And to have cspan here taping this to show on television is just icing on the cake. My job tonight is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the book editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis and graduated from the university of missouri columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her grad titstude work to go to work as a copy editor. After three years in the newsroom in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. She assigns and edits book reviews choosing from 300 or so new books each week. Tonight she will be having a conversation with Caroline Frazier. Caroline frazier is the editor of the library america edition of Laura Ingalls wilder, the little house books. Her latest book is prairie fires, the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls wilder. It was one of the New York Times ten best book
We have kept ms. Fraser busy. We have had wonderful crowds turn out each time. Of the books. Ut it has been very satisfying. And to have cspan here taping this to show on television is the icing on the cake. It is such a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. [applause] jane my job tonight is to introduce two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at post dispatch. She grew up in st. Louis. She graduated with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student in english to go to work as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat. She returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer of the features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns 300edits book reviews from or so new books each week. She has written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors including salman rushdie. And so tonigh
Acknowledge forgiveness. Weir imperfection as human beings. The law is imperfect. At 10 00 p. M. Eastern, former Ambassador Nikki Haley with her book, with all due respect. Watch on cspan2. U. S. Senators wanted to know if the 2018 farm bill is being implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talk to farmers. Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this on committee to forestry to order and its continued eversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda doe
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Well, good morning, everyone. What a pleasure to see a full crowd here tonight. I mentioned to the president that i was worried about the crowd showing up and he said dont worry, theyll be here. Its like field of dreams, they will come. We built it. Thank you for coming out and braving the roads this morning. My name is gary greg, the director of Mcconnell Center, and its been a pleasure of mine to be able to work with the students of the Mcconnell Scholars Program and many of you in the audience over the last 17 years. Over those years weve had some of the most consequential leaders in America Today visited with us, spoken to us here at the university of louisville and i think that today is no exception to that. We have been able to host, for instance, moments of historic importance like vicepresident biden here the day that mubarak resigned in egypt. And we broke news and had some very important things happen in the louisville tarmac that morning. Secretary of state colin powell deli