Years and one day ago went to the polls to eagerly cast their very first ballot in the november 2, 1920 president ial election. They did not take their vote for granted or believe it did not matter. They fought so hard and endured so much to obtain it. To wait inmen had extraordinarily long time to vote, 144 years after the birth of our democracy. Many other americans had to wait even longer. Last year, i was incredibly of myd to join 17 National Association of secretaries of state colleague on a journey to selma, birmingham, and montgomery, alabama, to share, witness, and try to absorb the historical moment and landmarks that epitomized the devastating struggle and inspiring achievement of the Voting Rights movement. These civil rights struggles and victories help persuade president johnson to sign the Voting Rights act of 1965, finally ensuring Voting Rights for all americans. Thanks to the giants of suffragists in the civil rights movement, we have been granted the opportunity and r
Should stay in the white house for another 4 weeks. Nato and poland tell russias president Vladimir Putin to stay off the ballot who says political conflict. 200 dead many missing Dozens Injured as flash floods sweep south asia. Japans longest serving Prime Minister shinzo is stepping down he says its due to his poor health has long suffered from Ulcerative Colitis a balcony he addressed a press conference in the last hour. I needed to fight against the disease and be treated i was not really in the perfect state in terms of the Health Condition and still i have to make political decisions but important ones i cannot make any mistake. In terms of the important Decision Making the support of the public is have to respond to so im not ready to respond to the mandate by the public and i made a judgment i should not continue my job as a Prime Minister i decided to step down as a Prime Minister. I said it was a difficult decision to resign from office praga gupta takes a look back at his po
President trump threatens to ban tick tock but the video apps u. S. Team is to find. A way. For tech giant microsoft of bike to talk now on hold whats next for one of the worlds most popular apps. And this remedy of a memorial to half a 1000000 murdered people could be disrupted by a massive construction project and an outrage for the ramani killed by the nazis. Im michael oku welcome a state of disaster in melbourne and all of australias state of victoria the government declaration comes as the state struggles with a stunning resurgence of Coronavirus Infections a range of new lockdown measures has been imposed including a nighttime curfew for the capital as well residents will only be allowed to leave home for work medical care exercise or shopping for essential. Their last moments of freedom before the curfew came into effect the new measures are the countrys strictest to date mel born is already under a 6 week lockdown but the infection numbers are still rising victorias premier ha
Winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. She is the author of seven books and is appeared on cspan and book tv over 60 times. She is well known for her work on Abraham Lincoln and her book team of rivals with the inspiration for Stephen Spear spielberg film. She earned her phd at harvard, we will reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took your phone calls. We will show you discussions from her book leadership in Turbulent Times and bully pulpit. We will start with january 1, 1995 appearance on the cspan series book notes. In the hourlong interview she discussed frank gooden Eleanor Roosevelt and the homefront during world war ii, her book, no ordinary time one the posted price for ordinary history here is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Author of no ordinary time, if you could ask either Frank Franklin Elinor Roosevelt a couple questions after all the work he did on the book, what would it be. With eleanor i would like to understand why she was una
Thank you for the great introduction. Welcome, everyone to this great book fair now in its 30th year. [applause] doris goodwin, its so wonderful to have you here. Welcome to miami. This is our premier cultural event. Great to have you her. If books about president. It was started by Theodore Roosevelt, known as teddy. How did he start the progressive era . What propelled him to act . What were his successes that are still with us today . We did call him teddy even though he didnt like the name teddy. I think he lost that to history. [laughter] the aspects of the Industrial Age has not been dealt with since the civil war. There was no real workmen compensation. Huge monopolies eating up small businesses. The gap between the rich and the poor had grown wider. Sounds familiar to the situation today. Even though he was a conservative when he started in a certain sense and a republican when he started, he realized the Publican Party would not be able to continue as a major force and majorit