Precariously perched as this democracy that were heralding on july 4 1776. Were in a perilous time. To me as perilous as it was with the Continental Army looked like they were getting their butts kicked. As perilous as it looked when the south attacked fort sumter. We are in perilous times with our democracy hanging by a thread. Why do you say that . Because we got what i call a land see an air attack happening in american democracy. The land attack is the assault on Voting Rights. The c attack is the attack to wash away the teaching of real American History and the air attack is the loosening of gun laws while having a narrative that the insurrection was legitimate political discourse and seeing that there was all of this violence and threat leaning raining down on election workers and election officials. So when youre looking at whats happening with voting, when youre looking at whats happening with our Education System and the narratives that we come to understand in this nation and
Part made his reputation on this and his participation in ensuring a smooth transition for president fords move into the white house, we at have the library know from our experiences that researchers ,com,com ma scholars, Civil Servants and curious citizens will find ways to learn from his collection that we cannot really imagine today. The continuing interest in technology, its free flow with the subject of a book that we reviewed yesterday in the wall street journal. This particular collection, the whitehead papers, gives us all gathered here today much pride. Under the leadership of librarian of congress j. H. Billington and with great assistance from chief of the Manuscript Division and his extraordinary staff, allen koltai tom studs and janice ruse, dr. Whitehead, toms widow has developed a web site containing digitized copies of much of the collection. Knowing that there are jams her to be discovered by future generations, she has explored the last and most effective ways to orga
Come to israels aid if survival at risk, but use american leverage to get a twostate solution, and we suggest a powerful proisrael lobby would be a good thing if its supporting smarter policies that were in americas and israels interest. We were not saying anything other countrier had not said before. People like george ball, michael, and what we wrote was also exon knowledge inside the beltway. Bill clinton said apack was, quote, better than anyone else lobbying in this town. Politicians as diverse as lee hamilton, chris clollings, barry goldwater, and Newt Gingrich had written or spoken about the power in the past. Even passionate defenders of israel like Jeffrey Goldberg had written proudly about clout. We provoked an extreme reaction, partly because we provided more depails about the lobbys influence, and partly because we were both rather middle of the road boring figures from wellknown universities, partly because we were not left wing, we were not muslim, not arab, not married t
State do not give to a single candidate to that state. Reportshe washington list of the top 10 recipients in 2012. You can see steny hoyer was num ber four in the house and ben cardin was number four in the senate. Neither faced a tight reelection campaign. One would assume some of the thousands of dollars these men got came from the Maryland Association of concerned citizens. Here the house candidates that pac gave to in 2012. Hoyer is nowhere to be found. Similarly, one searches for ben cardin. Instead, the Maryland Association for concerned citizens gave to candidates as far away as nevada, north dakota, california, but not a single candidate in maryland. A memo leaked reveals that aipac exercises and high degree of coordination over the smaller pacs. Instructs a subordinate topressure several to donate specific candidates. The first item is hard to read. Has done nothing , louisiana, and missouri race. They have given 500. They had 11,048. Try four 1000 bond more. This memo makes c
His design to fruition. Despite woes and hurdles, he would create what he would call a colossus that would stun the world. This event is from the National Archives. It is a little under one hour. Good afternoon. I am the archivist of the United States. It is a pleasure to welcome you to the theater at the National Archives this afternoon. A special welcome to those of you joining us by youtube and a very special welcome to our cspan viewers. Today was supposed to have been a national day of celebration in john adams vision, that is. It was on this day in 1776 the Continental Congress approved the resolution that declared the United States a free nation, no longer part of the british empire. Adams believed the second day of july, 1776, will be the most memorable in the history of america. As it turned out, we now celebrate the fourth of july with the declaration of independence. This afternoon, Elizabeth Mitchell will tell us about another symbol of our independence, the statue of liber