And even though tip oneill had a majority of democrats in the house, there were always 40 or 50, sometimes 60 members of the Democratic Party that were conservatives who would frequently side with the minority. So tip oneill didnt always control his own delegation. Thank you, ray smock. And now, heres tip oneill from 1985, on the opening day of the 99th congress. The 114th Congress Gavels in mr. Doorkeeper. The house of representatives, speaker tip oneill. [applause] the speaker, my colleagues, and guest of the house, it has been traditional with a few notable exceptions since the founding of this institution for the vanquished to present to the victor and i consider it a high privilege to condition in that privilege. May i make a few observations of my own . [laughter] may i express my profound thanks and appreciation to our Republican Congress for again honoring me and my family with their nomination for speaker of the house of representatives. [applause] unfortunately, mr. Speaker a
Deliver west point to the british offers insights. He talks about british and american participants after the plot was uncovered. This was hosted by colonial williamsburg. Its about an hour. Thanks so much for that warm welcome. Im really pleased to see as many people in the audience tonight when i was driving down from Northern Virginia through heavy rain it might be a biblical quote but fortunately thats not the case. You have to keep checking your assumptions. If your assumptions are incorrect it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. I would like to illustrate that by the following story which i hope you will find somewhat humorous, although somewhat ribald as well. Heres the story. The smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye, said, well, im off nowment the man will be here soon. Half an hour later, just by chance, a baby photographer happe
Follow us on twitter at cspan history for information on our schedule, upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. Each week American History tvs real america brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. I got nothing coming until social security. Thats 15 years from now. All they want is 22yearold college graduates. What am i going to tell the kids . What will they think of their old man . Can you imagine anybody at any age going back to school . The problem has been phrased very well by a business transeditor of news week magazine. As he puts it, the brutal fact is there is discrimination of sorts going on in american industry today when men are considered to be over the hill at ages which find many of them in their prime, healthy, willing and able. What good is it for science to have increased the life spahn if it simply means that a human junk pile starts at an earlier age. Under these unhappy conditions you can go to bachlor yet degree
Where is the mental thing on some of this . You dont want to irritate the some of these major powers. Where does the mental ideas come . The thinking . Far be it for me to get in the mind of what makes spy master things to convince mexico to go to war against the United States and it works, but it becomes, as always has taught us, a great deal of arrogance of people in power and they think arrogant people think they can do whatever they want. They can change the course of history. And sometimes they do. Th thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] youve been watching American History tv on cspan3. We want to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter Twitter cspanhistory. Connect with us on facebook at facebook. Com cspanhistory where you can leave comments and check out upcoming programs on our website at cspan. Org history. Every sunday night at 8 p. M. And midnight eastern a special look at the u. S. Presidency learning from leading historians about president s and first ladies. Their p
Research centered on u. S. Scientific and technological intelligence, specifically nuclear, in the Second World War and the cold war which makes him ideally suited to deliver todays talk. He also got his masters degree focusing on the relationship between the u. S. And russia. So you may get some questions focusing on the current difficulties with russia. Hes taught extensively, including at the universityon the diplomatic history, cold war and history of sciences. He is a u. S. Army veteran, served in the balkans where he assisted in both civilian and military intelligence activities. So were just delighted to have you as our speaker, as our first speaker. So please help me welcome vince houghton. Thank you peter. Thank all of you for coming here today. Getting a chance to talk about the atomic spies, about nuclear intelligence, this is my field this is also my passion. I try to do everything i can to talk about this to anyone hop wants to listen. So its nice to actually have people w