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Place. Several years ago, the secretary of defense made it known before he announced that he was going to lead the administration that he was going back to the state of washington. He was someone i follow closely. He was nominated to be the cia director in 1991, and as an obama supporter, i was shocked to find out that he was going to be kept on as the secretary of defense. What he told people, i found, and it was a major reasoning for why i wanted to write this book, what he said is that we are moving towards a smaller military. One that will do fewer things than be able to go fewer places, w...

Militaristic to the legislative with a panel that includes a Pulitzer Prizewinning historian annette gordonreed and james mike pearson. Its about one hour and 20 minutes. Over the new years weekend 9100 people visited the abuilding for the proclamation. Some were sitting by for hours for the time to read the words forever free and to see Abraham Lincolns signature. Although it didnt end slavery in america it fundamentally changed the character of the war. Overnight the union became a war for human liberation. For the nearly 4 million it was a symbol of hope. That hope of freedom was finally re...

Prevent. And irwran that will stop at nothing to in secret develop a nuclear weapon. Many military analysts say a strike on iran, even a very good one delays that option. Leave one additional thought. Wharf whatever you thought of libyan intervention. It set off a whole bunch events it africa. That was predictable. Let me give you view of iran to operation in libya. This is what happens when you give up your wmd program. So my last question for you on this evening, after this remarkable career of 39 years in the military, listening in on all these bad actors and conversations for all your year...

Youre watching book tv on cspan. Now, tom allen, former sixterm democratic congressmann front mississippi, recounsels his inability to understand his republican colleagues and vice versa and contends congress will remain lock logjammed until the try to understand each oomph this is just over an hour. [applause] thank you very much for those kind words, and thank you all for being here tonight. This is a wonderful crowd, and im very pleased to see so many of you here. I have to say its a special pleasure for me to be at the Jimmy Carter Library because my late father was one of those very early...

Mr. Kaplan spoke at the Louisville Free Public Library in kentucky. I admire those who do but thats not what i do. What im interested in is policies and ideas. Where do these ideas come from . I mean, they dont just drop from the sky. Usually they are not things that just automatically appeal to everybody as a matter of logic. Where do the ideas come from . Who are the people who advanced the idea . Theres a lot of competing ideas. How did this particular set of ideas get translated into policy with the resistance . How is the resistance overcome . It usually isnt just one person, its a commun...