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C-Span 1. Book TV. Book TV Schedule. After Words and Q&A.
Lamb Q[uestions] & Bob Herbert A[nswers]; Herbert is New York Times columnist. On C-Span 1, this interview airs 8:00 and 11:00 Sunday.
C-Span 2’s takes an extended week-end over Memorial Day and emphasizes Memorial Day themes. C-Span 2’s highlights and full schedule.
C-Span 1. Book TV. Book TV Schedule. After Words and Q&A.
Lamb Q[uestions] & Linda Chavez-Thompson A[nswers]; she is AFL-CIO Executive Vice President. First elected as vice-president in 1995, she is the first AFL-CIO executive vice president and the first person of color among the three major positions. She is also vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and a member of the Board of Governors for the United Way of America. On C-Span 1, this interview airs 8:00 and 11:00 Sunday. A rerun of last week’s interview with Justin Kamras, of Washington, D.C. and the National Teacher of the Year will be rerun Saturday at midnight on C-Span 2.
C-Span 1. Book TV. Book TV Schedule. After Words and Q&A.
Sunday, May 8 at 3:45 pm, in memory of David Hackworth (note Lex’s obituary above), his 1989 Booknotes interview is rerun. The book he discusses with Lamb is About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior. In it,
Col. David Hackworth expresses his concern for the declining standards in the U.S. Army. . . .[he] discusses the controversial television interview he gave in 1971 where he criticized Army leadership and explains how it led to his early retirement from the Armed Forces.
Lamb’s first Q&A was with David Levin, co-founder of the Kipps program. Lamb returns to this topic as he interviews Justin Kamras, of Washington, D.C. and the National Teacher of the Year. Those of you who missed Krauthammer last week may catch it again on transcript or streaming video.
Book TV Schedule. After Words and Q&A. On C-SPAN 1, Lamb Q[uestions] & Charles Krauthammer A[nswers] (8:00 p.m. and again 11:00). (Krauthammer is, of course, the speaker of the “Quote of the Day” Lex put up Friday. Krauthammer, originally trained as a psychiatrist,
writes a syndicated column for the Washington Post that appears in over 150 newspapers worldwide. He is also a monthly essayist for TIME magazine, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, a political analyst for FOX News and a weekly panelist on Inside Washington. He coined and developed The Reagan Doctrine (TIME, April 1985), defined the structure of the post-Cold War world in The Unipolar Moment (Foreign Affairs, 1990/1991), and outlined the principles of post-9/11 American foreign policy in his much-debated Irving Kristol Lecture, Democratic Realism (AEI Press, March 2004).
Book TV Schedule. C-SPAN 1 schedule. This week’s After Words and Q&A.