Audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. I would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal, senior staff writer in Higher Education. We have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the Illinois State society in washington. We have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. We have star scholar, graduate of the Harry Truman College in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. Catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. Arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. We have lisa matthews, Vice President of media re
American University History kuznick teaches a class on the american bomb. He argues there are other ways that could have been used to end the war in the pacific instead of dropping the atomic bombs. This class is about an hour and 15 minutes. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] that is in nuclear reactors, that is in hospitals, in universities. Esearch centers. About the spread of these materials and the pobet of dirty bombs and terrorists getting a hold of this, to begin with, that is a small part of the Nuclear Material that is out there. Most of the Nuclear Material is in the weapons programs and this gathering is not going to be dealing with weapons issues. Obama made a speech in prague. In 2009, he said we need nuclear abolition. He said the United States has got to lead that effort because the United States is the only country that has ever used Nuclear Weapons and warfare against another country. And thats where we want to begin today. On the one hand there
And they are beautiful. They are incredible letters. You have my grandmother reporting to my grandfather that she lied to politicians to wanted them to back them on the campaign saying she is not home and cant possibly do it for you. She took part. She was engaged. She was a lot of fun but again compared to lou and elnore she was taking care of her mothers and brother and a family oriented first lady. My grandfather said in writing and in person had it not been for my grandmother doing that and holding the fort he could not have done the job he did. And unlike ms. Hoover she lived longer than the president. Outlived him by ten years. She is the longest lived first lady still. She was 97 when she died. And she died in new york . No she did in missouri. Your mother was in new york in no my mother was in chicago. My family dies all over the place. Talk about the person. That person was developed well before they became first lady and how they performed in the office has a great from their
Family. Nine members of the family have worked at the white house. I talked to one of the butlers who works every week at the white house. His uncle was the head butler. He told me my uncle ram the white house. They brought him in when he was 17 years old in 1959 during the eisenhower administration. He is still working there. He described how he used to work in the kitchen and they kept on giving him ice scream ice cream because he was skinny. It is incredible he remembers how the eisenhowers word. They are a dying breed. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Over the next four hours, we are giving you a special mothers day presentation with the children and grandchildren of former first ladies, sharing tales of life in the white house. We begin with the grand daughter of lou hoover, the grandson of breast truman, and a daughter betty ford. Good evening everyone and thank you for being here. It is always a pleasure to be here. If what happened in the last few minutes back
Speech, grabbing the proverbial american flagpole. This administration talks but the words fade. They drawn redlines and then erase them. With grandiosity, they announce recess and then disengaged. Campaigns replace this diplomacy and engagement. Our security and our prosperity and values demand that we remain engaged and involved in often distant places. Time and time again, we have learned that if we withdraw from the defense of liberty elsewhere the battle comes to us anyway. In our cities and streets and in our skies. None of the candidates including jeb bush have much by the way of foreignpolicy experience but my question is on the basis of this speech doesnt look like jeb bush can be a credible foreignpolicy candidate . He has been to israel five times and has been to israel four times a year since he left the office. As you mentioned there is a gap on an issue where republicans could capitalize. Jeb bush could fill that vacuum. Experiencing for him will be a problem. Whatever yo