This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
And now live to london for british Prime Ministers question time. Each week the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime Minister David Cameron taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter using the hashtag pmqs. Prior to question the members are finishing up other business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. The threat israel faces. The second essay was in coverage in the daily mail and other newspapers about Charities Supported by her department of music aggressive fundraising tactics. No doubt she welcomes this decision to suspend all telephone fundraising in the uk whilst it investigate these claims of malpractice. What steps will she take to ensure other charities embroiled in this case follow suit . As i announced in my opening response, we just got a process underway within our Department Working with Civil Society both communicate internationally to look out we can
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