I titled it the promise land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes, even if we experienced hardships and disappointments along the way that i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect union, not a perfect unit union but a more perfect union. Good morning and welcome to a very special edition of Washington Post life. Im an opinion columni for the wasngton post and founding director of the race card project. For this very special conversation this mning i am ined by my dear friend elizabeth alexander, poet, schor and president of the Andrew Mellon foundation for good morning, elizabeth. Goo morning. It is wonderful to be together. It is wonderful to be together and together we bh welcome our gue for this conversation. The 44th president of the unitedtates, barack obama and i assume you recognize that guy in the mide. Good morning, sir. Hello, guys Washington Post brought out t big guns for thi one. [laughter] we are so excited to see you. We are. I am ver
Who many of you recognize and i just wanted to say that we have hundreds of these programs on our web site a their youtube annel. You can look at the ones we have got already. Tonight we are going to be discussing catching the wind . . . An interesting analysiof the kennedy wave scene in three parts and also how it crashed, a very interesting and i take it from what i read this is the first lume of the 2volume ted kennedyiography through 1975. Welcome kneelin thank you very muchor joining us. Its great that you switched your career to writing these great fees. The first question i have is inert knowledge and at the end you mentioned the book started off as an idea to write a book about political morality. Did your publisher then say theres not enough material out there to make the book on political morality . He would definitely say that its interesting the origins of this book i was coming off of a ee of walt disney so this seems very much when i propose my next bk toike publisher whi
I titled it to the Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes and we experience hardship and disappointment along the way, i still have faith we can create a more perfect union. Good morning and welcome to a very special edition of Washington Post live. Im opening and columnist for the Washington Post and founding director of the race card project. For the special conversation to see morning im joined by my dear friend elizabeth alexander, poet, scholar and president of the Andrew W Mellon foundation. Good morning, elizabeth. Good morning. Its wonderful to be together. And together with we both welcome our guest for the conversation, the 44th president of the United States, barack obama. Good morning, sir. Washington post brought out the big guns for this one. We are so excited to see you. Im three grateful that you guys took the time. We are so excited to talk to you about your book but this is a News Organization so we do have to begin with a bit of news.
The vote count fight. We have more on controversies there. We have more on this story, president barack obama on 60 minutes went after President Trump said he should concede gracefully. That President Trump addressed journalists even though his administration targeted reporters and more. Stocks rocketing to record highs. The dow hitting nearly 30,000 on effective covid19 vaccine, this from moderna. That is igniting this new fight. Do we still need political power plays of politicians doing extreme lockdowns as more vaccines come in . We have got more examples of do as i say not as i do democrats breaking their own covid19 shutdown rules. This one involves top democrat leaders like nancy pelosi. Also more on the democrats hey, we shrunk the party as a threat to their party now is so bad in the house that top democrat leaders like pelosi and steny hoyer are circling the wagons to stay in power. Reportedly putting pressure on House Democrats not to quit and jump ship, stay with us. We hav
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