Colleague Steve Birkenau teaches at the Army War College in fort leavenworth. He welcomed me to cal state northridge in 2000 and pretty much taught me how to be a professor. I appreciate that. The other person i really appreciate is my ophthalmologist. If you buy the book, you know the book is dedicated to my ophthalmologist. Terrible series of eye surgeries a few years ago and he literally saved my vision and my life as i want to live it so a shout out to him. Look him up. He is the best there is. I think i will talk specifically tonight not on all of the different aspects of the Wallace Campaign but to give you a sliver in particular on wallaces tour through the south in august and september of 1948. Openingways, it was an for what became the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Theres plenty of time for questions at the end and i would any things onwer american communists which is a big part of the book and Foreign Policy and the cold war. Tonight, my focus will be primarily on the s
People an opportunity to play around with this fancy software that you use. It made me think about is the pipeline of young talent like you there . What should we do to enhance it . If it is not, what should be . Great question. I think for me, the key to making more people like me well, actually, i do that not cloning, but my wife and i have a whole Program Based on that. [laughter] im sure my wife is just loving that right now. Over sharing, right . I think the most important thing that we can give our young people is a thirst, a drive to search for that which is awesome, that which brings awe and wonderment today. Whether they find that in music, politics, literature, or in the sciences and engineering, im not very concerned because our nation is filled with inspired young people who are driven to see what they can do will be a great nation and will make the world a better place. To the extent that our efforts exploring mars, putting a rover named curiosity as our curiosity help tou
Up next, a look at nasas efforts to explore the planet mars. First, remarks by one of the senior engineers who worked on the curiosity rover. Then, nasa administrator Charles Bolden and others on the longterm plan to send a manned mission to the red planet. This is about two hours and 20 minutes. Were going to talk about mars for the next few minutes. This is adam steltzner, who is an engineering fellow at the laboratory in pasadena, california. You probably know him as the fellow who invented that crazy contraption that helped to land the curiosity rover on mars. First of all, can you tell us how do you beat that . What have you been doing since the landing . A couple of things no one person ever invents anything. It is always a great team effort. That is one of the beauties of engineering, its collaborative art. Any ideas from many, many people combine to make these great things that look great through and look crazy, but are fantastic, come out of the minds of many folks. What i hav
Agenda in washington. Reporter it was a sweep for republicans when you look at the map. You see them turning red. That number, it can only increase, as three races in virginia, louisiana, and alaska, the yellow states here, are still undecided. Now republican Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky, is expected to become the new Senate Majority leader. Today, he and the president talked about the new political landscape, and their efforts to try to Work Together to get things done. [ music ] reporter colorado, arkansas, north carolina. We have swept this nation with a compelling Senate Majority. Reporter the republican tide rolls across the nation, giving the gop control of both houses of congress. Today, the president said he got the message, and vowed to find Common Ground with republicans. Im eager to work with the new congress to make the next two years as productive as possible. Reporter he also cautioned that cooperation will have its limits. Congress will pass some bills i cannot sign. Im p
Projects that have lagged behind the target in particular and those do happen to be our water supply projects which is front and sent ner the discussion right now. So the concern is well taken and i want to assure you that were going to bring these projects to successful completion. I would like to add with those projects, we knew about those hazards quite some time ago, and so the progression of time is getting a bit unmanageable in my point of view. Can i just respond to her. Keep in mind, there were 80 so projects that weve been marching and completing and, you know, making some major progress. The ones that weve been having issues with, weve been reporting on. Weve been reporting on and the main one is calvarise. That is something that, you know, weve been working with bsawsca and our stakeholders, and we want to built it in a way that it can withstand a seismic event as it was intended on. While been fine ago lot of trace faults which weve been addressing, so do you want to talk m