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They are going to talk about this morning. [laughter] mr. Williams but we will be entertained, i can tell you that. So what can we say about two of our very loyal members who have served for a long time on our board of advisors . John marszalek is my dear friend from Mississippi State university and executive director of the ulysses s. Grant association and now the ulysses s. Grant president ial library where i serve as president. And he is recently the editor, along with david nolen and louie o...

Would have been next to impossible to but she created home wherever she was for the family, i guess. Susan swain as is the purview of army spouses i think over the years. Pamela sanfilippo right. Susan swain well, we have one more video of white haven, that beautiful green structure we showed you earlier, but youll have to go to our website to find it. Each week were putting a special feature on our website at cspan. Org first ladies. And we have a video there that will show you the grants life ...

and then the armed version, which is called reaper. and all the different technologies about it. you see this all the time on the news, and ive had students now do dissertations about it, about what does it mean that these people are fighting in afghanistan and killing our enemies from air-conditioned, darkened trailers in las vegas? and how do they feel about it? and what do they say about it? and what is their reaction to it? one of my students who just finished his dissertation last...

>> did ericsson picture in his head the bottom of the ship which was underwater, or did he just imagine the part that was on top? >> very good question. he designed it to be what he called a submarine battery. so the whole conception of the ship was that most of it would be underwater, which allowed the most destructive ways to just sort of flow over the deck and not damage the ship. also, because the turret was there, there wasnt much to shoot at if you were the enemy. so most of the ...

years about the monitor was the work that theyve done here in the museum with children. and in what is now the monitor and pop culture gallery, a few years ago was basically full of childrens art about the "monitor"" versus the "merrimack" battle. and it was just amazing to see how this ship which still speaks to me after i wrote a book about b. it ten years ago and clearly speaks to all the people here in this room still in different ways speaks to children who are learning about it. ...

time. and you know, theres a myth that people say oh, there were 15 -- there were 50 patentable inventions on the ship. nobody actually went through and counted them. but isaac newton once came on board and said, wow, there must be 50 patentable inventions here. and that number has always kind of come down as the classic number. but there were a lot of very interesting modern pieces. some of them worked better than others. and again, its possible that the rudder -- sorry, the anchor co...