Nonfiction authors. Panel featured discussion on civil rights, education policy, Mississippi State history and the 2016 president ial election. Notable authors include john meachum. And former Senate Majority leader trent discussing book on political polarization, crisis point. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Our cspan campaign 2016 bus is in chicago this week at the National Conference of state legislatures asking what issue is more important to you, your district, and your state. Probably the most important thing issue is education by far. All of the things that were top of the bad list and bottom of the good list is all because of lack of education. Weve got some of the general population in louisiana, and we need to do a better job to starting probably childhood education and going forward. My name is ryan, im from u. S. Virgin islands and the most important issue in my district right now is having the United States giving the Virgin Islands allow to vote. Curr
Station. He got a job here at age 12. Here we have a vignette that shows edisons mother yelling at his teacher mr. Crawford for calling edison addled. I guess today we might say stupid, confused, mixed up. You can see here, it hurt his feelings, it angered her, and she said to mr. Crawford, look, he is a lot smarter than you are, mr. Crawford. If you cant teach him, i will. She took him home and homeschooled him. He always credited his mother for making him the vanity became, through her kindness and teaching, and a love of learning. He read and Read Everything that he could. Even in the evenings as a man, he would read the encyclopaedia britannica. If edison were in school today, he might have been on ritalin or other medicine for add or adhd. Hes had so much going on in his head that if you are particularly interested in the subject matter at hand, he did not want to pay attention. He would want to explore things in his own way. We are on a restored train from 1889, representing the
And that we regret that there was not a disclosure. I happened to call them on it that one day. Your viewers never knew this but on their website it is mentioned. I asked about it one day and it was suddenly outed, but how frequently does that happen . Does the public know . Host if you go to cspan. Org, you can find event eric is talking about, the passenger preclearance was the topic. What has been the reaction from think tanks . You feature several of them in your story, but what is the reaction, and have they changed policy . Guest even as we were working on the story, and it took us quite a long time, the think tanks were changing their policies. We did a survey late last year of like 25 think tanks and ask them about their policies regarding projectbased and outside scholars and potential conflicts of interest. We asked them a series of questions that were pointed. It is clear we were headed with the story. Even as we were asking those questions, the think tanks were starting to
Involved House Speaker paul ryan. If you could read between the tea leaves, what was the tone or tenor of that conversation . Well, you know, i think that priebus and trump have developed sort of an unlikely partnership. And i think what priebus wanted to communicate to trump last week was that the Republican Party is really has sort of a sweeping panic now about the direction of the trump campaign, the trajectory of the polls is wrong. And what he told trump was the campaign was going in the wrong direction. They needed to turn it around. And what is going on inside the rnc at the moment is theyre trying to make a deliberation in the next couple of weeks before early voting begins how they want to spend limited resources in terms of both cash and field staff and Party Machinery as they get here into the fall. So there is a menu of option on the table. And this is something that the rnc is going to have to make a determination about in the next couple of weeks. We have all been dealing