Im richard mcculley. Todays talk is the last of 2014. A year when weve really been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang by hosting todays guest who will discuss his significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation, 18771929. Published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk on january 15 when we host rebecca edwards, professor of history. Her talk is titled, sex on the frontier fertility in americas antebellum empire. Rebecca edwards is a very eminent historian who would you would expect to get quite but a presentation of that title, i think this is something they cannot be missed. Professor mehrotra is the associate dean for research, professor of law. A fellow at Indiana University. He received his j. D. At Georgetown University law center and his ph. D. At the university of chicago. He has served as the c
Is Many Americans have lost confidence in what their government has told them about our policy. The American People cannot and should not be asked to support a policy which involves the overall writing issues of war and peace, unless they know the truth about that policy. Tonight, therefore, i would like to answer some of the questions i know are on the minds of many of you listening to me. How and why did america get involved in vietnam in the first place . How has this administration changed the policy of the Previous Administration . What really happened in the negotiations in paris, on the battlefront, in vietnam. What choices do we have if we were to end the war. What are the prospects for peace . Let me begin by describing the situation i have found when i was inaugurated on january 20. The war had been going on for four years, 31,000 americans had been killed in action. The Training Program for the South Vietnamese was beyond schedule. 540,000 americans were in vietnam with no p
Modern transport poses new dangers of contagion. The struggle against epidemics is a global one. For the danger of death is worldwide. Sunday on American History tv at 4 00 p. M. Eastern on reel america the 1948 film the eternal fight. The traveller now became a carrier of deadly germs, wherever he went the germs stayed and spread. And sunday at 6 00 p. M. Created the entire Continental Congress as a committee as a whole to gather amongst ourself an individual caucus and decide how we should proceed. Do we really want independency and then he appointed another committee of five men to draft our declaration of american independence. From a virtual tour of monty cello with interpreter bill barker. I served 40 years in Public Service but i often thought if heaven had begin me a position to my great delight it would have been upon a small spot of ground well watered and near a good market for the produce. Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on American History tv on cspa
Thank you and welcome everyone. I am very honored to be here. I also want to recognize Fred Hamptons mother who was here tonight. [applause] and also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. I want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in th
Monday weve got quite a bit of cloud just along that the coast of oman tend to push further south as we head through choose that it might just produce one or 2 coastal showers that we nothing more than that and this is a time which is sticking really in the to mid thirtys celsius that we had down into Southern Africa if you will for calls across into madagascar and certainly today one of the next few days you could see very warm still in johannesburg by cheese or we could just see even a scattered thunderstorm here and you notice the rains remain quite heavy and quite wise but through much of central and southern goa and that cat extend you cross into namibia as we head over into tuesday. The weather sponsored. Every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the Intelligence Services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they would go out on the s