george richard masco mass masco. they are former mayors and they all have central stations named after them. for once let's celebrate the heroes of the community, the women of color the, trailblazers. rose was the first journalist hired at the san francisco chronicle who did not cover fashion. she was the first asian-american journalist woman at the chronicle. she went to columbia school of journalism and always fought for her community. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. in the past five hours. >> your name. >> carry horn. >> you have in the past five hours you have seen how controversial it is to name the central subway station after rose pak. it is dividing the community and is not good for peace and unit of our community. how can you do a naming of a public institution to cost your committee division? we have support from 90% of the chinese community in chinatown and san francisco who is outside of chinatown. we have 16,000 against the naming after rose pak. the number will grow bigger. peaceful for the pe

this is george as richard iii, george as atilla the hun, to give readers someone to root against, someone to hate. given that goal, it should not surprise us to find that jefferson's list of grievances is full of hyperbole. he exaggerates. he guilds the lily. he tells readers that there were swarms of tax collectors in the colonies when there were really just 50. he tells readers that tax collectors pose the same sort of threat as occupying soldiers, and that's hardly true. he blames american slavery and the slave trade on king george, a man who came to the throne 16 years earlier, not 160 years earlier. what i'm saying is simple, and i hope uncontroversial. what i'm saying is don't look to these list of grievances for just the facts. this is not journalism. this is not the list's job. the list's job is to be, to fire up readers, to give a story in john adam's words shall make their ears to tingle. as a catalog of prosecutable crimes it's actually surprisingly vague. there's lots of emotion but not much detail. notice that jefferson includes no places, no dates in this list of injuries an

richard george of greenpeace.ind more detailed analysis on the amazon wildfires you can go to the bbc news website at bbc.co.uk/news. thames valley police force will hold a one minute silence at ii:00am this morning to remember pc andrew harper. the 28—year—old was killed in the line of duty last week after responding to reports of a burglary in berkshire. a 20—year—old man has appeared in court charged with his murder. let's to go wallingford, the hometown of pc harper. 0ur reporter louisa currie is there for us. guide us through what will be happening this morning, louisa. quite understandably, there has been a huge outpouring of sympathy and support for pc harbour‘s family in the wake of his death. not least, of course, here in his hometown of wallingford. it all started here at a small business just outside the town centre. the owner, a friend of pc help wanted to find a way to express his condolences. he put a piece of blue ribbon up on his side to the main entrance to the main gate. as he said, a thin blue l

tonight, george packer talks about the life and career of richard holbrook. saxton, recalls the life of george washington's mother. talks aboutitt linda taylor, a criminal whose exploits launched the idea of the welfare queen in the united states. you can watch that starting at 8:30 eastern on c-span2. also this month, we are showcasing american history tv as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span3. tonight, we examined congressional history. the 116th congress started its two-year term in january. nancy pelosi was among the speakers. on joanne story freeman and her book. you can watch tonight beginning on c-span3. and enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span3. announcer: tonight, on the communicators. pres. trump: people come up to me and say sir, i can't follow you. they make it impossible. these are people that are really good at what they do. they say they make it absolutely impossible. announcer: we will talk about the recent social media summit where preston trump discussed -- techdent trump discussed firms and what

this is george as nero, george as richard the third. this is george as attila the hon. it is rhetorical -- a rhetorical decision jefferson has made to give readers something to root against and hate. given that goal, it should not surprise us to find that grievances list of is full of hyperbole. gilds theates, he lily. he tells readers there are swarms of tax collectors in the colonies when there were really just 50. he tells readers that tax collectors pose the same sort of threat as occupying soldiers, which is hardly true. slavery anderican the slave trade on king george, a man who came to the throne 16 years earlier, not 160 years earlier. what i am saying is simple and i hope uncontroversial. what i am saying is don't look to this list of grievances for just the facts and objectivity. this is not journalism. this is not the lists's job. its job is to be polemical. it is to fire up readers and give them a story that in john theirs words shall make to tingle. ears prosecutableof crimes, it is surprisingly vague. there is a motion but not much detail. notice that jeff

