Every product he developed, he gave them away to corporations to say i want them to be used in one them to go to people. In the unpaid consultant Thomas Edison offered over 100,000 a year and car refused at a salary of 1,000 per year whatever i do here everybody will know if i go to edison laboratories they beaumont. I have all whole lot more detail by would not be able to. Thanks for braving the water and the wind. You have been a great audience. [applause] a very fascinating and informative presentation. Do you have any questions . He was mesmerizing and he would do is try to please him if he could not separate from a ham. They got booker died in carver lived until the 1943 so he had a long time. If he had been alive that whole time we probably wouldnt even know who George Washington carver was. He had all these products that he produced. He did not even have a bunsen burner. When he would request Something Like to pulverize the compounds it was 9 they refused. And a limited to the p
Ruben we are here at the Carmel Mission. Its original founding date was 1770, june 3 in monterey after which the site moved. The initial mission is a should of what we call out the california or upper california with this devilish meant of the the establishment of the san diego mission. Joint military and religious expedition known as the sacred expedition. By commander was accompanied a friar who came to the monterey bay to establish the first site. Father serra was born and raised in a small community. This was the place that had been overrun and conquered by various groups, including the moores the moores. They have military bastions extending back all the way to the roman conquests. You have roman and islamic another traditions presented your one could argue that there was a very conservative trend in so far as catholic religious a wasf there, which serr inspired to bring into the americas. The evangelization of gentiles, in other words, people not christian should be ones life dev
Important. It seems like nostalgia and it is not. It is important and it is much neglected, i must confess. [applause] host thank you. Thank all of you for coming. I want to remind you that the book is a Great Holiday gift. [laughter] we will see you again. Thank you all for coming. We love having you with us and we love doing this program. Good night. Youre watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter. And to keep up with the latest history news. All weekend long, American History tv is joining our Comcast Cable partners to showcase the history of monterey, california. To learn more, visit citiestour. Rg we continue with our look at the history of monterey. Welcome to monterey, situated on californias central coast. Its significant to historians and should be to all californians because it is the first place the government of mexico and ultimately the governor of california did business. The first time in Ameri
Senator schumer i dont see that they have reporter c. R. s. Senator schumer well, look, the bottom line here is, the n. R. A. Is a powerful opponent. The gun lobby is a powerful all opponent and the best weapon we have on our side is the outrage from the American People. It is growing. If we keep at it. We will win. We dont control the house. We dont control the senate, but we have the people of america on our side and if we continue to have votes and force people to vote, we will win. Let me tell you something today. There are a good number, not all, but a good number of our republican colleagues dreading these two votes. Next. Reporter if you are serious doing something about guns, why are you trying to attach this to a bill that the president has said he is going to veto . Senator schumer our proposals rescind the underlying bill and just have this so the president will sign them should they pass. Reporter will you fight this in the omnibus . Senator schumer in every place where we
So its a very blissful moment to the asserted incandescent. Because we all know what is to become of the people. Next up, farmer karl rove discusses his book. He looks at William Mckinleys 1896 president ial campaign. Hes interviewed by Richard Berke keizer commencing editor for National Review magazine. We are here with karl rove, author of triumph of William Mckinley. Mr. Rove was a Senior Advisor for president george w. Bush and the architect of his election and reelection in 2,002,004. His publisher asked me if i would read his book and blurb it and i did. I just want to begin with what i said. Karl rove shows how William Mckinley used his watershed election to change his party for the political process in the nation. Its all here. The big themes, backstage maneuvers, personalities, hoopla. A great read for historians, political junkies and in our own wild elections michael america. I will pay you for that. It was awfully generous. Lets introduce the man as 1896 began, who was Will