This hearing of the Senate Agriculture committee. Its about an hour and 45 minutes. Morning. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture under order. We are happy to have you back here again before the committee to discuss the need for certainty in our Global Agriculture markets. International trade policies and their impacts on the United States agriculture economy has been a topic of great interest over the last few years and more particularly the last few months. In fact, this is the second time in the last year that we are hearing about the efforts being made at the office of the United States trade representative and the department of agriculture, efforts that i hope will eventually result in longterm reliable markets for the United States agriculture. A great deal has happened in the nine months since you all appeared before this committee. Perhaps the most significant to our members was the successful package and enactment of the 2018 farm bill with the help of ev
Metropolitan guy and he could not believe people could live on the farm with cows and neal couldnt believe living in a city like new york where you rub elbows all of the time. Host it was great talking to you. Guest and people should know you as cureerator for the smithsonian. Thank you for interviewing me. That was booktvs Signature Program in which authors are interviewed by people familiar with their material. It airs at 10 p. M. At saturday and 10 and 9 on sunday. You can watch it online as well. Go to booktv. Org and click on the upper right part of the page under topics. On the next washington journal we will discuss the militarys response to isis with clinton watts. After that we will continue looking at political campaigning leading up to this falls election. Our guest is rob and linda lake and we will talk about how campaigns manage an election. Thursday night on booktv in prime time a look at the book industry starting with a tour of publishers and then a panel from a book fe
Of the afternoon before sally was her picture was on every magazine cover, the most famous person on the planet. Every reporter at the Kennedy Space center wanted to see her command of your. Astronauts are put in quarantine for a couple of days before they fly so that we dont give them any stray germs that could really screw up the mission. Sally was in quarantine. Everyone wanted to know how she was. There was just a lid on the whole thing. I am sitting in our abc news workspace which was a trailer. The day before working on my script. The phone rings. Someone picks it up and says its for you. This low voice of the other and says hi. What are you doing in five minutes. I dont know. What am i doing. Walk outside your trailer, turn left, it down the gravel path and stop. I did that, and there was sally in costa my tshirt, flipflops planning against a car 25 yards away and waving at me. When she was doing was saying she was number one pushing the envelope a little bit because of royals w
Marge said this is ridiculous. You are going into space. I cant go to the cape. What is going on out there . She tells him that hed better drive her out there and he hides her under some blankets in the back of his car and they go past military guards and she gets out there and pops up her hat and it is sort of a lonely beach jetties and scrub brush and what not. The whole country is dying for a cigarette. This is the kind of spunk and irreverence that these women brought to this brave new world of being an astronaut wife. You have seven women, all different walks of life, allen sheppards wife louise was very highbred. I think of her as the sabrina and audrey have removed character. She drew up as the gardeners daughter at longwould gardens and stayed on the east coast so when she met Jackie Kennedy she almost treated jackie like she was an old friend, they were two private school girls almost, getting to know each other. You have this band forming, these women are in the public eye an
Lynn sherr, former journalist for abc news recalls the life of sally ride come the First American woman in space. This program is on booktv. So, onto the reason you are out here. Pleased to welcome lynn sherr to discuss her new biography, sally ride. We are all familiar with the persona as i recommend many young women like myself wanted to cocoa beach is thicker and thanks to this thanks to the snippet you can feel like we know her better than ever. The book shows a more personal side while still showing a wellknown and compelling tale that is the story. The book clearly benefits from the access to satisfy his family and friends and cooperation in her Research Interests really nice and it does to share. And of course set to a ross of abc news where she covered a variety of topics including manassas they shuttle program. We are so glad she is here tonight and will start off with a quick video. Please join me in welcoming her to politics prose. [applause] this is from a tv pals, abc fran