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Accomplishment. Thats right. And by the way, in the meantime, alongside 7 and a half million peopling enrolled, healthcare costs under kathleens leadership, are growing at their slowest rate in 50 years. I keep reading things saying that theyre not doing anything about costs, except theyre growing at the slowest rate in 50 years. What does that mean . Thats in part because of kathleens extraordinary leadership. Health records going from dogeared paper to hightech systems. Kathleen partnered with...

Controversial war is a debate that has raged ever since. As the story goes, another familiar tv star is playing him on stage. David martin has reserved us a seat. What the hell is the point of being president if you cant do what is right. The president is Lyndon Baines johnson as played by Brian Cranston. You see him as heroic figure . He went against the norm in a time in the early 60s when he just as easily could have just let it be the status quo. Ahead on sundae morning, the try you have and...

Ifill good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Tonight, gwen leads an extended roundtable discussion on the Civil Rights Act how far the country has come, and how far it has to go. Its really hard to talk to that today to young people because they cant imagine places in atlanta you couldnt go, or shop or try on clothes. Many children in our country still grow up today and maybe college or their first job is the first time that interact with people of another race. Ifill also a...

This is a human tragedy and honestly one of the fastest expensive and so we would urge you to work on that. Finally, i would like to make my last 24 seconds recognizing this through. Last sunday on 60 minutes, there was a feature on a clinic called the health wagon in west virginia. It all started back in the 1980s by a sister who in an old vw would travel around and provide medical services. There was a certain governor early in the decade actually included this program in the state budget and ...

Lyndon johnson developed a reputation as a dmen straightive public speaker with a pension for telling tall tales. His six consecutive terms in the house of representatives and two term as a senator from texas could not erase his down home image. Many democrats in 1960 frowned upon kennedys choice for a man they believed belched allowed, cussed, violated personal space, and never apologized. Once president , he claimed that he did not, want to be the president who built empires or sought grandeur...

Ifill good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Tonight, gwen leads an extended roundtable discussion on the Civil Rights Act how far the country has come, and how far it has to go. Its really hard to talk to that today to young people because they cant imagine places in atlanta you couldnt go, or shop or try on clothes. Many children in our country still grow up today and maybe college or their first job is the first time that interact with people of another race. Ifill also a...

Be compelled to resign and should he now be included . Bloodthere is some bad between congressman issa of california and congressman cummings. That is unfortunate. I view it as an unfortunate sideshow. I dont want to get into whether congressman cummings committed ethical issues. If facts come out that warned that he is somehow engaged in improper conduct, i will change my mind at that point. But for now, the committee continue its investigations, try to get the truth, and the issue whether or n...

City. There were soldiers in the hospital of temporary hospitals set up all over town. Those people started dying. They had to be buried. Earlier in the war and National Cemeteries or established at alexandria virginia and at the old soldiers home in northwest washington. They were planned to accommodate all of those who died in the Washington Area hospitals. What happened was the war went on much longer and was much bloodier than anybody expect it. Up thetty soon filled National Cemetery in ale...

How the world works. Ton they return, they return the brand new mansion so once roosevelt left this site in 1872, at the age of 14, as far as we know, he never returned to the house again. The original house unfortunately went through some changes over the years. Im going to show you some historical photos to help you picture some of those changes. The first photograph dates back to around 1890s. And you can see there was a store front facade and a set of bay windows added to the building. But i...

Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have a...