mp richard george, thank you. just briefly, we mentioned we do have the met office weather warning. —yellow warning is in the next 2a to 48 hours, warning is in the next 24 to 48 hours, which adds a sense of urgency for the work carried out to shore up the dam and pump the water out. thanks very much for the update. the home secretary, priti patel, has said she wants criminals to "feel terror" at the thought of committing an offence. in herfirst interview since being appointed last month, she said her mission was to restore public confidence in policing. ms patel also distanced herself from her past comments supporting the death penalty. 0ur political correspondent mark lobel says the prime minister and the new home secretary are keen to shore up the conservatives' traditional image of being the party of law and order. borisjohnson has pledged to bring back 20,000 police officers cut since 2010, they are hoping to bring back over the next three years, with over £1 billion of spending, with recruitment starting in september for england and wales. and priti patel wanting to change the i

acceptable to the vast majority of the party, establishment moderates, ended up losing to george mcgovern. richardeelected in a landslide. this searing lesson from that apparently was we can't go that route again. what do you think of that? >> i think a lot of people do think of 1972 and they are worried and let's face it there's already a brash, unpredictable, antiestablishment, antiwar candidate in the race and that is president trump. he's been talking for years about some of the things that howard dean for example who really made the anti-iraq war platform a big part of his campaign. eight do think democrats are thinking about it and especially with open borders, these things don't poll well. when you ask voters about medicare for all, they think it sounds like a not bad idea and then if you ask what you think about an idea they would get rid of private health insurance, very few people like that idea. >> neil: biden is not quite in that camp some may be that it's to your point that a more moderate figure win. it's still early but you can see the dilemma they are having dealing with that. than

this is george is richard the third, attila the hun, a rhetorical decision jefferson has made to give the readers someone to hate and root against . given that goal it should not surprise us to find that his list of grievances is full of hyperbole. he exaggerates. he tells readers that they are swarmed right tax collectors when there were really just 50. he tells readers that tax collectors pose the same threat as occupying soldiers and that's hardly true. he blames slavery and the slave trade on king george, a man who came to the throne 16 years earlier, not 160. what i'm saying is simple and i hope uncontroversial. don't look to this list of grievances for object to the. this is not journalism. this is not the job of the listed. it's job is to fire up readers and give them a story that in the words of john adams shall make their ears tingle. there's a catalog of prosecutable crimes that is surprisingly vague. not lots of emotion but no detail. no places, no dates in this list of injuries and names no other names except the king. as a result if you do not know your revolutionary hist

george w. bush administration, richard amitabh would've got out there and put his arm around shoulders literally and tried to bring them together and i think he may have had some success. south koreans i talk to they seem to want the united states to play this role and is it any danger here that not doing so will disappoint them too much, or is it best that we just try to let them work it out themselves? >> it's a a good question but,f course, this is not just about how we're treating japan and korea. this is sort of the attitude that allies should be doing more, that again, there's an attempt to based on essentially the constituency that elected the president that the need some adjustment to alastair need to pay more. we don't want to play the world's policeman or at least what applicable more commensurate or we are with the of power. our allies have developed their prosperous economies. working with the third-largest economy in japan, the 13th in korea and they can afford to do more especially about a changing environment that has been recognized in the region. but yes, the course i agree with

george w. bush father, bill clinton relied on richard nixon. have you reached out to former presidents, and if so, who and why? pres. trump: not too much. i speak with george bush. i spoke a little bit to the father, but really not too much. it is hard when people are against you. i very much disagreed with the war in iraq, so it is hard to say that all of a sudden i can forget that. i am in a situation where we are in the middle east, we have defeated, as you know, the caliphate in syria. i did that because i wanted to do that, and we did it. 100% of the caliphate. when i was at 99%, people said , oh, you can't pull out. you can't pull out. when i took it over, it was a mess. anyway, i defeated 100% of the caliphate. that is not mean isis does not run around bombing us, because they are stone cold crazy, but i disagreed very strongly with having gone into the middle east. we are in there now with more than trillions of dollars, millions of lives, and you have to count both sides. i actually count both sides. millions of lives. they went into a

. >> up next, george packer talks about his biography about the life and career of american diplomat richard holbrook. later a look at the life of george washington's mother mary with martha's sexton's book the way to washington. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the council on foreign relations it is a pleasure to have george packer here for the somewhat awaited

george w. bush administration. richarde written about, in the past, and said something that always stands out to me in that the nra might be best described not as a membership organization for people who rightfully enjoy guns but a protection racket for people who are already in office, chiefly republicans. >> absolutely right. that's what i said in my 2012 "new york times" editorial. the nra protection racket. they make it clear that they will support you for public office as a candidate if you toe the line. but if you depart from the nra script on any issue, they will support a primary challenge. they will come after you hard. >> even a little, if you depart a little bit, right? you still fundamentally, the second amendment is in the constitution but the idea you might want enhanced background checks like #90% of americans plus do that is a departure from the nra script which will cost you your support from the nra. >> well of course and what they say about the second amendment has nothing to do with the second amendment

