Was put on machine guns, the regulation. We havent had a mass killing with a machine gun since. I feel these socalled assault weapons that have certain characteristics should fall in that category and be banned. Thank you mr. Heslin, thank you very much. At one point steinbeck had to write a small paragraph that said basically, people are asking what happened. This was after his wife joined him in seattle and when he says we get is not charlie and john. And somebody must have said tim hey wheres charlie . Yes disappeared. Stained steinbeck wrote a a page and a half of legal tablet saying people thats what happened to charlie. When my lady fair join me in Seattle Charlie took his third position in the family and he is fine. Obviously that never appeared in the book is what they didnt do is the editors went in and just expunged elaine entirely from the west coast, almost 30 days of elaines presents with john on the west coast. They werent camping out and they werent in america they were basically on vacation. Host rosa parks civil rights leader and activist will be commemorated in a statue unveiled today in the capital. Here now to tell us more about the sculpture and processes eugene dog. Good morning, thank you. Host tell us how you were selected to create this piece the sculpture of rosa parks . Guest im sorry repeat that. Host how were you when your firm selected to create the sculpture . Guest it was decided by the nea and it was a National Competition and i believe there were over 150 entries and then it was narrowed down to five finalists. Those five finalists competed and that is how we ended up getting it. This will be in statuary hall in the capitol building. I am learning from the l. A. Times the first fullsize statue of an africanamerican in the capital collection in more than 180 statues. What did it mean to you to create a . First of all its the first africanamerican woman in statuary hall in the resident capital and century hall and i think is one other in the capital. But it is a tremendous honor and privilege to have done this and i am very excited about today. Host we will see the unveiling in a couple of hours, 11 00 a. M. And cspan will be sharing that. The president will be in attendance and leaders in congress. What did you learn about rosa parks when you were going in the creative process, what did you want to communicate through your p. s . Guest quiet strength and dignity, sort of a resolution is determined look and not anything unpleasant or challenging. Just a quiet determined person who had a tremendous amount of courage. Host of course the story from the l. A. Times reminds us that rosa parks made history back in 1955 by refusing to move to the back of the bus and she is making history again this week when her statue was unveiled in the u. S. Capital. We have not gotten to see the finished product yet, not until the unveiling in a few hours. What were the logistics involved in getting across the country from california where you work and also getting it set up in the capital is. Guest well my partner came out several days ago to coordinate the moving of it and she was in a warehouse in a crate for a little while here in washington. I wasnt here but i saw some photographs. They had a large crane and she weighs 2700 pounds. So they lifted her up with one of those long extension cranes, narrowly guided her into statuary hall. Host eugene daub your firm has done other sculptures. It any significant in your experience as this one . Guest well you know i dont think there is any as highprofile as highprofile as this one for sure. We have done jefferson and lincoln and louis and clark and a lot of other wonderful famous and important people but for some reason russo creates a stir and i think its timely with black History Month and her 100th anniversary that she Everybody Loves her right now and remembers her. Host eugene daub sculpture of the rows of parked statute next you will be unveiled at 11 00 this morning as we mentioned leaders of congress and president obama will be on hand. Thanks so much for talking to us today. Guest thank you. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please welcome our honored guests, members of the United States house of representatives, members of the United States senate, the speaker of the United States house of representatives and the president of the United States. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen the speaker of the United States house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. Hello everybody. Thank you. Good morning and welcome to the United States capital. This is a red letter day for the American People and im glad that you are all here and are taking part in the celebration. Since the error of reconstruction, this chamber which once was the hall of the house of representatives, has become home to statues sent by the states. Today we gather to dedicate a national statute of the late rose parks to the cause of freedom. Its the first statue of an africanamerican woman to be placed in this capitol. [applause] [applause] [applause] we are honored today to be joined by the president of the United States and members of his administration. [applause] this is a homecoming of sorts for ms. Parks who for more than 20 years was an assistant to representative john conyers of michigan. [applause] and i want to thank all the members of congress who are here and all who worked to make this day possible. Also with us today are Eugene Eugene daub sculpture and dr. Firm and the codesigner of the statue. [applause] i think its safe to say that this wasnt just any project and these gentlemen certainly rose to the occasion. Gentleman, please rise to the occasion. [applause] to entail a statue we will be joined by steve keyes and Elaine Steele a longtime friend. [applause] Elaine Steele a longtime friend of ms. Parks and cofounder of the rows are and Raymond Parkes institute of cell development. Thank you both for joining us and thanks to all for civil rights guests who honor us today with your presence. Every now and then we will stop back and say to ourselves, what a country. This is one of those moments. Because yes all men and women are created equal but as we will hear during the ceremony, some grow to be larger than life and to be honored as such. Welcome. