This was a governmental operations and it quickly took on the nickname of its chairman, frank church, and it was best known to history as the Church Committee. The committee met for 16 months and reviewed more than 10,000 documents and called more than 8000 witnesses before its staff. This included the creation of the senate Collection Committee and the creation of the foreign internet Intelligence Surveillance act of 1978 which we know as isa. We will have guests to provide Historical Context of the 40yearold video that you are about to see. From new york city, Frederick Schwarz is with us and here in our studio in washington, d. C. Is elliot maxwell. He was the counsel to the does any of the pennsylvania senator rick sweitzer. Lets start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . What was the impetus . My view is it came about as a series of articles by activities in the Intelligence Community, followed by many other people. This was in
And i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the United States. Tonight i see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. Hes black. Or hes white. Hes mexican, italian, polish. None of that matters. What matters, hes an american child. He sleeps the sleep of childhood and he dreams the dreams of a chi child. That child in that great city is more important than any politicians promise. He is america. I see another child tonight. He hears the train go by. At night he dreams of faraway places where hed like to go. Seems like an impossible dream. But he is helped on his journey through life. A father who had to go to work before he finished the sixth grade, sacrificed everything he had so his sons could go to college. And tonight he stands before you, nominated for president of the United States of america. [ cheers and applause ] nixon selected marylands governor spiro agnew as his running mate for the office of Vice President. It was now time for the democratic conventi
Shapiro, founder of the Harvard Negotiation Program talks about how to resolve conflict between government. Thats a look at some of the author programs book tv is covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on the tv on cspan2. Good morning. Welcome and good morning. I am on the faculty of Political Science department here at the university. Also a Research Fellow at the peace and war center. It is my great pleasure and honor to have this conversation with johnny, the 2016 winner of the famed norwich military history award. What we are going to do today is have a conversation, you have read his bio you should take a look at the pamphlet that was handed out. He is a very famous journalist and he set up time magazines addition and lives in singapore and works for bloomberg. He has written this book called midnight theories. What we wanted to do was unpack this book and i have intentionally not read the entire bio because i thin
Investigation with the benghazi attacks. Drug clinton came on very strong firing back at republicans and she also showed emotion and she talked about Chris Stevens, victims and survivors of the attack. Not much new information, but plenty of political drama. It was a battle of will and politics threatened to overshadow the search for truth. Lessons learned from the benghazi attack. The tragic death of four americans. And sean smith and Glenn Doherty and tyrone points. I thought more about what happened and i have lost more sleep than all of you put together. I have been racking my brain about what more could have been done. Or what more should have been done. Reporter republicans fired question after question at hillary about weather as secretary of state she did enough to protect the staff in libya in libya. One no one ever recommended closing the outpost. No one noticed that you ripped up their requests. They were torn up. That is not true. Reporter they requested five dramatic secur
And she followed henry through the army camps in the revolution. And ten of her children died. But she reminded henry several times that he was not a commander in his own home. And she was quite firm about that. And all of her children went to fine schools. So i dont have real statements about the importance of education for women, but clearly she would have believed in that. Peggy, her counterpart in philadelphia, who married benedict arnold, lucy becomes a patriot and peggy becomes a spy, and the question is why. She became a coconspirator with benedict much later. When they married, he was a military hero. They were both educated. Peggy came, again, from an affluent, educated family. We know he educated her beyond the french cipher and reading, because she was a teacher. She was a student of politics and finance twice. So we know that education and again, as a mother, and i can only speak to that, because you have to understand her parents burned all her accordance when she w corres