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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Summer Series With David McCullough 20240712

They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Summer Series With David McCullough 20240712

Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca

Transcripts For CSPAN2 David McCullough The American Spirit 20240712

I was about to say how special this night is that you all beat me to it which is great. Welcome. I am the executive director of the Jfk Library Foundation and on behalf of our colleagues in the library we are thrilled you could be here all forms are great but tonight it is a treat because its also the beginning of the centennial weekend and we planned this months ago we literally thought would be the best pair a speaker and moderator we could get for this historic time . This is we have and we are thrilled they are both here. [applause] first a few brief announcements first the underwriters and sponsors including our media is spent on sponsors and for the centennial. We are kicking off the centennial about what were doing over the next few days but over the next few days there are opportunities from seeing a new exhibit with 100 items with those that have never been seen publicly before opening tomorrow. Doing a peace corps day we have an astronaut here as part of the attribute to nasa

Transcripts For CSPAN2 U S Senate Sen Thune On 911 20240714

Flight 93 who laid down their lives to protect their fellow americans. Vietnam m veterans and Morgan Stanley security chief rick russ groff. Who successfully evacuated more than 2000 of his firms employees from the World Trade Center and died returning to help evacuate others. Jason thomas and dave carnes two former marines who dropped everything and sped to the towers saved lives of the two Port Authority officers they found trapped in the rubble. National guard pilots Heather Penney and mark sasso who scrambled their f16 weaponless to meet the threat headed toward dc prepared to sacrifice their lives by ramming their aircraft into flight 93 before it hit the capital or the white house. The hundreds of First Responders who ran toward the towers, toward the inferno, and headed up the steps while civilians ran down. Then there were the countless ordinary americans far from new york and washington and overwhelmed organizations like the red cross with their donations who stormed heaven wi

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Tomiko 20240705

Wrap this up. H will be signing copies of the book. So if you dont have that, we have copies for everyone in our exhibit hall is just left, right out of the auditorium here. And then that first left there. And thank you all again for coming and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I really im carla hayden and im very pleased to welcome you to the law library of congress, 190th anniversary celebrate nation. It was on this day in 1832 that the law Library Congress was created as a depart of the library of congress by statute. Since that time, the law library has grown to be the largest law library in, the world featuring an unparalleled collection of domestic, foreign, international and comparative legal materials. This collection so large that the sub basement stacks of the madison building, which contains most of law librarys collection, is an incredible one and a half football in length. But of course, the impressive are only half the story. The law librarys de

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