Im the director of the program here at the center for the new American Security. A washington, d. C. Based nonpartisan and bipartisan think tank committed to crafting policies to help u. S. Decisionmakers. We have a most profound challenge confronting the United States in thy great power as an increasingly assertive and powerful china. Todays special event would be documentarian peter navarro, it is entitled crouching tiger what it means for the world and we are delighted to have not only am here today but also to distinguish fellows. We will hear from each of them after the main presentation. First let me say a few words to be framed the debate in the context of todays event. This is december 7 as a reminder of both strategic surprise and how the rising power might seek an expansion of its control throughout asia even at the expense of the power war. The concern today is that the reemerged naturalistic and increasingly revisionist china was bent on establishing the influence and under
And it really is. American history tv is featuring cspans original series at 8 00 eastern on sunday nights throughout the rest of the year. Cspan produced the series in cooperation with the White House Historical association through conversations with experts and questions from cspans audience, we tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now we look at two administrations led by widowed president s and the women who serve as first ladies. We begin with Rachel Jackson and Emily Donelson. This is about 90 minutes. Rachel was not a fan of anything that took Andrew Jackson away from the hermitage. Her preferences apparently didnt strongly influence him but rachel was always the thing that he would come back to. She ran the plantation or the farm and kept everything in order. Everybody loved her who worked there or was enslaved there. She might not have been like Abigail Adams but she could write a nice letter and she had nice jewelry. She was not as frumpy as she was reputed to be. Th
The community here in hampton roads. Host we have 30 seconds left but were at a stateowned port here. Stateowned versus privately owned in this country, major ports. Whats the difference . How many are we talking about . Guest all of our members are public port agencies. Many are state, some are local like city, counties, harbor districts, et cetera. And they handle most of the public type groups like containers, et cetera. Many of the ports facilities that handle things like oil, petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, et cetera, are private facilities and they handle a lot of those types of bulk commodities. So theres probably roughly an equal amount of public and private terminals. Host kurt nagle, the president of the port authorities, we thank you for talking to our viewers and welcome us to the port of virginia. We appreciate it. Est happy to be here. President obamas News Conference from earlier old i from earlier. A look at first ladys Rachel Jackson, willie donelson, and an