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Bettye kearse is a pushcart prize winning essayist. The other madisons the lost history of a president s black family is her first book and follows a 30 year quest to confirm her lineage. It was called roots for a new generation. Thank you for being part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of James Madison, the first draft of the u. S. Constitution, what did you think . What were you told . I was told. With this important figure in American History. I was also told he was my greatgreatg...

Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for g...

Problems that havent yet been solved. So thats what i call the perfect problem because that, in fact, is the focus of what i think entrepreneurship is. In other words, you are looking for a way to solve a problem that is solvable but hasnt been done. You had to do something you and you dont get to copy. And so we were then taken around for ideas and you do not have an idea and i didnt have an idea so we started looking for problems that we can solve and came up with the problem of how they got p...

Steve told the story of going from a glass blower in st. Louis teaming of the founder of twitter to build a multibillion payment company. In the book you talk about a lot about perfect problems. When did you realize that Small Business payments were a you are going to have to do something new and you cannot copy. I hired jack when he was 15, he was a High School Student came into work at a company that i actually still have. I dont run any of my companies but it also dont sell them. This ones be...

There have not been big problems to note thus far. We do not know about cases whether well see a spike in cases. It is inevitable we probably will. They just want to keep that relatively contained. Welcome, im neil cavuto. Youre watching coast to coast. Were on top of the president en route to phoenix, arizona, visiting a honwell facility that has been retrofitted for respirator masks and the like. Blake burman on what we can expect to hear from the president later today. Hey, blake. Reporter hi...

With her tonight. And we also are very excited to announce that this very new book has already released as number eight on the New York Times best seller list. [applause] and number 88 on usa today. So with that layla, welcome. Thank you so much. Very happy to be here. Are you on . Here it comes. Can you hear me . Try again. Can you hear me . No. Will you grab the third myth. Sorry about that. Thats okay. Sudden technical never happened before. Its because the tv is here. So, you can hear me, ri...

Jean kranz had a prolific career as a nasa flight and Missions Operation director. He was acting flight director when the apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, and as lead flight director of the apollo 13 mission, he had a significant role in guiding three astronauts back to earth after an explosion on the spacecraft. This is part one of a oral history interview landing flight director, werent you. You were in charge of that. You took part in the whole thing. lets go over apollo n unidentifie...

The First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the counsel, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Charlesworth had launched saturns. I had the lunar module experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been...

11, and what a thing to go back over, thats a big project. The theres many things that stand out, a person says, where were you when . I had sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life, i mean, whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes, but one of the ones that i remember that is related to apollo 11, in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director and one of the responsibilities of...

The ground launch sequencer would not hand off to the orbiters computers to complete the count because the liquid oxygen was showing off when it should be on. T minus 10. Go for main engine start. Were go for main engine start. T minus six, five, four, three, two, one, liftoff of Space Shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope. Our window on the universe. Dr. Kathryn sullivan, youve written a book about the hubble and were going to talk a lot about it today. Watching that video all these...