White House Chronicle 8012

March 24, 2016 by White House Chronicle Leave a Comment

White House Chronicle, Show #8012

Air Date: March 18, 2016

Run Time: 29:00

Host: Llewellyn King

Guest: Colin Woodard, Author

Topic: A discussion of “American Nations,” Woodard’s book that shows how America divides into 11 distinctively different nations.

Up, Up and Away — Electricity Takes to the Skies

Llewellyn King

The aviation industry — from the backyard inventors to the giants like Boeing and Airbus — are all feverishly working on electric airplanes. The sparks are flying. The new age of flight has taken off. Erik Lindbergh, grandson of national icon Charles Lindbergh, calculates that 200 firms of all sizes are working on electric aircraft, […]

An Immigration Fix That Can Happen Now

Llewellyn King

I was once interested in buying a historic mansion in Virginia. It was a classic, but it needed a lot of work. It was being sold by a bank and, for a whole afternoon, my wife and I dreamed of owning it. It was on the market because the previous owner, who had bought it […]

Happy Birthday, America, Still Land of Dreams

Llewellyn King

Light the candles, tune the instruments, warm up the vocal cords, a very special day is upon us. It is time to celebrate a birth, a unique birth, and a birth that in many ways has lit human hope, kindled human aspiration and fired up a few revolutions. Happy birthday, America! I do not know […]

Flamboyant, Scandal-Plagued Boris Set to Be U.K. Prime Minister

Llewellyn King

Barring the political equivalent of an act of God, Boris Johnson becomes leader of the British Conservative Party and prime minister on July 22. Johnson is a man who fails upward. So much so that he has said, “As I have discovered myself, there are no disasters just fresh opportunities. And, indeed, fresh opportunities for […]

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