CSPAN3 February 4, 2012
this is important to our culture. you know, today is the 225th birthday. it's not a coincidence, necessarily, that i'm here in this place speaking about that. the civil war preserved the united states. kept the united states from collapse. the american revolution gave it its birth. as we celebrate the 225th birthday, i would like to point out to that you one thing we are accustomed to in this country and in this world is the permanentance of change. we are all used to that. my grandfather was born in 1899. the amount of change that man witnessed in his lifetime was unfathomable. yet,...
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