Welcome to the Program Europe is facing a severe economic shock because of the. Rescue package to help countries deal with the economic fallout of the crisis they also agreed in principle to set up a fund to secure all the blocks long term recovery but theyre divided on how this should be financed. The Video Conference was the 4th such meeting since the virus hit e. U. Countries and expectations were low e. U. Member states have so far failed to agree on how to help those economies hit hardest by the pandemic but after just a few hours the Council President emerged emphasizing the countrys common interests this wont do much this put into our societies and serious through their wellbeing of each e. U. Member states depends on the will be of the whole of the e. U. We are all in this. Michelle said leaders have agreed to task the e. U. Commission with linking a Recovery Plan to the use next long term budget a u Commission President found a line called for unity unless we acted decisively
[ applause ] thank you. Let me just start by asking, what sparked your interest, your passion for history . I believe you grew up in massachusetts near concord and a number of historic sites. Did that play a role in it . No, i dont think so. I just was interested in stories. I read a lot. I had a Terrible High School teacher, i must say, in i went to waltham high school, and he was horrible, but it didnt dampen my interest. I just read history and enjoyed it. But as dave said earlier, i had planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years at air force as a rotc and go to fletcher school. Its connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school, but my experience and being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school, and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve wri
Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more Democratic Society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my book the radicalism of
Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more Democratic Society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my book the radicalism of
Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more Democratic Society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my book the radicalism of