I just wanted to mention a couple of special guests. We have our distinguished speaker this evening, i wanted to mention a couple of special guests. We have our distinguished speakers daughter here and her husband. We have betsy hewitt, the wife of newly elected hugh hewitt. Our distinguished speaker was to dr. Kissinger as dr. Kissinger was to nixon. He was with dr. Kissinger during the peace accords in 1973. He was with president nixon in moscow during his first president ial trip there. He was there for kissingers shuttles between arabs and israelis. He was a key actor in president nixons historic trip to china. He was state Department Director of policy and planning, ambassador to the peoples republic of china and assistant secretary of state for South East Asia and Pacific Affairs part he conducted several hours of oral histories of dr. Kissinger on behalf of the Nixon Foundation. He conducted several hours of oral history on behalf of the Nixon Foundation and the collection of in
At the end of the day, 31 democrats joined all of the republicans in the vote to begin the impeachment inquiry into president clinton. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road, with support from our spectrum cable partners. This weekend we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour and 10 minutes, well experience the history of this western city with a population of about 32,000. In about 10 minutes, well learn about senator Allen Simpson through his papers at the American Heritage center. After that, a tour of the wyoming territorial prison, where outlaws of the wild west were held, including Butch Cassidy. And later, we visit the deerwood ranch wild horse ecosanctuary to hear about its relationship with the bureau of Land Management. We begin our special feature with a visit to a mansion to hear about the early days of the city. Were in the mansion that edward ivenson built in 1892, and it is now the h
Mansion thatn the Edward Ivinson built in laramie, wyoming in 1892. It is now the home of the Laramie Plains museum. It has been restored. For about 10 years, it was vacant. People broke in vandalized the , building. It has been a long and fruitful to make it into this Wonderful Museum we have here that highlights the ivinson family and historical issues from the past in laramie, wyoming. Edward ivinson was born on the island of st. Croix in the caribbean. He lived there for seven years. His father moved there from northwestern england to manage a sugarcane plantation. He wound up in new york city. While he was there, he met a young woman. He was 23, she was they ran away 16. To jersey city, new jersey to get married. Eventually like a lot of young folks, they moved west to make their fame and fortune. And eventually wound up in laramie, wyoming. The family had been living in memphis, tennessee. He decided to move the family to california. And the way he thought he would get to califor
Should have the ability to go into the private sector when its in their best interest, when the care is better or specialized care is available thats not in the da. I think we all believe that should be available. Watch booktv at the weekend on cspan2. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take booktv and American History tv on the road with support from our spectrum Cable Partners this week and we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up we will speak with local authors about the cities history and more. We will hear about the influence the Energy Industry has in the state of wyoming and then after that a visit to the ivinsons mansion to learn about the early days of the city. Hear how the sport of road you became a symbol of the american west. We began our special feature with the conversation about retail pioneer j. C. Penney. Like most people in wyoming at the turnofthecentury, he was a transplant pig is born raised in missouri by to think j. C. Penney was a co