Transcripts For CSPAN3 20170407 : vimarsana.com

Holocaust Memorial Museum director Sarah Bloomfield and alice greenwall, president and ceo of the National September 11 memorial and museum in new york city talk about the creation and message behind both museums. But why would you build it in Washington People asked . Doesnt it belong in berlin or jerusalem . So we designed the architecture and the exhibitions to try to answer that question. So the first part of your Museum Experience is hearing from that american gi who asked that big question which is how is it that human beings can do this to one another . And then throughout the exhibition we keep bringing back what america knew and when america knew it. Sunday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, the centennial of americas entry into the great war from the National World wore i memorial in kansas city, missouri. And at 2 00, winning historian on how the founders valued education, viewed slavery and persevered in the face of hardship. Fist seven president s of the united states, john adams was the only one who never oenld owned a slave out of principle, not because he couldnt afford one, but out of principle. And abigails feelings about it were even more strongly voiced than his. Then at 8 00, Barbara Perry talks about the traits of a great president. The sign of a good leader is a leader who is self confident but not arrogant. Confident in his own intellect that he didnt worry about having really smart people around him. For our complete American History tv schedule go, to cspan. Org. Saturday, book heatv is live 10 00 a. M. From annapolis, maryland. Katherine eagen, author of 2 dollar a day. And then at 11 00 a. M. Eastern, a discussion on criminal justice and a book adnans story. The search for truth and justice after syria. Author brian stolar with grace and justice on death row the race against time and texas to free an innocent man. At noon eastern, author discussions with mark schreiber. At 1 30 p. M. Eastern, michael hayden. And at 3 00 p. M. Eastern, author of the speed of sound, breaking the barriers between music and technology. Watch the 15th annual Annapolis Book festival live on saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2s book tv. The house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee on highways and trans it held a hearing to examine the needs of states related to the fixing americas surface transportation act or fast act. The mayor of atlanta, the executive director of the Oklahoma Department of transportation and the president and executive director of the dallas area Rapid Transit system testified on the importance of federal funding. Well go ahead and call the subcommittee to order. And id like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen reports of last weeks fire in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critical piece of our infrastructure system that carries 400,000 cars a day. With that vofl traffic, its amazing there wasnt any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and l