Author sebastian malady talks about the life and times of alan greenspan. He is interviewed by the Brookings Institution senior fellow of economic study. He was raised in the 1930s. He was the child of a single mom. His father left his mother when was only three. He was a distant figure, often unreliable, who would say he was going to come to his family and often not show up. I think this reinforced his tendency to live inside his own head. Tonight at 9 p. M. Eastern on afterwords. Org for the entire schedule. About 12 Million Immigrants seeking a new life in america were taken to ellis island for questioning and screening. Take ferryans today boats to visit ellis island and see the statue of liberty. On american artifacts, we visit the ellis island immigration museum. This canopy in this spot would have been a place where immigrants would have just gotten off the boat, would have lined up to go in this door and begin their process. What they had with them was virtually only what was i
Your 25th lecture. I will try to do him justice in describing this pedal for room you have chosen for your 25th lecture. You have chosen a remarkably historic room. I have to think the offices of the Senate Curator and historian who prepare and test histories alone of all of our art and all of our rooms. Without them, this introduction would not be possible. Begin, in the early 1900s, the house and senate decided they had outgrown their space. They commissioned two architects them aw york to build house and Senate Office building. Thee buildings have become russell Senate Office building. They are mirror images of one another from about. Those two individuals were educated in paris and a part of that education brought this beautiful art that you see around this room. They took great care to design this room. They spent over a year finding this marble that came from south dover, new jersey. Which is very interesting. This was known as simply the caucus room. It was intended to be a room
Producer grace guggenheim whose credits include the Academy Awardwinning johnstown flood. And michael hill who coproduced pbss the civil war. The u. S. Capital Historical Society hosted the event as part of the National Heritage lecture. It is about one hour and 20 minutes. I am stacy mcbride. Welcome to your 25th lecture. Senator blunt is a High School History teacher. I will try to do him justice in describing this room you have chosen for your 25th lecture. You have chosen a remarkably historic room. But first, i have to thank the offices of the Senate Curator and historian who prepare and fantastic histories of all of our art and all of our rooms. Without them, this introduction would not be possible. To begin, in the early the house 1900s, and senate decided they had outgrown their space. They commissioned two architects from new york to build them a house and Senate Office building. Those buildings have become the Cannon House Office building and the russell Senate Office buildin
We are in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. This town was frontier town. With the fort that was settled by the french in the militia with saying this is land Great Britain wants and the french and indian war, the sevenyear war, who would control the confluence and that major nets with a history of taking down off a boat and in the process discovering america. The idea it would be a country from sea to sea. The idea of them looking over their shoulder and say we built this country . At first it was glass and then iron and then steel and in the rocess, we built this country. And if you were to ask what does make pittsburgh pittsburgh, i would answer is resilience. Back of the day like a lot of cities, we burnt to the ground during the 1920s and 1930s and we created disparity between people like my grandfather who worked in the mills and people who owned them. We were able to overcome all of that and build a city that became the Third Largest Corporate Center in the United States in the 1970s. Ne
Supervisor farrell supervisor kim not present supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president kw0u789 thank you ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledges and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk any communications. I have none to report madam president colleagues, any changes to the october 17th special Board Meeting and the october 18th regular Board Meeting minutes seeing none, a motion to approve those minutes motion by supervisor avalos and seconded by economy supervisor farrell colleagues without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will be passed after Public Comment. Madam clerk read the consent calendar. Items 1 through 6 are route. Roll call vote. On items 1 through 6. Supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowe