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literary scene and history of charlottesville, virginia, saturday at on anyone women visit the university of virginia to see their exhibit on williams. faulkner. >> we have a lot of wonderful artifacts from faulkner's time at uva, many from uva sources. among other thing wes have the type write he is issued be the university. we have a jacket he wore. it's pretty torn up and ratty. he liked to keep his clothes for a long time. he left this jacket hanging in his office when he went on his last trip to oxford, mississippi, when he passer away. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern, we travel to monticello. >> if you visited monticello 20 years ago you would have come up the mountain and just seen jefferson's beautiful villa. but what we wanted to do was
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change that. we wanted to restore the landscape from slavery because if you came up the mountaintop in jefferson's time the first thing you would have seen most likely would be enslaved people and no place on this mountaintop that slavery was not visible. we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. >> also visit the miller center the university of virginia to learn about their first year project which explosions challenged u.s. presidents face in their first year on the job. >> lyndon johnson said when he became president no matter how pig your majority you get one before they, the congress, stops thinking about you, the president, and starts thinking about themselves, their own re-election, and at about january of your second year, after you have done your first year, all the members of congress are thinking about their mid-term elections and they're really cautious about taking any risk to help you get
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your mandate and your agent -- agenda through. one thing that i loved about "the los angeles times" festival of book when i was showing up in the morning because i wanted to benighter line for stuff, is that we have all the panels with four authors who are novelists or who are writing about syria, who -- where these are people that don't get to see each other or have conversations frequently. so there's this moment of conversation where these people are saying something that they are just coming up with at that very instant and it's that kind of electric exchange of ideas
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that can only happen in the moment. >> watch our live coverage of the "los angeles times" festival of books all weekend, april 22nd and 23rd on booktv, on c-span2. >> nato secretary general wrapped up a two-day visit to washington, dc with a speech and a question and answer session with students at george washington university. some of the topic his discuss include the russian military buildup aggression toward ukraine and the global threats and what he called the blurred line between peace and war this. even was held the day after the nato secretary general met with president trump. it's about an hour. [inaudible conversations]
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