Building was named for everett dirksen, quite a popular figure at the time, a deep mellifluous voice, a great orator. He won a grammy award for a record he did that was just ,eading patriotic sheet music patriotic speeches with music playing in the background. It was quite popular at the time. Senator dirksen down through the years, there have been men brave, gallant men who have died that others might be free. Mr. Ritchie he was known as the spirit of lose. He was the minority leader in the senate. A very small minority. Usually 35 or 36 senators on his side of the aisle, which out of 100 is a very small minority, but his boat was critical back in the day when you needed two stop a filibuster. If the senate was going to stop a filibuster on civil rights, they needed everett dirksen. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 once dirksen came on board, once he agreed to whatever the compromise was, enough votes would come on board for the majority to prevail. Everett dirksen, even though he was onl
Just to make a reactive or simply journal lis stick response but something that is floepfully greater than the sum of its parts, you begin to realize that almost everything you thought you knew was not true. And wednesday, a look at the war from the perspective of those who fought it and u. S. Foreign relations after the war and those with vietnam. Thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, our real america series looks at the 1975 Church Committee hearings convened to look at the activities of the cia, irs, fbi and nsa. And with the africanAmerican History and culture opening friday 8 00 p. M. Eastern all Day Conference with talks on africanamerican religion, politics, culture and religion. I couldnt get that out of my mind, that my students were thinking that somehow this africanAmerican History wasnt real because it there was no textbook textbook as there was in all of these American History courses taught in the department of history. And so i decided to write a real textbook. For the complet
May 27 is Memorial Day, honoring those American soldiers who sacrificed their lives in while seriving their country. Today’s article remembers a few of those heroes in Adam Makos’ books
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