They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co
That went on a little longer for him. I was about to say how special this night is that you all beat me to it. My name is steve i am executive director Jfk Library Foundation and on behalf of all colleagues in the foundation and from the library we are thrilled you can be here all forums are great but tonight is a treat because of the speakers in the beginning of the jfk centennial weekend we planned this months ago literally rethought who would be the best speaker and moderator we could get for this historic time we are thrilled they are both here. So before introduce them i have a few brief announcements but first our underwriters and sponsors bank of America Institute including bill and andrew lowell. Media sponsors and kicking off the centennial with information when you be over the next few days there are opportunities seeing a new exhibit with 100 items including 40 never seen publicly before opening tomorrow on a saturday doing a special peace corps day and on sunday and asked h
Would you minds i went out and came in again. I would lake to say how special this night is but you beat me to it. Im steve roth rothstein, and on behalf of all the colleagues, were really thrilled you can be here. All of our forums are great but tonight is really a treat because of the speakers who is here and also the beginning of the john f. Kennedy centennial weekend and we planned this months ago, and we really literally thought, who would be the best pair about speaker of and moderator we can get for this historic time and were thrilled there here. [applause] before i introduce them, a few brief announcements. First i want to thank our underwriters and sponsors. The lead sponsor, bank of america, the lowell institute, our Media Sponsors, the globe, xfinity, bur and the Media Sponsor for the centennial, wcbb tv. As i say, were kick off the centennial and there are information when you leave or maybe on your chairs about what we are doing over the next few days but, there are oppor
[inaudible conversations] i was about to say how special this night is but you all beat me to it which is great. Welcome, my name is steve, executive director of John F Kennedy Library Foundation and on behalf of all the colleagues in the library, we are thrilled you can be here. All of our forums are great but tonight is really a treat because the speakers who are here, its also the beginning of the John F Kennedy centennial weekend and we planned this months ago and we literally thought who would be the best pair above speaker and moderator we could get for this historic time and this is what weve gotten so we are thrill that had they are both here. [applause] before i introduce them, a few brief announcements. First i want to thank underwriters and responsors, the lead sponsor, bank of america, bill and andrea low that with here tonight and media responsor for centennial bbc t we are kicking off cep centennial and theres information and over the next few days opportunity of seeing n
[inaudible conversations] i was about to say how special this night is but you all beat me to it which is great. Welcome, my name is steve, executive director of John F Kennedy Library Foundation and on behalf of all the colleagues in the library, we are thrilled you can be here. All of our forums are great but tonight is really a treat because the speakers who are here, its also the beginning of the John F Kennedy centennial weekend and we planned this months ago and we literally thought who would be the best pair above speaker and moderator we could get for this historic time and this is what weve gotten so we are thrill that had they are both here. [applause] before i introduce them, a few brief announcements. First i want to thank underwriters and responsors, the lead sponsor, bank of america, bill and andrea low that with here tonight and media responsor for centennial bbc t we are kicking off cep centennial and theres information and over the next few days opportunity of seeing n