About her book drinking in america our secret history. This was held at politics and pros bookstore in washington, d. C. We are so honored tonight to welcome susan cheever, best selling and highly esteemed memoirist, biographer and novelist as she launches her newest book drinking in america our secret history. You will tell us the secrets. Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of e. E. Cummings, which was chosen by the economist as one of the best books of that year. It is now considered the definitive biography of that iconic poet. Other biographical works include american bloomsbury and my name is bill, bill wilson, his life and the creation of alcoholics amon mounonymouanonye before dark and treetops, a memoir. Shes the author of five novels and a frequent contributor of essays and articles to leading publications. She is influential as a member of the corporation of yado and of the Authors Guild counsel and is a faculty member at the b benni Bennington College
Railway. A native of new orleans, mr. Moorman grew up in mississippi and educated at the Georgia Institute of technology and harvard university. Last month mr. Moorman announced plans to step down from his current role. D about a year and a half. And he completes his time at amtrak at the end of the year, he says thats longer than he originally planned to. We invited him here to talk about amtraks continuing budget woes, derailments, customer complaints about service, the famous stampede at penn station where 16 people were injured. Repair plans for what some commuters are calling the summer of hell in new york city. And the needed infrastructure that the Rail Industry needs in being required to keep itself open and running smoothly. Richard anderson, a former Airline Executive from delta airlines, somebody from a very different vein coming in and on boarding as an executive, theyre now coceos, at the end of the year richard will have to put his wings down and put his rail cars on. In
Railway. A native of new orleans, mr. Moorman grew up in mississippi and educated at the Georgia Institute of technology and harvard university. Last month mr. Moorman announced plans to step down from his current role. D about a year and a half. And he completes his time at amtrak at the end of the year, he says thats longer than he originally planned to. We invited him here to talk about amtraks continuing budget woes, derailments, customer complaints about service, the famous stampede at penn station where 16 people were injured. Repair plans for what some commuters are calling the summer of hell in new york city. And the needed infrastructure that the Rail Industry needs in being required to keep itself open and running smoothly. Richard anderson, a former Airline Executive from delta airlines, somebody from a very different vein coming in and on boarding as an executive, theyre now coceos, at the end of the year richard will have to put his wings down and put his rail cars on. In
Here. Im magnus. Im the director of the initiative here at the Atlantic Council. Its great to see such a big crowd in july for this event. I also want to add a special welcome to our guests who have travelled far to be here today. Michael mickleson whos the chairman. And christian, who is the under secretary for defense policy at estonias ministry of defense. As some of you may know, christian served previously here at the embassy in washington so its great to see him back in town. So im just going to say a few words before we let our experts and representatives loss. This is important and why were doing this here at the Atlantic Council. So this is clearly a summer of or a big summer of exercises in europe. Two major nato exercises just wrapped up in Northern Europe. And nato also just completed a big exercise off the coast of ice lan. In the very near future, the focus will shift to the black sea region where nato will conduct a number of exercises as well. This is obviously all in r
Sanctions. One of the top intelligence personnel within the Israeli Intelligence field i wont name names, but this person was asked directly by a congressional delegation that visited over the weekend what the effect of sanctions would be . This person answered it would be like throwing a grenade into the process. Lou the mossad says kerrys statement is untrue. A Statement Released today reads, quote contrary to the report, the head of the mossad did not say he opposed sanctions on iran. The remarkable efficacy of the sanctions imposed on iran over the last few years in bringing iran to the negotiating table. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman bob corker, present at the meeting and here he is further rebuking the kerry claims. Some this weekend over the same issue, we have heard no one, no one say if congress were to weigh in on the final agreement, it would have anything it would in any way destabilize the negotiations. Lou the committees former chairman, senator bob menendez