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Thank you for having me in savannah. Ladies and gentlemen, how about this guy . One more decent round of applause. Cspans washington journal is live every day with news and policy issues that impact me. Coming up, the dr. Professor of peace joins us in the wake of the terror response in brussels and some statements made by donald trump and ted cruz. Then former Homeland Security official nathan sales is with us from boston to discuss the effectiveness of the u. S. Visa Waiver Program in the days...

If we got separated for days. Moron. One sergeant was i right he had demanded he and iran. I saysmitted i was a moron. But he is on top of everything. I have him on the phone. Im not leaving without you. Everybody as soon as i get there we will jump and go down. N i got to the office real jump to the car said he is a and offutes late. I wasnt going to leavee without him i wanted my whole unit together he jumps in the car and off we go the second building came down the right before we got there a...

Anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall to the Supreme Court. The capstone of that particular evening was a rousing lecture by Justice Scalia about the importance of John Marshall to the history of the court and the history of the country. Justice scalia was a grand friend of both the Marshall Foundation and the Supreme Court Historical Society. I hope you will join me in just a moment of silence to remember Justice Scalia. Thank you. We are grateful this evening that the court, chief Ju...

Characters, as well as many articles. Directord as interim at the portrait gallery from may 2012 to march 2013. She received a masters degree in early american culture, and she is a former board member of the print council of america. Reaves . [applause] ms. Reaves thank you so much, kendall, and good evening. Comealways a pleasure to to this lovely place and a particular honor to be asked to help celebrate george. Ashingtons birthday i am very happy to share with you perhaps a slightly differen...

Can, i am quite fond of these. It is actually larger than the old 6. 5 ounce bottles i grew up with. [laughter] mr. Pendegrast and i like them because they hold the fizz and they stay relatively cold, longer. [laughter] mr. Pendegrast let me introduce my other books really quickly. This is actually my latest book, not the new edition of coke. This is a wonderful childrens book, silly sadie. You can find all of this at my website, which is my name. This is a fart joke book. This is a history of c...

I am a history buff. I do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things how they work and how they are made. I love American History tv. I had no idea they did history. Thats probably something i would really enjoy. With American History tv, it gives you that perspective. I may cspan contrast betwee southerners and native americans. Historian edward ayers looks at the end of the civil war and the dawn of the reconstruction era. Reconstruction began as early as the summer and fall of 1864...

Conferences that some of my professionals dont appreciate. I never plant questions. I know many do. The reason i dont plant them is that the answer then is contrived. No one will get away and i would like to have this question asked. The other thing is i also have a feeling that generally speaking, where the question is hard and strong and tough, it gets a better answer. Dont save me from the easy questions where someone is trying to help me. Then the listener says that one of his friends. Watch...

Prof. Garcia the professor has welcome him back, my good friend and colleague. Professor montejano is one of the most distinguished scholars and historians in the country. It is an honor to have him as the keynote speaker for the conference. Histive texan, he received phd in social of the from yale. He also chairs the center for social change at uc berkeley. Prior to teaching at berkeley, he was associate professor at texas, also a director for the center of mexicanamerican studies. His research...

Okay . So lets just go back and look one way to look at this is to look at the maps that i hate which are just Electoral College which suggest that we live in red or blue states, you know, that we are a certain kind of people. Actually you see, this is a more accurate, you see this has west virginia. It may be that we dont have county level data, okay. Are you less confused . Right . What you did is called our attention to the fact there are brand new states that are just voting for the first ti...

Of lyndon and lady bird johnson, andhonorable hubert held, miss lucy baines johnson, daughter of lyndon and lady bird johnson, and the retired Major General of the United States army, the silver star, bronze star, and purple heart recipient. [applause] the archive of this library contains thousands of letters to president. Many of which concern the vietnam war. These reflect the dramatically contrasting views of the war held by americans, including our troops. Dear mr. President , here is a pict...