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At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council an...

In june of 1973 during testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself in the watergate coverup. He later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. Discovering the tapes system, was it lucky or inevitable, is what were looking at. The nixon taping the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. Its taken me years to gather and find out w...

Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight. And were going to try to do that in a very summaried fashion today. Before i start though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used a when they first went to talky movies and they had a sound track, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. I...

Versus arizona. Number 18, roe versus wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans landmark cases where weve been learning more about historic cases at the Supreme Court that have affected the court...

Mockingbird has influenced generations of college graduat graduates, aspiring to practice law like Atticus Finch to go to law school. Last year on the occasion of the books 50th anniversary we contacted harper lee who graciously authorized this award to honor an author whose work best exemplifies the positive role of warriors in society and their power to effect change. The prize is grounded in the character of a lawyer, lawyer, Atticus Finch, indispensable and courageous representation of tom r...

Election 2020 on aljazeera. Whats the reason for the arrest of democracy leaders in hong kong 15 activists face court as more concerns are raised about the city. Could this trigger more turmoil this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im burnitz the coronavirus pandemic has interrupted the antigovernment protests that gripped hong kong for much of last year but the tension that triggered the unrest hasnt gone away nor have the fears the beijing is eroding freedoms that were guaranteed ...

Programs dale gregory really is a delight to welcome you to our Robert H Smith auditorium read the next program, the second founding of the civil war and reconstruction relayed the constitution is a part of our bernard and Eileen Schwartz s english speaker series, the height of our Public Programs and as always wed like to thank mister swartz for all the support which has enabledus to produce such a wide array of wonderful programs the white we give him a hand . And of course our board of truste...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the museum of art. My name is ellen and i am a senior manager of adult programs. Its good to see everyone here today. And as many of you know, lunch and learn as a Monthly Program where we invite Community Experts to share their knowledge of interesting cincinnati history, culture and arts. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all. And at this institutions history for nearly 200 years the Historic House ...

[applause] im happy to introduce the moderator for the session. Hes not only im sorry, i skipped over. The moderator is curtis wilkie, associate professor of journalism at the university of mississippi, and hes also a fellow at the university over the center for southern journalism and politics. If you will take over. Thank you. And thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of the guests on the panel here at the mississippi book festival it is Getting Better and better every year. Im ...

President trump told reporters today that he would release a report on his finances before the 2020 election. And said that people will be shocked that the numbers are many, many times what you think. Okay, but anything times zero is zero [ laughter ] [ applause ] duchess Meghan Markle attended the u. S. Open this weekend to support her friend serena williams. Meanwhile, the queen went to the jets game. [ laughter ] a man on a mission to visit every starbucks in the world, last week visited his ...