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After me, we appreciate that they have all strongly supported israels right to defend itself. We also appreciate their efforts to help israel achieve a sustainable ceasefire. And i speak directly for my Prime Minister here. The criticism of secretary kerry for his good faith efforts to advance a sustainable ceasefire is unwarranted. [applause] there is broad understanding between israel and the United States about the principles for a sustainable ceasefire, and we look forward to continuing to w...

Miles an hour. President richard nixon, who had talked with the astronauts by telephone while they were on the moon, was waiting aboard the recovery carrier to welcome the returning voyagers. Kfin the president later expressed the nations response to this historic mission. Some way when those two americans stepped on the moon, the people of this world were brought closer together. That it is that spirit, the spirit of apollo, that america can now help to bring to our relations with other nations...

Among the directors featured as William Wyler. Mark harris joins us to explains his book and this director during world war ii. Enter being with us. Thanks for having me. Who was William Wyler . Of the five directors about whom i write, he was the only jew. He was an immigrant from a small town in a region of france, when he was a boy and a teenager, had been either french or under german occupation. When he came to hollywood and worked his way up and he for the war, it became known as one of th...

Rights leader who organized the union. Hosted by the association for the study of African American life and history, this event is about two hours. Thank you, everybody, for coming here. My name is alan spiers, im the npca has served as leading voice of the American People on behalf of their National Parks since we were founded in 1919. Its our mission to protect and enhance americas parks for current and future generations. We are a very proud partner of the association. They are hosting their ...

Thank you so much, brother ali. So something that kind of ties in to what weve heard so far from the panelists, its great we have all these ideas of whats going on with culture, where he were to go with it, but there seems to be a huge disconnect between the generation thats coming up not as generation y. , a lot of those folks have it known life before the internet. They socialize and interact online. There are lots of selfmade facebook the imams, and then theres this whole new trend know what ...

Purple heart. Matt is our hero because of how he lived, says the reverend who spoke at matts memorial service. He didnt miss life. He lived life. Service was a proud tradition in matts family. His father lowell r. Hanson jr. Served in the army. One of matts brothers is currently active duty army, while the other is in the army reserves. Matt himself was born in germany on a military base. As mary, matts mom puts it, matt to go rogue and join the marines. Matt had a strong work ethic in high scho...

But most of all id like to thank the workers from all the trades that worked hard, utilizing their you training and sack fixing time from their family. On this labor day we can find no finer contribute than to be standing here in the presence of this bridge with pride and dignity thank you. Ill read off some of the list the iron workers local 377 and 78 the operating engineering and the local 34 are the carpenter local 22. The labors 2 61 the cement masonry and i b w locals. All right. Brothers....

Particularly what the apprenticeship numbers are better than i think, many of us thought that they could have been, and i would like to see, i think that we get over all labor hours by county and it would be great to see the apprentice numbers by county as well. And the work on the veterans, is great, and i dont know that it really relates to the pla, but the Intern Program is really phenomenal and for the agency and by the us and web corp and it seems like everyone took it seriously and a lot o...

Semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up...

Walls for each blast. Suspended on ropes, they drilled holes in the rock and loaded them with dynamite. After each explosion these daredevils swarmed over the cliffs, prying loose rock and clearing the walls of debris. In november 1932, the Colorado River was diverted. Under control for the first time in its history, the river flowed around and past the site. Men in trucks dumped earthen rock embankment across the canyon below the openings forcing the river from its age old bed through the huge ...