Brigades have been sighted along border with ukraine and russia, taking place as okay, youian forces Ukraine Forces continue to battle russian back separatists in dem ac in dese ceasefire reached between the president s of russia and ukraine just weeks ago. Here is the general. What i have said in the past, and remains today is that we see forces that are capable of being nuclear that are being moveed to crimea whether or not they are or not we do not know. Lou all this taking place as president obama is in china. Attending asian economic summit, wire going to bring you the very latest on all of developments from both the nato headquarters, in brussels and our reports from our pentagon and state department correspondents. As more details become available on general breedloves announcement. This taking place with the president s attending the apec summit in beijing, and coincideing with president with lowest Approval Rating that 17 gap between approval ands s disapproval, second highest
Thank you for the kind introduction. Thank you for being here. Its wonderful to be in washington which was my home for many years. Ive done so much of the research for the book. When i told taxi drivers what i was doing. I was writing a biography. Most of him have heard of him. He bought alaska. [laughter] and thats right. But what else did he do . What was he like . Let me take that last question first. What was he like as a person . During the civil war years, he was in his early 60s. Short, lean man with as mas of sort of disorderly gray hair. Big nose, almost always a cigar in his mouth, and if it was any time past 5 00 in the evening a glass of wine near the hand. Talking, always, always talking. One of his also lived and famous host gathering around his table diplomats, soldiers, politicians, actors, you know, the life of the party. What he ask do . He was secretary of state for eight years under lincoln and president johnson. Before that he was a federal senator for 12 years. Be
Unemployment level not the sort of tag line unemployment level for what was lost to individuals throughout, and relative to the bailouts and the subsidies that have been given since, and doddfrank came along and did nothing remotely like dissecting speculation from depositors and traditional banking activities. A look at the relationships between 1600 pennsylvania avenue and wall street tonight at 10 eastern and sunday night at 9ben after words, part of booktv this weekend online. Next, New York University Professor William easterly talks about the failure of the United Nations and other organizations to reduce poverty since world war ii. It is from the Rand Corporation in santa monica, california. [ applause ] thank you so much for that warm inductitroduction. It is great to be here with you. I am going to talk about something that has unconsciously and indirectly led to a tyranny of experts. Lets call it an approach to Economic Development. The idea that poverty is a set of technical
Virginia. Host allen guelzo lets begin with your latest book, robert e lee a life, who was he before the civil war, what was his reputation . Guest he was best known for two things, son of a famous revolutionary war hero and that was the famed cavalry commander light horse harry lee, the one who served under washington and in fact, coined washington, first in war, first in peace, that was light horse harry. The other thing that people would have known robert e lee for would have been his service in the mexican war and especially on the staff of general scott during scotts fabulous invasion. Moving in land to mexico city in 1847. Lee served in many respects as scotts eyes and ears performing over and over again feats for scott so much so that scott made the confession that for all the honors he had won in that Great Campaign to mexico city almost all the credit really belonged to robert e lee, so lees two thing would have been robert e lee would have been noted before the civil war whic
Today, our advisors to it. How we rank in the president s. We want to people to realize its not a scientific ranking. It is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various president s, and what what briley did or do its not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. President will be judged on Foreign Policymaking or on race relations. Or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. Its broken up into numerous categories. The newborn one ten scale and all those categories. At the end we add them up and there is the list. The key ingredient are the historians and scholars. There are only a few of us on air today. The top biographers, academic historians, journalists have written important biographies are all part of this survey. We really try to get around 150 140 people answering the survey. And we are very proud every four years because of the list. We can all quibble over somebody we think should be ra