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In an age of impersonal campaigns, we offer people the chance to meet the candidates and learn about them. The New Hampshire republican president ial primary. The start of the campaign trail. , thethe beginning candidate who really has been seen and heard by the people of New Hampshire is Richard Nixon. You are about to accompany Richard Nixon on the first leg of his 1968 New Hampshire campaign. You will be with the candidate, his family, and the nixon staff. You will hear what Richard Nixon had...

Washington, d. C. , so we and common core education. Local. Were going to terminate obamacare. We are going to repeal it and replace it with Great Health Care for far less money. Thats going to happen. That is going to happen. Were going to protect our second amendment. Our second amendment. Remember, it is under seizure like you have never seen before and we are going to protect it will stop you know, in paris which has the toughest gun laws in the world. The world. No tougher gun laws they in ...

Television, on cspan, are real people. When we saw president obama, perhaps the thing that most stood out to me is he had bags under his eyes. Hes a real person dealing with real things. Sunday night on q a type High School Students from around the country talk with us about their experiences in the week long government and leadership program, plus their plans for the future. The students met with members of the executive, judicial, and legislative branchs of the government, plus military and me...

General economy, Interest Rates, the regulatory requirements that are imposed and competing local demands in our communities. What is very clear is the annual need for investment in our Water Infrastructure is going to grow dramatically in the coming decades, it will at least triple and possibly quadruple by 2040. Buried no longer, confronting americas Water Infrastructure challenge specifically, it looked at our aging water mains, what that report concluded is that we will require an investment...

A recent symposium about the president s life, career and legacy. He is the author of lincolns last speech this lecture took place at fords theatre and is about 50 minutes. On a rainy night of april 11 1865, president lincoln addressed a crowd for the last time. The speech was remarkably less for his oratorical qualities, stylistically, it was far from his best. Than for the fact with the conflict all but behind him, lincoln was looking forward in more ways than one to human a a wartornng nation...

Hosted by the college of law entitled the new lincoln lectures what lincoln means to the 21st century. We are privileged to be hearing from a remarkably accomplished and ideologically diverse set of national thought leaders on lincolns legacy and his continuing relevance 150 years after his passing. As i said when i introduced our inaugural lecturer bob woodward in january, the law school has chosen to focus these lectures on Abraham Lincoln in part because lincoln undeniably is among the greate...

Than for the fact with the conflict all but behind him, lincoln was looking forward in more ways than one to human a wartorn nation. Three days later, the president would fall to an assassins bullet and the promise of a gentler reconstruction would go unfulfilled. In his current work titled, lincolns last speech wartime reconstruction and the crisis of reunion, dr. Lewis masur performs skillful surgery on mr. Lincolns final address. He analyzes reconstruction in all of its conceptual iterations ...

And tim schultz, president of First Amendment partnership will discuss religious freedom laws in several states and the pushback from opponents who view laws as discriminatory. Then alex rogers with the National Journal will be on to talk about the gop president ial candidates efforts to woo unbound delegates, a process that could determine whether republicans will need to go past a first ballot at a president ial nominating convention for the first time in more than 70 years. Be sure to watch w...

Next, the discussion about the criteria u. S. Voters are using to pick a president ial candidate. From washington journal, this is just under one hour. Rick shenkman is the History News Network founder and author of political animals how our stoneage brain gets in the way of smart politics. Henkman, do shark attacks affect elections . Guest 100 years ago in 1916, the worst fear of shark attacks struck southern new jersey. That everyones had seen was based on the story of what happened then. Week...

Now, landmark cases. Tonight looks at the 1873 slaughterhouse cases. Lead marquesas, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic decisions. Number 759, Ernest Miranda Petitioner Versus arizona. Argument 18, rule against roe versus wade. Quite often, famous decisions took to that the court be quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visu...