Been the director, of the Huntington Library in san marino california. A former professor of history, and at the university of california riverside. She is a Frances Perkins scholar, and received her degree with distinction. Her dissertation, received the prize as the best dissertation of American History at yale. She began her teaching career at Simmons College and has been a fellow and a visiting professor professor at harvard university. In which the ladies of washington help build a city and government, when the first book price from the society for historians of the early american republic, and the northeast Popular Culture American Culture Association Annual book award. Political biography imperfect union, telemedicine and the creation of the american nation, was a finalist for the George Washington book price. In 2012, she published dolly medicine, the problem of National Unity and the queen of america. My fidelity madison. President obama appointed her to a president ial commis
A new executive order targets not just social media to take talks but chinas massive payment in messaging service we chat. And the number of credible iris cases in india tops 2000000. 00 the experts fear the true figure could be much higher as infection spiral in the sub continent densely packed megacities plus officials in germany the alarm over a spike in buyers infections was a new survey shows most voters are not that worried. Flow of terri Martin Thanks for joining us lebanons leadership is facing growing anger in the wake of the deadly blasts that killed nearly 150. 00 people and injured thousands more when youre blaming the government for a crisis with. It was unfolding weeks before this weeks explosion shock is turning to fury and authorities responded with force when protesters gathered outside parliament the demonstrators accuse the government of corruption and competence and failing to avert an economic meltdown. French president emanuel might call on visited beirut promisin
We still cant hear you. I wonder if we should try having you sign in again or have you call in rather than just a video link and we could hear you by dialing in. I will let my staff interact with you directly and in the meantime we will begin with some questions. My apologies, Mister Morrison, we will get this worked out. Let me look for any of our witnesses that can be heard. The current pandemic began in china. If possible the next pandemic may begin somewhere else. If the pandemic were to begin or begin spreading in africa what level of confidence do you have in our ability to identify that it is taking place, what transparency would we find, given there was not much transparency out of china in some critical early days and weeks, how would you assess the threat of a pandemic coming from the african continent . Can i start . Sure. Im confident that should such a pandemic start in africa we would have tremendous cooperation. I look back on the situation with ebola in west africa wher
At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
I will also essentially call for the questions from opposition front bench. In order to maximize participation can ask i asked the short questions and short answers . We now start Prime Ministers questions. Have further such meetings later today. Like to pay tribute to the Prime Minister and his ministers through these unprecedented times. Workingy constituents in nhs for your truly homework work. No one can afford to be complacent. I applaud my friends address to the nation. Governmentre me the will assure the people have the support they need in order to do so . Her tribute to our amazing nhs workers and it is in order to protect them and help them that we are taking the extraordinary measures that this country is, and i repeat my advice to the nation, which is to stayathome and save lives. Jeremy corbyn. For making the best arrangements possible today to ensure as many members can take questions. Many people have been mourning the loss of loved ones as a result of coronavirus this w