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Welcome everybody. My name is Doug Bradburn, founding director of the library for the study of George Washington here at beautiful mount vernon and delighted to welcome you all again for a wonderful evening of conversation in history. And i would also like to welcome the cspan audience who was recording as the cd. Its great to have you back in the library. Will these evening book talks are special for friday of reasons because we get to bring exciting new historians to the eager community, but also because it sponsored by forbes which is been a great donor to mount vernon for many, many years....

[inaudible conversations] welcome everybody. My name is Douglas Bradburn. And the founding director of the National Library for the George Washington and beautiful mount vernon and delighted to you all again for a wonderful evening of conversation and history and i would also like to welcome the cspan audience out there. Its great to have you back in the library. You know these evening book talks are special for a variety of reasons. We get to bring exciting new historians to an eager community here but also because it sponsored by the great donor to mt. Vernon for many many years as you all k...

We are thrilled to celebrate the publication of this powerful moving an important anthology, nasty women feminism, resistance and revolution in transamerica. We are incredibly honored to have anna holmes along with an allstar panel of brilliant contributors to the book on hand to lead us in conversation about the themes that explore, mainly how we got here, and how we move forward. It is very fitting to be holding this particular discussion here at the New York Public Library. This is a place that is steeped in history of feminist thought and action. It is where betty read and wrote the femini...

Could see the flames, how scary it would hve been shortly after 2 00 p. M. When the fire started. We did talk to the fire chief, and he tells us how challenging todays conditions were. The biggest problem has been heat, and the dry fuel. And its heavy vegetation over there. Reporter the winds played a factor as well. It was breezy this afternoon. The fire started somewhere on private property near the high school. However, the cause and exact origin are still under investigation. Now, this is the third fire that ive covered in the last four days. So were definitely seeing this as shaping up to...

Push for change where its needed. He spoke at the Mccormick Place in chicago. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 44th president of the United States, barack obama. [cheers] president obama hello, chicago ts good to be home. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Its good to be home. Thank you. Thank you. [cheers] president obama you can tell you can tell that i you, you you can tell that im a lame duck because nobodys following instructions. Everybody have a seat. Fellow americans michelle and i have been so touched by all the well wish...