The 19th century. Applicants 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Enjoy book tv this weekend every weekend on cspan2. Hi, i am david. Welcome to the National Book festival in this difficult time of the pandemic, one thing we can do, i know you are all loving, read a good book. I wrote a book published this summer, cia officer who is struggling with one of the problems of our times, knowing what is true and what isnt. It is my great pleasure to have with me today, two people who wrote very best books of the summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First i want to introduce mark, my former colleague of the Washington Post wrote an extraordinary memoir, the revelation about an essay technology and surveillance and the subtitle of what the book says, the american surveillance. I also want to introduce another outstanding officer, author, thomas who teaches at johns hopkins, active measures and history of what we have come to call this information. The ways
National security advisers Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people to occupy the white house. He had incredible political gifts. But on the other hand hes one of the worst people to occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of para nnoia and course in the end ruined himself by bringing about his his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 1972 to 1974. Were going to look at the good and bad side of the nixon presidency with National Security adviser kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we can look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born back in 1913 in california and grew up in a lower middle class family. Went to the local college there with the college. He graduated and went to Duke University law school and this is in the worst years of great depression. The mid1930s. During the second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo
They created the vice presidency for two reasons, in case the president died, resigned or was incapacitated, summary can step in. That was not clarified and was indeed, controversial until the 1840s. The second reason, potentially was because of the Electoral College structure. About thew anything Electoral College, you know that one of the rules of the original design was that Electoral College electorate vote for two people. They have to be from two different states. The way it worked was that you votes perwo boats president. They had to come from two different states. The founders did that because they thought that at some level or some point, they would vote for somebody from their own state. That second vote was there to force people to vote for somebody else from another state to try to run in the region and get summary from the national reputation. Then they used those two votes to get a first and second place winner. Otherwise, it was just a placeholder. Carlisle, infessor the
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