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Hall seattle and we are set up in the cafc right over here and our special guest tonight is you know howard, theyve been set up in the library showing off really cool mask games and im so excited to welcome you to tonights very special math theme doubleheader with Eugenia Cheng and Amir Alexander. This event is presented by townhall as sort of our big homecoming festival. Im hoping many of you might be returning for the first time after a couple of years while weve been remodeling the space and ...

Normally do, and then it will be up to you to ask questions and whatever you want to talk about. We found out about the cspan coverage this morning but apparently you guys knew about it earlier in the week, because this is a team out of austin that has come here. Fantastic. Im tickled to death they could find santa anna on a map. And they have come to be with us this afternoon as part of that. It is taped. The idea, i think, is they will send a tape back to d. C. And it will be unfiltered, unedi...

Times and i want to get your perspective on after the 2 million a week gold cartel is making just moving people across to mcallen. You know this well. Real problem. Can you talk a little bit about that as one of the opening point in making a great what . Guest youre right congressmen. The work you are doing is so important to enlighten the American Public about the vise grip the cartels have at the border. The horrifying and appalling impact that has innocent people on both sides of the border a...

Host what is the thread that connects all these topics. Guest one of the great things as journalist you can do anything you want. Im not a scholar. I dont have a specialty. Having said that there is a connection. I fells i would say its america after world war ii. This country really coming into its own as this global power, this supreme power, really. That fascinated me, and what is it like to be a leader in this world thats your world, your time, your world. So that drew me initially to the wi...

My name is rebecca and im on the events team and tonight we are really excited to have [applause] [inaudible conversation] this is not his first thing he has given us to write. Casey has been writing for new yorkers and New York Times, for others for many years now. Many of you probably noticed because you are here but in all of her work she has been superhuman ability to make everybody else fascinating. Its a clear and this could not be more true for this book. In this one, casey marks to inter...

Reporter it is a fantastic friday morning with everyone indeed working for the weekend. The city by the bay looking sharp for late july and no fog to be found and we are warming up here in this historic popular Downtown Sunnyvale. It is alive and well, home to plenty of restaurants, momand pop shops and the Farmers Market. We packed up and back out here for another zip trip. I am alongside Gasia Mikaelian and mike mibach. The big city that has the small town feeling. Reporter decades ago sunnyva...

Them for sale following so please stay for the reception in the book signing. Ng book 1941 is a vivid account not only the conflict of the hour but the course of our lives even now. There were times bestselling author evan thomas observes the year 1941 mustve been the greatest and stupidest year of modern times. With eyepopping revelation to show us why character is destiny. Please join me to welcome our author. [applause] join me to welcome our author. [applause] thank you very much and to all ...

Caroline kennedy schlossberg, the daughter of jfk, presented the award. This is about 40 minutes. Abt 40. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ambassador caroline kennedy, honorary president of the john f. Kennedy Library Foundation. Fly me to the moon good evening. Im so glad its not sweet caroline. Thank you all for coming to celebrate with us. I know that every year, everyone here has some he things that the could be doing, so we really are honored and we take great pride in the fact that you...

Historian at harvard university, whos written an acclaimed book about John F Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy townsend, who is a politician in her own right, whose father Robert F Kennedy was the attorney general when the march on washington occurred. I want to start by switching rating this discussion in a in a bit, a personal way, because we have some personal connections among us. And i want to start in the summer of 1963, before the march and in june in particular, in june of 1963, kathleen, 11 ...

>> it has been said that the supreme court is like a family, a family composed entirely of in-laws. 42 years ago, i was assigned to help then judge oconnor join that family. it was my first day in a new job at the justice department, and i was proud to be part of her team. i thought our group did a pretty good job. after all, the justice was confirmed 99-0, and we must have had something to do with that. only many years later was i told that she thought i had been slow in getting mater...