As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
This weeks show 50 years ago peace love music and foul weather at woodstock half a century later did baby boomers and corporate anti establishment values bequeath our children and our grandchildren a better world but 1st on the heels of another anniversary a sad one are Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power reactors under control or are we to minutes from Nuclear Midnight im holland cook in washington this is the big picture on r. T. America. At a recent ceremony marking the 74th anniversary of the hiroshima bombing the citys mayor renewed. Calls for eliminating Nuclear Weapons around the world today we see of self centered nationalism in ascendance tensions heightened by international exclusivity and rivalry with Nuclear Disarmament at a standstill at the ceremony survivors and relatives marked the 8 15 am blast with a minute of silence what did it feel like to be there lets us someone who was peter clues nick is professor of history and director of Nuclear Studies institute at American U
Endeavor. Thank you. Secretary remarks by secretary of state mike pompeo on the attack of two oil tankers in the persian gulf, the secretary speaking at the state department, in washington, d. C. We take you back now to the Hudson Institute on Nuclear Weapons. The discussion in progress. What i think is important about that episode and really is at the core of the arms control plos fy of the administration is that even though weve shown our willingness to withdraw from the treaty, if one of the things that is very important that we want to talk about today, and going forward, is we have not withdrawn from the process of arms control. The president s made that very clear. My boss, bosses, secretary pompeo has made that very clear. And we look forward to engaging both russia and china robustly. With open minds. But also with open eyes. To be very cleareyed about where were at. And what we want to accomplish going forward. So the president has asserted arms control to be effective, effect
Download the free app or wherever you get your podcasts. Next, a discussion about u. S. Nuclear deterrence options and challenges. Talking about russia, china, north koreas capabilities. This is hosted by the Exchange Monitor Nuclear Deterrents summit. [inaudible conversations] right now, were going to have a session starting now and woven its way through the conference. So, if you want to take your seats i will have david and jeff prater introduce you to our panel. Here you go. Thank you very much. All right, well, thank you very much, nancy, and we want to thank everyone still out there staying until the bitter end and to hear what i regard not only a very important and phenal panel of the day, with four speakers that i promise will not just im jeff prater, and with me to moderate the q a today is my fellow cofounder and managing director, david charrington. We stood at the center to focus on educating policy makers, most importantly, new Congressional Staff on the u. S. Strategic Nu
At 6 30 p. M. Eastern, New York University professor shares her book my hijacking where she recounts being taken as a 12yearold in 1970 by a Palestinian Resistance group during a flight from israel to new york city. Then at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, a founder argues that america is a more progressive country and offers his thoughts on how to advance a liberal agenda with his book justice is coming. Watch book tv every sunday on cspan 2. Find a full schedule on your Program Guide or watch online any time at book tv. Org. Defense policy experts and former government Officials Join the Atlantic Council for discussions on the United States Nuclear Strategy and the challenges posed by china and russia. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Atlantic Council for todays event, a strategic posture for a new era introducing the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission report. Im Vice President at the Atlantic Council and senior director of the councils for strategy and security. This comes at a time of sig