My name is Vanessa Beasley and im the dean of the university. We will have a wonderful discussion about the presidency of Richard Nixon and the lessons therein. Im happy to invite you to a conversation we will have on the same theme. Before we get darted in earnest, its fitting we take a moment to remember the space we are in and who founded it. Tonight we are gathered in the First Amendment center at Vanderbilt University which was founded by john segan dollar. For those of you who may not know him he served for 43 years as an awardwinning journalist for the tennessean. He retired as editor, publisher and ceo. In 1982, he became the founding editorial director of usa today and served in that position for a decade. He left journalism in the early 60s to serve in the u. S. Justice department as Administrative Assistant to attorney general Robert F Kennedy. His work in the field of civil rights led to a service as chief negotiator with the governor of alabama during the freedom ride. Dur
If theres time at the end of the q a session with the author, we ask that you use the microphone located at the center of the room for homeviewing audiences so hay can hear your questions. Before we begin todays program we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off your camera. Please welcome our introducer Elizabeth Taylor. Literary editor at the Chicago Tribune. [applause] can you hear me . Is that all right . Im Elizabeth Taylor and im so excited about this book. I got this book seems like nine months ago and read it so quickly and found it it is the story of the 70s. It was amazing social history. So just in short, its blood in the water, i read this book and then we had the book for the Chicago Tribune row lit fest and how much we looked, Pulitzer Prize in history. Its really wonderful. Its an extraordinary book. Its about this 1971 uprising but it is so much more. Its extraordinarily social history. Its fantastic. It also sort heather is an Investigative Reporter and digs
We can join my colleague we canjoin my colleague ben brown who is there. Im ben brown in north london, where police are investigating the third Terror Attack in the city in as many months. Once again, a vehicle was used to target people as a van was driven at speed into a crowd of muslim worshippers outside a mosque. One person died and ten people were injured. Bystanders pinned down the terror suspect before handing him over to police. When he was running, he was saying, iam going when he was running, he was saying, i am going to kill more people. I asked him when he was on the ground, wide you do that . Innocent people. He said, i want to kill muslims. A 48 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of Attempted Murder. Good morning from Finsbury Park, where one man has died and ten people have been injured after a man drove a Van Into Worshippers near a north london mosque. The van hit people after mounting the pavementjust after midnight outside the Muslim Welfare house, near Fins
If theres time at the end of the q a session with the author, we ask that you use the microphone located at the center of the room for homeviewing audiences so hay can hear your questions. Before we begin todays program we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off your camera. Please welcome our introducer Elizabeth Taylor. Literary editor at the Chicago Tribune. [applause] can you hear me . Is that all right . Im Elizabeth Taylor and im so excited about this book. I got this book seems like nine months ago and read it so quickly and found it it is the story of the 70s. It was amazing social history. So just in short, its blood in the water, i read this book and then we had the book for the Chicago Tribune row lit fest and how much we looked, Pulitzer Prize in history. Its really wonderful. Its an extraordinary book. Its about this 1971 uprising but it is so much more. Its extraordinarily social history. Its fantastic. It also sort heather is an Investigative Reporter and digs
We ask that you use the microphone located at the center of the room for homeviewing audiences so hay can hear your questions. Before we begin todays program we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off your camera. Please welcome our introducer Elizabeth Taylor. Literary editor at the Chicago Tribune. [applause] can you hear me . Is that all right . Im Elizabeth Taylor and im so excited about this book. I got this book seems like nine months ago and read it so quickly and found it it is the story of the 70s. It was amazing social history. So just in short, its blood in the water, i read this book and then we had the book for the Chicago Tribune row lit fest and how much we looked, Pulitzer Prize in history. Its really wonderful. Its an extraordinary book. Its about this 1971 uprising but it is so much more. Its extraordinarily social history. Its fantastic. It also sort heather is an Investigative Reporter and digs in there and gets documents and the ten years of research are