Doctor wright is going to be interviewed by one of the best interviewers i know who has his own show on bloomberg, the National Book festival cochair and a very generous supporter of mr. David rubenstein. Please welcome both of them. [applause] and thank you and enjoy. Thank you to everybody and thanks for being here. [applause] you have been out of the government for nine years. To tell us what youve been doing other than writing three best selling doughnuts but other than that you are teaching at stanford. It is what i consider to be my profession i started as an assistant professor and returned to stanford and my appointment is in the Business School that i teach both business and undergraduates and a course in American Foreign policy. Ive been able to do a little bit of work in the private sector and i am spending a lot more time practicing piano because that is a great love and im trying to improve my golf handicap. Speaking of the golf handicap you are one of the first few women
Reagan and bush. The library has been visited by 25,000 people in less than three months. All thelike to thank generous benefactors who made this new library possible, which and i would be remiss if i informed you that our work was not far from over. There is still money to be raised. I need each of you to sign up for a membership or contribute online. I also invite you to stay engaged with the Nixon Foundation by signing up for our newsletters and emails on our website. There you can dive deep into president nixons life and times and learn about our goals. Our speaker today is the most famous economics teacher in america. [laughter] [applause] praise where praise is due. His comedic role in theres ferristay off buellers day off has been rent is one of the most memorable scenes in movie history. He also has 17 emmys. Seven innings. Presently, he writes a column for the American Spectator and for newsmax, and is a regular commentator on fox news and cbs in the morning as well as a frequ
Saying february i think i was right. Because it feels like february. Lets get to whatever were talking about. We know about today. But whats. Ahead. The next 4 hours. The snowstorm we thought we would escape all winter long. Now as you take a live look outside dark sunday morning marks light on at the white house. Sun has not risen yet it will 7 24 and will set an hour later this afternoon and evening. So right now bonechilling temperatures is right. These are cold temperatures no matter what the time of year especially for midmarch. Its 27 reagan nationalen 4 dulles and 24 bwi and second morning in a row of a hard freeze and second of several ahead in incredibly cold week that features a significant snowstorm. Also air temperatures in the 20s north and west. Westminster 2 1. Cumberland 19, 28 leonardtown and 8 rikdzburg. Notice snow moving across south carolina. That storm system and another piece of energy coming out of the midwest will combine to become a potent nor Easter Monday ni
About their experience during the holocaust one of the things i noticed repeatedly was people saying after they got out of the camps and after the camps were liberated, if they were liberated by the americans lets say were the british its not that was the end of the story but at least that would be the end of really imminent danger from a certain militant force. If they were liberated by the soviets its as if it was this whole other story of escape and danger that they had to go through and i started to learn about the soviet union and the sort of horrific evils committed by the soviets that began to complicate my own story of what it meant to be on the left and what it meant to have this legacy of communist Party Membership but its also during college that i started just sort of dipped my toe a little bit into activism so when i was at yale there were battles between university of frustration and the labor unions that represented the workers there and i got involved with what was call
And dont forget be, theres an offer today to have a personallysigned copy of his book, poison spring, just outside the door. Thank you. And if any of you would like to get further information about whats going on in sustainable claremont, get on our mailing list. Theres a place where you can sign in up here. [inaudible conversations] is there a nonfiction be author or book youd like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv to the cspan. Org or tweet us at twitter. Com booktv. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Hes our prime time lineup for tonight. Up next, her from freedom fest in las vegas, an annual libertarian Conference Held last week. Then at 9, after words with veteran space correspondent jay barbary. He talks about the life and career of Neil Armstrong with michael neufeld. Historian and political strategist chris derose examines the civil war through five president s. And we wrap up tonights prime time programming at 11 p. M. Eastern with Michael Waldman examining