Ronald reagan biographer and historian craig surely joining us once again on the washington journal. On the same day that Bob Woodwards highprofile book on President Trump officially gets released. In a run up to that release today you tweeted about it. Sing unlike other american president s, Ronald Reagan never fell into the bob woodward trap. What is the bob woodward trap . Guest i guess i have known bob for many years, i have played poker at his house. He is a very, very charming man. It has a way about him. He works his way into peoples confidence in virtually every president since Richard Nixon has sat down to do a lengthy, extensive interviews with bob. Im to their old ultimate regret, they did so. President reagan is one who didnt. I checked in the library yesterday and nowhere in his eight years of presidencies, his diaries, his records, and his journals or anything did he ever meet with bob woodward. So reagan was spared the headache of having to deal with bob woodward book ab
Also those who are coming in from around the states. Im joined today with a couple of outstanding leaders from the National Guard to serves as chief from the joint chief of staff out of washington dc and is with us today and was here about 40 years ago with a call for Natural Disaster when we had flooding but it is good to welcome him back here. Im especially pleased and i can tell you if there is one consistent thing every time the governors get on the phone whether the president and Vice President and the National Governors association the one thing that every governor that we have a lot to do with the leadership with the quality of the guardsmen and the soldiers around the country. And they are very familiar to see the National Guard with that Tremendous Service and in difficult circumstances. But this Public Health emergency is different than what we saw before we saw our fair share of floods and hurricanes and tornadoes. But this pandemic with the coronavirus is very different. We
Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
Nonfiction become award from the mississippi utah letters. S and he has a book out and you can our bookstore at battlefield center. Introduce to dr. Timothy smith. [applause] i appreciate the opportunity to here. I have always heard about the time. And this is my first i heard how nice it was and im a believer now. A great place here and i appreciate the invitation to here. We will truck about the western talk about ing to vicksburg, Champion Hill. To vicksburg . Been how many to Champion Hill . Not as many. A good number. Champion hill is one of those fields and watching the news and listen to the Civil War Trust they tlefield are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi just several Hundred Acres to the National Park a unit of the Vicksburg National Military Park going on this at Champion Hill. We will talk about that battle the larger r, Vicksburg Campaign just a little bit. A power point either. Im a little bit old fashioned. Do have a map of Champion Hill that we will t