this is reminiscent if george frampton's leap of faith, and the prosecutorial memo on richard nixon. all the grand jury would have to do is to assume one little fact, that nixon had ordered the payoff be made to that and then they could have found him guilty of participating in the cover-up. this is the exact same thing. we don't have enough evidence to indict him, but if he were to lie in front of the grand jury, we could indict him for perjury, no kidding. if you were to lie in front of a grand jury, about the weather outside, we could indict you for perjury, this is a nonsensical statement, typical of 1972 graduate of harvard law school, because i graduated in 1969 in the law school went down. from there. okay. 18 pages. and then, he starts describing how hard they tried. they started interviewing the demonstrators, then the counterdemonstrators, then the dc police, and the people at the republican national committee. then people on the white house staff, trying to get to colson. search for colson. they concocted an hypothesis, i'm going to read it, this is their hypothesis, well,

george packer talks about the life and career of diplomat richard holbrook. rtha saxton, history and women's study professor at amherst college recalls a life of george washington's mother. josh leven, national editor at slate, talks about linda taylor, a criminal whose exploits launched the idea of the welfare queen in the united states. you can watch that tonight starting at 8:30 eastern on cspan 2. also this month, we are showcasing american history tv in prime time as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span3. tonight, we examine congressional history. the u.s. capitol historic society hosted an event celebrating the 116th congress which started its two-year term in january. house speaker nancy pelosi was among the speakers. the program featured remarks by historian joanne freeman on her book "the field of blood: violence in congress on the road to civil war." you can watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span3 and enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span3. announcer: tonight on the communicators, -- >> people co

particularly interested in broadway in comedy and written biographies of composer richard rogers and playwright george s kaufman, in addition to several other books. his most recent biographical work is the documentary film fsma davis junior, i gotta be me. so, larry what has money to biography . >> hi. i may be a little different from the rest of the panel, my venue is really entertainment. so, obviously, in entertainment you are dealing with the public persona of performers, what they sang, danced, acted, and of course what happens offstage or behind the curtains is equally fascinating as you try to make sense out of what a performer did public we do with what were his or her motivations, the context of the time, what trends and tastes changed in my case american entertainment , to make them in favor are out-of-favor so i've already been interested in that on stage and off stage dialectic and hopefully when we talk more about sammy davis junior that's particularly persuasive. >> john winkler is a professor of the history department at the university of missouri columbia. he is interested in religiou

george w. bush, talks about the post-white house years of president richard nixon. then a woman who contracted polio as a baby talks about growing up with a disability and becoming a disability rights activist. we talk to warren farrell, chair of the commission to create a white house council on boys and men, about his latest book, "the boy crisis." and former public radio host veronica rick earth offers her thoughts on how women can reclaim their voice. check your cable guide or visit booktv.org for a complete schedule of all the programs airing this weekend. >> booktv recently went to capitol hill to ask representative john garamendi of california what was on his reading list. >> a lot of things. first of all, there's a lot of papers i have to read, various reports. some classified, others, ongoing work asha

book tv features several biographies starting with george packer's book about the life and career of american the black, richard holbrook. the followed by martha sexton biography of george washington's mother. later josh levine tells the story of linda taylor, a criminal whose ex-wife made the term wealthy queen common in the united states. >> house will be in order. >> for 40 years c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court in public policy events from washington dc and around the country. make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979 c-span is brought to you by your local or cable i satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> there is no doubt in my mind that i should have many -- millions of people, so many people i would not believe it but i know that we've been blocked. people come up to me and say sir, i can't follow you. they make it impossible. these are people really good at what they do and they say they make it absolutely impossible and i have watched and watched some of the scenes that have been taped and got through

i've been discussing the possible environment impact of the wildfires in brazil's amazon with richard georgeforests at greenpeace. what's really alarming is that this isn't an accident. it said deliberate result of the president's policies. he's been encouraging farmers to go and clear the amazon to grow crops like soya and cattle. he's saying that there is insufficient help for brazil to counter this problem, leaving the politics of this aside for a moment. do you accept that that is at least part of the story? i think the fires at the scale they are at now it's almost impossible to put out so we have a real global crisis on our hands. president macron last night was tweeting that the g7 should be discussing this but bolsonaro immediately rejected those advances. something has to be done. we cannot allow the amazon to go up in flames. when you look at the political approach, particularly president macron's, the response to that has been don't talk about my country if i'm not part of the discussions. would that engagement have been a better way? until very recently there was extensive engage

