We have faced in the past so we can make better informed decisions now as a military guy i love to look back at conflict and will let us into those conflicts and how we came out of those a stronger nation. As i read and learned the state of ohio played in the several one civil war holding our country together lincoln had three prominent ohioans that encircled him. Chase the secretary of true treasury the 23rd governor of ohio. Grant of course became the fighting general and sherman from Columbus Ohio and outside of columbus in general sheridan that played such a prominent role to bring a decisive conclusion to the civil war to avoid any more bloodshed. I enjoyed reading that book i just finished reading 13 days by Robert F Kennedy looking at the cuban missile crisis and i was reminded i was born during that age and i remember the attention around the cuban missile crisis and how close we came with the Nuclear Holocaust with the superpowers at that time. Had it not been for jfk to dig d
Booktv continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. Booktv recently went to capitol hill to find out what books are on the reading lists of members of congress. What are you reading . It is too big to say. Im in the process of five different books. I pretty much finished one of them. The latest one, grant by ron chernow. You talk about what informs my work in congress. It is vitally important to understand our nations history, to understand both the victories and the challenges we have faced in the past so we could make better informed decisions and i love as a military guy looking back at conflict and what led us into those conflicts and how we came out of this conflict a stronger nation. Grant is one of those books. As i read and learned the role my state of ohio played in the civil war and holding our union together, grant, lincoln had three prominent ohioans that encircled him. Selma chase was his secretary of treasury, 23rd governor of ohio, grant became his fighting gener
Fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup and smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and freedom, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance based in this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. [applause] thank you and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates in favor of americans and against foreigners in a dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States. Inside the United States it is rel
Congressman bill johnson. Oh my goodness it is too big to say im in the process of five different books. I have finished one of them. The latest is grant. You know you talk about what informs my work here in congress it is vitally important to understand our nations history both the victories and the challenges we have faced in the past to make better and informed decisions. As a military guy i love looking back at conflict and what got us into those conflicts grant is one of those books and that role that migrates with the civil war to hold the union together. Lincoln had three prominent ohioans that encircled him. The secretary of treasury was the 23rd governor of ohio. Grant was abiding general, sherman outside of columbus became one of grants right hand guy and also share just outside of columbus general sheraton another right hand general to play such a prominent role to bring a decisive conclusion to the civil war to avoid any more bloodshed than we have. So we just finished read
Now moving on to our feature presentations my honor to introduce veteran journalis journalist, scholar and bioethicist darius washington. To win the National Book critics circle award a terrible thing to waste over environmental racism in the assault on the American Mind presents research to how harmful environmental factors disproportionately impact marginalized communities and those that expose the chilling reality for the damage and environmental racism. So please join me to welcome to the podium harriet washington. [applause] im very excited to be here. Its very exciting for i have a lot of things to say and the slides i want to show you. Can you hear me now . I dont have time for all the slides i would love to show you if i skip through we will talk about it with q a. But this is fascinating as well as very important. The Environmental Justice movement i thought i was. Can you hear me in the back . The Environmental Justice movement 1982 the people who live there became victims of