Civil rights. In her postwhite house years she served as a delegate to the United Nations, and president harry truman called her the first lady of the world. Tonight well explore the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt on first ladies influence and image at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan3 as well as cspan radio. Cspans student cam video competition asks, whats the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014 . Make a 57 minute documentary showing varying points of view, and be sure to include cspan video. The we hes has a grand prize of 5,000, and this year weve doubled the number of winners and total prizes. Entries are due by january 20, 2014. Need more information . Visit studentcam. Org. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, the federal government reopened after 16 days during this current shutdown, and this week on the communicators a round table discussion on the effect of that
Last year, we declassified the basics of the u. S. Military pot cap towers and the u. S. Militarys counterterrorism activity in yemen and somalia. It was a long and difficult process to get there. Certain people in the white house persevered. We said publicly and officially what we were doing. As far as i can tell, the world has not come to an end. That event is available on our website, cspan. Org. President obama expected to johnson this afternoon. Leftover john cspan starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern from the rose garden. Live coverage on cspan. The syrian envoy to the u. S. Will speak in washington at 11 00 eastern, we will have live coverage. For guys like us who have been in the game for a long time, we know that there are landmines and that you have to be careful about the way you manage these things. Issues to do with abortion in race, care of, israeli relations. In other countries, i have lived in other countries, they have their own bread lines to be aware of. What a cartoonist ca
Americans. And its being taught in the little rock schools. And thats sent out the Ripple Effect effects there were two interment camps in arkansas. We were at a camp called gloefr and another camp called jerome. And in the middle of those two interment camps is a small town called mcgee. And they recently earlier this year, as a matter of fact, converted their abandoned Railway Station into the world war ii japanese american internment museum. Its a small museum but very comprehensive and beautifully done. So if any of you should be driving around southeastern arkansas, you might visit that museum in mcgee, arkansas. What is the status of allegiance your musical about the internment of japanese americans. Is it likely to come on broadway . Flowing that, is it likely to come to dc . Oh, yes. Allegiance began about three years ago. We developed this musical and we developed it because we can have books and lectures and talks about the internment, which helps us understand up here intell
Nuthouse. [laughter] [applause] the place where some wackos closed the government and throw hundreds of thousands of people out of work and then they turn around and say they are creating jobs. These wackos that disrupt funerals for military personnel who died abroad and then they say they are doing that to strengthen our military. It is absolutely crazy, absolutely irrational. This on the other end of our national mall. Total irrationality and the shining ideals of our nation. Its not two separate cities. Its the same city and its our national capital. It is very representative of what america is all about. The irrational and the ideals. Those two opposites have defined my life totally because i grew up as a child imprisoned him barb wire american prison camps. Pearl harbor was bombed and overnight, american citizens of japanese answers straight ancestry were looked at with suspicion and fear and outright hatred. But despite that, young japaneseamericans, like all americans, rushed to
Europe and asked several questions. Affirmativeaction means a lot more than just the use of race or sexbased preferences in university of michigan. Section 26 only focuses on this one aspect of university of missions. Another point to understand is that section 26 is not all about university of missions. This is a much broader law that applies not just your race and ethnicity but also sex and other this is a broadbased law that was primarily motivated by the people of michigans decision to move past the day when we always focus on race and exactly as greater invited the states to do you can you can see how that discussion gets mired when you look at some of these statistics that we have been talking about. Is someone who has multiple racial boxes checked more or less diverse than someone who only has one box checked . Is someone who comes from outside the country say from mexico youve done something much more. You are basically saying, because fisher and grutter weve always applied str