You can watch this and other american artifex programs by visiting our website, cspan. Org history. Each week American History tv thats you archival films help provide context for todays Public Affairs issues. One can hardly walk through a street in france. Certainly one cannot live there without partaking of the national institution, the sidewalk cafe. After a days work, soldiers they relax. Perhaps a date for the single men. Watch the french world go by. By some strange coincidence that is something to do with money, payday is often the occasion when men to most enjoy offduty time. First of all they would usually export point of interest near the duty stations. Castle built in 1370, on which the american corps of engineers modeled his famous insignia worn proudly by so Many American troops. Offduty time to be spent in the city isrleans, dotted with tributes to joan of arcs memory. Go there on joan of arc day. Its a kind of mardi gras and fourth of july rolled into one. Offduty americans are in the crowd watching the festive parade, including a modern joan of arc. There is a french brand. Beating it out for the marching men of france. And now into the square comes in american unit, one very much on duty. Here in attribute to a great ally on a great day. As it bringst forth throughout orleans. And then into the heart of town. Into the hearts of french to line the streets march the men paying their respects to the memory of joan of arc. The parade is over but the festivities continue on route the city. An offduty soldier may very well run into a street carnival. He feels right at home, the same music, the same kind of kids having a great time, the same atmosphere. In they even have many of the same kind of rights of carnivals back home. One up go all out . Saves are always souvenirs to send home to mom and dad. But when it comes to a furlough, a stretch of time off time, the soldier in france will always have for paris. There is no end of sites to see. The west bank or the right bank. The soldier in france will do the town from top to bottom. And no better place to start in the top of the eiffel tower. Luckily he wont have to climb. There was an elevator on hand to speed him upward. Going up. As the elevator rises in the sky you get a view to the framework of the worlds most beautiful cities. The view stays with you on the way down and it will stay in your memory a long, long time. Nearby another site familiar throughout the world. The soldier on furlough would not dream of passing them by. The arch of triumph, a monument to victory. A memorial to the men who died. His lead over, back to duty. Whatever his rank from general to private, the soldier in france is not only assuring a linux you medication to our troops line of communication to our troops, he is working sidebyside with our french allies. He is friendly with the french and the french are at ease to him. For the men realize this part of the job, working with the french, is an extremely important one. Towards that end our commemorative occasions throughout the year, just as much a part of things in the parade of troops moving down past the reviewing stand are frequent exhibitions of American Army equipment and techniques. And french citizens are cordially invited. A model of a bridge. Especially when a youngster walked carefully across it may seem a long way from their basic business, but it is all part of the all of effort to maintain close, friendly, sympathetic relations with french people who were not only interested in our techniques that in our welfare as well. Why on many an american holiday you will see americans march currently proudly down the streets of a french town. Andy will see french people, young and old, watching with respect and a sense of pride. She was such an authentic person. Ive always thought there was more to the story of lady bird and anybody had ever covered. She became the first modern first lady. She had a big staff. She had a very important project. She wrote her book as soon as she left the white house. She really invented the modern first lady. Tonight on q a, historians discuss lady bird. She released pages of the former first lady diary, giving inside look at the marriage of Political Partnership of lady bird and with thompson. Lady bird johnson is a perfect example of the conclusion i came to, which was those women felt something in those men. The ambition. The opportunity to really climate make a mark on the world. And they married him in spite of parental objections. She is a good example of that. That is why i decided i had to find out more about her. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on q a. Next, history professors address prevailing myths in a playful handled playfully dubbed doing battle with the zombies of western history. This panel is part of the western history