With the black Emergency Managers association. I think she summed it up in terms of disaster management, in terms of the Emergency Management network. Guinea liberia sierra leone for the west african nations that needs to be established. I think your ims system was outstanding, setting that up, the coordination with stakeholders involved and thats going to be a key to rebuilding your Health Care Structures especially from the Community Level level. I want to commend you for all the work youve done. One other thing with dr. Lacy that he mentioned with the response to that and usually response worldwide is how are volunteers getting reimbursed and paid . I think youre leading towards that. I met with him at georgetown and we discussed that. I didnt talk to you yesterday at the world bank but you mentioned that those plans you have in place, youre at that stage to build the Liberian National Emergency Management system or agency. Thats all i want to say. Thank you. Why dont we come back t
Superintendent of the year by the American Association of school administrators. Following his time as secretary of education, dr. Paige served as a Public Policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars. In 2006 he authored the war against home. And in 2010, he published a black white achievement gap, why clothing it is the greatest civil rights issue of our time. Dr. Paige is the eldest of five siblings and has a son and a daughter. Dr. Paige resides in houston because he couldnt find a house in charleston, south carolina. Not so funny. With his wife, stephanie allens paige. Please help me welcome dr. Rod paige. [applause] thank you, senator. Thank you so much for that warm welcome. But he left out part of my history so i have to share that with you to begin with. I was also a football coach. Jackson State University of cincinnati and then again at Texas Southern. It was at Texas Southern where i learned humility. We were playing one game and at that time we had
Nation. Heidi ewing talked about detroit. A andaron woolf on Corn Production in the u. S. This president s day on the cspan networks, on cspan at 10 00 a. M. Eastern to prove that leadership is our challenge in 1992, and that is why i announce my candidacy for president of the United States of america. [applause] a special presentation on Campaign Announcements from Ronald Reagan in 1979 to barack obama in 2007. We will reenter the announcements later in the evening at 9 00 p. M. On book tv. Finalist for the book circle Critics Award starting at medical eastern. David brion davis on his third and final volume on the history of slavery, focusing on emancipation. At 1130, Elizabeth Kolbert argues we are undergoing a sixth as extension. And that senator Elizabeth Moran talked wealth and economic inequality on American History tv at 8 00 eastern. Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant draws residential candidates. At 7 00 eastern, a 1960 nbc interview with Herbert Hoover discussing his life be on the
It is enormously significant that the cattle industry and the face of the cattle industry coincided with reconstruction after the civil war. That coincidence has been handed down to the present in our political channel and in the way that we understand american politics, and that is why the american cowboy remains such an incredibly potent image today in American Society. But start with that. We all know the civil war was about the north and south, right . Wrong, it was not about this north and south sides, it was between the north and south but it was about the west. There was the issue of slavery for the dakota territory since the beginning of slavery. It was not a problem until the Louisiana Purchase in 1863. The question with what to do with those western lands, first the Louisiana Purchase, which were divided by the missouri compromise, but that comes a new question in 1850. But then an extraordinary expedition with the land between the treaty of waterloo bay in 1846 treaty of gua
[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan . You repeat that . Yes. If you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you. Exxon is one of a number of Large International Oil Companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. They did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. P. M. They need a Banking Sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. Seems like a good place to leave these things. David, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. Again, the book is othe kurdish spring a new map of the middle east. And here with author david phillips. Please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applause] booktv is on twitter and f