Cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Hello. My name is nneoma amadiobi, and on behalf of our staff and the store owners, Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine i like to argue all to politics and prose. Just want to let you know when we add, which it is eventually get any noisemaking devices, or cell phones, just take a moment and turned them off. To be clear, at the end of the event we ask you to fold up your chairs and bring them against something. We do have an event might after this, you could please leave your chairs with our we would appreciate that. So with that out of the way we can get to our talk today. Winchester and arthur became president in september 1881 after the assassination of james garfield, most americans expected at best a lackluster leader. Scott greenberger book is one of our least beloved president from idealist to politician and back. As he states in the book, it is, hes a good man, he discovered h
Where they are, we would appreciate that. So with that out of the way, we can get started on our talk today. When chester a. Arthur became president , most americans expected at best a lackluster leader, at worst, an inept one. As a surprise, everyone including himself [inaudible] one of our least remembered president s from ideal list to [inaudible] as greenberger says in the book, it is a tale of a good man [inaudible] but rediscovered his better self with the help of an ordinary younger man who believed in him. Scott greenberger is a biographer and a journalist, an executive you would to have at state line, the Daily News Service of the Pew Charitable trust. He and his team cover state politics and policy in all 50 states. Before that he covered education, crime, health care, housing and other pressing city and state issues at the boston globe and at the Austin American statement. Hes now a d. C. Local. Please join me in welcoming Scott Greenberger to politics prose. Thank you. [app
Good morning, everyone. My name is hanna. Im a Research Fellow and honored to be here today at the Atlantic Council in conjunction with the institute. For a a really entertaining discussion, a debate i hope were going to have about whether or not the u. S. Should arm ukraine. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine. I wanted to start the program today with a little bit of a poll to e see just how many of you think you have made up your minds about your own answer to this question. How many of you think you have already decided. How many of you have not yet decided and are open to being swayed. Gentlemen, you have a very tall order at hand. For those watching online, on cspan, i invite you to follow us on twitter. And maybe wondering why are we covering this topic now. Its been three years really since we started having this debate here in the United States about whether we should indeed arm ukraine. I think we did have that discussion a couple years ago. But things have changed. We have a new pre
Campaigns with bipartisan majorities to strengthen and protect civil rights laws during the reagan and bush presidencies, very active since then and a friend of mine for 37 years. Leslee sherrill is former president of abc news, fellow of the school of politics working on a nonpartisan initiative, democracy project which focuses on Electoral Reform with ralph. She worked as white house staffer at the Manhattan Institute for policy and research. Pete peterson is the dean and senior fellow at Pepperdine University school of Public Policy, 2014 republican candidate for california secretary of state and in another state he might have succeeded. Trevor potter, former chairman of the United States federal election commission, former attorney for senator john mccain and president george hw bush, i assume not at the same time, founder, president and general counsel of the Campaign Legal center which is working in areas of Campaign Finance and elections, political communication and government e
Them simpler for people like my father, he built trucks in a line, they know what they make and keep more in the pocket. They can file their taxes on a three fiveby seven card. We get back to that, that is a simple and more fair tax plan. Host when it comes to tax rates , they come into the conversation, what are republicans proposing on capitol hill and what would the president like to see and where is the middle . Guest i do not know if there is a difference, the house, senate, leaders in the house and senate and white house have been meeting for quite some time. Intensively since march. The plan will be announced tomorrow and the president will speak on it. Jointly, the house, senate, president have come to a consensus and the committee has to build the details but we will have broader strokes on tax reform tomorrow. Host what rates would you like to see . Guest i do not like to pick them out of a hat and say these are the ones. You have to ideally reduce rates for people who go to