[inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ronald elving. I am an editor, correspondent podcast at npr and also a fulltime, thank you, and also a fulltime faculty member at American University school of public affairs. It is my very great pleasure to. Be here this evening with John Aloysius farrell, jack farrellja to his friends, and he has written his third book. His first book was called clarence darrow, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. Second book was called tip oneill and the democratic century. And then he turned to Richard D Nixon the life. Because such a popular character. Because of that trajectory i have to ask, what major turn to dick nixon . I was drawn to his story. The original subtitle for the book was Richard Nixon, an american tragedy. And that was struck as it did the Research People like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson would writ
Changes that have been made. They also talk about the cia, department of defense, and the white house during the Nixon Administration. It has been closely guarded and in great demand since they were created during the kennedy administration. There were lots of individuals in the chain that made this possible, but i want to publicly joe during his time as an archivist. He truly embodied the slogan, releasing all we can, protecting what we must. Thanks, joe, for making that happen. [applause] with an advance copy of todays release, i had an opportunity to did in and go through the history through the lens of the daily brief. I immediately went to five marks of 1970, the first marine my firstinto nam, and day in the country. Not that i expected to see my name prominently announced in the president ial daily brief, but i was curious about what was going on. Related to vietnam, and the principal developments of that , the middle east policy, which troops are coming back from egypt, and enti
Our website, cspan history. The next president making appointments to the Supreme Court will be president donald trump. With Hillary Clinton white house, the rest of the world they have forget looked up to the United States of america. Cspan continues with the Vice President ial debate between governor mike pence and senator , beginning at 7 30 p. M. Eastern with a preview of the debate. 8 30, the predebate briefing for the audience. At 9 00, live coverage of the debate followed by your reaction. The 2016 Vice President ial debate. Watch liveon cspan, and anytime ondemand at cspan. Org, and listen live on the free cspan radio app. Each week until the 2016 election, road to the white house rewind brings you coverage of past residential races. Next, a Vice President ial debate from 1980 between dan quayle and Lloyd Bentsen. Questions from panelists. The republican ticket of incumbent Vice President bush and dan quayle defeated democrats Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen in the general el
Go to booktv. Org. The before Columbus Foundation presents the winners of the american book awards in San Francisco, calif. I am the chairman of the board of directors and i want to thank our friends for their sponsorship for this afternoons awards and my colleagues on the board of directors for their presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent and i would say even medicinal organization. At the beginning of this year january, the United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, mary barracca twice winner of the american book award a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. His last appearance in San Francisco was a fundraiser not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. Still in our embrace of the panorama of American Literature and history of this afternoon unlike to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of appellates and writer, amory bar barracca barracca. We have quite a harvest
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, thanks for joining us. In an election being watched closely throughout europe and around the world, greeces left wing, antiausterity party today won a decisive victory over the ruling centerright party. That means Alexis Tsipras is all but certain to become the next Prime Minister. Tsipras has pledged to try to force greeces creditors, including germany, to renegotiate the terms of the 270 billion dollar bailout package put together after the 2008 Great Recession to help greece stave off economic collapse. But in the years since, greeces economy has shrunk by 25 percent and abou