I hope at least its a start and that others will come forward and continue to tell the story. You can watch this and other programs on line at booktv. Org. Next Kevin Mattson recounts the president ial election of 1952 and Richard Nixons checkers speech delivered on National Television on the speech was given in response to allegations that nixon misuse political donations. The author recounts nixons usage of this family dog checkers to denote his every man status and save his Vice President ial nomination. This program is about an hour. Good evening everybody. Before we begin if its okay to come up closer, its not church, synagogue or a mosque. Mosque. I am very pleased that our friends from cspan are here, so this will be broadcast at some point, sooner than later i am sure. They always do a great job and i want to welcome cspan again to politics and prose. It has added to cspan has added to our civil discourse and whatever bookstores you come to, they are generally independent and c
Her decision. Later today, she will have a face to face meeting with the president. The focus has turned to john kerry. The hill will be relatively quiet today. The house and senate not in session. John boehner is back in his ohio congressional district. They did meet last night for about 50 minutes. It is friday, december 14. We are going to begin with your calls and our focus on ambassador susan rice. Her decision to take her name out of consideration. What does this tell you about washington politics . Take a look at some of the headlines this friday morning beginning with the l. A. Times. From the chicago tribune. Lets dig into the details of what is behind the decision in an editorial this morning in the the Washington Post. Here is more from the interview that aired last night. [video clip] there was one piece of what i said that turned out to be wrong. There was not a demonstration. What i said was, there were extremists who came to our facility with heavy weapons. I indicated w
Janet was referring to, you know, the moral injury, people pay more and more attention to that, and lets note pretend this only exists on the military side of the equation. Theres trama and disability in the world as well. To me, you might disagree, but, to me, its the commonality here is once something happens in your life, whether its a single event or accumulation of things, but theres some its not just trauma, but something happens that just rattles you down to the bones. What do you do then . Succumb to it or busy trying to recover. Ptsd, civilian or military, one of the guys said, you know, life comes with trauma, and trauma necessarily comes from a sense of recovery. Thats what we do, and to get back to the idea to be careful here because of the notion of perpetuating the stereotype of the imroaken soldier. Thats there are broken soldiers from these wars. Does not mean they are forever broken. Probably most of them, throughout history, will not be, but that does not mean you dis
Theedd4m struggle for, to use of the arabic words, karama dignity throughout the region. This isnt going away, and there are many historical events that are going to unfold in the years and decades to come that i think are going to rock these regimes or induce them to come to terms with the demands for dignity, accountability and popular sovereignty. So were going to have to do another edition of this book, mark. Thats the one thing i think we can say for sure. [laughter] mark, my coeditor, thank you very much. All of the staff at the journal of democracy, the National Endowment for democracy and our three panelists, thank you all. [applause] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. Watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. From the 2014 Los Angeles Times festival of books, a Panel Discussion on feminism. Its a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, my cl
Bank of over two decades is reportedly near a settlement over it role in the scandal. Will this help the banks massive issues . All that and more tonight on this monday, january 6th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. Its an historic day for the United States and its economic policy. For the first time ever, a woman, brooklynborn economist janet yellin, is poised to be sworn in as the nastions top banker. Early this eve tng senate voted to confirm the 67yearold yellin as the chair of the federal reserve. Shes now its vice chair. Eamon javers joins us live in the nations capitol with more on tonights vote and what it means for Interest Rates, the feds stimulus plan, and the american economy. Welcome. Lets start with the details. How close was the vote . In the end, tyler, she had more votes than she needed. The final vote was 5626. And you may notice that that does not add up to 100 senators. We have a lot of missing senators today because of some of those travel glitches around the c