george packer talks about the life and career of diplomat richard holbrooke. men's professor recalls the life of george washington's mother. slatetional editor at talks about linda taylor, a criminal whose exploits launched the idea of the welfare queen in the united states. you can watch that tonight starting at 8:30 eastern on c-span 2. also this month we are showcasing american history tv in primetime as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span 3. tonight we examine congressional history. the u.s. historical society hosted an event of abrading the 116th congress which started its two-year term in january. nancy pelosi was among the speakers. the program also featured remarks by a historian on her book, violence in congress and the road to civil war. you can watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span 3, and enjoy american history tv this week and every weekend on c-span 3. announcer: tonight on the communicators -- >> people come up to me and they say, sir, i cannot get you, i cannot follow you. they make it impossible. these are people t

. >> up next, george packer talks about his biography about the life and career of american diplomat richard holbrook. later a look at the life of george washington's mother mary with martha's sexton's book the way to washington. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the council on foreign relations it is a pleasure to have george packer here for the somewhat awaited launch of the foreign affairs and i'm sure most of you know george's byline very wellin the atlantic now and new yorker before that for a decade or two. >> fifteen years. >> you probably know his most recent book the assassins is the most important chronicle of the early years of the iraq war, the unwinding which won the national book award in 2014 -- >> 2030. >> and now his new book, "our man" we were thrilled to have an expert in foreign affairs in this issue and focusing on two pieces of the book of enoch and afghanistan which we will talk about in the course of this conversation but i recommend the piece heartily not as a substitute for the book but as a teaser. i'm confident if you read the 8000 words in foreign affairs wil

george w. bush administration special advisor for cybersecurity, richard clarke discusses the growing role that cyberspace place and were in national secured. he is interviewed by dustin boltz, cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for the wall street journal. "after words" is a weekly interview program with the relevant guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. >> let's dive right in. this is not your first book on cybersecurity action were 110 years ago. why follow that up with this book no an now. >> they give for reading the book you might find some your great reporting referenced in the book, all appropriately footnoted. ten years ago i wrote a book called cyber war and we said things then that militaries were going to become d

he has written biographies of richard rodgers and george s. kauffman in addition to several other books. his most recent by bigraphical work. what has drawn you to biography? >> i may be different from the rest of the panel. my venue is really entertainment. so obviously in entertainment, you're dealing with the public persona of performers, what they sang, what they danced, what they acted. and then of course what happens off stage or behind the curtain is equally fascinating as you try to make fascinating as you try to make some sense out of what a performer did publicly as to what was his or her motivations, context of time, what trends and tastes changed. in my case, particularly american entertainment, to make them in favor or out of favor. so i guess i've always been interested in that dialect between on stage and off stage and, hopefully, when we talk a little bit more about sammy davis jr. that's particularly persuasive. >> okay, thank you. >> john weger is at the university of columbia, history, particularly methodism. he was also on

george packer talks about the life and career of diplomat richard holbrooke. rtha saxton, history and women's studies professor at amherst college recalls the life of george washington's mother. mary ball washington. and josh levin, national editor at slate talks about linda taylor, a criminal whose exploits launched the idea of the welfare queen in the united states. that's all tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> in 1979, a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. let viewers make up their own minds. c-span opened the doors to washington policy making for all to see. bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. a lot has changed in 40 years, but today that big idea is more relevant than ever. on television and online, c-span is your unfiltered view of government. so you can make up your own mind. brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. >>> 50 years ago, there were almost 500,000 u.s. military personnel in south vietnam. on may 14th, 1969, a few months after his inauguration, president nixon

george w. bush administration, richard armitage would have gone out there and put his arm around, shoulders literallyand try to ring them together and i think he may have had some success . they seem to want the united states to play this role and are they, is there any danger here not doing so will disappoint them too much or is it that we just try to let them work it outthemselves . >> mark, it's a good question but of course this is not just about how we're treating japan and korea. sort of the attitude that allies should be doing more, again, there's an attempt here based on essentially the constituency, the elected president that there needs to be some adjustment to allies. we don't want to be the world's policeman as the saying goes or at least we want to play a role as more commensurate with where we are with current distribution of power. our allies have developed a prosperous economy dealing with the third largest economy in japan, 13 in korea and they can afford to do more, especially about a changing environment that has recognized in the region. but yes, of course i agree with you. yes, t

