Jim is with us today, courtesy of mark and daphne murphy, as well as carol and joe young. Jim towey became a advisor and personal friend of Mother Teresa of calcutta. 12 years and did the First Reading at her mass canonization in st peters. He headed, the White House Office of faith based and Community Initiatives under w bush and, served as president of two catholic colleges. He was a u. S. Senate staffer, head of floridas 40,000 Employee Health and Human Services agency in, 1996 with Mother Teresas encouragement, he founded, the nonprofit Advocacy Organization aging with dignity and the five wishes, advanced directive, which has sold 40 million copies and is used in all 50 states, too. He met his wife, mary, and mother traces dc aids home. He continues to provide probono Legal Services for the missionaries of charity. Please give warm savannah welcome to jim towey jim towey. Welcome. Thank you, kathy for lovely introduction and so nice of you to be here today. I feel very much at hom
Jim is with us today, courtesy of mark and daphne murphy, as well as carol and joe young. Jim towey became a advisor and personal friend of Mother Teresa of calcutta. 12 years and did the First Reading at her mass canonization in st peters. He headed, the White House Office of faith based and Community Initiatives under w bush and, served as president of two catholic colleges. He was a u. S. Senate staffer, head of floridas 40,000 Employee Health and Human Services agency in, 1996 with Mother Teresas encouragement, he founded, the nonprofit Advocacy Organization aging with dignity and the five wishes, advanced directive, which has sold 40 million copies and is used in all 50 states, too. He met his wife, mary, and mother traces dc aids home. He continues to provide probono Legal Services for the missionaries of charity. Please give warm savannah welcome to jim towey jim towey. Welcome. Thank you, kathy for lovely introduction and so nice of you to be here today. I feel very much at hom
government s in panic. the country will pay a lasting price for putting is through this ideological experiment and will pay a lasting price through economic instability and rising mortgage rates for some time to come. and in other news. the head of the metropolitan police says hundreds of his officers should have been sacked for gross misconduct. civilians rescued in the ukrainian capital after an attack by russian kamikaze drones. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon has set out her economic argument for leaving the uk, including plans move to a scottish currency when the time is right . the new chancellor, jeremy hunt, has scrapped almost all of the key measures in last month s controversial mini budget, in the latest in a series of government u turns. in an emergency statement, he abandoned indefinitely the planned 1p cut in the basic rate of income tax, that had been due to come in next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april instead of for
This week on q and a, mary talks about his book president mckinley, architect of the american century. What was life like back in 1897 through 1901 in the u. S. . While i think the most important thing was that the country was burgeoning. It was expanding and poised to move to radically into the world. America is an expansionist country. We talked about james k. Polk and how he expanded the country on the north american continent. But, what mckinley did was push out into the pacific and atlantic and caribbean the way another president had it. It happened because america was building and industrial base, was building Economic Growth and economic wherewithal, was building a navy. Mckinley had a lot to do with it, but it began before him. It was gaining more and more interest in building the panama canal across central america. When we have ended up with conflict, serious conflict in the caribbean with the spanish empire, which controlled and owned cuba, it was inevitable that we would no
He was a law professor, a politician, and activist who was born and raised in wisconsin and came to be a professor at the University School of law when he was in his late 20s. It was a major career job. He was soon appointed dean. The youngest being in the country. Then he got involved in a lot of social and political issues. He was a labor arbitrator. He negotiated settlements and agreements from the International Agreement and Pacific Maritime association. He was the only arbitrator that could get size to settle. They were building ships there. They needed that port. They wanted him a permanent arbitrator. He got the political bug and later wanted to be selected in 1944. At that time, we were moderate republicans. He did switch parties. I think the last rough for him was when he was chosen to be Vice President and said i can only be part of this party. He had a series of disputes. He didnt have enough social justice orientation. He left the party, became independent, famously sat in