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The south during the u. S. Civil war, that the winners would want cuba because there had been a lust for taking cuba for decades previously. This had been this effort to make cuba a state of the United States of america. So thats one idea thats sirlating in the circulates in the minds of the rulers in cuba. Another idea thats circulating is they should be in solidarity with their comrades who are slave owners in the south in order to defeat the north. But then again, as i said if the south had w...

The program hosted by New York University in new york city is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] good evening. I am delighted to be here. Moderation is not really my strong suit. [laughter] im very glad to be here tonight as the moderator and the book launch of feminism unfinished a short, surprising history of american Womens Movements. I will introduce the authors and a little while so let me first tell you what the format will be and then i will introduce our three speakers. We will hav...

New terms for each other. He is unfortunately not here, but he would welcome you all as well, as does our staff. Before we get started, a couple of housekeeping items come in the way that this will work as dinner guests will be in conversation for a good portion of our time and there are microphones available right here and if you have a question please try to make it to the microphone as we record these events and put them up on our youtube channel, it helps viewers were watching on cspan. At t...

Landed. Roger, tranquility. We copy on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We are breathing again. Thanks a lot. We are getting a picture on the tv. There is a great deal of contrast in it, and currently, it is upside down on our monitor, but we can make out a fair amount of detail. Ok. We can see you coming down the ladder now. Sunday, july 20, 1969, around the world, nearly a billion people watched this moment on television as the first man from earth repaired to set foot o...

I had four years off and return to Management Consulting and that was two years after my four years off of having two children. I earned the highest amount of money over the man and im now doing postgraduate studies after being a venture capitalist and im 43. Thats a good textbook case. Thank you for sharing that. The Womens Movement is at least 100 years old now and if you go back to suffragettes and its like the Civil Rights Movement for africanamericans which is even older, 150 years or so. D...

Americas 200plusyear history it is required a set of eyes a fresh set of eyes visiting from distant lands to help us see ourselves more accurately. The best example probably is in the 1830s when a french nobleman iowa hex sis de tocqueville, came here originally to investigate americas prison system. His mandate or his investigative purview expanded as he got here. He became fascinated with whatthat had made this what that had made this nation so dynamic under the u. S. Constitution, and he ulti...

French revolutions. This is about one hour. Okay. Im tim marshall the provost for the new school and im delighted to welcome everyone here for this wonderful event to launch laura auricchios new book which is right here. [applause] the Marquis Lafayette reconsidered which came out this month published by knox publishers. This is a research over the course of seven years at a major part of it the tilted personal life from the inside of the passion french hero become of the American Revolution of ...

July 27th, the journey was ended. They were home again. [ applause ] ahead lay three weeks of isolation, medical tests and mission debriefings. Then visits to major cities of america and abroad. The details of their unique mission would be relived and reremembered so others might learn what they had learned and that future travellers in space might build upon their experience. The rock and soil samples brought back would be examined and analyzed by scientists in many lands. They would reveal new...

Welcomed sight. Later the three men would share their reflections on this adventure with the world. I believe that from the early space flight we demonstrated potential to carry out this type of a mission and, again, it was a matter of time before this was accomplished. Its a technical triumph for this country to said what it was going to do a number of years ago and then by golly do it. The relative ease which we were able to carry out our mission which, of course, came after a very efficient a...

On drugs people rarely change their mind to say that is wrong but that criminalization of marijuana is probably next then gayrights it is not that i feel oppressed ive lived in l. A. [laughter] but you hear how they dont have morals. At all conversations coming up next on booktv after words, White House Correspondent april ryan recounts her 25 year career in journalism at the president ial administration shes covered. Shes interviewed by anne compton former White House Correspondent for abc news...