available at your favorite bookseller and also as an e-book. here on c-span, we are live in madison, wisconsin where paul ryan is set to speak to a group of college republicans. the los angeles times reports that the speaker may no longer be willing to stump for donald trump but remains eager to make the case for an unnamed clintonan to be hillary beat hillary clinton. beneath allll say ae ugliness remains some of theat statements you will hear from paul ryan today at this event with college republicans in madison, wisconsin. the speaker announced that kevin cramer will do this week s gop media address, the congressman from north dakota. that wasro trump critical of ryan s approach to trump this week. kevin cramer releasing a statement saying my constituents tell me their greatest frustration is the overreach of the federal government. is as why the better way solution based agenda that can help get the government out of the way. whatbetter way platform is speaker ryan a
dangerously. one thing i don t like about the clintons is when they get in trouble, they try and blame ineone else so when bill got trouble with monica, the white house aides said, well, thomas jefferson [laughter] sunday night at 8:00 eastern. this weekend, c-span s cities tour will explore the literary history of peoria, illinois. selling the 16th president talks about modern marketing and selling of abraham lincoln. he is portrayed in your area hero, someone who stood his ground against the spread of slavery. know onr: taylor penta explores organized crime in illinois during the 1920 s-19 40 s through the legendary gangster family. to a war in illinois between the clans and bootleggers. the bootleggers a bootlegging army. announcer: on american history tv, p aurea historians talk about its history as the whiskey capital of the world. it was primarily because of the quality of the water. filtered ins essence through limestone and that was perfect for distilling
robert e. lee. moves left and south. couple ofbeen for a days, they fought for a stalemate, now they go left and south. what do you think that puts in his mind? then at 8:00 on lectures in history, a duke university professor talks about america s cold war immigration policy toward refugees. find refugees politically as anti-communists, who are our allies, what type of prototypical american would fight oppression abroad? we have an obligation to let them in because they are anti-communist. sunday afternoon at 4:30, bob baum and nancy kessel talk about their years in congress. nancy: we were in the senate 18 years together, bob was leader for six of those years. bob: 410. nancy: no, while i was bob: sorry, i thought it was leader even after i left. [laughter] y: but you made sure, as you pointed out, that you were working together, and i think that is what we need again. and a 6:30, the 1984 presidential debate between president ronald reagan and former vice president walt
the cables do with leaders many of whom in place and an opportunity for someone who had been a diplomat and had lived the experience in serving in some of the countries in which the cables were written to comment on them and try to make sense and meaning of them for the public at large. now, how long was your career in the foreign service and why did you want to become a foreign service officer, let s start with? i was hired in 1989 by the agency and i comb from the diplomacy line of work. the agencies was embolded and evolved into what ultimately cape the deputy chief of mission, the u.s. embassy in prague which was my last assignment. but why did you want to be a foreign service officer? the students today that wanting to into the foreign service, they want to go abroad and make a difference. what motivated you? the same things that, i think, motivated my colleagues. a desire to service my country and also a desire to learn about the rest of the world, to experience
about integration of two different various stories of the integration process in nashville. its triumph and its failures and to all of you at home watching us on c-span, welcome as well. and i know you ll enjoy our author s talks and we ll have questions we ll save until end of the presentations. both of these deal with integration and education. and we in nashville take a lot of of pride in our history and we see ourselves as a moderate progressive southern city and we also like to present the story of integration as almost a triumphant story with the success of the sit-ins. we didn t have the violence of other southern cities. and unfortunately, we ve chosen to craft that narrative and forget some of the painful parts of our story. and today, we re going to hear some of the painful parts as well as some of the successes. our presenters today are andrew maraniss who lives in nashville now and went to vanderbilt. he has written a book about the integration of athletics at van