Latest on president elect joe biden. He spent his first full day as president elect attending mass with his family at his church near his home. He also visited the graves of his late son, beau, his daughter, and late wife. Is expected to quickly begin appointing members of his team for the transition to the white house, including a chief of staff. Caroline shively is at biden headquarters in wilmington, delaware. Reporter he is turning his attention to the transition process. President elect joe biden is in his sons grave after attending Church Sunday in delaware. Ahead of his first full day of action, building his number ministration. The Transition Team already announcing that had of a new covid task force. Dr. Vedvik murthy, a former Surgeon General who had been serving as a Public Health advisor for the campaign. As a candidate, biden made an effort to reach across party lines. This could extend to his cabinet. The progressive who helped build the coalition which led biden to victo
And answer portion, in the interest of video and audio reporting, if you could just come to our microphone by the white pillar so we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion, and lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen, to politics and prose the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjuncrt senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. He is the New York Times best selling author with eric schmidt of the new digital age and has written the children of jihad. One of the great lessons of american politics that ive learned is the tale of two brothers. One went off to sea and one became Vice President. Neither was heard from ever again. However in rare cases, the Vice President is not relegated to obscurity. Namely when the president the previous president dies. And his newest, best New Y
My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
His time. 1884 against cleveland. Ironically, in 1876, it was b laine who prevented Ulysses Grant from making a comeback and winning a third term. Besides being secretary of state for James Garfield and Chester Arthur he was secretary of state under three president s. What else did he do . He was a speaker of the house. He was a governor. He changed some of the rules in the house. The speakers are always changing the rules somewhat to their advantage is. This was after the civil war when congress was much more central, much more potent than it had been. Their reaction against the strong executive said in. To be the secret the speaker of the house, to be a power in congress meant a lot more fun than it would today. Do you have anything to say . What do you think would have happened if he won . I think he would be regarded as the best president between lincoln and tr. He was assertive, he had intellectual capacity. He had a lot of talent. I think that once he had actually achieved it peo
Growth in his mouth. The author of the book the president is a sick man which recounts the surgery being performed on a yacht and the president disappearing for five days. Home run, im david cowen, president of the museum of American Finance. Welcome. Welcome back to our lunch and learn series. Welcome to the university of central ork and professional allen and. The okies are in the house. Thank you for coming. Join us next week on the 26th, were going to continue the lunch and learn series. Director of rothschild will be here melanie aspy. That should be fascinating, this is a historic banking house, again, on thursday. On the 24th, tuesday upcoming, well be screening rediscovering alexander hamilton. This is the pbs documentary recently released. All your questions about the movie can be answered because the producer director will be in the house. Now, turning our attention to today and Matthew Algeo and the president is a sick man. This is matthews third book. His second, Harry Trum