george mcgovern. not so much ed muskie, a party stalwart in polls showed a pretty competitive race against president richard. we later learned george mcgovern, popular with progressives in his party, went down to defeat in historical terms unprecedented prior to that. i think they wrestle with that ever since. who you lover sus who you think will ultimately will win. right now they still hold joe biden in the latter, someone who can win. >> i think you're right, neil. it was a striking moment at one of the last debates when elizabeth warren complaining about candidates were running to say what things we couldn't done. there were people like john delaney talking how outrageous, how unworkable her proposals were, especially "medicare for all." she was complaining about, they didn't seem to be passionate about something. i found criticisms of her very sensible. but in the primary it is a different audience. the progressive base has a lot more sway right now. honestly the debate performance is one reason joe biden isn't doing worse. if he made the gaffs he made yesterday in iowa, if he did that at a debate, i t

richard painter. former white house ethics lawyer under george w. bush.st, your reaction to the house judiciary committee's investigation. >> it's about time. they should have been investigating all of the illegal, unconstitutional emoluments that this president is receiving from foreign governments. he's been receiving them ever since he became president in january of 2017. he's been in violation of the constitution. now he is so brazen that he's going out and soliciting emoluments from other members of the g7. that after he walked out of the cl climate change discussions. he has no interest in those summits other than collecting benefits for his hotel. this investigation should have happened a long time ago. if they do not proceed with impeachment, he's just going to keep breaking the law. we just heard he's telling his out of bound ordina subordinates to break the law. he will give them pardon. that will should lead to his impeachment and put him in jail. it's just going to go on and on if he isn't shut down by the house of representatives. >> the pres

george packer talks about the life and career of diplomat richard holebin, and josh levin national editor at slate talks about linda taylor, a criminal whose ideas launched the idea of the welfare queen in united states. that's tonight at 8:30 eastern on c-span2. >>> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been provided america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington, d.c. and around the country. so, you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979. c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >>> this month marks 45 years since president richard nixon resigned from office. american history tv continues now with geoff shepard, a principal deputy to the president's lead defense lawyer. he taught a class at temple university titled "watergate revisited: an insider's view "". and he talked about having to tra transcribe the tapes. this is an hour and a half.

. >> richard: is a misconception, i believe, that impeachment would somehow embolden donald trump and help him. i would submit that georgeto the presidency in 2000 had he not run on restoring honor and integrity to the white house. al gore was inheriting the economy, and that's what he ran on. "whoever the democratic candidate is, if the house and peaches, that is something they're going to put up. >> harris: there's a big thought bubble above your head. [laughter] >> melissa: i think it's interesting you think it would not the president. he clearly thinks it would. >> richard: so he says. >> harris: nancy pelosi has said that. she has. >> melissa: you think it helped george w. bush, everybody thinks it helped bill clinton when he was impeached. it just seems like that same narrative when you hear from "the new york times," our readers wish that he hadn't been elected. >> elizabeth: this keeps like this feels like keeping hope alive for impeachment. you don't usually do it in an election year. the putts showing american say to move on. nothing this gentleman said in his statement is provable high crimes and misdemeanors.

see some humor and to feel some kindness and it guess on to say that deep in his heart, richard nixon knew that george h.w. bush or feels he saw not tough enough, not will to do the gut job that hit political instincts taught sometime a very astute letter by george h.w. bush. a very astute judge of character and not an unsympathetic one. the thing you raved is quite sympathetic to nixon but a it's an accurate portrayal of him. >> host: the bard ball nixon never quite went away. the threatened both bush and clinton as going public against them if they've did not follow his advice on russia. >> guest: oh, man. nixon was nixon. >> host: but you good on to say that bill clinton left him on hold for an hour or wouldn't take his calls when he first came into office, did not attend pat nixon's funeral. was there ever a resolve to that relationship? >> guest: yeah, yeah, yeah. clinton liked nixon, actually very apropos. initially clinton was kind of a snob to mixon actually. dismissive of him. bit the end of clinton's presidency he was -- nixon truced -- president clinton trusted nixons a advice, nixon was sm

