Alabama, which killed four young black girls. It shook the fabric of our society, broadly, not only in birmingham, but in the country. And celebrating the joy and value of life during the jewish ritual of kever avot. Visiting the grave of loved ones. Religion ethics newsweekly is provided by the lily endowment dedicated to its founders interest in religion, Community Development and education. Additional funding also provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were youre retirement company. Welcome, im bob abernathy, its good to have you with us. There were major efforts this week to prevent a u. S. Military strike against syria. Secretary of state john kerry began meeting with russian officials to explore a possible agreement with syria, to turn over its chemical weapons to international supervision. Earlier, president obama maintained his support for a strike, but asked congress to delay voting on it so the diplomatic talks
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Hang separately. And in the federalist papers, James Madison argued that America United with a handful of troops or without a single soldier exhibits a more forbidding posture in foreign ambitions that america at this united with of hundred thousand veterans ready for combat. President washington stressed the importance of National Unity in his farewell address and one best against Interest Groups and internal rivalries. Now, to be sure, we have had plenty of moments of partisan combat in our past, including some that make our current cable news squabbles sound downright polite. We even had to fight a civil war to prevent the union from splitting apart. Yet even in our darkest time we have been blessed with leaders who put our nation first, about personal or partisan advantage. President lincoln, a republican, but to seven democrat commander johnson, to be his running mate. He also asked his rival to be his secretary of state. Imagine that. And then there is another great political odd
Roosevelt sit . Whats been her influence on the job and her influence of American History. Eleanor roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt came to the white house in the middle of the crisis in 1933. They told the friends, we would like our white house to be like uncle theodores and aunt ediths. They were role models for other couples, president ial couples. They were vigorous, active, but they maintained a homey sense and kept their personal lives alive. So i think shes a really important organizational pioneer in some ways. You would say . I think the first lady has a fine line to walk between being the sort of embodiment of the ceremonial aspects of the job and the kind of global stage that the first lady needs to occupy and that the folks are like this is your house as well as mine. She did that very, very well. The changes, the professionalism of the office itself, they were the clear sense that edith had that you were stepping into a new century and the future was going to be terrific.
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