As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
The receiving line, hope it is not too chaotic, not everybody can make it through because there is a period of time to do this and he will not sign anything. If you will line up over there to the left, you have to line up against the wall to my left, thank you for coming this morning. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] every saturday night we feature author programs from our archives and tonight our focus is on former president s to have written books. Of next is president bill clinton who served in office from 1993 to 2001. His memoir my life was written in 2004 and sold over 1 million copies in its first week. He has since written four the books including thrillers with james patterson. From june of 2000 for president clinton talked about his over 900 page memoir, book expo which is the publishing industrys convention, here is president bill clinton. [inaudible con
At this is that book expo which the publishing industrys annual convention and here is president bill clinton. [background sounds]. Good evening everyone. My name is greg and i meant the Vice President shoaf manager for book expo america. A manageable familiar tonight. To this very special occasion. He would not be here this evening if it were not for the support and loyalty the bookselling and Publishing Community spring to us each and every year. For the for an eye for that i think you. [applause]. The fabric of our convention lies in the connections we all make with the authors that appear here. Its been over 100 years of memorable moments since the very First Convention but has two guest of honor. Mark twain in 19 oh one. And since in the book industry has continued to come together to house authors have provided us with thoughtprovoking discussion to say nothing of stimulating entertainment. But all i think i can safely say that nothing has approached the magnitude of this evening
Locate to al mawasi, and expanded safe said, east of khan younis. A rtefa cts artefa cts as artefacts as the deal has been revised and accepted. Outside al aqsa hospital in gaza there were celebrations at the news. But israel did not react warmly to the deal. Prime and the netanyahu said it did not meet israels demands and they will continue in rafah in southern gaza. Moments ago the un secretary general Antonio Guterres his call against a ground invasion. He said it would be intolerable. Heres the latest from our security correspondent, Frank Gardner. They have at least agreed to do with they did not do it the weekend which is to send a delegation of mediators, experts to try to thrash out a deal. It set the terms that hamas have agreed to are very far from what meets their needs but not ruling it out and i think theres a degree of optimism here at the same time as i mentioned, theyre continuing to push them against the wishes of the americans in rafa and that is controversial because
The government of the Russian Federation will relinquish its powers, after which the formation of a new cabinet will begin, and the former ministers and deputy Prime Ministers will continue their work in acting status until establishment of a new composition. The day before, Vladimir Putin held a final meeting with the current government and thanked them for their work. What has been done so far is a good basis to move on. You know that in the near future, in accordance with the constitution of the Russian Federation, the procedure for forming a new government will take place; during this period , everything necessary must be done to ensure that the implementation of plans actively continues, so that there are no pauses in our work. One political cycle ends, another the political cycle is starting, but. I wasnt expecting loud statements, i would have been waiting for confirmation, that is, emphasis on the fact that a lot, a lot of things have been said recently by the president , the w