And watch for of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Good evening everyone. The study of George Washington at mount vernon, and the washington leverage we have an annual event that were finally getting around to this year. We are going to have our annual lecture fostered by the foundation here. Were thrilled to have this opportunity to bring together some of this most important scholarships on the mother of George Washington. Mary ball washington. This popular event was set up some time ago. And understand the world, the times and the experiences the Martha Washington and other women of the 18th century. One of those of course Mary Ball Washington. They state womens History Month from the month of march. And because of the closure here we are tonight. One important thing i think everyone in the audience pretty much knows right nobody can say too many times, mount vernon, we have open to her to audiences to visitors i should say if you come to mount vernon and have an o
He owns the place after wall, right . I might be in some other book store. Its been a great ride. Mitch and i owe you and books and books so much and its wonderful to have cspan booktv here taping the show tonight. This is a bigtime, great. Before i get any further along, i want to see if i can work this. Lifetime new yorker declares himself a florida resident. Great, i thought. He must have read the book. Because quite a few of us have known but this startling development for quite a while. What is that, mitchell . Hes not here yet . Well, save a seat in the back. The fact is [laughter] the fact is, i had to make it very clear to george gibson, my editor and morgan and my publisher at Grove Atlantic that i was not intending to write a donald trump book when i went up to talk to them about what i had in mind. There was gossipping trump book in the pipeline i knew about and next year theres big telloff book the tv insider at the white house is coming out with and what george and morgan
Give an answer, its how she raised him. Her husband, augustine, died when george was young. She was in her 30s raising six children. That alone would resonate with a lot of women in america today. The tough times she went through raising her children. To byhe was referred biographers, from her passing to the time of the civil war, she came across as june cleaver. War, realismil began to take hold in American Literature with moby dick, tom sawyer, huckleberry finn, and all of that. Also, the biographers who mentioned her made her look more like joan crawford, so both got it wrong. There were elements of both of her character and makeup, but both got them wrong. I decided, plus i lived in the was in the life lively area of virginia. It seemed like i wanted to write something about washington, but he had pretty much been covered, soup to nails, but the way to get in and talk about him was to a book about his father. Host give us a quick ir gripper of Mary Washington. It she born in the Un
Thate i recap the meeting i had with foreign minister lavrov that i want to note that the Trump Administration has taken action with human rights violators and it is only appropriate that i mentioned them on National Human rights day. This extends our commitment to hold individuals accountable for gross human rights abuses accountable. I will speak more about that tomorrow. Now turning to our meeting. Last may, at President Trumps request i made a trip to russia. The reason was straightforward. We should have a better relationship than we have had in the last few years and we have been working on that since that moment. Our bilateral ties are consecrated complicated, we compete in some areas and in others we collaborate. We agreed to continue the hard work that diplomats engage in. We agreed to keep our lines of communication open and keep our conversations candid. Continue that. We touched on counterterrorism, counter narcotics, our intelligence officials coordinate in these areas, an
Much, it is very great to have the president of paraguay here. We are doing a lot of work with paraguay on terrorism, drugs, trade. A lot of different things. We have had a great relationship. Mr. President , it is an honor to have you. It is a great honor for us to be here. I believe also for our region. We are here to support our bilateral and historic friendship. Thank you very much. Tremendous. We look forward to the meeting. I want to congratulate boris terrific victory. A harbinger of what is to come to our country. A big percentage of people. This was a tremendous victory last night. It is very interesting the final vote the final votes are being tallied right now he is a friend of mine. And a friend to the United States as well because it means a tremendous amount of trade. It was very hard for them to do this. We just made our big deal as you know with mexico, canada. We have a tremendous trade deal going through the house right now. It will be approved and it is tremendous fo