What is necessary to reduce the hatred in this world. To curb the violence. May he watch over this country that we call home. Thank you very much, everybody. Cspans washington journal. Live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. The executive director of gun coowners of america. Plus, the executive director of the human rights campaign. He talks about the orlando nightclub shooting and what concerns his organization has. Afghan ambassador to the u. S. Will share his perspective on the shooting in orlando, the future of afghanistan, and the war against the taliban. The sure to watch washington journal. 20 discussion. Join the discussion. The u. S. Faced more than a decade of challenges during reconstruction. Institute is at that time had a lasting effect on u. S. History. American history tv on cspan3 is live from Gettysburg College for the annual Civil War Institute summer examine topics freedffected our newly country. Reconstruction in the north with a professor of his
The Republican Party has been beat in the 1892 election. Grover cleveland has come into office, mcclellan has been the governor of ohio. The republicans think that the election of 1896 is going to be dares and he wants to be the nominee, but is not the front runner. Hes not the favor of the party bosses. Next, artist Joel Iskowitz tells the stories behind designing a congressional gold medal. He spoke at the museum of American Finance in new york city, for just over an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome, welcome to our friends from the cspan audience and what that means for our audience is during the q a period please wait for the microphone sorry one can hear. I am david cowan, president of museum of American Finance and im joined by the founder in the audience today. I will show you one of our most cherished items in this is a bond from about 220 years ago signed by the father of our country, George Washington. This is George Washingtons bond and then about 60 years ago this is
Next from st. Paul minnesota with the help of our local cable partner comcast we talked to carole connolly. I turned a corner and suddenly without warning i stand this whole amir and there it is my mothers face staring back at me in disbelief. The phase i once swore i would never have. Carole connolly the poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota. What is a poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota . Guest at all sort of started when a legislator put a bill in the legislature to make a poet laureate since many states have one. The governor at the time vetoed saying next youll be asking for a poet dancer and a poet potter and even though making a poet laureate cost no money to the state because it goes through commission. Theres absolutely no cost to anyone. A friend of mine had a meeting with Chris Coleman and she said we should have a poet laureate and he said done. Thats how hard i had to work to get appointed. Host what is a poet laureate do . Guest you can do whatever you want. People do Diffe
He didnt want a biography. He wanted a story of his life of flight. He failed anything that he did any of the astronauts could have done so he wanted them to get equal credit. He was that type of a guy. He never thought of himself as being anything special but he wanted the story of flight told him we were going to do it and when he passed away we had already worked one chapter out and i decided to go ahead because and do the flight because people suddenly they made sense. I looked around mike and all the people from a poll of practically all of them are gone. We have to realize that over half the people on the planet werent even here when he walked on the moon. The other asked it not said jay if you dont do it who else is going to do a quicks jim calls it a great book and adds to neils legacy. We did our level best to try to get this done for the history. We have had a heavy Library Event sale so thats great. We were trying to get neils story in a library for history and hopefully we
Evolved outwe have of this institution, out of this movement, to help make the world a better place. The one thing we did not do, and we do not understand, poverty. The world from the triple evils of racism and war and poverty. We didnt understand poverty because we dont understand economics. The economics that you all are being taught is probably irrelevant to the future of the world in which we live. Get mad if you want to. Think about it. [laughter] you are talking about ,ationalist european economist in a Global Economy where they can transfer more wealth over cell phones than existed at the time your textbooks were written. , take us to the next stage. I challenge you to let the leadership for a Global Vision of a Global Economy that feeds the hungry, clothe the naked, feels the sick, sets at liberty those who are oppressed, i hope somehow from some of your minds and souls and spirits, that kind of economy might emerge. God bless you. [applause] u. S. Xt, a discussion on diplomacy