The hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the is policy and strategy in the middle east. First of all and foremost i want to submit for the record the statement by chairman mccain who is not here today. We are enjoying this morning by a group we all know well. We have all been before the committee. As i mentioned a minute ago and i think most of the members of this committee had seen you in action in the field and ambassador ryan crocker, you have been a diplomat in residence, Woodrow Wilson school of Public Affairs chris university. He has been all over the map and ambassador eric edelman, Counselors Center for strategic and budgetary assessment. By macaque this is your ninth appearance before this committee. Does that sound right to you . Yes. And ambassador james jeffrey, distinguished fellow, university of Washington Institute for near east policy. I remember being with you in turkey and other places. Of course, ambassador stuart jones, Vice
The hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the is policy and strategy in the middle east. First of all and foremost i want to submit for the record the i want to submit here today. We are enjoying the and ambassador ryan crocker, you have been a diplomat in residence, Woodrow Wilson school of Public Affairs chris university. He has been all over the map and ambassador eric edelman, Counselors Center for strategic and budgetary assessment. By macaque this is your ninth appearance before this committee. Does that sound right to you . Yes. And ambassador james jeffrey, distinguished fellow, university of Washington Institute for near east policy. I remember being with you in turkey and other places. Of course, ambassador stuart jones, Vice President your presence was both in jordan and iraq. It is great to have all behavior much of the nations attention over the last two decades has gone to the middle east in terms of military operations. And appropr
2009 by the bbcs katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. This is about 50 minutes. Katty thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. On april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. Lee and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. It evokes what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had people and horses s
History professor Theodore Wilson talks about their wartime experiences and how that later influenced them as future commanders in chief. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im not sure how much i knew about world war ii, but i do very much appreciate henrys very generous introduction. It is about an hour. Prof. Wilson if i did not know very much about my parents, im i am delighted to be taking part in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii in europe and particularly tonight in europe sponsored by the Truman Library institute and the Kansas City Public Library. Institutions with which i have enjoyed opportunities to cooperate and for which i have enormous respect as sources of intellectual inquiry in this region. One caveat before i take you back to the america of 1941 to 1945. Title of my lecture is a gloss on tom brokaws bestseller the greatest generation, which
Independence and we are live for the tory party conference. We also have an allstar guest lined up, john fraher. Ellon we speak to jim mal on his new book. We are live in moscow, where john fraher will leave a Panel Discussion with Vladimir Putin. In the meantime, we have a packed data check. The dollar is slipping. Global stocks seem to be a little bit mixed. What all to do with investors are trying to figure out, who the next fed chair will be. We understand the president has a shortlist of candidates, but they all have very different policy agendas. You have some hawks, you have some doves and they are trying to figure out the most likely will get it. I am also looking at spain. Stocks are resuming their decline after the king criticized the catalonian separatists for unaccountable disloyalty. And if you look at spain, the nations bond yields are rising. In the meantime, we are getting breaking news out of the eurozone. Pmi is rising a touch more than expected. Predicted a rise were