Want to thank the commentators and everyone for assembling this deeply honor especially to be giving the William Roger lewis in the flesh. We were on the state Department Committee suffering through a lot of bows and arrows back in the decade prior, and i got to know him well and i feel really honored to give a lecture that is in his name. This book came about and so many of you, my friends, have heard this origin story. This came about because lewis liked the review i had done and mentioned the series that helen was doing that would use my biography to teach history that would pick biographical topics or would use a representative biography to get a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume. It was on pocahontas. And issues regarding native American History, they were looking for somebody to do something on foreign relations, he offered me the opportunity to put together the perspectives. These were supposed to be short and concise books, that was the idea
One of the things that is here in American Life and letters is the use of reason. In many ways however incomplete or unfinished it was about putting reason at the center of our national experience. If you think about what is unfolding. Heading into philadelphia in 1776. It had been a story of a reorienting the world from being seen as vertical. With an incident of election were given authority over all of us. You have the european enlightenment. You have the protestant reformations. In entire reorientation of the world not complete at the beginning of that shift. When they sat down in the last of june in 1776 to write the declaration of independence he was seeking to create the fullest lyrical manifestation of that cultural shift. It was incomplete, it is unfinished it was in the history of a fallen people in a sinful world. It was a step forward. Maybe not as far forward as we would like but a step forward nonetheless. I think with the American Experience it hinges on the capacity to
Reporter doctors saying he continues to improve after a delayed acknowledgement that his oxygen levels had dropped twice in recent days and that hes now taking a steroid typically only recommended for seriously ill patients in the hospital. They may be thinking that they can turn the white house into a bit of a hospital for him. But if he needs intensive care unit, hes going to have to go someplace with a great team. Its a very, very serious disease. Reporter at the same time, questions remain about the scope of the outbreak inside the white house. Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany and two top assistants today joining the list of several highlevel staffers testing positive. Even though President Trump is now back at home, you heard his doctors say that hes not out of the woods yet, and he is certainly going to need to be closely monitored because medical experts agree that the next few days in the course of any covid19 diagnosis are critical for recovery. Back to you, jessica and raj. T
A strong defender of the president he says talk became players that broke records in the short created millions of jobs and unemployment at record lows he just taxes and wages increased trump is one of the greats yet the super rich feed him so they want to paint a bad picture why else would he be out for 3 piece of warts norma says i was watching c. N. N. And a commentator said trump would come to scotland when he loses i was screaming at the television we dont want them either j. C. Says you dont speak for everyone some of us support him actually but bob says the world these to distance itself from america before the pool of the country is down the toilet with them this is why there are so many people in america whose heads are spinning just now and theyre back to this media. In april we asked professor David Blanchflower for his assessment on the measures required to stave off a wont recession this is what he had to say then in 2008 the world was unprepared for a financial crisis in
This is an earthquake for this campaign. But we still have no idea how big of an earthquake. Right now, and streaming on cbsn bay area, cal fire crews flying over the glass fire not long ago, giving us this video and it has been a very tough, smoky afternoon and thats the brca2 rain. Good evening, im ken bastida. This new video shows you what crews are up against tonight. You can barely see 20 feet ahead of you. Crews and during extremely bad air and you might have noticed airquality is just awful. Silent night, crews are tallying up more destruction. This home burned on tucker road in calistoga earlier this morning. And it is just one of more than 400 homes and buildings that of been lost so far. The biggest areas of concern are around calistoga, st. Helena and anglin. That is where Wilson Walker is as the firefight continues tonight. They use the word static today, we heard the word calm, you put those two together right now, they are improving her napa county. I think so, i certainl