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Dirksen building. Senatere in the hart office building, which is connected to the dirksen building. They are two halves of the same building, that they are entirely different. Building is the central building. We are in the room known as hart 216. This room was specifically designed for television, and we are in one of the television booths overlooking the hearing room. When they knew that the dirksen building was sufficient, they originally thought they would just replicate the dirksen building and build an identical twin on the other side. They said it would not be large enough. It happened ...

Executive producer, moderator and editor of closeup on cspan. Please join me in welcoming john and the panel to the stage. [applause] john hi, everybody, good evening. Thanks for joining us. You received information on your way in and my guests also did. So if you are here you know who the panelists are because that is part of the draw. Correct . Let me tell you where they are sitting from left to right. Jack, athe left is Pulitzer Prizewinning historian from stanford university. Just innext to jack, case we always like to have a backup Pulitzer Prize winner. Joseph ellis from the university o...

His academic career teaching at Mount Holyoke college where he was dean of the faculty at one point and dow prof. And taught at williams and west point and university of massachusetts and and his. On the side when he hadnt been teaching he had been riding bestselling books. Among them biographies of john adams, george washington, thomas jefferson, the National Book award, the book on the revolutionary brothers, founding brothers, revolutionary generation won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Most recently he has written a book, at the quartet, that has been on the New York Times bestseller list for ...

Montgomery but they have to leave montgomery in 1957 and she will spend the second half of her life as an activist in detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow no. She will continue to do that, rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, she will be active against the war in vietnam, she will be active against South African apartheid, showing a picture with my favorites in the book about an older rosa parks protesting outside the South African embassy, she will continue until the end of her by saying the struggle is not over, there is much injustice in this country and she will be reso...

The the sponsors of this discussion. And to all of the smithsonian and park Service Staff here today, welcome and thank you. To our friends and allies in the preservation work we thank you for coming in for joining us. You to those thank from outside traditional areas of our field, scholars and advocates for community advancement. Especially to our panelists, special guests who i will introduce at greater length later on in the program. Your inputppreciate and want to thank you for helping us expand the scope of historic reservation so that it reflects the two root true diversity of our nation...