Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrote several books on president ial elections beginning in
If you have a question that you would like to ask gail collins, having just watched her program, heres how you can get a hold of us, 202 ab 2027488200 for the east and central time zones. 202748201 if you live in mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to send a text message please include your first name and city and that number is 2027488903. Gail collins, since you take that program with megan twohey and the library of congress ab whats her legacy as an older woman in American History . Her legacy in general theres a lot of legacy people have been talking about obviously that there are legal legacy the thing i think about when i think about her is that she is really the first woman i can think of in American History whose passing was more not as an wonderful person, which she actually was but as a woman empower a person and power, as a major part of the power structure of the government, as a person who made history and changed the way we live in different ways with her rulings
President lukashenko 180 percent of the vote the result triggered mass protests along with a fierce police crackdown. Good to have you with celebrities Prime Minister today announced the resignation of his government after last weeks massive blast in beirut and after a weekend of unrest during which protesters stormed multiple government buildings the cabinets had only taken office in january of this year many lebanese blame the countrys political elite for years of corruption and negligence which they say made to last weeks explosion possible so as the Prime Minister spoke clashes continued on the streets outside the countrys parliament. The governments resident. Has been a key demand of the protesters. In his speech today the Prime Minister said that he is quitting to make possible the changes that his country needs. Now that today we are heeding the people and their demands to hold accountable those responsible for a disaster that has been concealed for 7 years. And their desire for
My and and pleased to welcome you evenings if went with duncan white presenting his new book cold warriors in conversation with Lauren Kaminsky. You can learn more at mass communities. Org. We have several events are the next components which includes allen lightman Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Powers and New York Times bestselling novelist al huffman. More details and information on these and many other Upcoming Events please visit our Events Calendar at harvard. Com sign up for a weekly newsletter. We are pleased to have cspans booktv here with us today. When asking questions for q a please know youll be recorded and wait a moment for the microphone to come over before asking your question. We will have a book signing right here at this table. Be careful of the camera. We have copies for sale at the register and an excerpt of it like to take a moment to say thanks to the harvard bookstore. Today is the first date and get copies of this book so congratulations. [applause] a quick re
Tonights at war with king debating drinking and in the civil war. My name is molly mersmann and i am a postdoctoral associate here with the Virginia Center for civil war here at virgin tech, which is sponsoring this event, the center regularly hosts talks like and other activities which include academic conferences scholarships and grants, outreach programs in museums and, Elementary School classrooms and more besides, basically sharing wonderful civil war era history. As many different people as we possibly can. You can keep up with what is going on with the center on our website, which is civil war dot v teen dot edu or you can go on facebook or twitter. On to tonights event. Our speaker is dr. Meghan bever, who is an associate professor of history and chair of the social department at Missouri Southern state university. She received her ph. D. From, the university of alabama, but i am a little more excited that she received her undergraduate degree at purdue university, which is whe