Evening. Men and women in uniform of freedom around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [cheering] i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [cheering] thank you, please be seated. [applause] before we get started, theres a few people i would like to recognize in the audience this evening. Ill start with mayor keith and his wife, shelby. [applause] former congressman, alton and his wife, janet. [applause] [applause] i know he supposed to be with pat, where is pat . Areas. [cheering and applauding] we have an evening in store for you. Before i introduce our special guest who will introduce our speaker tonight, i want to take a moment to also think a handful of other people we have in our audience this evening. They are representing some of americas finest. For those of you who might have arrived late, at past sunset, you migh
Slash impeachment. Booktv continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening and thank you for coming. Im tim carney, visiting fellow here tee american enter pies institute and the commentariy yesterday for the Washington Examiner and we have great discussion weapon brought here chris arnade, the author of dignity which came out this year. Its an excellent book. I read it love it. Well be selling it afterwards. Its beautiful. And i say beautiful because its also a photo book as well as a great collection of stories that really reveal america. So, chris is the first guy ive had on stage at i who has a ph. D in physics then used that to go into finance, and then when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day his walks got longer and longer, he ended up at hunts point chit nose terribly close to the financial district and he was exposed to what he called the back row of america. And this is drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes, and convinced h
Only he can tell jokes. I can tell a couple of drops, too. Lets give him a jersey welcome. Thank you very much. I spent a lot of time growing up in jersey. My father had a little mens underwear and work clothes store on the Lower East Side and he was a job or in his customers were all in new jersey. I would come up with him on springfield avenue. We go to patterson and after the second world war, i really got to know new jersey and my first wife was from new jersey. Her classmate in high school, who i got to meet when he is like 16 years old, im here to talk about something that happened to me that happened to you. It happened to your sons and your nephews, it could happen to your husbands. I was on top of the world, 76 years old. I had just retired from harvard, i had been teaching there for 50 years without a single complaint of any kind. I had among the highest ratings, a teacher many years. I taught 10000 students altogether. I was being honored, Honorary Degrees, all kinds of hono
Oversight and president ial misconduct. This is part of an ongoing series by the National History center that brings historical issues thatto congress is currently addressing. Centerd stress that the is a strictly nonpartisan entity and is the purpose of this program and the others we do in the series are not to advocate for any particular policies, but to provide Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. Toore handing this over james banner, i want to thank the support of the mellon foundation, which makes the series possible. I also want to thank rachel at the back of the room, the assistant director who has organized this. And i want to thank the office of congressman Jerry Connolly who booked the room today. Will beo note that we collecting questions on note cards. If you have not received one and need it, let me know. The second half of the hour q a, we have q1 day, write down your question. James banner good morning. I
In the amazon, paraguays insurgency and the shifting politics of antarctica. He was based in caracas venezuela for the New York Times as bureau chief where he covered colombian warhe and politics in bolivia. Give a warm welcome to simon romero. [applause] mr. Romero thanks for the kind introduction. I will introduce this wonderful panel i have the pleasure of moderating. Is a journalist and cultural anthropologist and writer at texas monthly. Thework focuses on u. S. Mexico border in the history and culture of south texas. Her writing has appeared in harpers magazine and the New York Times. [applause] angela is a multimedia journalist who has covered the u. S. Mexico border in mexicos interior for television, newspapers and radio and was muska and was mexico border chief for a major broadcasting group. She is a reporter for the albuquerque journal, and a special contributor on public radio and television. [applause] alfredo is the mexico border correspondent for the dallas morning news