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Taking you on the road to the white house. At the oversight role of congress and u. S. Intelligence and National Security manners matters. David sanger of the New York Times moderates this discussion. And welcomemorning to day two. We continue our examination of the state of u. S. Intelligence thosehe perspective of who provide oversight from congress. Congress plays a Critical Role in ensuring the health and operation of intelligence. The house are meant select Community Committee on intelligence [indiscernible] we are pleased to have congressman devin nunes and the ranking minority member congressman adam schiff with us this morning. They represent the great state and have long and distinguished records of performing rigorous oversight of intelligence in the interest of accountability and transparency. Our distinguished panelists are joined by david sanger, chief washington correspondent for the New York Times. We are thrilled to have you with us today is well. Thank you and thank yo
A beautification, to my mind, is far more than a matter of cosmetics. To me, it describes the whole effort to bring the Natural World and the manmade world into harmony, to bring youthfulness, delight, to our whole environment and that, of course, only begins with trees and flowers and landscaping. That is it from a film created about the johnson family. Lady bird johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue as first lady. She was a natural campaigner, successful businesswoman and savvy partner to her husband, Lyndon Johnson. Good evening. Theght, we will tell you story of Claudia Taylor johnson known as lady bird, the wife of our 36th president. Here to tell her story are Cokie Roberts, political commentary for abc news and npr, also the author of two books, founding mothers and ladies of liberty. Betty boyle curly is an expert and working on a biography of Lady Bird Johnson. I want to start with the beginning, where we were 50 years ago this week, this is an administrati
Book tv. Each week, American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help provide context to todays Public Affairs issues. 50 years ago on september 9th, 1965, hurricane betsy made landfall at grand isle, louisiana, near new orleans. It was a category 4 storm with winds up to 155 Miles Per Hour. A hurricane called betsy is a 30minute Defense Department film documenting billiondollar betsy, the first storm in u. S. History to cause over 1 billion in damage. A storm surge of over ten feet led to breached levees, the flooding of 164,000 homes, and 76 deaths. Similar to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many residents had to wait for rescue on rooftops and relief shelters were overwhelmed. Four, three, two, one, ignition liftoff. On our way. Say again, jimboy 5 . Stage 2. The air was fair at cape kennedy. Lacy clouds and a warm august 5. Gemini v took off for space when there was no weather at all. The only problem, a leaky fuel cell threatened to cut their short flight at the sta
s on American History tvs reel america, a look back to 1946 with seeds of destiny, a 20minute War Department film depicting the situation faced by millions of orphaned and homeless children. The graphic scenes of traumatized, hungry, and partly thed children recorded by the u. S. Signal corps helped raise millions of dollars relief efforts. This Academy Awardwinning film includes scenes that may be disturbing to some viewers. Children, the human raw material of each chapter nations tomorrow. Each nations preview of flesh and blood of its future. Pillars of the brave new world, pillars of the brave new world ages from three to six and not even able to stand, rickets, age nine, mother tortured, father burned alive. Age 10, lost her senses when shells swept her dutch village. Age eight, mother, father, sister, and brother killed in all around him in deliberate shell fire because they refused to leave the shelter of a ravine, himself wounded. Age eight, she did not know her strange new toy