Public service and brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to the Commonwealth Club. Im george hammond, chair of the vanity form, i am happy to welcome back a. J. Baime. We had him here i urine to have a go for the accidental president , his last book and this time we have him here virtually from his home and we will talk about his new book about the 1948 election going back 72 years and you will be amazed how similar it sounds in some ways, in other ways very different. Politicians were all younger than they are today. Take it away, the overview of the book, a very good review. Guest thanks for having me. The Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be. A lot of people going to pain and suffering, i am reminded why i fell in love with reading, books can transport you to another time and place and it has been a blessing. Regarding my last time with you i started this book in 2017 to talk about the accidental president. This book came out in the 2020 election cycle. This is
Mcdonnell, she argues that identity politics is challenging diverse thinking at the collegiate level, this is from 2018. This is a different experience ive been speaking on colleges campuses recently. , you know what that means, i received a walk out the storm this age strategy in southern california, the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk, socalled students of color, nearby at Pomona College announced that i was a quote fascist white supremacist trans lobe, queer folk classes and ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that produced the lethal condition of which oppressed people are forced to live. So to actually have an audience, is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. Now we have been hearing a lot about the crisis of free speech on College Campuses, but not much about the root cause. The narcissistic victim ologies that is rapidly spreading from academia to the rest of culture, in a word the American University is i
The 4th people started to evacuate the area around the port because. There was Little Information on what caused the fire the Lebanese Army then issued a statement saying this was not a deliberate this was an accident and. Fire that oil as well as tires that were stored in a warehouse caught fire and the army as well as firefighters theyve been deployed to the scene as you can see trying to put out the flames helicopters have are also being used to try to distinguish extinguish the flames that are on their nerves this is a city that is still on their nerves the city still demanding answers theyre still having questions on what caused that massive explosion 55 weeks ago investigations are continuing. The case has been theyve been questioning Security Officials as well as politicians but still no answers still no official help to account especially since so many officials were aware of the presence of highly explosive Ammonium Nitrate at the warehouse and they did nothing about it. Thous
To hot weather expected although not quite as hot as we were early in the week. Temperatures similar to yesterday after taking a little fall. Temperatures around antioch in the upper 90s. Pacifica and Half Moon Bay in the mid to upper 60s. The cloud and fog is back. What to expect for this afternoon, coming up. Lets check on the highways now. Good morning. We have traffic doing very well. I want to talk about the east bay where we still have slow traffic that wont go away, it seems. Theyre clearing a crash that was a hitandrun at south 81 near whipple in that house traffic going slow. Otherwise, San Francisco had a stalled vehicle in an earlier accident that excluded. And traffic into San Francisco from east bay looks okay. No problems on the Richmond Bridge this morning and on 880 in oakland, this traffic is moving along very nicely. Brick newsprint more destruction caused by the walbridge buyer, part of the bigger lmu complex fires in the north bay. This video from this morning showi
Washington, d. C. , across Lafayette Square at the white house with the slavery and the president s neighborhood. As we begin tonights program please welcome the 15th rector of st. Johns church, reverend john fisher. [ applause ] welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was rewould abouting the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812 and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It i