Already had the answers. We already had a lot of answers. If we did not have answers, we knew that it was not appropriate for us to provide an answer, and that is where we had the leave it to the people approach. Leave it to the people who are going to implement this law. That is really the thinking and the process that we went through when we did that from 1967 to 1989. We were still working on that even though we had the framework for nagpra in our National Dialogue report in january of 1989. So this is a story that unfolds over 150 years, a 20 twoyear sweep, and over a twoyour sleep, representing longterm political effort, strategic thinking, coalition building, linked up with a moment of possibility, people on the ground changing social and cultural conditions within American Society in a hole and i think our panelists have taken us through those scales. The quick turnarounds that is the culmination of longterm efforts of people on the ground. It is 10 45 which means it is time for
Brief. I thought we would start the way we usually end these things. By saying thank you. This is the week we recognize the service of people who served our country in uniform and all of you served in public service. I will start by saying thank you. I remember every day of the oil spill was brutal. Spillmber during the oil poppedn Rolling Stone to their story about stanley mcchrystal, got a call about a fourstar general back from afghanistan and i remember walking to the residents and called the president. I said i think you need to read this story. I walked over and he met me downstairs and he read the first two paragraphs and we had a quick conversation and he said whos ever left, lets meet in the oval office. You had these events area i remember the shooting at fort hood, what awful day that was. A decent part of the evening, weise we probably spent hours in the oval office with bob gates and admiral mullen and bob mueller from the head of the fbi and the president talking some of
Thank you, kevin. We can all thank rick for doing a fantastic meditation on this. A 30,000 foot level of issues we wanted to discuss today. To celebrate 25 years, we need to go back further than 25 years to see how we got to that point 25 years ago. Our first panel was about that. Behind the scenes of the act. The early years. We are so fortunate to have presenters, panelist who can speak to this with an incredible depth of knowledge. I would like to welcome them to come now. The first is Patricia Zell. She serves as the editor of the indian law and order. She retired in march 2005 following 25 years of service on the u. S. Senate committee where committee on Indian Affairs where she served as the democratic staff director and chief counsel for the last 19 years of her senate service. The depth of knowledge possessed on these issues is unparalleled. She worked for the u. S. Commission on civil rights American Psychological association. Ive been fortunate to work with her on the board o
Each week American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes every saturday evening at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern. Next virginia commonwealth , University Instructor Christopher Saladino talked about the competition between the u. S and the soviet union to build advanced Nuclear Weaponry during the cold war. He describes the concept of mutually assured destruction which, he argued, kept the u. S. And the ussr from escalating to open war since both countries possessed enough Nuclear Weapons to obliterate the other. This class is about 50 minutes. Lets create up a little bit. We have talked about war, we have talked about this sort of to theater war, the Second World War, how military force is organized historically. , the war isaid, ok organized a certain way, but Technology Changes that. Then we introduce the cold war. We talked about the logic of sort of the start of the cold war. But the real mitigating factor for this