Best and worst chief executives. We hear from author rosen, Michael Gearhart and from Robert Strauss. His book is worst president ever about james buchanan. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens, and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i now want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and coll
Of reactor 2 in pennsylvania that occurred 40 years ago. The incident rated a five on the 7 Point International Nuclear Event scale. As the story unfolded heres how ed bradley of cbs news covered it. This is not an community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnes have come here and the town survived. But they lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear or feel. From cbs news. Of course, that fear was radiation following the partial meltdown at tmi, the generating station considered the most Serious Nuclear power accident in the history of the u. S. And for the next 90 minutes well look back at the events that occurred. Erik epstein is the chair of the threemile island alert, which is what . Its a safe Energy Organization founded in 1977, two years before the accident at three mile island. We monitor areas. Three Nuclear Power plants on the river. You were there 40 years ago. What do you remember both when the news first broke and as the story continued to unfold in t
Sun afternoon at work k with our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. With our cable affiliates and cities across the country. This week on q a robert strauss, he talks about his book worst president ever. The legacy of the lesser president s. Robert strauss author of worst. President. Ever. To my family, who made me read every historical marker, for my mother edna especially for teaching me to laugh at myself. Explain your dads connection . Well, my dad he saw when i was little and picked up the sports page that i would read every little statistic on it so he bought me a book, it would have every last line however long they lived to the day after their inauguration or how long their mothers lived where they came from, any way so it became this sort of thing for me that i was the money ball guy for president s as a little kid and they would show me off at parties but then my father wherever they would drive there would
Turkey is prepping again for elections on november 1st. The Wilson Center is the host of this event this afternoon, and thatll be live at three here on cspan2. Also coming up shortly on our companion network, cspan, democratic president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders will be speaking at liberty university, and that will be in lynchburg, virginia, the same place republican senator ted cruz announced his president ial candidacy. Senator sanders will be speaking at the con convocation, thatll start at 10 30 eastern. Youll be able to see it live on cspan, and following that we will open our phone lines to get your calls and reaction. Also coming up tonight at 8 30 weve got a hearing examining the security of the u. S. mexico border with officials from the state department and Border Control agencies. Heres a quick preview. To increase security, rule of law and justice in mexico is going to be a longterm battle. I think that we have, we can see what has happened in colombia and the ty
The predominantly kurdish areas that have diverted this rural mountainous combat into the urban setting. Which means that now we have a setting in which theres more civilian involvement and also more potential civilian casualties as well. What about the pkk . In 1990s, pkk was pretty much a monolithic topdown entity with very compact Decision Making. Turkeys argument and position throughout the 1990s was very clear. Get rid of pkks leadership and the organization is going to collapse. In 2015, we have a much different pkk which has decided to engage in splintering strategy, especially valid after the arrests and capture of its founding leader in 1999. The 2015 pkk is much more different than the 1990s pkk in the sense that Decision Making is more localized, clashes and command is also more localized, even though the central executive body is quite influential as well. Main difference is the emergence of localized leadership that younger cohort used to be the bridge between the pkk and