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get it at four imprint.com in brynn for certain the cnn presidential debates june 27th, nine live on cnn and streaming on max it s monday. june 17. right now on cnn this morning. biden and trump, according votes and cash on the campaign trail, it s the first debate less than two weeks away israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu dissolving is six member war cabinet insisting it does not need to exist in over 1,000 people forced to evacuate it is a raging fire north of los angeles continues to spread out of control 6:00 a.m. here in washington, here s a live look at the white house the morning, everyone. i m on a rod. you in for kasie hunt. it s great to be with you. we begin with president biden warning americans not to vote for donald trump while donald trump wanting black americans not to vote for joe biden a busy weekend for both candidates, raising cash according votes, which is ten days to go before the first presidential debate right here on cnn. president bi ....
[inaudible background conversations] good evening. i am the associate director of the leon leavy center for biography. which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. the writing of biography is a famously argue extend lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of $72,000 each to working biographers to help them across the finish line. over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. thanks to a grant from the sloan foundation we recently added a fifth fellowship also for $72,000 which will support biographies about figures and science and technology. the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. another new feature of the center is unique two-year ma in biography and memoir which will train students in our historical research interview technique in narrative form and history of biography and memoir and how the forms have evolv ....
of thescussion was part annual lincoln forum in gettysburg, pennsylvania. it is my pleasure to introduce our second speaker for the morning, annette gordon-reed . professor gordon-reed is the charles wharton professor of american legal history at harvard law school. she is also a professor of .istory in the college of arts her first foray into riding produced lost at sea which was written when she was seven. she is an overachiever. since then she has authored or co-authored six historical settings including the hemming of monticello which was a winner of the pulitzer prize. acclaimed book also won 15 additional awards including the writer douglas prize. andrew johnsonof johnson, the subject of her talk ass morning, was praised it isantly written and not available today. you will have to order it, but i do have her most recent book and that is co-authored. it is titled the most blessed of patriarchs, thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination. she will be avail ....
professor of american legal history at harvard law school. she s also a professor of history in the college of arts and sciences. her first foray into writing produced lost at sea which was written when she was 7. so she s an overachiever. since then, she has authored or co-authored six historical studies, including the hemingses of monticello, an american family, which was winner of the pulitzer prize in 2009. the highly acclaimed book also won 15 additional awards, including the frederick douglass prize. her 2011 study of andrew johnson, the subject of her talk this morning, was praised as brilliantly written and fair-minded. the book is not available in the bookstore today. you ll have to order it. but i do have her most recent book, and that is co-authored and it is titled the most blessed of patriarchs, thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination. she will be available for a few minutes after her presentation to sign autographs, sign books for you. so plea ....
15 guys. they haven t shaved in a month. they are dirtier than dogs. and they come walking out. and they meet with these guys, and they make each one of them an ice cream sundae, with soup to nuts, cherries, marachino cherry on top, nuts. they hand the stuff back. they put it all back, walk back into the dmz and the helicopter takes off. and my clunts again call me and say, sir, what did we just see? and i said i think it was an ice cream social. i really don t know, but all i know is where the order came from. so about five minutes later from his helicopter the ch-46, sudden death 66 calls up, this is the way marines talk on the radio, they call you by your name instead of by your call sign, he said, ken, i wonder what we were doing? i said sir, we were curious. he said those guys have been in the dmz for a month and i figured they deserved an ice cream sundae, i said, sir, that was an excellent idea. but he said, in order to make that happen, i had to have absol ....