Page 11 - Robert Watson News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

David rolf on the movement to increase workers wages. And those are just a few of the programs youll see this weekend. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now we kick off the weekend with vicki algers critical look at the u. S. Department of education. [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Im andrew parks, the assistant director of lectures and seminars. Thank you all for joining us today. I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind everyone in house to silence yo...

That are going to keep me reading. And now, i am delighted to introduce tonights author, robert p. Watson as the professor, historian, novelist, columnist and media commentator whose recent books include the president s wife, affairs of the state in americas first crisis, which received the 2014 gold medal in history from the independent publishers association. Sunday columnist for the sun sentinel for many years and is currently the political analyst for wp t. Five and nbc affiliate in florida. His latest book, tran 11 tran 11 tran 11 recounts the surreal stories following the ss cap corona, ...

Booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. A book by jimmy carter, a full life. I had a privilege to attend sunday school recently where he taught sunday school, it was amazing and after that i went to the school he attended. It was turned into a wonderful museum. This man is an incredible human being, he is brilliant, continues to be a true moral leader and way ahead of his time. Is booked a full life conveys that. It is well written, very current, gives a lot of history, tells you who he is, he is a believer in god and a christian but how he appl...

Soon find out. Three main points i want to discuss. Three so whats for today. The first is on the role of president ial character. Our history is oftentime made by powerful characters. In the white house, character is king. What were going to find out today, these two elections and other related elections were influenced in part to a good degree simply by the character of the individuals that were going to discuss, strongwilled folks, personalities shape history. Second point, scandals have shaped history. We dont like to admit this. Its not a source of pride for our country, but more often th...

Three main points i want to discuss. Three so whats . Our history is made by powerful and strongminded individuals. In the white house character is key. What we are going to find out is these elections and other related elections were influenced to a good degree by the character of the individuals we will discuss. Personalities shape history. Scandals have shaped history. We dont like to admit this. It is not a source of pride for our country. But major scandals have had a Significant Impact on the course of history. For whatever political scandals there are today, we have been there, done tha...