It as a success to a certain extent. There is a modernization going on, but if you were to have predicted chinas capabilities based on their economic and Technological Base and assume they were rivals, one could imagine a world where they had built far more than they have. Certainly, far less than they are capable of. Absolutely, we want more interaction. But in some ways you have not seen the kind of actionreaction that you saw with the soviets. Working with questions of, how low can you go . Deterrence of load numbers. What is the minimal amount . A big debate. How you answer the question depends ons depends on how you answered some of the questions i laid out in my remarks. There are some people who think that we are that we have, you know reduced quite significantly a end we are going much lower. Might be from omatic. Others think we can go much further. Let me push back on something you said. Let me push back on something you said. When you said the clash was about economics, the
Host host very good monday morning to you. Here are the latest headlines in the major newspapers around the country on the Iranian Nuclear negotiations. First on the Washington Post, negotiators race against deadline in iran talks. Wall street journal, today deadline looms is the headline there. The New York Times this morning, iran backs away from key deal detail in nuclear deal. We ask our viewers to weigh in on how big a threat the Iranian Nuclear program is to the United States. Our phone lines are open if you want to start piling in dialing in. We want to turn to justin White House Correspondent for bloomberg news. Good morning to you. Guest thanks so much for having host with the data go before that deadline, how close are we to a breakthrough and what needs to be negotiated in the final hours . Guest i think there were actually some troubling signs overnight for those who want a deal. As you just mentioned, the New York Times reporting that iran is backing away from an agreement
Next, astoria by author john jacob. This an is hour and 14 minutes. Thank you powells books and thank you for being here. Normally i have a more formal presentation. I have a reading i show at readings. But tonight is a special night so i am going to do something different. And i want to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i will do some readings. It is special we are at powells books, we are in oregon, astoria is nearby and we are also here with cspan so we have a national and oregon audience. I will tell stories and you may know some of them and may not some of the others. But i will start with how i came to this story. And actually, what is surprising about it is how this story was verywell known in its day. In 1836, when Washington Irving was commissioned by john John Jacob Astor to write these, irvings book also called astoria was a best seller in 1926. They have been forgotten now. I think some of you know about them. But in the National Consciousness they are largely
Risking their lives instead of staying at home on the ohio river and risking their lives a little bit less. So pike makes the same request of congress. He forged letters from jefferson and dearborn and secretary of state James Madison and things like that in congress, the committee reviewing the request votes in favor of granting him this but by this point the expedition is inextricable from the politics dividing congress over jefferson and burr and wilkinson in general and Congress Never votes. My guess, there is no record of why they dont vote. No one made the decision not to vote but the last evidence we have in the congressional record as of the Committee Voting to bring it to a vote on the floor and then it just disappears until the 1840s when we have a comments by his widow clara who is requesting that the reward be paid to her. By this point she is destitute. Then she dies before they do anything. My guess about whats going on is twofold. One is burr is acquitted and he has a lo
President kennedy. H president kennedy launchedeven before he his historic president ial campaign, jfk told an audience in baltimore, let us not despair, but act. Let us not seek the republican answer or the democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. No politician knew better the importance of bipartisanship. We are honored to have with us today the light of senator kennedys light and the Guiding Light of the Edward M Kennedy institute. She is a brilliant attorney and writer and a vision for senator kennedys incredible c. It is my great pleasure to friend. E my good thank you, heather. That you so much for gracious introduction and congratulations on being named the new ceo of the jfk library foundation. All of us are so excited about your leadership your. Those of here. Those of us for the edward m the u. S. Ociety for senate, we are thrilled to have a neighbor. And mass archives, Columbi