Legislative and judicial and executive. But there is a fourth factor. And when we stand up to say no more, when we say there is a person right there doing the right thing we will get behind them then make sure that attitude becomes potent and decisive. When someone reads about Margaret Chase smith and says thats what i willwh do somebody in the government right now it will happen out of the necessity to survive we will expect that. I believe and you write we are centrist nation basically a country where 30 or 40 or 50 percent of the people are in the middle and want government to get something done. We aint doing it. That doesnt mean we wont. We have come through very hard times and baffling times and pessimistic times. And inappropriate behavior with the part of leadership but we have come to thembu all and very often when we do come through these difficult times the dark clouded sky times, we were better off for having done it. People talk about it was a simpler time. No itt wasnt. I
Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Cloudry saturday at it a p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan three go inside a different classroom and hear about topics ranging from the american resolute trash revolution, civil rights and 9 11. Thank you for your patience and logging into class. With most campuses closed, watch them transfer to a virtual setting. Gorbachev did much of the work to change the soviet union, but reagan met him halfway, reagan encouraged him and supported him. Madisonr of the press, originally called it freedom of the use of the press and it is freedom to publish things, not a freedom for what we now refer to as the pet is the press. Lectures in history on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. It is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Watch book tv saturday evenings on 8 00 eastern. Settle in and watch several hours of your favorite authors. Tonight we are featuring programs with robert caro whose thes include working, powerbroker, and the multi volume biog
In advance of the Republican National convention we want to show you related other programs from our archives. Coming up, programs about donald trump and his supporters thoughts on how to win reelection in november. First up from this past february on our either Interview Program afterwords k t mcfarland recalls her time working for the president. Trump understood if you rebuild the American Economy to make the strongest economy in the world, all the middle east oil and make America Energy independence, you have a lot of leverage in the energy world and also because we are the recipients of purchasers, other countries make stuff and sell it to us. They need to sell it to us. We make stuff, trump understood and realized if he could fix the American Economy, get us off of middle east energy could use trade wars to renegotiate agreements with china, japan, south korea, one with britain soon, mexico and canada. Put the United States enough far better position of much more leverage and then
If you are confident in the u. S. Postal service, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are not confident in the Postal Service, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. And we are going to open special lines this morning. Postal workers, we want to know what you are seeing and what people are saying to you. We want to know what is going on in your post office. Postal workers, your line is 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always wet us at 202 7488003 and are always reading on social anda, at cspanwj facebook. Com cspan. Dejoyster general louis has been on capitol hill all week long, talking to senators about the u. S. Postal service. Lets start by reading a little bit from the wall street journal;s story on the congressional hearing s storyon journal on the congressional hearing. Louis dejoy said the post office could handle mailin ballots this fall, amid concerns from democrats particularly that his actions will interfere with the election. Dejoy has been at the center of