Community leaders of america. This is about 15 minutes. [applause] on the National Vice president of finance for a family career and community they does of america. Its a great honor for me and the rest of the youth representative organizations to be here celebrating the innovations in career Technical Education. Current Technical Education has influenced my life and my high school career. I entered into two pathways, culinary arts in business management. They went beyond teaching me to Technical Skills but also, indeed taught life skills. How to make a hollandaise sauce creme brulee, computer programming. But i was given the foundations i needed to determine my career interests and prepare me for managing and expecting life challenges. April last year i was selected as a taxes National Officer candidate, a huge honor and a great achievement. I was involved in a major traffic crash when a distracted driver hit our School Vehicle head on. I suffered critical injuries including a traumat
Us. The other imminent threat is giving up a piece of the grid. And giving Law Enforcement the tools of intelligence, the single greatest asset we need have and also giving them the electronic tools, i dont think we do nearly the job we should be doing in terms of protecting against cyber attacks. Weve seen just last week what happens when supposedly the chinese have now hacked into the personnel records of upwards of 20 million government employees. The one positive out of all of that, it is the only hope we have of maybe recovering lois lerners emails from the i. R. S. , get them from the chinese. But it is a serious issue that we need to put first and foremost as a serious threat to the safety and security of our communities. I know that there are some sheriffs representing interesting states, maybe like iowa, might have interests there. Some other states like florida. I see one of those sheriffs is about to take the stage and id like to ask him to take the next question. Governor i
Arthur silver . Cold . Somewhere in there. [laughter] dean anyway, he left and he took that with them. So upshot was designed but i think it added something to the next. It doesnt just do politics. It has done great stuff, like a portrait of middleclass america and how people regard themselves as middle class in different parts of the country. It has use data for a whole range of reporting. Jack gentlemen, thank you so much for coming. [applause] secretary of state john kerry has been meeting with irans foreign minister in vienna today. World powers and iran are hoping to reach a deal on tuesday, setting a decade of restrictions secretary made a brief statement to the press. Lets take a look. Secretary kerry it is now time to see whether or not we are able to close an agreement. In many ways this negotiation has been going on literally for a number of years. Over the past few days, we have in fact, made genuine progress. But i want to be absolutely clear with everybody. We are not yet
About how the end of the civil war led to that amendment and eventually the 15th amendment that gave africanamerican males the right to vote. The africanamerican civil war and museum hosted this 35 minute event. Frank my name is frank smith and i am the director of the museum. For this purpose this weekend i am the host of the grand review committee, welcoming thousands of marchers and reenactors and descendents to washington, d. C. To talk about the close of the american civil war. At the end of the war, the government celebrated by bringing 200,000 soldiers to washington, d. C. To acknowledge the fact that after four years of a bloody war, it was finally over, the nation had been saved as one nation under god, and the legacy of slavery had ended forever because the union now includes africanamerican soldiers who helped win this war and change the direction of this nation. This afternoon at the museum we are going to have a Panel Discussion including three knowledgeable, informed pers
How Political Parties have used the memory of lincoln. Let me introduce our next speaker. Michael kauffman is one of the leading historians of the lincoln assassination. He is author of american brutus John Wilkes Booth and lincoln conspiracies, which was named by the New York Times and the Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004. There are copies of the paperback version on the Registration Table that you can purchase after our program is concluded. His other works include in the footsteps of an assassin and a modern edition of memoirs of a lincoln conspirator. His bus tours of the John Wilkes Booth escape route have been popular for many years. He has lectured throughout the country, appeared on Many Television documentaries. Civil war historian william c. Davis, jack davis, once wrote no one has studied booth longer or in more depth than michael w. Kauffman, a wellknown voice of reason in the field of assassination studies. Today, Michael Kauffman will talk to us