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hayden, and i loved your response to that. well, thank you. does anybody else have a question? do you have a question, sir? thank you. just a question about the montgomery county library system which is really important here. since one out of three people here were born in another country, here in gaithersburg and a few others called the english conversation club, i ve been with it for about ten years where we teach immigrants english, we help them learn the culture, help them, you know, get a driver s license, help many of them become citizens. and recently we re talking about technology, i started broadcasting our meetings live on facebook live, and we ve had thousands of people around the world watching the meetings from the montgomery county library. thank you. gentleman in the back. i just wanted to say one of the best things about living in montgomery county is the great library system and the great staff members they have there. how with libraries offer ....
how much you want them to ensure that we can continue to get library services and please, when we put out a call that we need your support, please do so. we don t have money for pacs, we don t have a lot of money, we are not wealthy people. so we depend on what you call grassroots and that is normal people picking up the phone or emailing their member of congress or their senator or their governor and saying we want you to support libraries. the mayor, the governor, the united states congress needs to know that and respect that and make sure that that happens going forward. and that a takes hundreds and thousands of calls from people like you. i couldn t have said it better. what a great point. we have, i think, time for maybe a question or two. does anybody in the audience have a question? if not, i will go on. it s not a question, but i wanted to thank you very much for your comment about dr. carla hayden, and i loved your response to that. well, thank you. do ....
bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. booktv. welcome to the library of philadelphia. i m a representative jim roebuck and i m certainly very happy to be here this evening. i m a native philadelphia and. i graduated from central high school that my particular [applause] my particular focus tonight is on the fact that i went to college at virginia union university in richmond from which i ve received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters in charlottesville. [applause] subsequent to that, i tour the history and i like to think about all the right points here. i worked briefly as a legislative assistant and in 1985 was elected to the state legislature where i still serve in an currently the minority or the democratic chair of the house education committee. the library is dedicated to advancing literacy, guiding learning and inspiring curiosity from its award-winning event series to its programming like the upco ....
what kind of sources used. you allude to the fact access in china is difficult these days. what kind of sources did you use? second question, what do you was the most challenging thing about writing the biography? putting this book together was a real effective story. you know, there are some of the different pieces to it, different aspects to it. as i mentioned before i was very fortunate to meet three of birches surviving brothers, papers of william dolan at uc berkeley, papers of the wedemeyer at the hoover institution. the 14th air force archive at montgomery, alabama, maxwell air force base, socially and exciting trip, and exciting find because buried in those materials is a 24, 25 page interview, oral history interview with john birch which was conducted about five months before his death. the army air force historian arranged this interview because of john birch was the first of these field intelligence officers. he had met doolittle. he had led a colorful life ....
many of the events are open to the public. look for them to in the future on book tv, on c-span2. welcome to the free library of philadelphia. i am representative jim roadblock, i am certainly very happy to be here this evening.h i am a native philadelphia, graduated from central highhmy a school. [applause]. my particular focus tonight is on the fact that i went to first college at virginia university in richmond, from which i received a history degree of honors and then i did my masters and phd at the university of virginia in charlottesville. so i am a wahoo as they say. subsequent to that, i taught history at drexel university for more years than i would like to think about, hitting all the right points here. i worked briefly in the mayor s office as an assistant to mayor wilson good and i was elected to the state legislature where i still serve and i m currently the minority, or or democratic chair of the house education committee. fr the free libraries dedicated ....