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And its my privilege to welcome many of you back to historic Decatur House in the White House Historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the Us Capital Historical Society and the Us Supreme Court historical society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my friend Jane Campbell who is the president of the National Historical society. On june 4, 1919 the 19th amendmen...

Womens suffrage march, looking up pennsylvania avenue toward the United States capitol. It is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 womens march from pennsylvania avenue, as well. It is a lenticular, which has a special effect. As he walked by, the image changes between the two. We really wanted to have it in the exhibit to grab the publics attention, and also signal that this is a historic exhibit, but the one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. Lets head into the lawrence f...

Cspan. Org, or listen with the e cspan radio app area app. Joining us from north it new york is cassandra frederick. She is limiting director with the drug policy alliance. Thanks for being with us this morning. Startingd our program about the talk about the war on drugs and its legacy. We began this morning with a speech that happened 30 years ago from president george w. Bush. Here is part of that speech. This is the First Time Since taking the oath of office i felt an issue was so important, ...

Cross connection." republicans and coconspirators whipped up a false story saying the white house planned to spend $30 million on free crack pipes. some of you all believed that story. its ridiculous. for americans in the name of racial equity. its a despicable misrepresentation of a federal grant program which was designed to reduce death and disease among drug users. >> just a final point on it, does the administration support any effort to distribute drug paraphernalia like were hearing about...

That needs to be addressed as well. >> i agree with you. cassandra, you were critical of the biden administration for what you saw as backtracking, responding to some of this right wing outrage on the plan to provide comprehensive safer smoking supplies, calling it a missed opportunity. if you had the air of the president, he watches cross connection every saturday morning, what would you say to him? >> i would say what i said before, make sure that health policy is deck at a timed by evidence a...