First families, 200 years of private life in the white house. He served as a consultant to the smithsonian, and was the National First ladys library historian until 2017. Hes currently writing camera girl for simon and schuster. So welcome, carl. Thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a back ground about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have per se a favorite child, and, you know, i think an author shouldnt perhaps have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book, and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book, researching this book at a time when there was still the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they were Young Children and one or two had almost been teen
At the council formulations and to serve in the Obama Administration as assistant to National Security council. He also served during the Clinton Administration visiting scholar including harvard and columbia and the International Institute for strategic studies in london and numerous articles on National Strategic affairs and the author of nine previous books. Including how enemies become friends. Walter russell mead at the Hudson Institute the global economist at the wall street journal professor of Foreign Affairs with the council of Foreign Relations and offers numerous books and widely recognized special providence and how it changed the world. I hope we have the chance for work entitled the United States is real and the fate of jewish people. And that to shield itself is the subject of the discussion tonight. Please welcome Walter Russell mead. Thank you for that introduction it is terrific to be here with charles i think ive known so many years now. Quite a while. Can certainly
A murder hornet snacking on a honeybee this week here in washington d. C. Afternoons of yet another scandal involving the brand name in chief u. S. President donald trump yes the scandal was revealed to us all late tuesday apparently and my friends what a scandal it is the New York Times reporting that the Justice Department has been investigating whether intermediaries for a federal convict offered white house officials a bribe in exchange for a pardon or commutation from President Trump yeah that is juicy the possibility that a sitting u. S. President or at least members of his team may be in the business of taking cold hard cash in exchange for Services Rendered in this case handing out a president ial pardon naturally the president respond to the news with a resounding fake news tweeting quote pardon investigation is fake news and while rumors of trading pardons for cash payoff this is actually. Actually rather old news here in the belly of the beast especially out here for those g
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[video clip] my mother was a college student, student of International Affairs who took a an interest in public issues. She could not vote yet that tenant farmers on our farm, some of whom were illiterate could vote. Host who was harry byrne and why does he play a central role in your story . Guest Harry Thomas Byrne was the youngest legislator in the tennessee General Assembly in 1920. He was a freshman delegate. He was up for reelection in the fall. He represented a small hill town in east tennessee, the republican part of tennessee. And he, although he voted with the antisuffragists and the nt ratificationists from the 19th amendment, was upper ratification and that tennessee General Assembly that summer, he changed his mind because of a q a letter he received from his mother we described in that clip. The mind, tilted the vote by one vote and that is how the 19th amendment was finally ratified. Host how did the vote for ratification of the constitutional amendment come down to tenn