Before we get started i need to type that you should silence your cell phones please personal recording is not allowed. After the session each of the authors all will be its a mass in your festival program. We have three terrific books. To the far left. John ward book. The fight that broke the Democratic Party. My former Los Angeles Times colleague. As someone who is about to turn 75 i lived in a great number of the events described in this book. As i was saying to miriam just before the program started the first event i remember is as a High School Freshman in 1958 a great year for the Democratic Party in california was a big democratic sweep. The voters of california were wise enough to reject an anti union right to work law. With that as a start. Tell me a little bit about what makes the brown family distinct. There are so many pieces of that but i will try to focus on a few of them. The democrats who have not held power in california for a very long time to think of california as a
A specific day, time and how it will happen, we have no information about what they knew was done. We also have no data on how they somehow supported these attacks financially or helped train fighters, and these the terrorists were certainly prepared; we also have no information that they controlled their actions in any way. Israeli officials agree with this conclusion , that is, they know that iran provides military and Political Support to hamas, but unlike american officials, they told me that iran gave the green light for this operation. Perhaps they had no idea about the timing and the consequences, but they knew that it was being planned, it cannot be said that it was iran that pulled the strings, but it was partly in it involved. There is growing concern in the pentagon because of their own promises, cnn is sounding the alarm that there will definitely not be enough weapons from us warehouses to support both ukraine and israel. This is despite the fact that tel aviv has. Its own
Even to some extent reasonable on the surface, there was a small problem , president yeltsin did not have the authority to call such elections, president yeltsin did not have the authority to change the entire system of power, and if he had any doubts about this, then in general they should have disappeared after literally immediately after. This decree, decree 1400, the Constitutional Court of russia spoke, its chairman was valery zorkin, who is still the chairman now, and the Constitutional Court stated that the decree had no legal force, after which the Supreme Council announced the impeachment of yeltsin, and brought him to power as interim president , when you saw yeltsin announcing this decree, was it some kind of surprise, shock for you, or was it you did you expect everything . This means that before these events, about a month ago, it was august, they brought me approval of draft president ial decrees, three decrees, i categorically. Refused to sign them, why, because they wer
Turn . Guest well, i wouldnt say date that created it, but if i had to pick one date as the epicenter, perhaps, of the turn, it would have been the reykjavik summit in october of 1986, just about five years ago from this fall. Cspan what happened there . Guest in this remarkable event, probably the most remarkable meeting of u. S. And soviet leaders, certainly since kennedys meeting with khrushchev in vienna, reagan and gorbachev and shevardnadze and shultz sat down in a small room in reykjavik over a dining room table and started negotiating over their entire nuclear arsenal. They had on the table to be bargained with the entire stock of Ballistic Missiles in the arsenals of both governments which were the basic weapons underpinning their national power. At the end of the summit reagan even said and i have the quotes authenticated for the first time why dont we just get rid of all Nuclear Weapons . Just get rid of them all. And gorbachev said, yes, lets do that. Lets just get rid of t
To let some of our folks get themselves seated. I have some minor chores to attend to so ill do that while they are getting seated. First of all, as you all know, please turn off your phones. Thats sure number one. And number two, i want to remind you that no flash photography is permitted during either of the presentations. As is usual, after the presentations, there will be a book signing in the lobby, youre invited to bring your books and have them autographed by our distinguished jurists. And finally, tell your friends and if you want to hear it again, youtube, you can listen to this and all the programs of the library and the library podcast. Andyou can find that at free library. Org. So having exposed a couple of chores, let me welcome you to the free library and introduce myself, im marie levine and im the library junkie. I love libraries, i live not far from here for many years and spent many long hours and as i look across the audience, i see im not the only junkie here. So i