Library foundation colleagues, i thank you for coming this evening. And i would like to extend a warm welcome to those who are joining us online as well. I would also like to acknowledge the support of our underwriters for the Kennedy Library forums, the lead sponsor bank of america, the institute, boston globe, infinity, our bookstore has copies of his books available for purchase. This year marks the centennial of John F Kennedys birth as we honor life and legacy during ken ential centennial year and we could not be pleased to honor tonight. Im honored to introduce todays participants in tonights program. Professor of history at bart college and author and editor of 11 books including mcmilan, eisenhower and the cold war and reagan and thatcher, the difficult relationship. I am also deliberated to introduce moderator, Public Service at new york university, Award Winning author, president ial historian and director of museum. Please join me in welcoming richard and tim. Thank you, and
Good morning for twain. Heres the good news. The storms the whistle yesterday our history. But the damage is done. We saw a few inches of rain yesterday today we have showers tapering off. 67 degrees right now. 65 in waukegan. 63 in the cal. Satellite repair composite shows showers across the extreme southern and eastern communities. As the front moves through the rain will taper off quickly. The heaviest of the rain is behind it. 75 degrees by noon today. By 9 00 p. M. Were down to 68. The official high will be 79. Tonight were back down to 62. Partly sunny skies wednesday hightemperature 77. 77 thursday with scattered showers and storms. Heres a traffic. You will want to listen to me this morning. Theres a lot going on. If you use the eisenhower into the city everything is shut down at first avenue. All traffic being diverted off because of that high standing water from overnight. The west bound side was blocked by a few minutes ago there were able to open that again. There is some f
Im here not to represent my claim or my issues. My husband and i are here to make sure that this panel and that everyone that will listen to us will understand that cases like my own and, unfortunately, like mrs. Mcnutt are not isolated. I personally have dealt with at this time almost 1,000 cases just in the last six months of veterans and their spouses and children who are dealing with complex claims that are being denied over and over and over again or being lowballed and zero rated. This weekend on cspan, a House Veterans Affairs subcommittee hearing on dealing with the backlog and processing disability claims. Watch this morning at 10 eastern. On cspan2s booktv, taking stock of the grand old party. Later tonight, just past midnight at 12 15 a. M. And on cspan3s American History tv, 50 years ago as a nation grieved for a lost president , lbj stepped into the oval office. Sunday at 3. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. At 4 p. M. Eastern, jack cashel talks about
Vanderbilt welcomed jon meacham with wide arms and a very warm embrace as a distinguished visiting professor. [applause] and i think john has done well and i hope we can take to visiting off him pretty soon. I would say the Political Science students are thrilled to have such unique opportunity to learn from this accomplish historical scholar and celebrated author. Johns most recent book thomas jefferson, the art of power, rose to the coveted number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the times book review in the washington post. His bestselling biography of Andrew Jackson american lion earned John A Pulitzer prize. His executive editor and executive Vice President of random house john as you might expect is involved in the creation of the publication a fascinating books that taught the most interesting and influential reading lists. His passion for learning his expertise and engagement in the literary world also benef
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