Row lit fest. Near the end of june, watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival from the president ial library. Middle of july, live at the harlem book fair with author interviews and panel discussions. At the beginning of september live from the Nations Capital from National Book festival. Thats a few of the events on cspan2s book tv. Each week, American History tv real america brings archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. 50 years ago lip done johnson delivered his first policy speech regarding the vietnam war, carried lives from Johns Hopkins university in baltimore to an estimated Television Audience of 60 million. He want to answer from those that thought the United States wasnt doing enough to help South Vietnam, titled peace without con quest, the address attempted to explain why Southeast Asia was a vital interest to the United States and worthy of Economic Development in vietnam. U. S. Military personnel went from about 23,000 in january of 1965 to ov
Twitter. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday night at 8 00 eastern on first ladies influence and image looking into the personal lives of three first ladies. Sarah polk, Margaret Taylor abigail fill more. Sarah often helped her husband make political decisions. Margaret taylor was opposed to her husbands nomination for president. As a teacher abigail was the first wife to have a profession, and began to establish the First White House library. This sunday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans original series, first ladies, influence and image. Examining public and private lives of women that filled position of first lady and their influence on the presidency, from Martha Washington to michelle obama. Sundays, 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv and cspan3. As a compliment, cspans book, first ladies, president ial historians on the lives of 45 iconic women. Available as an e book, through your favorite bookstore or online seller. This summer, book tv cove
Enough recognition as a metric for a failure. Maybe that was part of it. Its urged to implement this amazing vision and the slowness of society relative to his own life lock. On the recognition side, i think we should never use the recognition we get as a measure of success, ever. I think its a big mistake. If you do this, you the true innovators are the true recognizers. Recognition itself in my opinion is plainly the wrong metric. As is money. The real question for me is always, how much do you affect peoples lives to the better in the future. In that case, its fair to say that he was probably ahead of his time. He was the first. He invented whole bunch of things to use everyday. All things we share have massively influenced people. It massively influenced people. He put things out that people would pick up. If he was around today, i would say hey, you have a symposium in your honor. Another story occurs to me that your comment brought up one of my sort of weird illnesses that i coll
Former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley live in baltimore with his Campaign Announcement. Martin omalley announcing that he will join the race for the democratic residential nomination in 2016. He joins Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on the democratic side, eight so far on the republican side officially in the race for president in 2016. We would like to get your thoughts today on the omalley candidacy. The numbers are on your screen. For our cspan radio listeners democrats, the numbers are on your screen. You can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. Tweet us cspan or go to facebook. Com cspan, and leave your comments. Lets go right to the phones. Sean is on the line for democrats. What do you think of the omalley candidacy . Caller i think Martin Omalley would be pretty bad candidate for us to have on our party simply because it was his governorship that maryland a very liberal state [indiscernible] i am for sanders or Hillary Clinton simply because Martin Omalley is the
Helped you get where you are today. I know there has been much sacrifice and much joy as a result of today. This school has produced numerous outstanding lawyers some of whom are here today. Many are prominent members of the bar and our community. You can be proud of your institutions and proud of yourselves. Soon, you will be taking the bar exam and please accept my best wishes for your success on that exam. You will become licensed attorneys who will be sworn in by judges to be members of the bar. The attorneys of in our court includes a promise to support and defend the constitution of the United States. Today, instead of focusing on the typical graduation topics of professionalism and ethics and our associations, i want to focus on the unique role lawyers play in our constitutional form of government. With respect to how lawyers do their work and serve clients with respect to trial by jury, and with respect to an independent judiciary. Awareness of the unique role that a lawyer mig