A banking holiday and major u. S. Markets are closed with the topic of race front and center on the day honoring the life of the nations most celebrated civil rights leader. It necessary to declare i am not a racist. In one hour he is getting on air force one. He will return to dc from palm beach. Folks, we have way more pressing Economic Issues here. A Government Shutdown that will go into effect on friday if they cannot find Common Ground with the president. The latest lies from the white house in our Political Panel on the only way i shut down and just four days can be avoided. Want to buy a car the u. S. Dollar that you might use is getting crushed in the currency markets. Automakers without going full speed ahead. They are announcing 11 billiondollar investment. Jeff flock is life with the ceo of d at Fiat Chrysler. Plus, the latest on the california mud slides. A huge stretch of i101 is closed. Season four of a strange inheritance. We have a lot going on right now and of course w
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, lets 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 foreign cultur
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, lets 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 foreign cultur
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 cspan, welcome as well. And i know youll enjoy our authors talks and well have questions well 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 sitins. We didnt have the violence of other southern cities. And unfortunately, weve chosen to craft that narrative and forget some of the painful parts of our story. And today, were 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 vanderbilt and the boo
Community of readers. So thats who were really trying to gather around over the course of the weekend. Not only professional writers, but folks who write for their own just enjoyment and creative purposes. And anyone who loves to read anything. Any connection with the local universities here, absolutely. Weve got a longgoing collaboration with the [inaudible] at vanderbilt university. They help us program a special [inaudible] all the kings men. Absolutely. Thats right. This year among a couple of special tracks that we have going on, we have one that is, you mentioned all the kings men, the Pulitzer Prizes are are celebrating their 100th anniversary, and as part of commemorating the centennial, the robert m. Warren center at vanderbilt [inaudible] some of which actually talk about robert warrens influence as a poet and as a novelist. So really its important artists who won pulitzers in two categories rarely. So, but the Warren Center at vanderbilt, very special partners of the festiva