george w. bush talks about the post- white house years of president richard nixon he contracted polio as a baby and talks about growing up with a disability and becoming a disability rights activist. we talked to warren farrell. to create a white house counsel on boys and men. .. .. >> president trump recently in el paso and dayton to memorialize the victims of this past weekend's mass shootings, we wanted to show some book programs from the booktv archives dealing with gun violence. first, dave cullen from an interview in 2009 on the school shooting that took place at columbine high school in 1999. >> host: dave cullen, who are eric and dylan? >> guest: eric and dylan were the two killers at columbine. and eric was a psychopath, and dylan was not. they were completely different can people. and, you know, as i spent ten years on this book, and the question i get asked the most often is why did they do it. and it took me about a year to figure out that's really the wrong question, at least in the wrong direction, because there's eric and why he did it, and there's dylan, and they're completely d

richard? >> very much involved in this process. i went to george washington, and to be honest with you, i don't even remember the murals, although i went in that entrance every day, i have other memories of going to high school there, but the principles let me give tours there for the last year and they are just really great, you know, they should be interpreted -- heritage did a lot of work in presenting alternatives and using them as a teaching tool, one proposal is to use technology, 3d animation to put glass over the murals, and there's a lot of alternatives. this is in the first time. we had this same controversy in the late sixties and early seventies, and the response was that -- there was a response mural painted in the hall next door which are in storage now because they are doing major renovations at george washington , but they promised they are not going to touch the murals. there's other artwork in the building there, there are some murals up in the library, and there's a freeze in the football field, so george washington is really for

see some t humor, and feel se kindness and he goes on to say that deep in his heart, richard nixon knew that george hw bush our fealty so not tough enough and not willing to do the got job that is political instincts have taught him. >> george w. bush was a a very astute judge of character and not an unsympathetic one. quite sympathetic to nixon.sy that's a pretty accurate portrayal of him. >> the hardball nixonon never quite went away. he turned both bush and clinton with going public against them if they did not follow his advice on russia. [laughter] >> nixon was nixon. >> what you going to say the bill clinton left them on hold for an hour. or wouldn't take his calls when he first came into office. he did not attend nixon's funeral. was there ever a result of that relationship. twomac yes clinton ended up liking him. initially, clinton was kind of a stop to nixon. by the end of his presidency, clinton was praising nixon's advice on the former soviet union. nixon trusted, excuse me, president clinton trusted it next his advice and he was smart about the populist forces going on in soviet union a

richard davis, i think of him as, like, the george packer of his day. [laughter] no, in a good way. [laughter] no, he was someone who he, he was a correspondent, he was a journalist, but he also wrote plays, he was, you know, he saw himself as, you know, a chronicler of the moment, not just a reporter. and someone who was fascinated by war at its heart, right? so that was -- so richard harding davis had grown up in pennsylvania in a literary family, went to college, decided that he wanted to be a journalist along the way. i mean, it's a very modern story. he worked for the college paper, decided he loved journalism and proved to be a really great journalist in a very modern way. he adopted a lot of reporting techniques that at the time were, today they're sort of, you know, the stock and trade of journalists, but at the time this idea that you would go and profile people, you would write a profile, that you would talk to different people about that person, that you would also tell things from different points of view within one article, he went -- covers the jonestown flood. that wa

george w. bush thoughts about the post white house years of president richard nixon area nadina lassini talks about becoming an disability rights activist, the chair of the commission to create a white house counsel on boys and men about his latest book the boy crisis and former public radio host veronica record offers her thoughts on how women can reclaim their voice. get your cable guide or a visit booktv.org for a completeschedule of all the programs airing this weekend . >> .. on behalf of townhall and pleased to welcome you to tonight appearance by author anthony began discussing this fascinating new book "shadowlands" this event is presented by townhall as part of our civics series, supported by the

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. >> richard, how is this different in just so people understand this and the distinction here. georgeers at crawford and different presidents hosted people at their homes. what makes this difference? >> george w. bush did not charge rent to foreign government at crawford. if donald trump wants to comp everybody and invite them in free of charge or whatever entertainments he provides, i guess it would not violate the emolument clause. they want to use the facility and have the foreign government pay for it. that's a direct violation of the e emolument clause. >> there is one thing that has a bipartisan impact in any campaign or with either party and that's when a candidate has distin a stink of trying to pass his or her own pocket. it could hurt a kancandidate no matter what party they are in. >> i am sure it will be one of the many things they focus on but i think that people -- i don't think it is a secret. this is who donald trump is. so much of what he does is constantly with an eye towards making money if he can figure out a way to profit off the presidency. his family can profit

