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Resignation. Is tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan 3s American History tv. Now on american artifacts, we visit the Smithsonian National Postal Museum to learn about its collections and its new space, the william h. Gross stamp gallery. The largest stamp gallery in the world. Welcome to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. My name is allen kane, im the director of the museum. Youre standing in our newest gallery, the william h. Gross stamp gallery. We have almost 6 million postag...

Coming up next on American History tv, a conversation about the book the Classical Liberal constitution the for limited est government. Author, are the books theodore pstein, and ruger. This hour and 15 Minute Program was hosted by the National Constitution center. It was moderated by its president. Welcome to the National Constitution center. Im jeffrey rosen, tthe present is wonderful institution. It is so great to welcome you a the keynote event of blockbuster fall cycle. The National Constit...

Edith gelles, she is a Stanford University historian and the scholar at Clayman Institute for gender research. She is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and books among them are portia the world of Abigail Adams, which one the award from the american historical association, also Abigail Adams writing life, and also abigail and john portrait of a marriage. Edith has appeared widely in the media talking about the adamses. Among her appearances has been cspans first ladies series. I would li...

Welcome to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. My name is allen kane, im the director of the museum. Youre standing in our newest gallery, the william h. Gross stamp gallery. We have almost 6 million postage stamps. The images on the stamps tell the story, history, heritage and the heroes of this country. It is pure education. Pure education. We are a history museum. So, we use those stamp images and what we do in exhibits and programs is try to teach people about history. Our goal here is t...

The 45 Minute Program was cohosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Abigail Adams historical society. I will start by introducing our first speaker, if in bullock is the author of revolutionary brotherhood freemasonry, and also the author of american revolution. In addition to being a fulbright scholar in japan, he has also served at many venues, including on Good Morning America and all things considered. Our other speaker is a doctorate at the university of melbourne and has spe...

85 of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is driven by health care and retirement entitlements and interest on the debt. So thats where reforms need to target. To balance the budget before the end of the decade, we saw in the last house budget, it takes more than 5 trillion in cuts. That is assuming you start cutting right away. If you decide to cut in future years and not address spending next year, it takes bigger cuts to get to that ballpoint. So the sooner lawmakers can sta...

Its entirety. 2. 6 trillion is medicare, medicaid, Social Security and interest on the debt. Interest on the debt by the way is scheduled to approach 1 trillion within a tenyear period of time, within the budget window. All of that money we cant use for something else. So 3. 6 is the big number and 2. 6 is what we spent for the debt and right around a trillion for Everything Else. So when you think about the federal government and you think about roads and energy and education and National Defen...

You just wrote a book that says a lot of what the government does may not do any good and we spend i omitted the word may. Isnt there some point of having a Budget Constraint here which says to the congress, ok look, live within these things and lets spend more on the stuff that works and doesnt. Thats kind of the idea. Right. A, sent that a good idea . And b, why doesnt that ever happen . Why doesnt it ever happen . Why dont they set priorities and spend more on what they should and less on wha...

Welcome to the San Francisco Historic Preservation commission for october 8, 2014, my name is 23450er8 or mark farrell im joined by supervisor mar and supervisor avalos thank you Jennifer Lowe for covering this meeting and announcements . Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. All files and documents to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 21st board of supervisors agenda otherwise stated and madam clerk item one. A resolution approving and authorizin...

Guidelines to combine all them into the integrated plan its the second resolution approving that plan we did have a very involved Community Process for that we had Many Community meetings and an active Advisory Committee and stakeholders presentations including the health and the b cb provider a posting for Public Comment and Public Mental Health building it has gone through a lot of Community Processes the plan talks about the process in San Francisco to 40 the program from housing to preventio...