was upgraded to a turnpike in the 1830s everybody wanted to have access because it meant you were connected. you were part of the economy not only the regional to national economy. the merchant on main street and lexington couldn t have been selling tea without the road. there is a much greater appreciation for the role of the road in people s lives established homes and businesses and who are able to conduct business because of the road. again, the idea is to take infrastructure in the road for granted. for more information on book tv presented lexington and the other cities visited by the vehicles go to c-span.org. publisher adam and mark argued that america s intellectual habits are in decline. in audible conversations can we begin to? welcome everybody. may i be heard? [inaudible conversations] have though everybody. link back i like a captive audience but this feels like a captive panel. welcome, everybody and thank you for coming. am i over amplified? welcome to t
it went out of nowhere with a shock. we waited for mike to get back and my comment was i never been through this and don t know the right answer. that was, and i spoke to a lot of attorneys and legal scholars who said mike s calls was one of the more brilliant legal calls they are aware of representing me as his client. so we said no. next day, the hearing is scheduled for is 11 o clock. i will touch on the judge never being on time. i did the math after calculating irritatingly and putting in my court journal he was late on average 40 minutes for trial whether that is in the morning, after break or lunch, it added up to 40 minutes on average and i think i am giving him the benefit of the doubt. i thought a federal judge wouldn t know better. we were there on time and we were properly ready to do your best. i didn t expect to hear back from mike until much later. while we were staying at the place we were at there was a slow drain in the sink the whole time. it irritated me b
education policy and the need for better schools and health care for students. she also criticized president trump s decision to end the daca program. speaking at the national press club, this is an hour. good afternoon. i m pat host, i m the americas aviation reporter for james, and i m also on the board of governors here at the national press club. our sorry about that. welcome to the national press club. our guest today is lily eskelsen garcia, the president of the national education association. i would like to welcome our public radio and c-span audiences, and i want to remind you that you can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclive, that s npclive. for our public radio and c-span audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, so any applause or reaction you hear is not necessarily from the working press. now it s time to introduce our head table guests. i d ask each of you to stand briefly as your name is anno
operations in 1971, prior to taking the helm as transitional ceo of amtrak he spent approximately four decades at norfolk southern corporation and i think predecessor southern railway. a native of new orleans, he primarily grew up in hattiesburg, mississippi. last month he announced plans to step down from his current role. he will have served about a year and a half when he completes his time at amtrak at the end of the year. he says it is longer than he planned to. before he leaves we invited him here to talk about amtrak s continuing budget woes, derailment, customer complaints about sur advicervice, the statn state, plans for what some are calling the summer of hell in new york city, and the needed infrastructure that the rail industry needs in being required to keep itself open and running smooth lich smoothly. as of today his announced successor, richard anderson, a former executive with delta airline, which is a new thing, somebody from a very different vein, on-boardi