Let me acknowledge our partnership with the National History center and the american historical association. We are cosponsoring and coorganizing this seminar with. Let me acknowledgment our donors, the society of historians of American Foreign relations, the George Washington University History department as well as a number , of individuals giving support for this series. We want to acknowledge roger lewis, the cochairman of the seminar. Hes here all the way from texas. I want to welcome all of you and say thank you especially to pete and amanda perry who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting us here and organized. We are very grateful to you. [applause] thank you. Will turn i think i it over to eric to introduce our speaker. Thank you. One last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. If you could just turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. With that, it
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
Welcome to this briefing on the history of executive orders. My name is dane kennedy, director of the National History center, the sponsor of this briefing. It is part of an ongoing series that the National History center runs that is designed to bring historical perspectives to issues that are relevant to congress and the political process in general. So, the National History center, let me briefly explain the National History center, is a nonprofit, Nonpartisan Organization that is affiliated with the american historical association. Its briefings are not intended to advocate for any particular set of policies but, rather, to provide Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with a difficult difficult issues. And i want to thank in particular the Mellon Foundation for funding this series. And to amanda perry, at the back of the room, the assistant director of the center, who has done all of the leg work band organizational efforts to make this p
To like . It is about protecting consumers. Just up here across the street from the Old Executive Office building and i predict it will outgrow its space in a few years. Consumer Protection Bureau is a sovereign entity unlike any bureaucracy that existed before. Not under the control of congress but the fed chairman and board dont have a lot of control over it. The president appoints a single director to overlap the president ial term and they have wide discretion interpreting and enforcing various financial regulations and basically have jurisdiction over everything in the Financial Sector from Investment Banking and mortgage banking all the way to daddys money pawnshop in alabama. I have gone killing reports from c e os to have been investigated by the cfpb and it is truly chilling. However wellmeaning this might have been this is a Dangerous Organization and structure is dangerous. That is why the story is worth telling. This is when chapter in a very long saga of what i will call c
This is consistent with a possible displaced fracture. Is the injury you see in this exhibit consistent, this exhibit 79, consistent with having been punched in the nose . Yes. Hes got blood thinner, right . Right. I put the hand over that, right . Okay. What do you expect my hand to have on it . Blood. De mayo then went on to explain there could be multiple reasons for the absence of blood. Where that blood goes may depend on the position that your head is in . Yes. And would the fact that it was raining to some degree, could that also affect whether or not there is biological or dna ed collected from mr. Martins hands . Thats true. Or perhaps even if they may have been washed prior to being photographed . Thats why the forensic pathologist is supposed to be with the body from the time it comes in. Yes. All right, so this was significant testimony today, in fact for both sides, but i think it was compelling for the jury because he is a well regarded expert, he has 40plus years, his ch