Which was the first time that farmers were asked not to produce. At first, people couldnt believe the things that he was proposing regarding that, but then as prices went up, they started to listen to him. And people still refer to them today as a genius secretary of agriculture. Explore the history and literary life of des moines, iowa, saturday at an eastern on cspan2s booktv, and sunday afternoon at two on American History tv on cspan3. Each week while parliament is in session we bring you Prime Minister David Cameron taking questions from the house of commons. This is the last session of Prime Ministers session before they begin their summer recess. Prior to question time, members are finishing up other business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. Question relating to commemoration of the first world war, respectful attention. Mr. Andrew stephenson. Number nine, mr. Speaker. The Northern Ireland office is committed to assisting in the delivery of the Governments
If it holds. It could lead to a rally of sorts, and thats exactly whats happened here in the last hour here. We have a sense this was coming from the european session. You would have gone through the news flow about aid for Banco Espirito, some of the geopolitical stuff thats extremely troubling. Things would look different today. Not the case. Even oils struggling to catch a bid. Investors are awaiting a key Earnings Report from aig, due out in about an hour. It has a new ceo coming in less than a month and is trading at idiscount to peers. The numbers could definitely move the stock. Well have the information first and your analysis right away. All right, also, the president taking more shots at some of his favorite targets, namely wealthy businesspeople. I mean, if youve been watching television today, you know what he said. If you havent, then you will hear more of those comments where he told ceos essentially to stop complaining. Plus, well take a closer look at the president s re
This is the campus of Stanford University, one of americas great schools. This is the memorial church. This is memorial theater. And this is the library on war, revolution and peace. I am meeting a Great American and an old friend. I am here to have a talk with the 31st president of the United States, mr. Herbert hoover. Sit down, ray. Thank you, sir. Can you tell us what it means . Well, it is the library on war, revolution and peace. The purpose of it is to present the complete history of this world since the beginning of First World War i. It has many objectives. One of them is to aid in development of measures of peace. It covers economic, military, other questions. It is now the haven of historians from all over the world. Because the german war library was destroyed in the last war, the french war library was destroyed and the British War Library was greatly damaged, this is practically the only complete story of what has happened in the last 50 years. How do the idea of the libr
Am sympathetic to the Prime Minister because his hands really are tied in the july crisis because there is a tradition of political assassination in serbia. It is a very rich tradition. What they are doing on the 28th of june they are reenacting the battle against the audubons when they lost and were extinguished by a nation but stuck a dagger into the salten and they were reenacting this. So feared assassination and part of what was tying his hands. He spun the ultimatum in such a way that first he made it sound like he was going to comply when he was telling paris, st. Petersburg and london. He knew he could not except the ultimatum in entirety because he may have been assassinated. In his confession he doesnt talk about objectives very well. He talks about the thing itself. A better time in norfolk than serbia many years ago. We have eight minutes until the next presentation. Thank you very much. [ applause ] here we are featuring American History tv programming and we would like to
Footage of president george bush and bob dole with speeches. At noon fashion experts on first ladies fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the times in which they lived. At 10 00 tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day. American history tv visited the mcarthur memorial which was hosting a symposium. Author Fredrick Dickenson talks about japans military involvement and rise as a global power during world war i. He describes japan as one of the few countries pulled in as an ally. This is about 50 minutes. Well, we will shift our focus a little bit to east asia. Professor Fredrick Dickenson teaches japanese history at the university of pennsylvania. He has degrees from Kyoto University in japan and Yale University where he has a phd in history. He has been a visiting professor at institutions in japan, belgium, in this country among his books are war and national reinvention, world war i and the triumph of a new japan. H