This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
College football starts in basketball and you get to root for your alma mater or the team yet come to follow and its a lot of fun. Its gotten to be really big business. There are billions of dollars gamble on College Athletics. Theres billions of dollars in revenue generated from College Athletics, and its all built around a model of amateur athletics. So the fact that a lot of people are making money off amateur athletics, the challenge is, trying to make sure that the Business Model is fair, what you do but the people watching play the sport without destroying the amateur nature of the game . Because most of the people on a College Athletic team, that will be the end of their athletic career in terms of getting compensated. They get scholarships, many of them do, and room and board of them go into the private sector and go on about their lives. But the College Athletic experience is something i want to reserve. There are many people get to share that experience who will not turn it i
Bill despite talks on capitol hill last week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says lawmakers will be given 24 24 hours notice to return to capitol hill to vote if a deal is reached. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god our refuge and strength, give us reverence for your greatness. Guide our senators around the pitfalls of their work, enabling them to have hearts sustained by your peace. May they surrender their will to you, as they trust you to guide their lives. Lord, give them the wisdom to receive your reproof with the understanding that you chastise those whom you love for their good. Make their lives productive for the glory of your name. Mighty god, protect the oppressed and helpless, preserving them from evil. We pray in your great name, amen. The presiding officer join me in reciting the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic
And he was assistant to president obama and Deputy National security adviser to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama. And now senior Foreign Policy adviser to the biden and great to have tony blimpingen. And jerry is executive editor of the wall street jourm and writes a column which i read and all of us should read. Jerry has had an extraordinary career and for the journal. He covered the white house at the end of the Reagan Administration and Bush Administration and interviewed every american president and part of a team at the wall street journal that won the pull iter prize and book coming out on august 25, we should have seen it coming about the conservative moment and will be coming out. And sure to have jerry tony here. Welcome to both of you. Lets start with the scenario. Joe biden walked out of the white house in january of 2017 as Vice President. Lets say perhaps he walks back into the white house of january 2021 as president. How will the wo
Legal status under the rules of congress set in the census act of 1790. The president s decision to release this illegal memo now appears designed to inflict maximum damage to the accuracy of the ongoing 2020 census. In just two weeks, the Census Bureau will start visiting the homes of millions of people who have not yet responded to the census. The president s latest attack on immigrants could sew fear and confusion in communities across the country, and could lead many people to decide not to participate. This will hurt communities that are already undercounted, underrepresented, and underfunded. Addressing the chaos caused by the president s memo will drain valuable resources from the Census Bureau, which is already struggling to administer the 2020 census in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic. And it will further divide our country at a time when we need unity. Of course, this is not the first time that President Trump has attempted to politicize the census. For more than two