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The boom time. The sherman silver purchase act was passed, and that ensured that the federal government would purchase a large quantity of silver at the tabor familya multifacetted story. Horace Austin Warner tabor was born in vermont and married his first wife, named augusta, also from new england. They married and tried their hand for a brief period in the late 1850s in farming in kansas and came out to colorado during the gold rush in 1859. They eventually settled in the leadville area where they ran a store. One of the things that horace did was what is called grub stake, some of the minin...

Bess trumans letters to harry truman. As of last month, clifton is the board secretary for the Harry S Truman scholarship foundation. This is a role that has been vacant since the 1990s since his mother retired from our board. Clifton thank you for joining , our board and thank you for being here today. [applause] mr. Truman thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I am honored to be here. I am honored to serve on the board. I have to tell you a little bit stunned. Was 19 years old i was with my mother in independence when the first truman scholarships were awarded in 1977. I was in college and i was ...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. We are here today to discuss afghanistan, as you know. In one sense, it is still a time of year. Hopeful. L 15 years into the afghanistan 9 11,n and 15 years after we know there is an ongoing very struggle throughout the broader middle east and in. Fghanistan is itself we are glad you came to join in this discussion. There are couple of words i want to say before introducing the panelists. The approach here is to have a broad discussion framed by each of them. We will talk amidst ourselves and then go to you for our question. All want to commemorat...

The hearing today, what does it deal with . Guest something called the commission on care. Something that was part of the choice act. When Congress Asked the robert to carve out six 2 60 of our budget million of our budget. Time, they came up with 18 recommendations. Of the 18, we said we agree with 15 of the 18. 12 of the 15 are already underway or already completed. For us, the commission and their findings reinforces but we are trying to do with our my v. A. Transformation in transforming the work of the v. A. To better care for veterans. Host although care delivered by the v. A. Is compara...

Captioning performed by vitac so one of the joys is to be able to collect africanamerican film. Its one of my areas of interest. We were able to get an amazing collection of movie posters such as the ones behind you. That is an early oscar movie poster from the 1920s. And then part of our job is to help people relearn history they think they know. That movie poster is from spencer williams, known by most people as playing in amos and andy, one of the most important black film directors in the late 30s and 40s. We have Amazing Things in here. The beautiful green gown, that was lena horn in stor...