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please stand for the presentation of the colors by the United States color guard, the singing of the National Anthem and the retiring of the colors. [background sounds] oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars thro the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof thro the night that our flag was still there o say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [background sounds] ladies and gentlemen please remain standing as the chaplain of the United States senate dr. Barry black gives the invocation. Let us pray. Oh mighty god, sovereign of our nation and lord of our lives, thank you for this opportunity to place a statue in the u. S. Capitol building that honors a gifted, courageous and talented woman, rosa aluise parks. We praise you lord for infusing her with the resolve to sit down so that millions could stand up, helping to launch a nationwide effort to win the segregation of public facilities. We are grateful for her commitment to bring deliverance to those held captive by in justice, to restore the site of the ethically and morally blind and to bind the wounds of those bruised by the sins of omission, committed by good people who failed to act. May her life and legacy inspire us to courageously tackle the challenges of our times, laboring to ensure that justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. We pray in your sovereign name, amen. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen please remain seated for the unveiling of the statue. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen the statue of rosa parks. [applause] ladies and gentlemen the United States army chorus. [applause] [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen the assistant democratic leader of the United States house of representatives the honorable james clyburn. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Mr. President , speaker boehner, leader pelosi, leaders reid and mcconnell, friends and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, this is a good time and a great place to honor the most honorable woman. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the us signing of the emancipation proclamation which jumpstarted a march to freedom for many who, while in servitude, built this great edifice. This year is the 50th anniversary for the march on washington and advent in our quest for human dignity. Rosa parks, the first lady of civil rights, the mother of the movement, the saint of an endless struggle, however one wished to referred to her the statue forever ordains rosa parks as an icon of our nation struggles to live out its declaration that we are all created equal. One hour ago, i sat across the street witnessing the opening arguments of a Voting Rights case before the United StatesSupreme Court, a case that many feel could turn the clock back on much of the progress that has been made and for which we pause today to honor rosa parks. The struggle goes on. The movement continues. The pursuit is not over. To honor rosa parks in the fullest manner, each of us must do our part to protect that which has been gained, defend the great documents on which those were obtained and will continue our pursuit of a more Perfect Union. [applause] ladies and gentlemen the democratic leader of the United States house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. [applause] good morning. Mr. President , leader boehner, leader mcconnell, mr. Speaker, my colleague mr. Clyburn and house and senate and distinguished guests, thank you mr. Speaker for making this day possible. Thank you so much. [applause] one distinguished guests who is not with this but maybe has come late is john lewis,. We were on the steps of the Supreme Court and mr. Clyburn stayed and mr. John lewis is Holding Forth over there now and its an honor to serve in the congress of the United States was john lewis. [applause] and it is a joy to be here to honor rosa parks. When rosa parks was a little baby, her mother sang a hymn of freedom, let it ring. She would hear that hymn in church as she grew up. It became the anthem of her life and the mission of her life. As rosa parks would say years later, i would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be free too. Rosa parks is being remembered with this statue in the capital, but this is not the first time her greatness has been wrecked nice. She has many connections to congress and she is no stranger to these halls. She has recognized with a congressional gold medal inscribed with the title, mother of the modernday Civil Rights Movement with the words inscribed, quiet strength, pride, dignity and courage. That was a great day and we honored her. She had personal connections to the house as the speaker mentioned. For 18 years she was an assistant to john conyers. John conyers. [applause] and they worked together. They worked together to advance the cause of civil rights and equality. We always ask mr. Conyers to tell us stories about rosa parkt rose some parts. One that i think is appropriate at this time is john conyers first met her when he was just out of school and traveling to join the Civil Rights Movement after law school and he met her then. She worked in his First Campaign and she would later become his first congressional higher, the first person he hired on his congressional staff. Well pretty soon mr. Conyers found out that people were visiting the