Tonight, we have tremendous honor of hearing one of the most veteran world reporters feels a little silly he has an incredible, incredible record and id like to share of Stephen Kinzers background with you. He joined the New York Times in january of 83 after serving several years as latin american correspondent for the boston globe. From 1983 to 89, stephen was firsttime bureau chief in nicaragua. He covered war and social upheaval in central america. He next spent six years in germany as chief of the New York Times bureau in bonn and in berlin. He covered german unification and events in other parts of europe including wars in the former yugoslavia. In 1996, the New York Times opened a new bureau in istanbul in order to provide readers with insight into turkey, a country which as you well know has become increasingly important in world affairs. Times named Stephen Kinzer as the first Istanbul Bureau chief. Prior to moving, stephen spent four years in istanbul for the New York Times. F
The first part of the issue spotlight in understand to cus on the 1953 coup. It led to muhammad mosedai. He was succeeded by the shah. In his book qull at the shahs man Stephen Kinser explores the u. S. Iran relationship today. This took place in 2003. [applause] thank you. Its great to be here in oak park. Not just being here in the library. We actually did do a good deal of research for this book. But also being in the hometown of earnest hemingway for a writer cannot fail to stir some emotion. I actually live only about two blocks from the home in which Ernest Hemingway where he was in high school and did his first writing. Im hoping that some of the karma will blow over towards my side of the block. The readers have to be the judge whether or not any of that succeeded. I doubt that hemingway found a story that was as exciting as the one that i uncovered and tried to put together while writing this book. It was just 50 years ago in august of 1953 that the c. I. A. Overthrew a govern
The fallout from the russian matter that happened just hours ago but first, chief White House Correspondent john roberts kicks off our coverage from the north lawn. Good afternoon on this friday. Good afternoon to you. And just the last couple of hours upping the pressure on democrats to come back to the table and sign a Coronavirus Relief bill in a series of tweets outlining what he is prepared to do immediately said that democrats are holding him up but the president said he is prepared to do more direct payments to all americans to the tune of 3400 for a family of four, that mirrors the first direct payment and also additional paycheck Protection Plan payments to Small Businesses and spend more money for states and local governments including 105 billion to schools. One of the main sticking points in getting the deal has been mining the democrats are demanding from the post office, 25,000,000,000. 03 and a half billion dollars to handle the expected surge of mailin voti voting. The