Happy leap day. [laughter] what could be better than a bonus day and some real meaningful history content . Its like a double win for me. I love it. Im thrilled to have you all here to your museum of history and culture. My name is jamie bosket. I have the pleasure of being the president and ceo here. Im just going to kick it off. We have awesome speakers for this collaboration. But i will point out since i see some new faces that are not our usual here at this museum that you are gathered here today in the oldest Culture Institution in the commonwealth of virginia. We are older by about a decade than the smithsonian. We are older than half of the states of this country. In fact, and this is rather interesting to consider of the historical overlaps within the topic we approach today. Our first president of the Virginia Historical society was in fact chief justice John Marshall. He served from 1831 until his death just a few years later. But beyond that, and this happens to us so often
The maryland state fire marshals. Services for him are going on right now in rockville. Wolf was a special agent with an 11 year tenure at the federal bureau of investigation. Friends and family are gathering now at the church of the redeemer in gaithersburg. Wolf was involved in a minor crash and was pulled over on i 260. Cohen pulled over to help. A driver struck and killed both of them while trying to avoid a traffic back up. State flags will be flown at half staff to honor them. Now first alert weather rated d. C. s most accurate forecast. Probably reaching a high for today temperatures into the mid 40s. Colder air moving this afternoon. A little disturbance last night with some flakes. This morning a few flurries and this next disturbance clouds along with it. A mix of sun and clouds but the winds are bringing in colder temperatures. We were 44 hours ago and dropped down to 41. The mid 30s in german town and least burg and closer to 40 from north beach it doesnt feel like that it
Good afternoon. Welcome to the theater here at the National Archives, and the archivist of the united exhibit is a pleasure to welcome you here goes a few that are here in the theater into those of you joining us on a station and a special welcome to our cspan audience. Before we get to todays discussion i would like to know about two other programs coming up soon. Professor chris myers and George Musgrove will be here to talk about their book the history of greece and democracy in the Nations Capital. It is a tumultuous story of race and democracy in washington, d. C. A city that has often served as a National Battleground for contentious issues including slavery and segregation, civil rights and the drug war. After a twoyear absence, the original emancipation proclamation will be on display during president s day weekend. Dont miss this rare opportunity to see the original that will be made available for viewing on the 17th and 18th and 19th between the hours of ten and 5 30 each day
Maclean here this evening for this marvelous new book, democracy and change. I have made no secret of just how important i think this book is in my humble opinion. We are doing our best. Turn off the air conditioning there . [inaudible conversations] okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics you might now is on the Durham City Council for eight years in a previous lifetime. [applause] it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent and understand where they are coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows i think that our understanding of what is called sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right has been very limited and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. So i think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read th
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