The generous support of our underwriters of the Kennedy Library museum. The Lowell Institute in our media sponsors the boston globe and wbur. We look forward to robust questionandanswer period this evening. You will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years and depth with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years. We have been anticipating this for some time. Much of professor legevalls research took place in the kennedy archive and we are please to look at this conference a new look at president kennedys formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonight speakers. We are so glad to welcome Frederik Logevall back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is lawrence the bill for professor of International Affairs and professor of history at har
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell told reporters he was still interested in passing targeted legislation for Coronavirus Relief and he remained focused on the Senate Business and not the president ial election. He spoke from capitol hill after Senate Republicans met behind closed doors for their weekly luncheon with the Vice President in attendance. Good afternoon, everyone. We had a good discussion about wrapping up the next couple of months. I think this is a bipartisan and bicameral desire to get an omnibus appropriation bill as senator shelby gave an extensive report about the work thats going on there. I will be talking to the speaker about that as well. I think both sides think it would be better to do an omnibus appropriations bill before the end of the year rather than another shortterm so hopefully we can get there. On the possibility of another coronavirus package, it seems to me that with 6. 9 unemployment, thirdquarter gdp growth of astonishing proportions that even th
Welcome. The 64th secretary of state, we are here to talk about her new book, health and other destinations which is an interesting book. I just finished reading it. I look forward to this conversation about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you. I enjoy talking with you anyti anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building of the library congress, shes in her home, i should disclose weve had a longstanding relationship between us, we were young staffers under president carter and i have followed her career ever since then with great admiration. This is for seventh book since you left secretary of state. Did you ever imagine when he finished secretary of state, the first woman to ever serve as secretary of state, he would write seven books in addition to the other things we want to talk about since you left secretary of state . It never occurred to me that i would write this but it is important people who served in office to write their memoirs because it is the basis of peo
Will. Hello, everybody, welcome to the National Book festival. One thing we can do and i know you are all loving it as i am is to read a good book. I wrote a book that was published about a certain struggle with one of the central problems of our times, knowing what is true and what isnt. It is my pleasure to have with me today to people that wrote two of the very best books of the summer related to the world on the dangers. First i want to introduce Barton Gellman my colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoir of the feelings with Edward Snowden that led to the revelations about the nsa, technology and surveillance and the subtitle of the book says the american surveillance state. And i also want to interview another outstanding offer, thomas rid who teaches at hopkins and has a history of what weve come to call disinformation, the ways of which our election systems, our very fabric can be manipulated by foreign governments and a history of that operation going