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started voting for people like george wallace who was a democrat although he ran some point this a 3rd party and then essentially they began crossing over into voting for richard nixon or ronald reagan or down to that this is happening all across the south dividing up along racially polarized lines but you know that's true down. a good example of this racial shift between the parties took place in the north county north carolina there were once plantations with slaves here and in kinston there is a replica of a confederate gunship in the center of town at the visitor center we met up with mike parker the commander of the local chapter of the sons of confederate veterans all of us are descendants of confederate soldiers more manned in the civil war than died in all the other wars we've ever fall put down here it involved almost every same lee and this is one reason i think why in the south the civil war is such a big deal there are about 800 sons of confederate veterans chapters across the american south how big a battle was it here the lines went on for several miles too bloody civil war battles were fought in kinston are you concerned about the divisions in a

i think that is going to take the democrats back to 1972 and a wipe-out that george mcgovern suffered at the hands of richard't possibly win with the extreme policies she is pushing. >> sandra: democrats big ideas may reelect donald trump from medicare to the green new deal candidates work hard to repel swing voters. rove talks about biden's strong performance and solid frontrunner status. clear the party seismicly shifted away from the party of the 1990s making his path to the nomination far from certain. >> i think biden had a strong performance last night. i think the other candidates on the stage treated biden and kamala harris at the frontrunner. the first 20 minutes on healthcare was a pile- on on her more than joe biden. democrats need to take stock of how popular president obama is. there was a lot of running away from him from people who worked in the administration. >> bill: how do you fall out of favor so fast? how did that happen? what do you think? they are all democrats with the exception of sanders they are all democrats, aren't they? >> what i'm seeing here, too, the democratic party is havin

george wallace entering the race, the murder of martin luther king, the murder of robert kennedy and a huge writing at the democratic national convention in chicago. all of that led up to november 1968 when richard nixon was elected. and oney 500,000 votes of the closest elections ever. flinched the republican nomination, profiting mainly from the blunders of his rivals. michigan governor george romney was republican front-runner until attempted to change his position on the vietnam war he claimed he had been brainwashed by the pentagon. romney was already considered a lightweight. eugene mccarthy rose to the occasion. brainwashed? he said a light rinse would have been sufficient. it was during that 1968 race that the eve of the next and campaign pulled off a dirty trick that was worse than anything he did at work. -- i watergate. in october of that year, lyndon johnson announced that he had reached an agreement for peace talks. at the urging of the soviet union, the u.s. would suspend bombing in southeast asia. the russians said they would engage in productive talks. then there was a hitch, the south vietnamese refused to join the talks. johnson was curious. you can her this on the johnson tape

started voting for people like george wallace who was a democrat although he ran some point this is 3rd party and then the century they began crossing over into voting for richard nixon or ronald reagan or don't trump that this is happening all across the south dividing up along racially polarized lines but you know that's true down. a good example of this racial shift between the parties took place in the north county north carolina there were once plantations with slaves here and in kinston there is a replica of a confederate gunship in the center of town at the visitor center we met up with mike parker the commander of the local chapter of the sons of confederate veterans all of us are descendants of confederate soldiers more manned in the civil war than died in all the other wars we've ever fall put down here it involved almost every family and this is one reason i think why in the south the civil war is such a big deal there are about 800 sons of confederate veterans chapters across the american south how big a battle was it here the lines went on for several miles too bloody civil war battles were fought in kinston are you concerned about the divisions in

george crook now determined to flank the confederate position. by moving a division of about the plantation owned by judge richard parker.n was to cross the island fouriver at and flank the confederate position. however that flank attack never occurred. when musket fire erected between colonel george wells and elements of the 42nd of virginia. toal early hastened troops the cool spring plantation. while the events that transpired on the afternoon, evening and ninth of july 18. did not go as they had imagined. the battle of cool spring, the largest and bloodiest engagement it involved 1000 combined union and confederate casualties. it was regarded by some as a footnote to jubal early's operations in the summer of 1864. we occasionally hear folks come out and discount the battle. statistically large in terms of numbers of troops engaged or casualties suffered. while cool springs does not compare to such notable engagements as antietam and shiloh and gettysburg and chickamauga or petersburg. what happened at cool springs on july 18, 1864, including colonel joseph buber and being outnumbered by almost a margin stock eating o