President s oftrepeated promise. Perhaps the administration would like to tell him he should have just done a better job of keeping up with its regulatory dictates. But what about the millions who purchased their plans relying on the president s promise that they could keep them . What about the husbands and wives across kentucky who suffered when two of our largest employers had to drop Spousal Coverage . What about the folks who lost coverage at work . What about all the smaller paychecks and lost jobs . What about the parttimeization of our economy . This law, mr. President , is a mess, its a mess. As secretary sebelius has said herself yesterday, the system is not functioning. Now, maybe she was referring to no more than the narrow problems with healthcare. Gov, but as the president keeps reminding us over and over again, obamacare is about more than just a web site. Hes right about that. And thats why if the system is not functioning, its just another sign that obamacare itself is
East. This is about an hour. Thank you for that kind introduction, and id like thanks to everybody for coming out in these conditions. Im originally from england and will be heading back there shortly, so preparation after Southern California for a british winter. Just like to begin by saying a few words first, how i came to this subject, were describing the scenes of the book. Now, as you have already heard, the my previous book, the mighty wurletzer about cia front groups, nongovernment organizations made up of anticommunist, private citizens, engaged in cold war propaganda overseas and later emerged these groups were in fact being secretly funded and, to some extent, managed by the cia. One group i didnt really engage with in the mighty wurlitzer was the american Friend Office the middle east. And mainly because its purpose didnt seem to be so much to do with the cold war as with promoting the arab world to an american audience, and also it was antizionist, battling the insew lens o
There are just so many books that are about to come out. Its a little hard to excuse me. Its a little bit hard to keep track frankly. Host which ones do you have your eye on . Guest first and foremost there is a new one coming up with james swanson. He had written a very popular bestselling book called manhunt which was about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and now he returns with and of days, the assassination of john f. Kennedy and it will be out around the 12th of november. There is also from a different Vantage Point this is sort of a counterfactual. You have Jeff Greenfield who will be publishing its kennedy lived the first and second terms of jfk and alternate history. He is done alternate histories before with much success and it will be interesting to see what he posits whether jfk had lived. Host Sarah Weinman putting jfk on the cover of the book is that a good Marketing Tool . Guest i think it remains to be seen. It certainly cant hurt. Its certainly a very recognizable
But let me just bring it back to one thing. However i agree with he and the brotherhood that undemocratic things go for it all of this is true. The point is their exclusion we are seeing one face after another but i caused euros on politics. Lack of consensus building. The brotherhood did it when they were in power and the military backed government is doing that now. Instead of bargaining with their political opponents do you try to completely ask is that, eliminate them and force through your own decisions. I think its really leaving egypt in a very troubling and potentially unstable situation that will go on and on. These countries that went through transitions had a praising. People knew in tunisia, egypt, et cetera, they knew what they did and why. You remember in egypt read, freedom, social is, dignity. These are brought concepts, they need to translate that into an actual plan. These roundtables and so forced and they came up with they came up with a plan of where they wanted to
Was being built. President eisenhower announced that the airport would be named Dulles Airport. When kennedy took over, he didnt want to name it after a crusty old cold war era. The was pushed back and finally the decision was made to name it after dulles. You can still see the film clip of kennedy opening the airport with eisenhower there and allen dulles there. He pulls back a curtain and behind the curtain is this giant bust of John Foster Dulles. That stands in the middle of this big airport. I went to see it while i was writing this book. I couldnt find it. I started asking security guards. Nobody had ever even heard of it. It was a long process and finally, thanks to the washington airport authority, i was able to discover that the bust had been taken away from its place in the middle of the airport and it is now in a closed Conference Room opposite baggage claim number three. I find this a wonderful metaphor for how the dulles brothers who at one time exercised earth shattering