Thank you christina. I was in the enemys house and also the night of the assassins and remember last year it seems like in a year ago before the sequestering part of a previous lifetime, last year when i was working on the assassins, i spent a lot of time reading about world war ii, i tried to put myself in the shoes of the people i was reading about, and to protect one family and protect myself. And they found the perseverance, the fortitude to get through events is who i am now, where i wrote my book and if you hear noises in the background, those are not horns, is a college hilltop in connecticut and hopefully that will not be a thunderstorm. But through the writing i would spend a good view of my time wishing that i could understand what it was like to live in world war ii. In the empathy and what its like to live with the constant sense of uncertainty. What its like to live not knowing whats going to happen next and what its like to live through great unknown. Now its previously u
Protests continue against president look at shankars victory in an election denounced as a sham. And neglected during years of war in yemen the ancient homes of some asshole city are ravaged by flooding. Lebanons Prime Minister has resigned along with the government saying hes stepping back in order to stand with the people its in the wake of the beirut explosion which has on dab says was the result of a corrupt political system protesters unmoved by his words have been out again on the streets the blast on tuesday killed more than 200 people injured thousands more and left huge numbers homeless from beirut but it smith reports. Lebanons government has finally caved in like the shuttered buildings along beiruts waterfront it took an explosion of 2000. 700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate to bring down the Prime Minister and cabinet. Today we followed all of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real chang
Which led to the resignation of former president abel. Lebanons Prime Minister has resigned along with the government saying hes stepping back in order to stand with the people its in the wake of the beirut explosion which has and the abscess was the result of a corrupt political system but testers unmoved by his words have been back out on the streets again the blast on tuesday killed more than 200 people injured thousands more and left huge numbers homeless from beirut is but its not. Lebanons government has finally caved in like the shuttered buildings along beiruts waterfront it took an explosion of 2700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate to bring down the Prime Minister and capital. Not to. We followed the will of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real change from the corrupt destructive state state of brokerages and theft to a state of law and justice and transparency to a country that respects it
The night of the assassins remember it seems a lot longer than a year ago but i wont digress. Last year when i was working on a night of the assassins, i spent a lot of time reading about world war ii and tried to put myself into the shoes of the people i was reading about. I wondered if i had made the choices they made to protect the families and protect myself. But i have found the fortitude, courage. Its where i am now where i wrote my book with a few annoyances in the background and frogs croaking in the pond college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice. But when i visit here i think i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what it was like to live through world war ii and find an understanding to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty and not knowing whats going to have been mac, what its like to live through a great unknown. But now it is a previously unimagined and all i
President harry truman like to refer to his wife as the boss. Family was their number one priority. Destroyed many of her letters and spend a good part of her white house years home in missouri. Truman served as true first lady on her own terms. Cspans continuing series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, story the 33rd president of the United States, this truman. Here to tell us more about her, we are pleased to welcome back to our set the white house historian, his latest book called the imperial season. And the history professor and author of a biography of harry truman called the coming of the cold war. Thank you for being here. Where we left off last week was the death of Franklin Roosevelt. April 12th 1945. The call comes into harry truman. Where is he . He gets the message that he is needed. He is having a drink with his cronies as he often was known to do. A lot of politics was accomplished by relaxing and having somewhat more cordial atmosphere. He received a phone cal