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Uneasy relationship between Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower a former director of the museum where this event took place. Its a great pleasure to introduce the last speaker. Tim walch received a ph. D. In history from northwestern in 1975. After that he served in various capacities of ne National Archives and records institution part of that large organization. Until his retirement in 2011 beginning as a Program Analyst with the National Historical Public Relations commission, tim served as ...

Partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to andide storage, process catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience. Were halfway there, and we welcome your help. Professor gallagher has received many awards, including the prize for the best book on the civil award for contributions to civil war studies, the lincoln...

American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as yo...

Chance to see the cubs versus cards special rifle. Considering that for a good cause all the backpacks go to underserved kids in the district 186 so please consider bringing some backpacks and please put on your calendars the allamerican picnic table host on Union Square Park on saturday august 19. Saturday august 19. We will have a lot of food and activities ended the night will end with a showing of the classic movie filled with dreams so please come in on august 19 for the continuing debate a...

Ms. Albright so, it was much later when i became secretary of state and the question arose as to where to hold a particular ceremony. The event was to mark natos decision to include poland, and my native hungry as nightmares hungary as new members. I cannot think of a more appropriate place than the truman president ial library in independence, missouri, a place devoted to the man whose vision was responsible for nato. As i stood there, i was so help tothat i cannot use an old czechoslovakia exp...

With what we know about the investigation, adam . Reporter debra, gerald, it was a puzzle how this lifeguard ended up in the pool where she died on saturday. Now, an autopsy report and 911 call released from the investigators are helping put some of the pieces together. Reporter the call came from an employee at the pool just getting to work. The girl that was in this morning is in electrified in some sense. Reporter the police say the girl in the water was 17 yearold rachel rosedal. A lifeguard...

Individual person makes a big difference to the pattern. We had been reading a book on the bridges of World History and we know that there are all kinds of big patterns and we know that it is the job of students to figure out what the big pattern is, because of what happened in our lives, it is so chaotic and quick, we cannot figure out the overall trajectory. Thegs we are looking at is effect of the environment on us, whether it is all the things hurlsre gives nature at us, whether it is a hurr...

[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. I am the Deputy Director at the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Eleventh Annual roosevelt reading festival. When fdr established the first president ial library at his home in hyde park he imagined it being the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era and we are consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial Library System and one of the reasons we love ...

Our entire environment. That only begins with flowers and trees and landscaping. That is from a film created by the Johnson Administration with Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue. She was a natural campaigner, a successful businesswoman, and a savvy political partner to her husband, our 36th president , Lyndon Baines johnson. Good evening and welcome to c spans first ladies. We will tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird, wif...

We had three office staff at the time. We are the personnel and who handled her calendar. We had a person came from the white house and a press secretary who helped work on speeches and then i was in the office. So that chair was usually occupied by one of us a good part of the day as we rotated during projects that she was working on. By friday afternoon she was ready to leave and go to the ranch which she really called home. At about 3 30 in the afternoon she would say, to have anything else t...