Cox richardson about her new book, how the south won the civil war, the continuing fight for the soul of america. And im a professor of history at yale university. And i will have a discussion with heather about her book and this is brought to you by the Community Outreach for over 150 years and thats some real history there. Now, on to heathers book. Her book has gotten a lot of critical praise. For example, tthe Washington Post writes, Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College describes goldwaters crusade in her masterful book. Perhaps the most important Political Coalition of the 20th century and Publishers Weekly says, though richardson underemphasizes the prevalence of racism, sexism and unequality of other parts of the country during the civil war she marshals more for the books title. Conservatives will cry foul, but critics will be persuaded. And first, i want to invite those of you out in the world listening to share your questions for heather, you can do that, typing in the a
I have a brief Opening Statement here before i take your questions. Yesterday, secretary of the treasury, donald regan, sent to the congress a request to raise the debt ceiling to 985 billion. This represents a dramatic jump of 50 billion over the previous debt ceiling. The administration took this action with great regret because it is clear that the massive deficits our government runs is one of the root causes of our profound economic problems. And it, for too many years, this process has come too easily for us. We have lived beyond our means and then financed our extravagance on the backs of the American People. The clear message i received in the Election Campaign is that we must gain control of this inflationary monster. Let me briefly review for the American People what we have already done. Within moments of taking the oath of office, i placed a freeze on the hiring of civilian employees in the federal government. Two days later, i issued an order to cut down on government trav
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Worst capita coronavirus death rates in the world coming up on the show as some labor politicians in the u. K. Call for the closure of this t. V. Channel we investigate the stories not covered by Mainstream Media all around the world from china to syria to yemen with the gray zone smacks belittle and then does russia controlling peers in the house of lords as the u. K. Intelligence and Security Committee appears to allege we asked conservative piano about formally of the Lords International Relations Committee how many of putin spies sit on the red benches all this and more coming up in todays going underground the 1st u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson claimed that this weeks you gain teligent in Security Committees so called russia report showed allegations of russian control of elections in britain was just froth it was left under attack from members of his own body of a money and anti semitism to ramp up the cold war rhetoric and arguably call for the end of a free press in britain
Institute for statecraft think tank that was actually the Integrity Initiative and was organizing clusters of journalists and friendly cold warrior politicians to meddle in other countries affairs including spain to destroy the careers of diplomats and National Security officials who are cozying up with russia in their view who are actually just too pro peace and was being secretly funded by the u. K. Foreign office this is a figure who you know should not be called out into public as an Expert Witness but provided testimony apparently for a report that ultimately failed to come to the conclusion of the hardcore russia gaiters and cold warriors and so now were being told that the scandal is that the m i 5 just simply didnt work hard enough to come to the highly politicized conclusion that russia was behind brags that we have a christmas feel and donnelly on the program it should be said that. Both of them deny anything like that and in fact the Integrity Initiative says theyre protecti