Also at the Atlanta History Center website. As at least and i are talking some of your weapon questions and you can use the q and a feature at the top of your screen and i will try to integrate as many of them as i am allowed. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview friday so you will hear me do what we call a real id to keep consistent sound while we are going and im so excited to speak with lisa who got first her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnns new york and dc bureaus as a teenager. She reported for the new york times, place, msnbc and other outlets and is author of two previous books, radio shangrila and Raymond Jones about the man who made the mcdonalds portion and the woman who gave it all away so lisa, thank you for being with us. Im excited to talk about this book. Thank you, i used the Atlanta History Center for research so im excited to be virtually with the constituency now. Glad to have you and i think its difficult for some of the people who a
I wondered, could have made the choices they had to make to protect ones family, to protect myself. Could i have found the perseverance, the fortitude, the courage, to get to. Its where i am now where i wrote my book, if you hear noises in the background, those are not horns those are frogs croaking away in my pond at college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice and you callawhen i was up your writing i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what was like to live in world war ii. Wishing i could find the apathy, the understanding, to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty. What its like to live not knowing whats going to happen next. What its like to live through a great unknown. Now its a previously unimagined year later and all i can say is, be careful what you wish for. I am not saying that our battle against the pandemic is the same as fighting world war ii. There is not an
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Warning for a wide swath of the bay area. From 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. Next wednesday. The temperatures will be in the mid to upper 90s to around 105, 106, 108 degrees, increased risk of heat illness. For the northern most parts, napa and sonoma counties, the high temperatures oh the next few days will range from 100 to 110 degrees. And our spare the air alert is in effect for tomorrow and you can see even on saturday, as we look ahead a little bit, the triple dimming it is will be with us. The triple digits will be with us. It is a hot on and t even imane110. Now ln brinkley j u live fr reporter were all told to consider dining outdoors, do business curbside. But all of. Is pretty difficult with this heat and having to wear a mask. High noon in walnut creek. A lunch rush at these outdoor tables is just not materializing. Normally, i come down to get the mail or one of the other girls in the office and these tables are fulfill now here we are, not only covid but now heat on tth othe
He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he u