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It is my great honor to welcome our guests, too many of you here and i am proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, our 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. He has dedicated his career to Public Service, serving eight u. S. President s. He leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence, his unwavering dedication to our nation earned him the trust and devotion of our Armed Services his ...

1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. These commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who di...

Chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship we look to now and for the future. He had dedicated his career to Public Service, serving eight u. S. President s. He leads with a restless monster his unwavering dedication earned him the trust and devotion of our armed services. His career of Service Began early at william and mary. Not many know that he drove the and countiess city gold is when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts in that senator norman was...

Future of Representative Democracy. This was part of a recent forum hosted by the college of william and mary in williamsburg, virginia. It is 90 minutes. My great honor to ,elcome our distinguished guest and to our love it caps on arena it caps on arena and i am enormously proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, william and marys 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for states statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. His dedicated h...

Rooted in the simultaneous pursuit of liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning columnists they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the sa...

Pursuit of both liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, a ship arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white land owning colonists. And here those enslaved africans joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have th...

The 400th anniversary of virginias first General Assembly held at jamestown. Explore our nation passed on American History tv, every weekend, on cspan3. Next on American History tv, Colonial Williamsburg historical interpreters talked about portraying 18th century African American life. Colonial williamsburg hosted this event. [drumming] [speeding percussion] [drumming story sounds] great [drumming] foreign language] carter woodso [drumming] carter woodso [drumming] [drumming] [applause] [applau...

Compassionate intelligence, his unwavering dedication to our nation earned him the trust and devotion of our Armed Services his career of Service Began early at william and mary, not many know that he drove a school bus while he was a student, and that he was an assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and a senator as one of his voice gets boy scouts. After graduating in 1965, he joined the cia and was the first career officer to scale the ranks to become this director. He served as presiden...

[ bells tolling ] good morning. I am kirk cox, speaker of the Virginia House of delegates. Im absolutely delighted to welcome everyone here at jamestown settlement in the recreated church in james fort and those viewing these proceedings online or watching from beyond for the 400th anniversary today. Of the first and oldest continuous Representative Legislature body in the western hemisphere is our forefathers did on this very day 400 years ago, we assembled right here at the birthplace of ameri...

Share our appreciation for friends and partners gathered today and acknowledge the leadership of the administration, the General Assembly, american evolution and jamestown your town foundation. Our special appreciation to our partners managing historic jamestown, the National Parks servic service, tribal represents, descendants and members of the society. On this site 400 years ago. Twishd speakers to follow me will kpir the importance of those proceedings and the direct influ i will focus on th...