day and what a week, jobs day friday and Va
As a result, you have the two sides stuck. There is broad agreement to that something more has to be done to address the challenges created by covid19 and the covid19 related shutdown. The other issue discussed is we are headed for a Government Shutdown if we do not get government funding within the next two weeks by september 30, we are headed for a Government Shutdown in the middle of the election, in the middle of a pandemic. Not only is there the question of how we stimulate the economy, there is the question of how we keep the government open. David taking the immediate thing, we have heard from Speaker Pelosi as well as secretary mnuchin they think they have some sort of a deal whether it is written down or not. They think they will have something clean, is that a big problem . Lanhee they do apparently have an agreement. He challenges what clean means republicans view a clean extension of existing government funding is just that, a clean extension without any provision stuck on
Next on the next on the presidency, presidency. Andrew cohen andrew looks at two days in jfks cohen looks at two days in jfks presidency. Presidency. June 10th and june 10th and 11th, 11th, 1963, that defined 1963. It defined his response to the his response Nuclear Arms Race to the nuclear arms and civil rights. Rice and civil rights. Mr. Cohen is mr. Cohen is author of two days authors in june. John author of two days in f. Kennedy and the june, 48 hours that jfk and the made history. 48 hours that made the white house history. The White House Historical association Historical Association provided this video. Provided this video. And you, tell us about andrew, tell us about your book which your book. Focuses it focuses on on two days in the two days in the Kennedy Kennedy presidency. Presidency. June 10th and june 10th and june 11th, june 11th 1963. 1963. Why why did you did you decide to decide to write a book write a book focused focused on only two days of the on only two days of
I had been looking for a way into the Kennedy Administration for sometime. Artists maybe to believe, but one of the most seminal days of my life was november 22nd, 1963, one as an eight year old i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. It isnt unusual for someone like me or any of my generation to remember where here she was, but it did seem to me like to change something. It develop for me a fascination. As i grew up, my friends were interested in captain cook and the final frontier. And i was interest in jfk and the new frontier. Through my career as a journalist, as a student before that, i had been looking as a washington correspondent for away as well for way into the kennedy. Story of course colin there, were a monumental biographies. There were heavy memoirs, there were academic studies, there were scarcely a part of jfks legacy that had not been dissected and inspected and examined. But i wanted to see if theres an i wasnt sure if there is nothing new to say. When i