U. S. iran relations. I should stress these events are strictly nonpartisan and not intended to offer any kind of policy, recommendations, or agendas. Therapy meant to give greater insight into how we got to where we are, which we believe helps us to understand how we can solve problems. A few thanks and then over to allen. The Melon Foundation funds building program. We are grateful to them. The room has been booked by chronicm congressman consequentnellys o. I will turn it over to the moderator of this event. Most of you will find these index cards on your seats. The intent of these is as the discussion proceeds, if you have questions, write them on these cards. We would collect them after formal remarks and use them to initiate the discussion, all right . Think about that as they are giving their remarks. Allen . Thank you, dane. Good morning. In 1941, the influential publisher henry loose declared that, in his view, the 20th century would be the american century. A time when americ
Her, i know she still loved him, and id want to say, why didnt you do it . Hes going to die soon. I wish you had done it. And i think for him id want to understand why he couldnt share himself more fully with anyone. He was the most ebullient, the most charming, most sparkling personality on the surface. Everybody thought how warm he was. But underneath, there was such reserve in him, and id want to try and understand why that was so, and why he wouldnt give himself more to the people who loved him. Brian what makes this book different than all the rest . Ms. Goodwin well, i think what i wanted to do in this book was to understand not only franklin and eleanors relationship which has been looked at in many, many other cases but to understand the whole extended family that surrounded them in the white house. And i came to an understanding that these two characters really both needed other people to meet the untended needs that were left over as a result of their troubled marriage. So, w
Show. He has received several awards for his work. He is an Award Winning correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. He spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times as a foreign correspondent. He has been shot at, jailed, beaten by the police, and bombed from the air. We are pleased to provide sanctuary tonight. He is a senior fellow at brown university. They will discuss his new book, the true flag. It is a subject that seems strikingly important. He focuses on the dawn of the 20th century. The debate involves two of the most influential minds of the time. William Randolph Hearst on one side, mark twain, and booker t. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie arguing. Hopefully it will shed light on the condition of america today. It is my pleasure to welcome him. [laughter] robin thank you. This book was thrilling to read. Here is an example of why. I try to highlight the moments i remember. I went through two highlighters. It is thrilling to hear that
ot test. Test test n uqau this isnr ani vrac captioning to with my mother, my dad, and my four sisters. And people would do things for us. Influenza gave you such a high fever, mother told me that it was dilerium from an iv. People were left with a high fever and the schools, all of the Public Places and every place was closed. Officials res dated to close schools and other meeting places that would have reduced contact between the sick and the well. Hospitals and sfun really homes were overwhelmed and the workers that kept the city and their businesses running were too sick to get out of bed. They went around and got all of these men from down south to operate the mills and there was thousands of mills coming. My father worked for a steel company, and the only black baker they ever had was my father, henry lindsey. But people were very kind to one another. In the morning, they come back and he was dead. We didnt visit nobody. Nobody visited us except this lady. This mrs. Thorton. She
Before that particular wanted ad, 8,000 people worked for the company and then nearly a quarter million, and they were capable of working collaboratively in fluid networks. We still talk about language, and keeping the females in mind serving the infrastructure of the technological age. Connections that are now patched electronically by digital assistanasi assistan assistants, bots, and ai many of which still speak by default in female voices. It started to disappear in the. She was at 40 female users that made it one of the earliest spaces online to be genuinely hospitable to women online, but thee resisted that she created it as a safe space for women. Bite me, she said, i wanted to get more in on echo to make it better. Not a refuge, not an accommodation, she understood that diversity is an asset that serves the entire community. She was building a social network. And she knew that if there was more perspectives there would be a more exciting and dynamic product. She was the only fo