office to see rosa parks and not the congressman. [laughter] and she was invited all over the country to be honored. How about this mr. President . One day she went to him and she said, she wanted to thank him for allowing her to be honored all over the country and would be willing to take a pay cut for her time away from the office. [laughter]. I got an app for is action to it. What can you say about president s past and future khmer preachers from all over the country. I promised them that the legislation would pass, and quickly. That funeral was november saikia. And on december 1st, president george w. Bush signed it into law. [applause] 50 years to decades of rosa parks sat down on the bus in montgomery. [applause] 50 years to the day. So rosa parks should feel right at home in the capital attorneys sojourner truth, dr. Martin luther king and many other american heroes. She will inspire all who walked these halls, especially young people are quite stained, pride, dignity, courage. He shows you how rosa parks is recognized by congress. Now if they could share comments from one of my invited guests, the baseball great willie mays, my favorite port in alabama who sells the same injustice is this rosa parks did when he was growing up. He couldnt be here today, but he sent a letter and said i could share these words about her. He said more than mass he said most times change does happen fast. Most times it happens but i bet, little by little, one persons actions inspired in another. This approach simply did what was natural. She was tired so she sat down and that simple act sparks outrage in the average spread and one persons actions inspired change. He went on to say, we will try to remember to encourage change when it serves justice and today we will remember with admiration the simple acts of a preformatted. We will remember, weve are on our rosa parks. Buckley was a fellow alabama, allamerican willie mays. I dedicated the statue for serving justice and inspiring change. Make the statue laundry strength to her trip you. May god bless the memory of rosa parks. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the republican leader of the United States senate, the honorable mitch mcconnell. [applause] mr. President , you honor us with your presence. Thank you for being here. [applause] speaker boehner, leader reid, leader pelosi, assistant leader claver, members of the parks family, distinguished guests and friends, we gather here today to remember he wanted his legacy has dirty outlived her time among us. And we honor her not only with her presence with this permanent reminder of the cause she embodied. But this statue reaffirms that the courage and the cause of her as a parks not only earned her a place in the hurts of all americans, but a permanent place among the other figures in this whole of national memory. Rosa parks may not have led us to the jury against the british. She didnt give a single speech in the senate or the house or blast off into space or point the way west in the western wilderness. Yet with quiet courage, and unshakable resolve them as she did something no less important on a cold elegant evening in 1955. She helped unite the spirit of america, which the founders so perfectly and courageously expressed in the opening words of the declaration of independence. But the format government basir brilliantly outlined in our constitution, for some, rosa parks served as an inspiration to stand up against injustice. For others, she was a spur to reflection and selfexamination. In the reconciliation of cherished ideals of freedom, democracy and Constitutional Rights with the reality of life as others live it. As president bush put it up on signing the bill that authorized this statue, she set in motion the National Movement for equality and freedom, which is of course why we are here today. Rosa parks is often portrayed as a quiet, unassuming figure. She lives in americas collect his memory, and a pair frameless class is, hair pulled back, neatly dressed in a simple hat and dress are staring historically ahead in the famous photo as prisoners 7053. We should not let that overshadow her. This is a woman who pedro went through school by cleaning classrooms when she was just a child. The woman who was so determined to exercise her civic freedoms each of the segregationists air lift or see exam, a test designed to keep so many africanamericans before her from registering to vote. Not once or twice, but three times until she passed it. So today as americans, we are united and brain imaging rosa louise parks clutching her purse in those tense moments is not from a city bus number 2857 rolled down cleveland avenue. And we are reminded of the power of simple acts of courage. On an otherwise ordinary evening in montgomery, she did the extraordinary they simply staying put. And in the process, she helped all of us discovers something about ourselves. And about the great regenerative capacity of america. We have had the humility as a nation to recognize past mistakes and weve had the strength to confront those mistakes. But it has always required a public rosa parks to help us get there because of the changes she helped set in motion, entire generations of americans have been able to grow up in a nation where segregated buses only existing museums, were children of every race are free to fulfill their godgiven potential and where the simple carpenters daughter from tuskegee is honored as a national hero. What a story, what a legacy, what a country. Thank you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the majority leader of the United States senate, the honorable harry reid. [applause] a hundred years have too wrote a born, within half a century after she sports the Civil Rights Movement, the United States is striving to make sure every american is not only created equal by god, they treated equally in the