Patrick lets get to it. Today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the Herbert Hoover president ial library. He has been with the Hoover Library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the Abraham Lincoln president ial library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. He will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of Herbert Hoover. Tom, are you there . I want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . Thomas the staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Patrick great. I know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. I have a feeling we have lots of questions. I will sign off.
Youll take the opportunity during our interview to join todays discussion by submitting questions as we go along. You can do that by clicking the q a button at the bottom of your screen. Today, as sidney mentioned, we are joined by my friend bob zoellick. Bob zoellick has served america and served her well across multiple administrations and in a range of few roles. In the late 80s, he served as counselor to secretary of the treasury, undersecretary of state as well as White House Deputy chief of staff. In the george w. Bush years, he served as trade u. S. Trade representative and later president of the world bank. Hes received numerous honors, the state departments highest award, the treasury departments Alexander Hamilton award and dods medal for distinguished public service. But the American Government werent the only ones. The German Government awarded him the Knight Commanders cross, the Mexican Government awarded him their aztec eagle order of merit. These days, among other posts
Historic and they focus on justice marshals time at the naacp attorney trying the education related segregation cases such as around the board of education. This is hosted by the National Museum of African American history and culture. Good evening. My name is dear trey cross, director of programs at the National Museum of African American history and culture. It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to this Wonderful Program and introduce you to our discussion entitled, historically speaking, thurgood marshall. An evening with spencer crew and paul think women. Before we begin, let me also welcome our audience who is streaming the discussion through the museums you stream channel. A twitter handle this evening is hashtag historically speaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast via cspan book tv and will be aired at a later date. To begin, dr. Cruz compelling new biography introduces us to the constant battles for equality faced by African Americans through a stud
The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi
Pilgrimage to mecca. Began in the United States where the coronavirus death toll has now passed 150000 thats the highest number of fatalities in any nation and accounts for nearly a quarter of the global toll medical experts are warning america will see deaths skyrocket even higher if it doesnt take more steps to control a pandemic brazil has the 2nd highest death toll with more than 90000 deaths the country has just registered almost 70000 new infections in one day and the u. K. Is the 3rd worst affected with around 46000 virus related deaths confirmed so far why cant i joins us live from washington d. C. So mike this is quite a figure for the United States and a stark warning from from medics isnt there. Very much a stark warning and this is a truly disturbing figure for Health Professionals and the country as a whole now what is happening is that theres a mixed trend in terms of the spread of the pandemic there is a slight decrease in the rate of infection but there is a marked incr