If you would like a copy of todays program please check out our website at press. Org. Thank you all very much. We are adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] the 2015 cspan student can video competition is under way open to all middle and High School Students to create a 5 to 7 minute documentary on the theme of the three branches and you showing how policy, law or action by the executive, legislative or Judicial Branch of the federal government has affected you or your community. There are 200 cash prizes totaling 100,000 for the list of rules and how to get started go to studentcam. Org. Next, remarks by the new president of the john f. Kennedy center for the performing arts, Deborah Rutter. She outlined her plans for the Kennedy Center and emphasized the importance of Art Education and cultural diplomacy. Agree easily served as president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and was executive director of the seattle symphony. This is an hour. [inaudible conversation
And sister whom he had been close to refer to him as napoleon nest. Also for the 17 years he was pope he never allowed anyone to sit down at the table when he ate, not even a cardinal. And this by the way was different than some of his predecessors and a continuing tradition that all of his predecessors had obeyed. The popes vision of the church and of the world was basically a medieval one in which there was only one True Roman Catholic Church and all to his teachings and lines of authority. Mussolini as i alluded to before was in many ways his opposite. The anticleric, the rabblerouser, the person who valued violence but also had a notion of a new society. This is certainly not a medieval vision but a new vision. Mussolini before he came to power had been a radical socialist. He had been reading social meeting and it was the outbreak of world war i that he had the division with the socialist party or for the war and he wanted italy to enter the war. He founded the fascist movement an
In 1997 and 1998, he oversaw the production of two government report about Operation Safe haven and these reports were quickly produced ae not well received in some places. So, ambassador, can you tell us what prompted the Clinton Administration to want to have these reports produced, and what was the outcome of these reports . Well, first, robert has dope an enormous has done an enormous service through his book. But i want to try to put it in an even broader context, and that is its a great tribute not only to the Monuments Men, but to the United States army and the United States of america. Contrast this enormous effort to save Cultural Property, to get it returned to its rightful owners with the action of the soviet union coming from the east to berlin. Ask they were intent on doing just the opposite, stripping germany, stripping its museums of everything that they could that was movable, taking it back to russia as war Company Sauce for their enormous compensation for their enormo
Romans and the insignia that we see in rome and the mona lisa in the loop taken on one of napoleons ventures. What established it was a sufficiency and organization. With respect to artwork, it is estimated that 600,000 pieces of art were stolen and 8000 of which are personally selected by adolf hitler for a museum that he planned after the war in his hometown. But artwork was only a part of it. So for example homes and businesses, jewelry, insurance policies and Bank Accounts. Let me just mention these and we will come back to these a little bit later it will be found for an article in the wall street journal is a front page article and it said that there were doormen swifts Bank Accounts that had been set up during a war primarily by jews trying to show their money in the safest thing system in europe by the on lot of the third reich. And that after the war those who survived and if they didnt, their families who tried to recoup those Bank Accounts were told that they couldnt be foun
Most families, many have kids. And they used to do big jobs with big resource i didnt find it intimidating. And were pretty clever and resourceful i and trying to fige how to do things. While the army didnt help them, they didnt pay much attention to them either. To the extent they could come up with solutions, are pretty effective. At the beginning for the first five months the operation felt on its face over and over and over again to the point that general marshall wrote his protege, general eisenhower, in october of 1943 and said, you need to be very careful because people here are reading horrible newspaper accounts of damage in italy, by us, by the allies. And perceived proceed cautiously. General eisenhower didnt leave any special orders were necessary. He thought these men and women are part of a Civil Affairs division, and they have a job to do, military structure will work and people will Pay Attention to them. Time and time again it was a working. The monuments officers woul