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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Kate Moore The Woman They Could Not Silence 20240709

good evening everybody i am kate moore and the author the woman they cannot silence i am also delighted to be here tonight talking to you about they woman they cannot silence. i am so excited excited to talk about this woman. her name was elizabeth packard but i expected many of you have never heard her name before. things happen to feisty women who stand up for themselves history has chosen to instead commemorate those men who tried but failed to silence elizabeth. elizabeth packard is perhaps the most fearless and resilient woman i have ever encountered. her story is extraordinary. i want you to picture her for a moment she had a long dark brown hair, brown almond shaped eyes and a nose as strong as straight as her principal. she was a 5-foot inch tall but her short stature is not as elegant as the power of her spirit. elizabeth and her salvation came about because of one thing and one thing only, elizabeth had a mind of her own. what i will be doing and talking abo ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Garrett Graff The Only Plane In The Sky 20240709

and tonight making a little change. and i d like anyone who is a first responder who is a police officer and a fireman in an emt to please stand up and in everyday that you do for us. it is an absolute presser and pleasure, the last time he was here he spoke about the doomsday plans end of the story of a continues. tonight we are welcoming him back to discuss a very somber topic. collected and organized with the 260-degree account, the voices of the people who experienced the new experience. that includes the regular tv commentator and historian who spent more than a dozen years in national security. also the author of a number of books including the first campaign globalization in the race to the white house to examine the role of technology including inside which traces the history of fbi counterterrorism efforts. also examining the rise across america. and today he serves as the director of the cybersecurity and technology program and has contributed to cnn. he has w ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Byron McCauley And Jennifer Mooney Hope Interrupted - America Lost And... 20240709

university of virginia history professor caroline recounts robert e lee surrendered to the union army and ends of war. find these titles this coming week wherever books are sold. watch for many of these authors to appear in the near future on book tv. welcome byron from cincinnati, jennifer formally from cincinnati now lives in new mexico. i will let them talk about how they met each other in the book that they wrote together. welcome this afternoon. thank you jan. thank you jan. we are excited to be here. it is great to be here today. byron and i are going to start by introducing each other a little bit. then were going to do readings from the book and then we will take some questions. and this feed is supposed to be on c-span book tv coming up. so it may be replayed again, fingers crossed everything technically works from end to end, that is always the challenge. i am going to start by introducing brian mcauley. byron will not say it himself but he has been an ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Oral Histories 911 Interview With Fmr. White House Aide Mary Matalin 20240709

vice president dick cheney. how did the morning of your september 11, 2000 will begin? you know, there was a feeling of almost back-to-school. we d not been out for the summer but generally we take the last week of august bill offered he passed an energy bill, we felt like we were settling in well proved there is a sense of, okay, now back to business permit economic issues at the time, where on the front end of a recession. it was a clear beautiful day, and i distinctly remember being so happy to be working at the white house. and relative to the energy issue, my plans for that day were to meet with the labor leaders some later on hand labor leaders, the team s jurors were supporting our energy plan because of such a job creator. and that is what i had planned for that beautiful day. host: so as you walked through the gates of the white house on that morning, do you remember what time you entered in some of the first things you did? guest: well, senior staff ha ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Rebecca Donner All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days 20240709

rebecca donner. she s referred to by the baltimore sun of her marketable woman of or the burr concludes the graphic novel as well as essays reviews an article that appeared in a variety of publications including the near times the believer and gannett. the recipient of the fellowship at the leon levy center for biography rebecca donner she appeared tonight with her new book all the frequent troubles of our days the true story of the american woman at the heart of the german resistance to hitler. in it she explores the remarkable life and brutal death of her great great aunt mildred harnack one of germany s most successful and the only identify person to be a leader in the german one review the book reads combining the scholarship and sparkling narrative rebecca donner all the frequent troubles of our days brings to life the essential role played by mildred harnack in germany s homegrown she talks about the cruelly oppressive system that reminds us of what ....

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