Following her introduction, each of our guests will speak for about 20 minutes and then they will join me for a conversation. Well have time for audience questions before we close. History shifts over time and perhaps it is so with the two men who are the subjects of this evenings program. Western churchill exercised an influence over the immediate postwar depreciation of allied leadership. He was admired for his determination after the fall of france in 1940 through the battle of britain and for his warning an iron curtain was dissenting after the war. His reputation was helped in no small measures to build his own magisterial six volume series, the second world war. Perhaps the first great fiction that the war generated. [laughter] fdrs star faded when his political enemies depicted him as the great sellout of the people of eastern europe. More recently though, we have seen a shift in historical perception. Historians have found more to admire in roosevelt, while churchill had lost s
2012 on her and him he nomination. Over the past two years, she has covered everything from the midterm elections of 2010 to the rescue of the chilean miners. Before that, she was a white house congressional for the Tribune Broadcasting washington, d. C. , bureau. Its our honor and tribute to have as todays mistress of ceremonies miss autry gottfried. [applause] she will be introducing the official party. Good morning. It is my great honor to be your mistress of ceremonies this morning as we commemorate and honor all veterans who have served our great country. To all of our veterans and service members, past and present, we all a debt of gratitude and our lasting appreciation for our service for their service to our country. Thank you all for being here today and a special thanks to all our veterans for your service and sacrifices for our nation. Im pleased to introduce the official party for todays veterans day commemoration. Our keynote speaker for today, one of americas premier war
Of Human History that a test to quince reality. How does it tie in with what you do as a physical theorists, fit theoretical physicist . It doesnt tiein at all to what i do as the theoretical physicists. As i human being, physicists are people. We live in Human Society and my mind, religion and science have been the two most powerful forces that have shaped human civilization so if you are ignorant of religion or you dismiss it, you are discounting a lot of Human History. Are the incompatible . I dont think they are incompatible. I have many scientific colleagues who are devout believers. There are fewer scientists who are devout believers than in the general public, but the fact that there are scientists who are devout believers shows that they are not incompatible. I think there are not incompatible and all if your belief in god is the kind of god who does not intervene in the physical universe. A god who sets things up and sits down on the sidelines. That is not incompatible at all
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f
Him. He had to go to canada to try to set himself up as a merchant and trader, and that didnt work out. He had a miserable time. Cspan then he went to canada nova scotia . Guest new brunswick. Cspan you said he had a mistress there. His wife wasnt with him . Guest no, she wasnt with him for the first couple of years. Cspan he had a baby by the mistress . Guest he had an illegitimate son there, yes. Cspan but his wife found out. Guest well, i think she has to have. But i would not be surprised if he had personal reasons. I could reasons. I could see why he would deny the appointment possibly. Also he got in touch with the russians. Cspan he died at age 60. How did he leave his wife and kids . In debt up to their years living in a lavish house and in debt up to their years. By this time their oldest son was in india. Three more boys and a girl. His wife peggy, has stuck by him this whole time and has never admitted to anyone there is anything the matter and he was the best of husband. Sh