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Good afternoon. Welcome to the the Heritage Foundationing and our Lewis Lehrman auditorium. We welcome those joining us on cspan in the future on booktv. We would ask everyone here in house if youll be so kind to make sure cell phones are turned off as we prepare to begin, and our program will be posted on the heritage home page following our presentation for your reference as well, and internet viewers are welcome to email speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion today on behalf of heritage is our senior policy analyst for defense budgeting for foreign and National Security policy. She i...

Jane hamilton kirkus next on the tv. She appears at the false ethanol in virginia. Her book is american phoenix. Good afternoon. [inaudible] i am delighted to be able to introduce Jane Hampton Cook to you. Are your mac jane is the author of eight books, including american phoenix which we have up for sale. She will be happy to sign about john quincy abends in louisa and the war of 1812. She also has a soft cover books are called starspangled story, which is celebrating 200 years of our national anthem. Jane has authored several books from the revolutionary war. Americas first Lady Ichikawa thi...

Cspan pauline maier, author of american scripture, where did you get that title . Guest it began, actually, as sacred scripture. I was interested in how what was a workaday condocument of the Second Continental Congress became a sacred document for americans. And i was told sacred scripture wasnt going to work because it would get classified as a religious book. So in the course of negotiations, we retitled the book. Cspan and whats this book about . Guest its about the declaration of independence, about how it was originally drafted, about the event, independence, that it announced to the wor...

Flows from one pure source. Within the soul of america is freedom of mind and spirit in man. There alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of human spirit. Here alone is Human Dignity not a dream, but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect. But it is more full of in its realization here than any other place in the world. This is American History tv on cspan3. You can watch us every saturday and sunday and on holidays too covering American History cspan style. Congress passed the 13th amendment formally abolishing slavery in the United States on january 31st 1865. Next...

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