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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 ...

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...

Sign of the civil war thats raging inside the gop. And the pope does politics. God bless america. Why this visit to the United States was like no other. Joining me for insight and analysis are david brooks of the New York Times. Andrea mitchell of nbc news. Cnbcs Andrew Ross Sorkin and Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning and what a show we have for you today. Hillary clinton, Carly Fiorina, the speaker of the house resigning, scott w...

And the pope does politics. God bless america. Why this visit to the United States was like no other. Joining me for insight and analysis are david brooks of the New York Times. Andrea mitchell of nbc news. Cnbcs Andrew Ross Sorkin and Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning and what a show we have for you today. Hillary clinton, Carly Fiorina, the speaker of the house resigning, scott walker dropped out, by the way, and we have our late...

Overwhelming against it. I was drug czar, director of National Drug control policy, 8 990. We didnt have this kind of research then. We had some, smattering. But now it is overwhelming, the harm that marijuana does. And i just have to believe or want to believe the American People are not informed of these facts. And so the point of the book was to get these facts out so they can make a second judgment on this, an informed decision. Let me get to the end of my story. I think in colorado which ha...

Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs on journalism publishing, World Leaders and more, and today we continue our live festival coverage with author panels on u. S. History, california history and crime. Youll also be able to talk with authors such Azzam Quinones and ben shapiro. Theyll sit down with us on our outdoor set to answer your questions via twitter and by ...

Declared an hour and a half ago and protestors moved on peacefully saying they are headed to other universities next. Dozens of uc students and employees came to protest outside the meeting at ucsf f this morning blocking streets but the regents werent discussing a tuition hike. The good thing in my view about prop 30 is it allows us in the student and Worker Movement to now go on the offensive. We are not just protesting against new cuts. We are demanding rollbacks of tuition. Reporter prop 30 ...

Real money. This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show, to tell us what is on your mine by tweeting at, and facebook. Com. This was a day of protests in cities across america and around the world. Hundreds of fastfood workers demanding higher pay walked off of their jobs. It was part of a cou court coordinated one day strike. Here in the United States labor organizers from the service employ International Union join the protest to call for raising the minimum wage in thi...

This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show, to tell us what is on your mine by tweeting at, and facebook. Com. This was a day of protests in cities across america and around the world. Hundreds of fastfood workers demanding higher pay walked off of their jobs. It was part of court coordinated one day strike. Here in the United States labor organizers from the service employ International Union join the protest to call for raising the minimum wage in this country to 15 an...

This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show, to tell us what is on your mine by tweeting at, and facebook. Com. This was a day of protests in cities across america and around the world. Hundreds of fastfood workers demanding higher pay walked off of their jobs. It was part of court coordinated one day strike. Here in the United States labor organizers from the service employ International Union join the protest to call for raising the minimum wage in this country to 15 an...