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Completion said there was really no Church Involvement there. Im not trying to depricate the church. Im asserting it played a central role but i dont want to give a tribute of monopoly of leadership to the church. In both reconstructions, the enthusiasm of white northerners started to wane, to decline when the price of black advancement rose. In the 1870s, we talked about the way in which just the need to police the white south became a price that was greater than what many white northerners wer...

And taught High School History in new york. He is also native of new york and an Intelligence Officer in the naval reserves and the book he is going to talk about tonight is his first book and were really pleased to have charles here, the author of nation builder. John quincy adams and the grand strategy of the republic. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you very much for the introduction and also for helping me set up here this evening. Id also like to say im really excited to be here at island bo...

On drugs people rarely change their mind to say that is wrong but that criminalization of marijuana is probably next then gayrights it is not that i feel oppressed ive lived in l. A. [laughter] but you hear how they dont have morals. At all conversations coming up next on booktv after words, White House Correspondent april ryan recounts her 25 year career in journalism at the president ial administration shes covered. Shes interviewed by anne compton former White House Correspondent for abc news...

Lecture on president Lyndon Johnsons war on poverty. Next melvin ely compares the reconstruction and civil rights eras. Its just over an hour. Here we are at the end of the 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 a...

I dont think we should have to choose between foreign subjects and domestic subjects. If you look at your programs, theres an amazing range of panels. I want you cant. So many issues we can cover, should cover. Have the expertise within our community to cover. I just dont buy this false choice that so many in our communities, in the uk, in europe and north america which is, weve got to have this debate about gaza and nothing else or about iraq and nothing else. Weve got to go in the media, only ...

There are group van jones are involved with are somewhere else and then there in the middle is the constitution project which tries to bring these groups together and this panel today really represents a cross spectrum view of this problem and, i will introduce the Panel Members as we go on but i have to say from the beginning, our representative from koch, represents a group that has been in interested in criminal Justice Reform from the beginning, families against mandatory minimums was really...

Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years ...

Matthew lee joins us to discuss the palestine conflict. Well talk with ed bingle a former customs and Border Protection official but minors crossing the border. Piece piece. Every morning on cspan at 7 00 eastern. President obama on monday awarded the medal of honor to formal active duty Sergeant Ryan pits. He held off the taliban during an attack on his unit. He the ninth recipient to be award awarded for the war in iraq or afghanistan. He is of the chosen few to receive this honor today as the...

Revenue. Last year we based our budget on an anticipated Revenue Growth of 3. 4 percent. That was in keeping with our pattern of conservative budgeting. So when fiscal year 2014 ended, our actual revenue was 4. 8 percent. That differential between what we spent and what we collected is deposited into our Rainy Day Fund. Every budget cycle since i have been governor we have added to that fund so that it has increased by 643 percent since i took office. [applause] annual Revenue Growth, coupled wi...

Of questions that feel a little complementary to me. One may even partially answer the other. First one is how do you balance religious freedom against islams desire to take over the world . The second one is, given your description of what islam is and does, how can it be considered a religion . Thats a very good question. Number one, i think we should define in america what a religion should be. And ill tell you what my definition will be. A religion will be given the respect in america to be ...