At the kennedy institute, we are committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and in our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. We are very proud to partner with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are also proud together together a group of panelists for the program, including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics and Higher Education at wbur where he has been since 1988 serving as a trusted source of truth and information. He previously was the nbc news bureau chief in mexico city and the south america reporter for cbs news based in argentina. Joining fred on the panel are four scholars who provide erspective on, and knowledge of, our nations founders. Togeth
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions
The turkish grand prix where Lewis Hamilton has equalled Michael Schumacher all time formula. One record of 7 world titles on nick spicer. Welcome to the program and we start in peru where interim president men will marry. No one has announced he is stepping down less than a week into the job. Protesters in the capital lima are out on the streets, celebrating the resignation, which comes after violent mass demonstrations in which 2 people died from gunshot wounds. But we know it took over the top job after parliament voted to oust president martin over corruption allegations. The protesters say the move amounts to a coup by parliament. Lets get the latest now from correspondent you had a mirror as who is in your hand. Interim president marino has resigned. What reason did he give in addressing the nation . He said he wanted to avoid the only ability in the concrete to bring back peace to these nations after a week of may very value on the path of the one person that lasted until 2000.
Transition of power. President trump, president elect biden, whose conferences and event coverage at cspan. Org. Thank you so much for being here. It is an honor to be here. I was delighted to read your book which i have decided. First book ive ever written. It must be challenging to create factual accounts of the pandemic, talk about that process. I can understand why people would think, why are you writing this . Im writing about the things we can fight about, i did really a step back, im not fighting about these as they unfold, not fighting about this or that government, im not talking on that but im standing back and saying okay, why a pandemic and why now . That is something to do because youve been reading my work, you know, ive been fighting a book, weve been saying this will happen, these are the viruses need to worry about what we need to do. So obvious the predictions were and we havent done all of the things we need to do so this was kind of the moment to repeat all of that
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