If you enjoyed this weeks q a interview, here are some of the programs you might like. China and other countries he has reported from over the past 45 years. Aid is notd white working and how there is a better way for africa. Gone, being forced to become a soldier at 12 in sierra leone. Video libraryire at cspan. Org here are some of our feature programs thursday. Just after 11 00 a. M. , roster sensor. Nebraska senator. Mindedness isc not compelled by the government. Followed by tom harkin on healthy food and the rise of child obesity. Fat. 7 grams of 20 ounce cokes and pepsis. 1215 teaspoons of sugar. Feeding an epidemic of childhood obesity. Founder jimmy wales talks about the evolution of the online and psychedelia and the challenge of probe global access. There is a Small Community there, 510 really active users. They start to think of themselves as a community. An inside look at the yearlong effort to repair and restore the capitol dome. Simon kagan reflects on her life and caree
If you enjoyed this weeks q a interview, here are some of the programs you might like. China and other countries he has reported from over the past 45 years. Aid is notd white working and how there is a better way for africa. Gone, being forced to become a soldier at 12 in sierra leone. Video libraryire at cspan. Org here are some of our feature programs thursday. Just after 11 00 a. M. , roster sensor. Nebraska senator. Mindedness isc not compelled by the government. Followed by tom harkin on healthy food and the rise of child obesity. Fat. 7 grams of 20 ounce cokes and pepsis. 1215 teaspoons of sugar. Feeding an epidemic of childhood obesity. Founder jimmy wales talks about the evolution of the online and psychedelia and the challenge of probe global access. There is a Small Community there, 510 really active users. They start to think of themselves as a community. An inside look at the yearlong effort to repair and restore the capitol dome. Simon kagan reflects on her life and caree
Sevenminute documentary on the theme, the three branches and you. To show how action by the executive, legislative or Judicial Branch by the federal government affected you in your community. Theres 200 cash prizes for student and teachers totaling 100,000. For the list of rules and how to get started, go to studentcam. Org. Up next on American History tv, author Elizabeth Cobbs hoffman describes consequences of United States role in world leadership. Asking, is america umpire or an empire. Miss hoffman argues that the u. S. Played the role of umpire since 1776 but also argues that umpires cant win. This program is sponsored by world denver. Its about an hour. Thank you so much, kay. Thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how pleased and honored i have be here addressing the World Affairs council. And especially because what i hope we will discuss tonight is i think one of the most critical conditions of our time. Which is youre not going to know it, because i didnt turn on the
Where the biggest radio industry in the world was created, up to broadway. Thats where the entertainment is. Thats where bing crosby is. Thats where jack benny is. His lifelong rival, and they were truly lifelong rivals, tsarnaev with bill paley. Paley is the son of very rich cigar making family. The family started in the ukraine. By the time they moved from chicago to philadelphia, they had made it. He went to wharton school. His dad basically bought him the station. He hated him for that. And he dated nonjewish girls. These two guys would battle for supremacy in radio, television, and then Color Television for the next half century. Its paley who links it permanently to advertising. The only business in the country supported entirely by advertising. Somebody wrote him a letter and said im getting this great entertainment, great music, who do i pay. Nobody. Paid for by advertising. And paley then hooks up with Duke Ellington. In 1928, he signs up washington, d. C. s Duke Ellington who
No, the green light, right . The classic green light. So anyway, im here to discuss one the critical questions, i think, of our times which is why the United States assumed the role of world defender after world war ii . The question of whether we must continue this role indefinitely. Now this conversation springs from my new book which i hope is available outside but also from an oped that i wrote for the New York Times last year with the title, come home america. This was subsequently the subject of a morning joe show on the same subject. In the essay, i observed that everybody talks about getting out of iraq and afghanistan but what about germany and japan . In essence what im trying to raise here is a very fund amentl question which is where do we go from here. Do we need to consider more basic changes in American Foreign policy at this turning point in our own national history. Because i think in many ways for me, im a historian that our nation suffers from a lack of historical se