Pending books begin with jeffersons memoir and 18 cents have written books. Prior to the 20th century memoirs were rare grants were the exception. Jimmy carter the author of 25 books including Public Policy and Foreign Policy and a novel and also a Childrens Book which was illustrated and then appeared on book tv afterwords where he discussed the white house diaries he kept while in office 1977 to 1981. Welcome to washington dc mr. President. When you fly in and go over the monuments and the potomac what do you think flying into this town . I look for the white house to see if its there and the wonderful times. And we flew over the canal sounded by douglas a justice for the Supreme Court. I was running about 40 miles a week then. Thats a lot. I think about the good times and how thankful i am now to have that bipartisan support which doesnt exist anymore. Is there a republican in the senate are congress that you learn to enjoy working with that you became friends with . Senator baker w
A new emerging of a possible buyer of tiktok. More challenges for boeing as it continues to deal with the fallout from the pandemic and the 737 max woes it is tuesday august 18 and this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning. Good afternoon good evening perhaps that song will get you, you know, jumping. Why not . Global markets are setting up their tuesdays stock futures slightly higher right now. They are in the green investor focus on the dow remains on the s p 500 a half a percent from the alltime record high if you are counting at home, any close above 3386. 15 would be a record close stop us if youve heard this one before one area not waiting around is technology the nasdaq pushing to a record high the 37th high of the year and 33rd record close of 2020. Once again leading technology, tesla. Another record high. By the way, also adding another 8 billion to elon musks personal fortune pushing him back on the list tesla shares up 32 in just five days 32 in five days hey, maybe that rec
Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and historian. He has a little bit of basement studio and envy of john meacham. Whos got that at msnbc. Of course the great tester in 1919. Just a transformative book that is so important. Many of us know him from his basement with morning joe. The assignment is to talk about who is your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a free and fun thing. Maybe later we would get into other elements. W
Good morning, i call the meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin now house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the interior and environment and appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize miss mccullum to present the bill. Good morning, and thank you, madam chair. I want to thank Ranking Member joyce for his strong collaboration and partnership throughout this entire process. Hes been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography, being a social studies teacher he borers with the great state of ohio on lake erie and in minnesota we border on lake superior. Id like to thank the subcommittee for all contributions and especially the way in which weve continued our tradition of nonpartisan work
[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to the stage john meacham. [applause] i hope youre having as much fun as i am. And the best thing to do is a teacher and not the course in here to take these incredible authors to be in a room with them but the only problem with this is that there is somebody in every room. But today there are wonderful people weve all heard from at one point or another written by then most of us have ever heard of but this book is on the space program. American moonshot so be watching for that. And then to have some basement studio and vl john meacham. [laughter] and trying to make the same deal of course the great historian 1919 and john meacham was written so many wonderful biographies and no us from his basement. [laughter] good morning joe but with your favorite historical figure so one or two and why and then other elements. John, start us off with your favorite. The way the question is often phrased is that i used to say j