We have had an ongoing debate coming down and being torn down. Give us the history about these monuments. Go up andost of them why . Most of them between 1900 and 1920. It was not so much monuments as. Enaming schools they made a political statement to put in prominent public thats, large monuments were basically a part of the and itshment of jim crow was part of the way of saying, this is a whitespace. White supremacy is legitimate. We know a for the second because of the timing. Why do you rename Presbyterian Cemetery and Stonewall Jackson cemetery 1949 . What does that have to do with the timing of civil war . What a can coincidence that the renaming in 1954, they are schools after brown versus board of education. The creation of the memorials, the creation after political officials, political act. Host was there a debate . Guest there was no discussion. It is quite striking. I was surprised. There was no debate. In that early time, a lot of them were paid for by the confederacy. By
We have had an ongoing debate coming down and being torn down. Give us the history about these monuments. Go up andost of them why . Most of them between 1900 and 1920. It was not so much monuments as. Enaming schools they made a political statement to put in prominent public thats, large monuments were basically a part of the and itshment of jim crow was part of the way of saying, this is a whitespace. White supremacy is legitimate. We know a for the second because of the timing. Why do you rename Presbyterian Cemetery and Stonewall Jackson cemetery 1949 . What does that have to do with the timing of civil war . What a can coincidence that the renaming in 1954, they are schools after brown versus board of education. The creation of the memorials, the creation after political officials, political act. Host was there a debate . Guest there was no discussion. It is quite striking. I was surprised. There was no debate. In that early time, a lot of them were paid for by the confederacy. By
I got mixed emotions. I am thrilled to be a part of this. But im disappointed youre not here to give me the Pulitzer Prize for the book i wrote. [laughter] Good Organization needs a Pulitzer Prize recipient on the staff. Heres the bush center, we have bill mckenzie. [applause] thank you for convincing us to join you in hosting this. It is very exciting for the bush center that you are here. All the members of the Pulitzer Prize board as well as the representatives from 41s library and i forgot lbjs number. [laughter] as a history buff, i aim thrilled that i met and to john and ron turn our here to be interviewed. [applause] get my book reconsidered, i thought i would share an active with you. Talk to vladimir about the necessities to have a free press in order for the society to be a wholesome and vibrant society. He had just suspended the independent press. This was in slovakia. I couldnt identify during the debates. Its during the debates. During the debates. [laughter] i said, vladi
[laughter] every Good Organization needs a Pulitzer Prize recipient on the staff. Here at the bush center, we have bill mckenzie. [applause] thank you for convincing us to join you in hosting this. It is very exciting for the bush center that you are here. All the members of the Pulitzer Prize board as well as the representatives from 41s library and i forgot lbjs number. [laughter] as a history buff, i aim thrilled that jon and annette and ron chernow are here to be interviewed. [applause] in order to get my book reconsidered, i thought i would share an anecdote with you. I was tasked to talk to Vladimir Putin about the necessity to have a free press in order for the society to be a wholesom and vibrant society. He had just suspended the independent press. This was in slovakia. I couldnt identify it during the debates. [laughter] mr. Bush i said, vladimir it is very important that you have a vibrant press. He said, you are a hypocrite. You fired the famous newsman. I said what the hel
100 years ago, president Woodrow Wilson signed the bill creating the National Park service and thursday we look back on the past century of these caretakers of americas natural and historic treasures. Beginning at 10 00 eastern and throughout the day we take you to National Park Service Sites across the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern, were live from the National Park services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial at Arlington National cemetery. Join us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, former National Park service director, and brandon buys, the former arlington house site manager who will oversee the upcoming yearlong restoration of the matching, slave quarters and grounds. Thursday, the 100th anniversary of the National Park service live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Up next on the presidency, historians jon meacham, Annette Gordon reid and ron chernow talk about