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Birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters gather for a rare family discussion at Gettysburg College to talk about his military and political career as well as his relevance for 21st century americans. Then on saturday afternoon at 1 00, 60 years ago, rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus to make room for white passengers. Her stand helped instigate the bus boycott as we hear from the attorney for rosa park and demonstrators. Then at ...

[applause] good morning everyone. I would like to welcome you to the National Defense university. I was a senior in high school when nixon did the great linebacker bombing offensive of christmas 1972. Not much better, only slightly. Today i want to talk with you guys about the air wars in vietnam. Given that i was not there, most of you guys were, if i am wrong, please shout out a correction. We have the air boards on vietnam because it is plural. There is no single airport in southeast asia. Th...

Anniversary of the battle of ia drang valley. We are in washington dc. It was in major freeman, think november 1965. You for joining us. I want to ask you about those days. Could you tell me about your training for those types of missions . You had to throw some things out the door and improvise. Tell me what you bought into the battle. Major freeman experience. I did not have the privilege of training for the assault. By commander did. My commander did. They trained for two years. This was a br...

Country, we want to know your story. If you live in the east or central part of the country, dialin at 2027488000. Gotten pacific at 2027488001. If youre outside, we want to hear your story as well. 2027488002. You can also join the conversation in twitter at http twitter. Com cspanwj. Or email us at journal cspan. Org. We will begin this morning with refugees only. Your experience trying to come to the United States or if you are outside the country, but has been your experience so far . If you...

Michael you know, i havent. And i wouldnt. I probably wouldnt to be honest with you. I dont do controversial cartoons just for the sake of controversy. The purpose of cartooning is to reach a message to the audience that will not be overshadowed the controversy surrounding it. Where there may be an opportunity to use mohammed, just the fact of having that in the cartoon would overshadow the point i was trying to make and take away the effectiveness of the cartoon. So it is not that i am not oppo...

Later, congress and the 1965 heart seller immigration and nationality act. Next on American History tv, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell gives a lecture on the rivalry between two kentucky politicians who served as governors and the senate. Senator mcconnell argues that the competition between Happy Chandler and Earle Clements led to the election of Thruston Morton. Well, thank you very much, robert. Its a real pleasure to be here today at transylvania. Want to thank president kerry and tr...

The battle at landing was a clear victory. Though 79 of his men were killed and 129 wounded, the north vietnamese lost ten times that many soldiers. I was the last man out on the last helicopter. He flew back and went to the officers club. Apparently, there was a reception that was not all together, but you expected it to be at the local watering hole. I showed up at this bar, my m16 ripped you have uniform, dirty blood on it. They had a sign on the wall, off limits to dogs, first captain, not n...

Father. How did that happen . Michael im am half japanese. Mexican, and1 4 completely confused. My father was in the military in army intelligence. He met my mother in japan. She lived in the United States. But i was born in tokyo, japan. My older brother and i. The first language i spoke was japanese. You know, its been a long road. I have lived all over the world. It has been good exposure because i lived in belgium, germany, paris, and on and off between the United States and japan. Brian the...

Will be shot. Then they found out who we were and what we had been doing. I was did appoisappointed. I wanted to blow that bar to hell. The second bar toll on, one of two that had relieved moore was much as lz xray to lz albany and they were being deployed to cut off any enemy retreats and they didnt know an ambush was waiting for them. In a matter of minutes, dozens of americans were killed, some by friendly fire as confusion rang on the battle field. And that night the north vietnamese roamed ...

The purpose of cartooning is to reach a message to the audience that will not be overshadowed the controversy surrounding it. Where there may be an opportunity to use mohammed, just the fact of having that in the cartoon would overshadow the point i was trying to make and take away the effectiveness of the cartoon. I am not opposed to using mohammed but i am more for ensuring that the lessons i am trying to communicate gets to the audience. Brian this is a personal question. We will talk about y...