Guests. [applause] Nonfiction Author or what you would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv cspan. Org. Tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook. Com booktv. Robert doubek, cofounder of the Vietnam Memorial fund provides an inside account of the creation of the Vietnam Veterans memorial which was completed in 1982 after a much debated Design Competition. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, thank you for coming out this afternoon. I am one of the coowners of politics and prose. I wasnt expecting that. I did not arrange that. Kerri kind. My husband and co owner is not here, he wishes he could be. The rest of the staff we are delighted to have you here for this event and for such a fascinating book and topic. I want to make a couple quick housekeeping announcements, the first of which is if you happen to have a device of any sort that might make noise in the next hour we would be grateful if you could turn it off or silence it or get it to a point where
That all happens starting next on seat span to book tv. Robert doubek is the cofounder of the Vietnam Veterans Foundation Fund provides an inside account of the Vietnam Veterans memorial. It was completed in 1982 after much debated competition. Good afternoon everybody. Thank you so much for coming out this afternoon. I am one of the coowners and wow, i wasnt expecting that. Thank you very you very much, that is very kind. My husband and coowner is not here, he wishes he could be but im back half of him and the rest of our staff we are delighted to have you here for this event. Its such a fascinating book and topic. Before we get started i need to make a couple of housekeeping announcements. The first of which is if you happen to have a device, of any sort that makes noise, we would be grateful if you would turn it off or silence it or get it to a point where it wont make noise. The second thing is for those of you who have been to our events, we usually ask you to pull up chairs and p
You can probably tell that cspn is here. Its really nice when people can hear the questions that you have to ask so please make your way to a microphone if possible. The last thing id like to say, i mentioned this is the second of three events today. We do have about 500 events a year here in the store, probably another 100 or so at other locations including the busboys and poets. A lot to keep track of all those events as well as our classes and trips and other programming. If youre interested this knowing more about what were offering, you can find the information at politicsprose. Com, and we just got our august calendars. Theyre lovely. They are at the information desk. Please, feel free to pick one up so you know whats going on in august. But now to the reason that youre actually here which is the book and the author. Its really a pleasure to host Robert Doubek this afternoon at politics prose. Hell be talking about his new book, creating the vietnam memorial. If you didnt live in
In 1988 Reagan made a heartfelt case for payments combining restitution and reparations without fearing he would lose his credentials as a political conservative.
Today, as Californians consider a reparations package that could reach $800 billion to pay for the harm the state has done to its African-American population on matters ranging from over-policing to housing discrimination, there’s a pro-reparations argument that needs to be revived. It’s that made by Ronald Reagan 35 years ago. With California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans getting ready to submit a.