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Up next a confirmation hearing for u. S. Postal service governors and other judicial nominations to the d. C. Superior court. During this meeting members of the committee asked nominees questions concerning the health and safety of postal workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. This morning we will consider two nominees for the governor of the United States Postal Service, don lee moke and william zolers. Well consider three nominees for the judicial system to be associate judges in the superior court of d. C. We do have brief introduction of each. Donald lee moke served as president of the Air...

Do we have remote people . E td okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The hearing will come to order. I believe we have some of our colleagues who are going to be remote. Opening eally have anit. Statement. Well hear from judge wilson here in a bit and well let our two colleagues from mississippi introduction. But ill defer to senator feinstein if she wants to say anything first. Hear fro i will, mr. Chairman. O a thank you very much. Today, as youve stated, were going to hearr from cory wilson nominated to a mississippi seat on the fifth Circuit Court of j appeals. Stated during the nomination hearing for the...

Good evening. Welcome to mt. Vernon. My name is kevin butterfield. And it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the Mount Vernons lady associations and Ford Motor Company which sponsors a free monthly book talk to learn from the greatest historians. Thank you for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the Program Shortly well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident and executive officer of cspan and coauthors of the president s. Shell be joined by brian lamb, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating and esteemed group of hist...

Thank you. I wouldnt see us surprised to move some bestsellers on the needle today. It is important to keep the book festival a free event that serves the community. The library of congress and the book festivals real purpose is literacy which leads to learning an opportunity, which matches our goal of helping our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses s. Grant. If we are lucky, certain other popular founding fathers. One thing i learned from this story o...

Involvement in the market. All right. The last couple of classes we have been talking about the red scare and the impact of the red scare in policing the edges of american politics. We will be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1930s and 1950s and work through what is happening in terms of the main thoroughfare of american politics, possibilities and the way people are thinking about politics in america in the 1930s. Have had different readings, all of which deal with the idea of political ideology a...