Hi, there, im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen, they are George Packer whose latest book our man, richard holebooke and the end of the century, and peter baker, this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of James A Baker iii, two good books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holebooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer. Holebooke, a democrat, Foreign Service officer. Student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories, but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this was 0 m a man with great ambiti and that was even before he came to washington. It was. He was part of a houston aristocracy. His family basically built modern houston. He was expected of great things. He had a father who impressed on him the legacy. One thing they were n
The generous support of our underwriters of the Kennedy Library museum. The Lowell Institute in our media sponsors the boston globe and wbur. We look forward to robust questionandanswer period this evening. You will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years and depth with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years. We have been anticipating this for some time. Much of professor legevalls research took place in the kennedy archive and we are please to look at this conference a new look at president kennedys formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonight speakers. We are so glad to welcome Frederik Logevall back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is lawrence the bill for professor of International Affairs and professor of history at har
Biden of course does this yet has so egregiously betrayed its base especially labor that they threw them into the republican camp and just as that animists was expressed towards Hillary Clinton i think to a certain extent it will be expressed towards joe biden because biden was very much an architect of nafta and then of course the 1994 omnibus crime bill militarized police on and on and on all the free trade deals you know biden had his hands in all of this so yes i think that this trail on the part of the Democratic Party towards their traditional base is going to be as much a part of this election as it was in 2016 in fact some of the exit polling that were seeing tonight although not conclusive seems to show that the people in large measure who are voting for joe biden are not so much voting for george much as theyre voting against donald trump whereas the people who are voting for donald trump are actually voting for donald trump what do you make of that. Yeah i mean in america yo
Make America Great again i truly do believe as you do that we are on the road to victory and we will make America Great again again. Thank you. Thank you thank. You. Ok but what youve been listening in to the President Donald Trump and his Vice President mike pence. Basically trying listing all of his gains repeatedly saying they call it catches referring to those swing states such as pennsylvania. Also you know describing the results as phenomenal cinequest surprised himself the way the vote has gone thus far what are your thoughts well 1st and foremost have you noticed how like almost tied he looked ukes you would from trump you would expect more energy more output move you know be done stand the campaign trail he looked like he was very tied very probably from all the stress during the elections and he sounded very sounded very calm surely he used many of his signature words like phenomenal beautiful success and tremendous and so on and so forth he by i think he went through but thr
Contest the election in the Supreme Court biden meanwhile addressing supporters in his home state of delaware said that it wasnt up to republicans or democrats to call victory but for the American People he urged patience. Look at the results my colleague michael is standing by. A look again at how its going and some of the nights a key battleground states is america waits with bated breath a. P. Has called arizona with its 11 Electoral College votes for joe biden lets take a look at the rest of the map here we see in the middle again most of those states taken by the president Montana North Dakota south dakota all the way down to texas and of course key states like california with its 55 electoral votes new york with its 29 electoral votes for joe biden but of course picking up the key states of South Carolina and florida with 29 electoral votes lets go to the next graphic here for you and you can see that North Carolina with its 15 electoral votes a key state in this fight for both c