Ps, i appreciate it very much your coming to see me. It gave me a list. At his private writing, truman would write saw Herbert Hoover day before yesterday and had a pleasant instructive conversation on food and the general troubles of u. S. President s two in particular. We discussed our prima donnas and what makes them. Some of the boys are having problems with their dignity and prerogative. It is hell when a man gets in Close Association with the president. Truman likes to use hell a lot in his writing. Historians have faulted him for the exact details of this meeting. Certainly he recorded the spirit of the occasion. The call, the respect, the urgency, the drama, and even the humor. He noted that hoover rumor the way to the oval office. That hoover remembered the way to the oval office. Announcer watch this and other American History programs on our website, where all our video is archived at cspan. Org history. Questions frame their journey through the gayry. Gallery. How do people
Like davis creek they are almost wiped out. It just came down through this area just like an ocean wave more or less. People write in here, they do not have a chance, they took all these houses through here. Monday night, on the communicators, mark jamieson, a visiting scholar at aei on net neutrality. He is interviewed by david shepherdson. Take for example, that generation wireless. 5g. It is a technology that will start being bowled out next year and it will be in place for about a decade or so, it has slices. Each slice can be customized with ridiculous service or a particular customer or an edge provider, whatever it might be. It was designed to do that. That violates the idea of the treatment. That is gross net neutrality. Was the communicators at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. , in the second of a twopart of theo the Museum American revolution, Scott Stephenson leads us on a tour 1776ing the exhibit from through 1778. We asked the visitors in the galleries and questions to frame the
Ebook and 5 off lit fest merchandise. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. T if theres time at the end for a q a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone locateed to your right. Before we begin todays program, we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off yourdi cameras flashes. Please welcome associate professor at the university of chicago and todays interviewer, jean daley. [applause] hi, thank you. I am here with david daley, no relationing, who is the no relation, who is the editorinchief of salon and has published this new book. Theres been some controversy on how to say the title, but i think im just going to say rat fd. So thats quite a story. You tell us a bit about how you came to write the story. Absolutely, thank you. What really interested me was my own confusion over what happened in 2012. You have a president who was reelected with 332 electoral votes by 206, wins the popular vote by some 3. 5 million, the democrats take 25 of
National galleria of art was a gift to the American People from financier Andrew Mellon who served as treasury secretary until 1932. Up next, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait painting and the work of John Singleton copley. Dianne hello. I am dianne stevens. We are standing in a room full of portraits by John Singleton copley, americas most important colonial portrait painter. I think as we look around the room, you can think back to the words of john adams, 1817, who said when you see his portraits, you want a discourse with him. You want to ask him questions and receive answers. Let me give you some background. In the early part of the 18th century, early american painters without much background and training made ambitious but tentative efforts to capture likenesses on canvas because portraiture was really the only way to do that. It was the most important type of painting in the colonies. There was a great flourishing of activity that became elevated to a l
Live from the National World war ii museum, saturday, november 7, beginning at 11 a. M. Eastern here on cspan three. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Dedicated on march 17, 1941, the National Gallery of art was a gift to the American People from financier Andrew Mellon who served as treasury secretary from 1921 until 1930 1932. Up next, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait painting and the work of John Singleton copley. Dianne hello. We are standing in a room full of portraits, and i think that we can think back to 1917. He said, you see these portraits and you expect answers. I dont think i could put it better than that. Let me give you background. Early painters, without much backward without much training made ambitious, but two captureperts portraits on canvas and this was the most important type of painting in the colonies. There is a great flourishing of portrait activity that became elevated to the level