World. I am proud to introduce Joseph Hoeffel to you all today. Joe is a former congressman, state legislator and county commissioner from an something to. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in english from boston university, a jurist doctorate degree from temple. Is the author of the iraq life, how the white house sold the war. In a suburban philadelphia, pennsylvania, community, joe was the first democrat elected in 60 years to the statehouse, the first democrat ever reelected to congress, and first democrat to chair the Montgomery County board of commissioners. And a final personal note, his wife, ray manchester, is one or most valued and talented volunteers. [applause] thank you so much. Well, hello, everybody. Im so happy all of you are here its a beautiful day. You couldve been doing other things and i really appreciate your choice to be here with us. And let me say how much i appreciate what Nancy Marshall and her great staff do here at the abington library. This this is a magni
Can actually provide ubiquitous access. Its a great mission. Host what are some of the companies you represent . Guest well, just this month i was able to spend time with alaska communications, flew down from there to western new mexico with western new mexico communications. Both focused on Rural Communities and extending next Generation Broadband Services to them. All the way up to companies that are national in scope and vision from at t and verizon and centurylink and consolidated, frontier, windstream. Its a consortium of companies that are very different, different Business Models but are bound together by a singular vision to get more broadband out to more americans and do so with smart policies. Host before we Start Talking about some of those policies, give us a sense of your background. Its a little bit eclectic, isnt it . Guest and ill take that as a compliment, thank you. I have been in the business of technology for a good part of my career, leading companies both in Silic
Provider. Many books including race matters and brother west living out loud. Robert george has written making men moral and conscience and its enemies. Robert george, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you . Must have met in the 1990s after brother cornell came and we were together in faculty, seminars under the auspices we didnt know each other very well. We would just say hello, we interacted a bit in the seminars. We began teaching together in 2007 and there is a whole story behind that. I dont know if you want me to go in that kind of detail but that is when our teaching and friendship began. Host how did the teaching profession again . A brother named andrew. A good student who studied with both of us. Called cream, my course, resin mucin, david hume, he was taking a course from me on civil liberty and he asked me who i would like to have dialogue with, who was a conservative, i would love to have a chance to engage in dialogue. We got together, we had a 45 minute di
Germany entering into world war i. More than 100,000 americans died in the conflict. The influx of u. S. Resources changed the tides of the global war bringing it to a close 18 months later on november 11th, 1918. To mark the 100th anniversary of what was then known as the great war, American History tv is live from the museum in kansas city, missouri. Well be here for the next two and a half hours. Well take you on a tour of some of the exhibits and involve you in conversations with top world war i historians. As we open our program were joined in the museum by the president and ceo of museum matthew naylor. You have a lot of resources to preserving the memory. Why is it important for people in 2017 to know this story . I dont think you can think of the last 100 years, particularly in the United States, without understanding the impact of world war i. Thats true of countries right across the globe. Im an australian. Im an american as well. For australia its the defining moment rather
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian