Sure to join the conversation with your calls, texts, and tweets. Announcer as the Republican National Convention Gets Underway tonight, we will hear from prominent speakers from past conventions. Senator howard baker from 1984. Then pat buchanan in 1992. , retired general colin powell in 1996. And former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2012. Howard baker had already been Senate Majority leader for three years when he addressed the 1984 Republican Convention. He became 18 years, known as the great negotiator, including passage of the Clean Air Act and the clean water act. Senator baker was vice chair of the committee that investigated whitewater, president nixon, and members of his administration. 35 years later during the impeachment trials of president trump, intelligence chair adam schiff asked, where is howard baker . Where the people willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty . Senator baker spoke to delegates in dallas. Sen. Baker thank you very much. Late is a
Rep. Price my district is in the triangle area of north carolina, i am in three counties. The county where i live is orange county, which has chapel hill in hillsboro. Then there is a narrow strip of durham county, to 80 of the people in the district to wake county. My district is best known as a diverse and growing district economically, demographically. We like to say the new south, and by that, we not only refer to shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. The Research Triangle story is pretty familiar and pretty well internalized around here. Around 60 years ago, a group of leaders in business and education and government had this vision that these wornout fields out in the area between durham and raleigh might be a new source for industry, especially for hightech enterprise, Research Related enterprise. So the Research Triangle was born. And it wasnt an immediate success. Ibm, though, became the anchor tenant. And pretty soon it blosso
It specifies that athletes are not permitted to accept anything of value really related to their status as an athlete. That means that you know a fan or a booster, a wouldbe agent, a coach, is not permitted to give you anything of value beyond what is specified in the ncaa constitution. How it forces good people to do bad things or consider doing bad things. The pressures are just so enormous in the athletic program. People that are sports fans or like to be helpful will be enticed to do shady things from time to time. Sometimes it morphs into fullscale fraud. It is a system that needs repair. That is the dominant message we would like people to take away from the book. I am in chapel hill and hillsboro. My district is best known has as a diverse and growing and by that we not only refer to shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. The Research Triangle story is pretty principle internalized arnold here. A group of leaders in education and
The new deal, the life of Francis Perkins. Fdrs secretary of labor and his moral conscience. This was part of the ninth annual festival in washington d. C. The book festival in the national mall. inaudible the streets around these building. I will explain to you how that happened. Much of the research was done at library of congress which is sponsoring todays events. It is a wonderful institution. The beautiful buildings. They are such Important Research materials there. It is all available free. It is Public Access libraries. They are one of the things that make our nation great. I am very grateful to the library of congress for being here and for continuing to give us such wonderful material. This is a self selecting crowd. I know some of you already know who Francis Perkins is, but a lot of people do not. Let us start by asking this question. How many of you know who Francis Perkins is . Yes this is great good how many of you know someone on Social Security please raise your hand. H
Here is a look at our recent visit to chapel hill, North Carolina. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story. As we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our cable partners, we traveled to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the next hour, we will go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills first africanamerican mayor and the first africanamerican mayor elected in a majority white southern city. Then in 30 minlutes, the histor of uncs basketball tour as we tour the Basketball Museum. We will speak with an author on the academic scandal that involved the universitys athletic department. We will end our special with local lawyer rufus edmonston talking about delivering a subpoena to pr