A wall against trump, blocking the entrance to the Convention Center with a massive cloth banner painted like a wall. Were going to be walling off hate, xenophobia, and continue our pledge to take the committees from people in positions of power and do not look out for the benefit of all of us as a community. Today we are drawing a line in the sand. To start protecting their people because we as a Community Know the solutions. No one else is going to do it for us. This is a call to action and a message to trump and anyone who feels like using xenophobia and hate as a means of power, that is not the solution and we are going to fight. Amy meanwhile, at least 17 people were arrested during another demonstration outside the rnc after a protester attempted to burn an american flag. Burning american flags is legal under most circumstances. Police used horses to try to break up the protest. Another shocking video of Police Shooting an africanamerican man has emerged. Itit happened monday in
Professor richard gamble. When did the phrase sitting on the hill originate . In the gospel of matthew and made way of American History by way of speech and discourse written by the governor john back in 1630 and he wrote what became later a very famous speech called charity and gradually the phrase sitting on a hill came to describe be used by historians and others to describe america and one of the things im most interested in is how americans got into the habit of calling themselves a city on hill, how did they become an american nickname and the tendency that i found over the years is for politicians and journalists and others to assume that americans from earlier colonial period always thought themselves as city on a hill. It took more than 200 years before a prominent american historian started picking up the phrase and applying it to americas identity. What does the concept mean . Comes from the sermon on the mount in gospel of matthew and there jesus says to the crowd and disci
I think the projects in this studio wouldve included the famous kootenai playhouse in riverside, illinois, which you may remember the kind of balloon and confetti windows. It was supposed to be like a parade for childrens school, a private school. He also did the designs for this huge and very successful, while it lasted, midway gardens, which was a big, big garden and conserve card that took up a whole city block in chicago and had indoor and Outdoor Entertainment and no person in the summer of 1914 just before it was burned down. In fact, he was working on the final details of it when he got the news. Those plans would have been done here as well. There was a number of pretty famous places. He also did the early drawings for the Imperial Hotel here in the little house it was not a little house, the little house in minnesota matcher powhatan museum. It was salvaged and replaced very. They can at the studios. One of the main themes was that he was always trying to get americans and cre
What is your insight into president barack obama because of four dinners with them . He is a highly intelligent man. He is keenly interested in history and the way in which the president ial institution has evolved. What he could take away from past president ial performances to make his a more compelling and more successful administration. I wish we had some extraordinary answers to provide him, but of course the nature of history is that it is an imperfect humanistic enterprise. He understood this. We talked a Great Variety of things in those interviews, in those dinners. Roughly 12 historians. I wasnt the only one there. ,ome of his principal aides including one of his principal speechwriters. For me it was a fascinating experience to be able to sit right next to the president at dinner and have this kind of exchange with him. Anmany ways, it felt like academic seminar. He is someone who has been a. Rofessor of law it was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. Did you l
Because after all, he is someone who has been a professor of law. It was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. That is how i would characterize it. Did you leave there writing things down after you were there to remind yourself . Can you give us an example . You know, when done with this i think we will have more dinners with him. One of my colleagues and i talked a little bit about writing a piece called dinners with obama. I think it will be a very positive piece because he listens. He wasnt intent on giving us instruction or lobbying us for anything in particular. Except that at the first dinner he wanted to know how president s achieved the transformative presidency. How did Franklin Roosevelt do it . Theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, Ronald Reagan with his reagan revolution. At the second dinner, because this was in 2010, he was slipping somewhat in the polls and did not have the continuing hold of the publics imagination. That is not unusual. Once president s are