Annual history symposium entitled reconstruction in the long reconstruction to 150 years towards freedom. I am the chief historian, you can call me truck. Please not call me the guy in charge because none of this couldve happened without the involvement of so many here, in this society. It is an all hands, all board operation. Taking charge of the logistics and influencing much of the symposium contacted lauren borchard, the societys director of historical programs, she has helped along by charlotte cummings, and several other Staff Members as well as a whole host, of enthusiastic volunteers. Theyll do this not just once a year, but are not routine races on our Public Program including a noontime lecture series. The next one is coming up on the 29th of may, the other ones is a halfpage red fire on the registration flyer outside and i would like you to encourage you to fill out the questionnaire that you found on the desk in front of you when you came in. I will leave to the society Jan
Hello, everyone. This is washington and action. Asas you know we have several people speaking, but the first is definitely an important advocate for the 28th amendment, and its particularly a pleasure because i just found out that someone i taughtau legislative procedure two is now the chief counsel for senator cardin. When i was visiting at the university off maryland. I want to introduce you to an extraordinaryte advocate for the amendment on and on equal rights and extraordinary leader in the fight for human rights around the globe and a great senator for the great state of maryland. [applause] dont leave us so quickly. I want ton thank you. I want to thank you. You did a great job. Hes a very good chief counsel for so thank you for importing into him what is necessary. We have a lot of procedural problems in the senate i dont know if you notice to that or not, but we thank you very much and helen rogers is also here. The staff do an incredible work for us and i just always want to
York where the Security Council is about to discuss the issue of chemical weapons once again while back at home and in the countries surrounding syria there are a few as refugees will be sent back even while the war carries on. Also on the grid the man whose bribery scandal brought down a president walks free samsungs vice chairman. Was detained for nearly a year but a south Korean Appeals Court has suspended his corruption sentence and people not happy about that and imagine a thousand men leaving one country every day in search of work well actually that country is nepal and while there remittances a vital to the economy they were the risks and abuses that these workers fights. Two hundred sixty five girls sexually assaulted by the same man. Former Team Doctor Larry Nasser was just handed his final so. He will spend more than two hundred years in jail im leah harding connect thats the hash tag to. Go with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live a
The thing that is frustrating but fascinating about james madison, he was this incredibly impactful individual over world history, but because he was private and introverted and other aspects he was 54, 100 pounds, have these anxiety attacks he has not exerted the same kind of Gravitational Force field on people that Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton have. That to me was the reason to write a book that plunged deep into his youth and comingofage to figure out, how do we know this guy . What motivated him to have such an impact on the country and the world . James madison was from right here, which is Orange County, the heart of virginia, half an hour north of charlottesville. He grew up in this house behind us, which has changed over the years. They brought it closer to what it was. When he was a young boy, he was primitivea much more fatherment before his built this brick house. Madison was the son of a privileged family. His father was a planter. Gentry. Up in the elite experien
Iran addresses in the publicly said how terrible he finds, you know, chemical weapons. Its important him to get rid of it. On the other hand you know what is the irgc doing . They can make a lot of mischief. So i dont really know. Its something to keep an eye on. I would narrowly define my task getting rid of syrian cw. Somebody else can worry about the iranian stuff. I thought maybe you were going to head to how you, you know, support with intelligence and so on and so forth. And that can be worked out, i think. You can imagine when we were doing this in iraq, we a u2 which was flown at our behalf. Now you could have uav or something, and perhaps keep an eye on what, you know, other groups are doing, but that will be, you know, the head of this outfit whoever it is is going to have to determine how much information he wants to receive, he or she wants to receive from outside countries that will tell him about Security Issues, are there insurgents in the area. Are there things moving i