C everybody, good morning. Welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harman the president and ceo. Im a recovering politician, happy to be a recovering politician but its not an easy job. This place leverages Woodrow Wilson from president s to passions which were scholarship and policy and thats the intersection of the book we are going to talk about today. Its my pleasure to introduce a friend of many of ours,. I will explain why it is called him a and that is because there is the movie, has everyone seen the movie they open john movie . Dan and i sat next to each other recently a failed and john movie which is great. I recommend it. Dance that i want to come to the Wilson Center and talk about the book so is here and he will talk about this book. Has Everybody Knows he has to cheat sheet. You all memorized it with a nice picture of him. Hes the ceo of centrist energy corp. Hes a former deputy secretary and many of us worked with him in that job at the department of energy. Worked at th
A disabled jewish new yorker at the hands of the palestinian terrorists an incident that shocked the world and continues to reverberate through the culture at large and to the lives of the families affected by the initial murder and the senseless reprisal. It in an innocent bystander the killing of Leon Klinghoffer Julie Salamon offers a train and 60degree view of the ruinous neverending cycle of the murder of innocents. Initially a longtime banking reporter and film critic for the wall street journal and a tv critic and our reporter at the New York Times ms. Solomon has written notable nonfiction books about show business philanthropy the holocaust the insanity defense and modern medical care. For 10 previous works include several bestsellers into novels for children. Its a pleasure to have her return. Please welcome Julie Salamon to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] im a good evening. Thank you for coming out on this hot summer night. You are not on vacation but i will try
Where the war started that they are now having to continue. It didnt start here. It started way before. The attack on the munich olympics was in 1972, on the israeli team. The killing of Leon Klinghoffer was in the 1980s. We were not listening, we were not watching, we were not paying attention and we were taking peace dividends while people were declaring war on us. I could trace the history, the aftermath of world war i and world war ii and show you the same thing. Only fools repeat the mistakes of history. We are getting all of the warnings again. Yes, we have isis. Causes. Many part of it is the withdrawal of our troops from iraq, part of it our unwillingness to engage in the president it drawing 12 redlines, saying if a assad used chemical weapons, he would act and the red lines disappeared, which made america a hollow vessel. A nation one could assume you could take advantage job. You do not draw red lines in the race them and expect that implacable foes are not going to take adv
Your head, head gear, head cover. And you dont have to cover your feet. Now, wouldnt you admit that thats insufficient . No. We know how ebola spreads. It spreads by direct contact. Sometimes more isnt better. You put on more layers, you put on more things, theyre harder to get on, harder to get off. Really . Yes, really. You go into an infected ebola patients room without covering your head with only wearing one pair of gloves and your feet exposed, you would do that . Absolutely. Within 24 hours a source shared with us pictures of dr. Frieden visiting an ebola ward in liberia covered head to toe. And then tonight the cdc announced this starting immediately all Health Care Workers dealing with ebola should be wearing double gloves, waterproof boot covers, a fluid resistant gown, respirators, a full face shield and surgical hood to ensure complete coverage of the head and neck. We had nurses who complained their neck was completely exposed when dealing with these patients. And while th
When a nurse became infected. It said you dont have to cover your head gewith head gea and you dont have to cover your feet. Wouldnt you admit that is insufficient . No. We know how ebola spreads. It spreads by direct contact, and sometimes more isnt better. You put on more layers, you put on more things, theyre harder to get on, theyre harder to take off. Really . You would go into an ebolainfected patients room, you would go in without covering your head and not being fully covered. You would do that . Absolutely. We later showed pictures of Thomas Frieden visiting an ebola patient covered in head to toe. The new cdc guidelines, all people should be wearing double gloves, waterproof boot covers, fluid resistant gown, respirators, full face shield and surgical hoods. We had nurses complaining their neck was fully exposed while dealing with these patients. Some of the nurses on the front line say that is not what they have been getting. Joining us now is deborah burger, copresident of