Part at the end and find a history virtual Martin Luther king jr. Day annual virtual offerings for unit theres a wealth of material and Educational Resources on doctor king available online. I am from gdp, im thrilled to be hosting this conversation with Charles Black and the reverend doctor otis, to friends and colleagues of doctor king. And paul and the reverend here with us to talk about a littleknown but extremely consequential event in the life of doctor king. And these are stephen and Paul Kendrick targeted and for the large on montgomery before that i have a dream speech in washington and before, the letter from the birmingham jail. Doctor king was sentenced to four months of hard labor by the county judge stemming from a Traffic Violation. Nine days, the race to save martin luzern king jr and when the election is a new book which details that people in the political are aligned to free doctor king is the same time encouraged the black vote in the water support for john kennedy
The pomp is and circumstance is really its amazing. This was one of my favorite pictures from that week. President bush and bob dole were of course huge rivals, political rivals from the 1988 race, and like president bush and president clinton, they became very close. Senator dole also calls me, president bushs friends call me a lot. Its so sweet. They miss him, and im like the boobie prize. So they call me, which is sweet, but senator dole for him to get out of that wheelchair, oh, my god, that picture and i asked him why he did it, and he said he had to. Okay, this is the cathedral walking into the National Cathedral and all of the president s lined up. You can barely see president carter, but hes right there on the end. There he is. George w. Of course is on the other side with his brothers and sisters. This was also one of my favorite photos. So it was president bushs idea to take a train from houston to college station. He loved trains. He loved taking trains, and he felt this wou
History and i served as interim director for the center of president that will history and i cant tell what you a delight it is on this very special occasion. I want to express our appreciation to our friends at the george h. W. Bush and to cspan which is taping tonights lecture. Were also very happy to have with us tonight the director of the bush library. I want to direct your attention, also, to a major event when peter baker of the New York Times will be the guest of cph to talk about his book obama the call of history. And were also glad to tell you that the dday trip for june 2018 is fully subscribed but were taking names for 2014 and there is a dedicated Scholarship Fund for this program so that no student should miss a chance to miss this journey because of financial need. If you would like to make a contribution to the fund wed be thrilled. Well, its a personal pleasure to present tonights speaker. Its hard to believe its been five years since he joined us in 2012, given his m
George h. W. Bush from the time just after he left the white house until his death in 2018. From the kansas city public library, this is an hour and ten minutes. Good evening. Im Steve Wieberg with the librarys Public Affairs staff and first of all before we start, jean is going to give us a wonderful, wonderful presentation about george h. W. Bush. Well have question and answer afterwards and what i want to ask everyone because cspan is filming tonight, please use the microphones that we will place i think one right there and one over to the side there. Thats so your question doesnt get lost on cspan. I want to welcome all of you and let you know how much we appreciate you all being here tonight, especially knowing that the Democratic Party has done a little bit of counter programming. [ laughter ] of course, weve got another 15 monthsplus to get our fill or probably more than our fill of 2020 president ial campaigning. Here were going to take a few moments to remember a man who won i
Make. I have said, and i believe that there is a good possibility that sometime in the next 20 years we will have a woman president. Hillary clinton locked many firsts in her role as first lady, Political Partners since law school, the clintons survived scandals and even the impeachment of president bill clinton. And as she considers a another bid for the white house herself, Hillary Clintons story is being written still. Welcome to cspans yearlong series, first ladies influence and damage. Tonight, we will tell you the story of the space of our 42nd president , Hillary Clinton. Here to tell us of the story are too journalist to know the clintons well. Gayle from vanity fair is a biographer of Hillary Clinton. Her 2000 book was called hillarys choice. David is from the Washington Post, author of two books about the clinton including a 1995 biography of bill clinton. Welcome to both of you. As we start, here i want to play a bit of a video from 1992. It is one of five or six Hillary Cli