Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Can you explain how you see us rounding the corner based upon the projection . If i did not close up our country, if i did not stop china highly infected from coming in, for did not stop europe from coming in far sooner than anybody else including dr. Fauci and others wanted to in dr. Fauci was very nice. He said President Trump made a great decision, we would have far more than that. But maybe even more importantly if i did not close up instead of the number that you mentioned or whatever it may be about 180, we would have one and a half or 2 Million Deaths right now if i went a different direction which some people wanted me too do and i decided not to do it. Now a lot of countries dont report their deaths, obviously chinas nonreporting because they had far more than we did, china had far more than we did, thats just my opinion but they do not report their deaths or report them accurately and i dont want to embarrass other countries but i can tell you there are other countries where
Rounding the corner based upon the projection . If i did not close up our country, if i did not stop china highly infected from coming in, for did not stop europe from coming in far sooner than anybody else including dr. Fauci and others wanted to in dr. Fauci was very nice. He said President Trump made a great decision, we would have far more than that. But maybe even more importantly if i did not close up instead of the number that you mentioned or whatever it may be about 180, we would have one and a half or 2 Million Deaths right now if i went a different direction which some people wanted me too do and i decided not to do it. Now a lot of countries dont report their deaths, obviously chinas nonreporting because they had far more than we did, china had far more than we did, thats just my opinion but they do not report their deaths or report them accurately and i dont want to embarrass other countries but i can tell you there are other countries where the death toll is far harder th
Rounding the corner based upon the projection . If i did not close up our country, if i did not stop china highly infected from coming in, for did not stop europe from coming in far sooner than anybody else including dr. Fauci and others wanted to in dr. Fauci was very nice. He said President Trump made a great decision, we would have far more than that. But maybe even more importantly if i did not close up instead of the number that you mentioned or whatever it may be about 180, we would have one and a half or 2 Million Deaths right now if i went a different direction which some people wanted me too do and i decided not to do it. Now a lot of countries dont report their deaths, obviously chinas nonreporting because they had far more than we did, china had far more than we did, thats just my opinion but they do not report their deaths or report them accurately and i dont want to embarrass other countries but i can tell you there are other countries where the death toll is far harder th
Historian kate color gives American History tv guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th advancement. Using images of early suffrage leaders, she shows how the movement intersected with the abolitionist and temperance movements. This is the first of a two part program. Hi everyone, welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the Smithsonian Institution im the curator of votes for women. For this exhibition i worked 3. 5 years researching, finding all the objects. We have about 124 objects, 63 portraits. I was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it. Ask what does it do and what does it not to. And why 1965, the Voting Rights act, was considered a part two of the voting amendment. I will show you a few of the objects that tell this history. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. I mentioned we have portraits that drive th