Is a Remarkable Book about some incredible young man at a very difficult time. A couple things on tap some random thought, jeannie, i know you have a few . Im kind of obsessed with looking at bestseller lists which you hate. I take the bullet for the team but im also is interested in something that pops up unexpectedly. I talked a couple weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird is a prime example. We know why and we know why handmaids tale was there but this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. By william athis is a book that was written was published i think early 80s written in 1978 by william lee he moaned. I think he was an english professor he had lost his job and separated from his wife and he got in a 40 Econoline Van 1975 van and road what he called the blue highways. This was before gps. All the back roads were colored blue. Those were the roads he chose to take. He went to 38 of the 50 states and ju
Are aware of my previous to government positions at the pentagon and at Us Central Command and there is a great interest of having more veterans type programs here at the museum and at the library. However tonight its a little different. I normally ask veterans to please stand up and take about. But tonight, i would like anybody who is a first responde responder, police officer, fireman, emt, paramedie stand up. [applause] thank you very much for what you do. And keeping us safe every single day and the mission you do for us. And now with tonights program, it is pleasure to have our author back the last time he was here he spoke about the governments doomsday plans of raven locke. And now we are welcome him back to discuss another somber topic the terror attacks of 9 11 to have a 360degree account told to those who experienced it the only plane in the sky. A distinguished magazine journalist and regular tv commentator spent more than a dozen years covering politics and technology and n
During the george w. Bush administration. Talked about his role in grounding all planes immediately following the september 11th terrorist attack on new york and washington d. C. [drums playing] please be seated. I will be your master of ceremonies this morning. Please allow me to introduce pastor phil. Pastor phil and his wife tammy are the senior pastors at influence church in anaheim hills. Their special mentors to many including myself. Pastor phil and tammy were aboard aircraft over new york city when the terror attacks september 11th 2001 took place and had family on the ground below. Pastor phil will be leading us in prayer in ceremony invocation this morning. Thank you chris. Theres nothing sweeter to be able to talk to god. Commune with him and he oversees all that we do and say. Lets pray. Heavenly father, in that great name of jesus we thank you for this day that we can remember, we remember those who we lost. We remember how our nation changed and resolve that we all gather
[drums playing] attack. Children, youngest who please be seated. My name is chris and i will be your master of ceremonies this morning. Please allow me to introduce pastor phil. Pastor phil and his wife tammy, are the senior pastors at influence church in anaheim hills. Theyre special mentors to many , including myself. They are my pastors. Pastor phil and tammy were aboard aircraft over new york city when the terror attacks september 11, 2001 took place and had family on the ground below. Pastor phil will be leading us in prayer in ceremony invocation this morning. Pastor . Thank you, chris. Theres nothing sweeter than could be able to talk to god. Commune with him and he oversees all that we do and say. Lets pray. Heavenly father, in that great name of jesus, we thank you for this day that we can remember, we remember those who we lost. We remember how our nation changed, and resolve that we all gathered together in that day, and the days that led forward to be better, stronger and m
And there hadnt been a good book on race in washington, d. C. , for about 20 years, so we wanted to fill that void. The reason we made it 400 years is because most of the books about the city ignored many racial populations in the city, in particular the native american population. So, we wanted to start in the historical beginning, the first time we have written records of washington, d. C. , which john smith came up the potomac and went to the native american settlement. Lets focus on the from the beginning, the racial makeup of the city, once congress got here in 1800, was about 20 africanamerican. D. C. Was carved out of prime plantation county. There were plantations in the middle of where the city is today. There was already a Large Population in the area. As the folks who were building the capitol decided to employ slaves and in certain cases free blacks on the Construction Projects of building the capitol, that population remained relatively constant through the antebellum peri