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Capehart good evening. His life has been a series of firsts the first African American u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia, the first African American Deputy Attorney general, the first African American attorney general of the United States. His life has been committed to excellence and social justice. Tonight we are here to celebrate a life well lived, and here to help us is the amazing artistry of mr. Raul midon. [playing invisible chains] midon when i was a little boy vivid dreams wer...

Capehart good evening. His life has been a series of firsts the first African American u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia, the first African American Deputy Attorney general, the first African American attorney general of the United States. His life has been committed to excellence and social justice. Tonight we are here to celebrate a life well lived, and here to help us is the amazing artistry of mr. Raul midon. [playing invisible chains] midon when i was a little boy vivid dreams wer...

Bring more and more people into, at least contact with some of these issues. That doesnt mean they will learn the right things but it opens doors. I think back all to what moved the needle. What changed the course of Human History here in our country and its always been popular movements. The civil rights movement, the womens movement, lgbt. Thats just national. Americans linked with people in west africa and even angola during the blood diamond years to help bring about change there. Popular mo...

Up with the latest history news. Pressmer white house secretarys from the ford, reagan, george h. W. Bush, clinton, and Obama Administrations. They talk about how the position has changed over time. Nesson,ls include ron fitzwater, mike mccurry, and robert gibbs. This was hosted by the national archives. In the words lets go to work. I thought we would start the way we usually end these things. By saying thank you. This is the week we recognize the service of people who served our country in uni...

[ applause ] and im thinking that there are others here who served if you served in any of the administrations represented here, will you be known to us . Will you just briefly give us a little wave . [ applause ] and we say thank you. Thank you. Well talk about the whole relationship between the media and press secretaries. If there are any press secretaries here, whether you served on capitol hill or in the white house, elsewhere, can we make yourself and if you especially returned my phone ca...

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There to find their way into the site. But i am keenly aware when i write about china now i am being read not but just by my motherinlaw but by chinese. And i think that does raise your game. Again, i hope by it takes me back to a that you question ducked earlier on new technology and the effect that has. The New York Times benefited from the wikileaks story. The New York Times decided that it would send a team of reporters to another newspaper in england where the information already was, so it...

The National Federation of independent business when they challenged the Affordable Care act all the way up to the Supreme Court. Host given all that experience, professor barnett, what do you think of the constitution . Guest like the constitutional law. I like it more than those who want to change it by creating interpretations of what is supposed to mean by eliminating large parts of the constitution. Host heres your book, by the way, restoring the lost consultation the presumption of liberty...

Booktvs after words. Historian harlow under recounts how George Washington transform the office of the president. All this and more on booktv on cspan2 this weekend. The full schedule is available at booktv. Org. Most people dont understand how it works. A lot of people write books and spend the next two years trying to get somebody to publish their books. I have never experienced that. People say how do you get a book published . I say look, but i finally felt i had something. Write books for t...

Four years. Most cabinet secretaries dont stay past the first term. We have an interesting moment where the president asked the secretary to stay on anything shes been doing a fantastic job. He says will you stay and someone told us he didnt put the screws to her this time and she didnt want to stay. Guest we had a situation where leon panetta told him on election day that he wasnt going to stick around and the successor susan rice the one that obama wanted to put into the job was getting absolu...