Very much. Give yourself a round of applause. [applause] this is one of our favorite events of the year and we feel so honored to have been here with us today. I hope that you all come back next year. I want to introduce first susan, professor at william and has written 12 books, four of whom are on roosevelt and the most recent is a blueprint for war, the 100 days that mobilized america. Whats truly remarkable is the way that it zeros in on a specific timeframe and a series of decisions and actions that were made by one president and one specific circumstance. Michael lost obviously has written nine books and is both an nbc news historian and National Archive foundation, White House Historical society in monticello, i could go on for 20 minutes. Although the awardwinning producer for the documentary the decisions that shook the world coming in his new book president s of war, which bill gates ranked as one of the five to read. It looks at a range of decisions that they made to go to w
[inaudible conversation] welcome to our tent annual book festival. My name is phil. Im a gaithersburg author and reporter for the gaithersburg town carrier. Gaithersburg is a city that proudly supports the arts. Where we are pleased bring you this fabulous event, thanks to the generous support of our volunteers and sponsors. When you see them, please say thanks. If you else was. Please silence all of your devices, we hope youre following the gpf on facebook, and instagram. If you post about the festival, please use to be a hashtag. Your feedback is really valuable to us. Surveys are available here at the tent and our website. By submitting the survey you will be entered into a drawing for 100 gift card. Thats cole. Dobys book signing immediately after the presentation. Copies of theop book on self and attempt. Now quick word about buying books. This is a free event. But it does have a book festival, if you buy lots of books. The more books we sailed our event, the more publishers want
Power to determine its own rules. When president nixon during the time he was going to be impeached ruling how that proceeding would go forward. When the Clinton Impeachment was brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to govern how we conducted ourselves and im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. Id like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter that was sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including the republican leader every parliamentary tool available to us and committee on the house floor, to highlight your inaction translated means to try to delay them to make this process as impossible as it can be made. Im not sure in light of this letter that we could get a unanimous consent request and these seedings and break for a cup of coffee, never mind, i just want to stay for the record because i think its important that i think the house has engaged
Ago, president obama said the policy of isolating cuba has not worked and its now time to chart a whole new course. We are taking steps to increase travel, commerce and the flow of information to and from cuba. This is fundamentally about freedom and openness and also expresses my belief in the power of peopletopeople engagement. With the changes im announcing today, it will be easier for americans to travel to cuba. And americans will be able to use american credit and debit cards on the island. Nobody represents americas values better than the American People. And i believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the cuban people. The cuban president , raul castro, also spoke exactly at the same time as president obama and he spoke about the effort to improve relations with the United States. Both president s thanked pope francis. Translator i want to thank and recognize the support of the vatican and for pope francis for the improvement of the relationship between cuba and t
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