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0 while the guy was talking. >> this is the latest graduate school for terrorists. ray kelly the commissioner of police was talking a few days ago and said people are coming back to countries like the united states after this experience. so this does have a potential, if you will for blow back throughout the middle east but not just there. what happens there if you will won't stay there. that was the case with afghanistan, potentially the case with syria and part of the price we arguably pay for having delayed by not getting in there more earlier. now as you said sending arms. if he sent arms ...

writer for the liberal publication. tell us what you think about what the caller said about what he thinks the democratic party represents. the farmers, people themselves not just big business. >> well, look, i think i would make two points. the first is regarding the book itself. i don't make any claims to be writing without with a point of view. anyone who claims to be objective with a capital o is trying to sell you something. i don't make claims like that. the point of the book is not to argue liberal versus conservative. the point of the book is to talk about republicanism with ...

dubois editorializes on the front page of "the crisis." fdr does not support the legislation in '35, '36, '37 or '38 when it comes up, by 1938, eleanor roosevelt spends seven days sitting in the gallery of the united states senate, and she's surrounded by civil rights leaders, all people of color. when they ask her what eleanor is doing, she says, "i am bearing witness," and that to me is a powerful, powerful statement. so you have to look at, granted there was no legislation passed, but there were internal policies changed. there was eleanor's outspokenness. there was her literally ...

later, as president, we got the americans with disabilities act passed, to make sure that tens of millions with disabilities had fuller access to the american dream. of course, these two instances are only part of a broader struggle for civil rights here at this forum and at other programs, you can learn how and why so many americans across this great land came together for a noble cause, basic human dignity, equal opportunity under the law, recognizing our diversity as a strength and a blessing. these are the values that define more than a movement, but a nation realizing its destin...

>> this program is one of a multipart look at archaeology on jamestown island, virginia. check the "american history tv" website, cspan.org/history for schedule information. this discussion is from a conference on the presidency and civil rights held at john f. kennedy presidential library and museum. among the topics, if dr's world war ii interment of japanese americans, president truman's desegregation of the armed forces and president eisenhower's five appointments to the supreme court justices in faber of desegregation. we hear of attempts on first lady roosevelt's life because o...