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Coverage go to the book tab on our website, booktv. Org. Good afternoon and welcome to the session on trailblazing women. This is going to be an exciting channel and im glad youre here. This is the seventh annual book festival, thank you cspan for covering it and thank you to all you all rated the cold rain and whether even though we are in june. Im cheryl kagan andis my honor to be the senator for pittsburgh and ross well in the maryland state senate. On social media today if you are following ...

Showers on cape cod, but metro boston, dry day. Much cooler than yesterday. Upper 30s this morning. Mid40s this afternoon with a chilly northeasterly wind making it feel like the upper 30s. 30s. Jadiann thank you so much, j. R. Lets get over the Danielle Gersh with your morning traffic. Jeremy good morning, jadiann. Danielle looking good out there so far. Zakim bridge, leverett connector, wide open. No delays yet. Go to the maps. Route 93 looking good. So is route 1. Go to the maps. The pike als...

Contributions to and influence over her famed family dynasty. This program is about an hour. Host Barbara Perry its good to be here with you talking about the kennedys. But that is having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have the particular resonance for us but i wanted to start right off in ask you, youre a Supreme Court president ial scholar. How did you get interested in rose . Guest ive been interested in the Kennedy Family since i was a little tyke read when i was four years old my mo...

Here what the white house is saying. The president applaud leader reid and lead aer mcconnell and encourages congress to act swiftly. We are not putting odds on anything. Were simply applauding the leaders of senate for reaching the agreement that theyve reached. Luke russert is on capitol hill and Kristen Welker is outside the white house. I want to get right to you looking at last nights memo that set the stage for everything happening today. What you can see there is a note from the leader, b...

Im not going to give away all of this stuff, but the most consequential question is what happens with vietnam and civil rights. And what about the 22nd approach is . They can be a huge debate. The conservatives will tell you that he ran as a hawk and he often said that we are not going to leave vietnam than we would have the same advisers as Lyndon Johnson. The army couldnt get the troops there kennedy was on the phony, are the troops . Theyre on the way. So you have that. And in an effort to ki...

Struggled too in a second term. This is all sheer speculation but kennedy of course comes down to us now as its an open book. You can write anything onto it you want because he was killed at the age of six, only 1000 days in the white house. He had a sense of the ironic. He would have seen the irony in the fact that his early death gave him this enduring hold on the public and it is fascinating to me because when kennedy was assassinated a popular president elected to a second term, 50 years aft...

Rev enough agents checking expense accounts. Want government to go back to he tell bills to fine out who was with you . These are real quotes. Now, if the kens were prepared to do this to stop a steel price hike, what they do to keep the presidency in their hands . Some of you know i worked for Robert Kennedy. No public figure i admired more. But this this dark side. They get away with it but people know that something is up. One of those underground things that know. Its all kind of underground...

Susan john, your latest biography is ted kennedy a life. Please sum up the man and politician in a couple of seconds. John he was a u. S. Senator who succeeded despite serious flaws and a life, a tormented life filled with tragedy. That is how i would describe him. Susan you write in the book that his life is a lens to examine the cause. Explain. John jfk came into the office as something of a centrist. His father had worked on fdrs new deal so they had roof they had roots in the left but the mo...

To kick off todays book festival, we have Kay Bailey Hutchison kicking off her book, turn to. Live coverage on cspan2 of booktv. Designed to support childhood literacy and increase company volunteerism. Through the program, more than 1 million books have been bred and donated to prekindergarten through seventh grade classroom libraries across the country. The search has shown that these years provide a crucial window of opportunity to establish a foundation for future success. Were teaching them...

About cover. They want to feel better about the countries future. And i think thats what Kennedy Still gives people. You know, they compare him to other subsequent president s. Johnson with vietnam. Nixon with watergate. Force truncated presidency. Jimmy carters one term. The first bush one term. The second bush leaves under a cloud. So they look to two president s to give them better hope in feeling about the government. First off, kennedy, reagan in this poll which kennedy had 85 approval, rea...