Democratic selfgovernment possible and dr. Kirk viewed the conservative movement, the conservative movement as the crucial actor in the task of recovering and defending those permanent things. And theres no more important scholar of the conservative movement in America Today than our speaker. George h nash, has been studying the conservative movement for decades. We made full biography available to you. A couple of highlights. 3 Volume Biography of Hoover And Ground breaking work on movement in 1945 and most recent book reappraising the right, the Past And Future of american conservative. Just to name a few. I think pundits on the left and on the right could just suspend their addiction to twitter for a few moments and pick up one of dr. Nashs books and read many essays there would be a Lot Nonsense Talk about the conservative movement and about the United States frankly and i think theyll be a lot more wisdom, a lot more wisdom in the air not only about the weaknesses of the conservat
Members of the Commonwealth Club and to learn more but membership good to thecommonwealthclub. Org and support the club with a tax deductible Gift Donation using the blue button on the screen. An upcoming program on May 11th which well be talking about his new book, metabolical, the lures and lie 0 processed food, nutrition and modern medicine. Mark bittman has been a leading voice in Food Culture for three decades. Born in new York City in 1950 he Ban Wright professionally in 1978, after five years as general assignment reporter, he turned all of his attention to food. His first cookbook, fish, the complete guide to buying and cooking, was published in 1994, and remains in print. Since then he a has written or cowritten 30 others including the how to cook everything series. He was a distinguished fellow at the university of California Berkeley and a fellow at the University Union of concerned scientists. He remains a fellow at yale and now on the faculty of columbia Universitys School
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that is up from less than 1% when we came into office 11 weeks ago. this is significant progress, and as you can see in our weekly vaccination progress report, we are accelerating our number of daily shots in arms. the current seven-day averages now 3 million vaccinations per day, up from 2.9 million last week. 3 million vaccinations per day, and this includes the lower -volume days around the easter holiday. as the president announced on tuesday, all adult americans will be eligible for vaccination no later than april 19. that is in 10 days and ahead of the original may 1 timeline. our vaccination program is working. it is accelerating, and we are on track to meet the president s goal of administering 200 million shots in his first 100 days. this is only possible because of our whole of government response and the aggressive steps we have taken to get more vaccine supply, more vaccinators in the field, and more places for americans to get vaccinated. however, we know there i
covid. there is a covid bill complete with federal minimum wage hike, and special interests totally unrelated to the pandemic come about to go to the vote in the house tonight or early tomorrow. with hospitalizations and cases plummeting, perhaps there is less of a need for trillions in spending, say republicans, especially since so much of what has been authorized still has not actually been spent. by the way, that new vaccine has actually been tested against the new variants. those findings ahead and just a minute. and imagine if this had happened under the prior administration, journalist rage tweeting tonight over a new plan reported by the washington post to charge them each $170 for covid tests every time they enter the white house. could that strain the relationship between president biden and the mainstream media, which is often been pretty deferential on the campaign trail and at the white house? first tonight, congressional correspondent chad pergram to see where