Cspans campaign 2020. Your unfiltered view of politics. This comes from Purdue University with biographers looking at political history. This talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking political history. Its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you that youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography and political history. Randy robert has written so many. Youve written half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre. Weve obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we again, let me introduce the panelists. And as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre. First we have larry maslin in the graduate acting program
Good evening i am tony clark from the president ial library. Were delighted to have you for this book and where we are because of the ties of atlanta and the stories i think many of us have never heard before about frederick. But you know the thing that i really like is tonight the author is typical of the type of author and book that we have here, i encourage you to pick up one of these about upcoming authors in effect this thursday cbs 60 minutes correspondent scott kelly will be with us to talk about stories that he has done over the years and ill tell you i read the book it is a fascinating book and scott is a great speaker. We have wonderful author programs coming up and i would encourage you to pick up one of the sheets. I would also encourage you to come back to the museum, we have a fabulous exhibit, its called georgia on my screen. I dont know if you know when jimmy carter was governor he established the Film Commission to bring movies to the state of georgia and now georgia i
[inaudible conversations] good evening i am tony clark from the president ial library. Were delighted to have you for this book and where we are because of the ties of atlanta and the stories i think many of us have never heard before about frederick. But you know the thing that i really like is tonight the author is typical of the type of author and book that we have here, i encourage you to pick up one of these about upcoming authors in effect this thursday cbs 60 minutes correspondent scott kelly will be with us to talk about stories that he has done over the years and ill tell you i read the book it is a fascinating book and scott is a great speaker. We have wonderful author programs coming up and i would encourage you to pick up one of the sheets. I would also encourage you to come back to the museum, we have a fabulous exhibit, its called georgia on my screen. I dont know if you know when jimmy carter was governor he established the Film Commission to bring movies to the state of
In the house of representatives, a lot going on today. If you want to find out more about the activity, go to our website at cspan. Org. We now take you to the house. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] rage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 17, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the ouse of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders fo
Saturn 9 rocket to accomplish the goals set by president kennedy less than 10 years earlier, to land the man on the moon before the end of the decade. As president kennedy said in his speech at Rice University in september, 1962, we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. There is no better explanation that captures the american spirit. We choose to take joint leaps. We choose to know the unknown. We choose to lead into the future. On july 20, 1960, just four days after the launch, the world listened and watched as the first steps were taken on the moon. Again, hundreds of millions of people across the world watched as history was made. Five times more nasa astronauts landed on the moon and returned home safely. President kennedys promise that our great democracy could achieve these hard things became a reality. As we watch those days in july, 0 years ago, dreams began to form. Every person watching the succes