Human progress. As second in command the words expressed the american program. Franklin roosevelt, born into wealth, and harry truman, onetime farm boy were firmly united on that and every other major world aim. As the nation is plunged into mourning by roosevelts death truman becomes president , the seventh Vice President to assume the office under similar circumstances. President truman takes over his duty and announces the Conference Goes on as scheduled and initially receives the military leaders war secretary simpson, army chief of staff marshall, and pleat admiral king. James f. Burns secretary of the state and British Foreign secretary aden and ambassador hallifax also visit the president. Arriving in the joint session of the Congress President truman receives thunderous applause and promises to Carry Forward the work of Franklin Roosevelt. With great humility i call upon all americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideals so elegantly proclaimed by presid
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Of paper and carry it from florida to california to get a letter from california to florida. Why can they figure out a way to get these contraceptives to women that does not involve nuns . They put a man on the moon but they are forcingothersto four orcing others. We are dealing there other people at stake. There are employees who will go without coverage if the nuns will not fill out the form or if anyone or if the university of notre dame will not fill out the form. The government can pay for anything but the would not say for instance that i have an objection to paying within the same as men. We would never say the government has money to make up the salary different so no big deal. They would say we are going to enforce the laws. We would not say i have a religious objection to paying minimum wage. No big deal. The government can make of the salary difference. We would reject that form of claim let alone saying i refuse to fill out a form. The question about the Conscientious Objec
A long time you took a test and you are tracked into that. You dont want a system where your future is determined for you buy a test. We want one where you have an interest or ability to do something, that takes you away from a traditional college, you should be able to do that. We see that within school choice. There are scarred Charter Schools where he can learn everything right down to underwater welding, which i dont have any experience with, but i understand it is pretty lucrative. You can get lots of valuable skills. Skills that cannot be easily outsourced. There is Something Else important which is that we have a lot of money going into Higher Education. By all indications, it is not translating into more learning. There is inflation the arms race and amenities and buildings. I think it is hard to make the argument we need more money. Maybe we needed better targeted. We need to allow people to choose what they think is best for them even before college. I agree with all of that.
And determine whether this transaction is in the public interest. Hosting joining us on the communicators host joining us on the communicators this week is Gene Kimmelman and harold furchtgottroth. Thank you all for being here. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] cspan, brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. This sunday night on first ladies, influence and image, we will look into the personal lives of three first ladies. Sarah polk had a very strong belief in politics and often helped her husband make political decisions. Market taylor was opposed to her husbands nomination. As a teacher, Abigail Fillmore was the first president ial life to have a profession. She began to establish the First White House library. This sunday night at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspans original series, first ladies in