In spanish, this means a man who works with his arms and his hands. The big question is why braceros . This video promoted the program, a guest worker agreement between the u. S. And mexico between 1942 to 1964. Sunday morning at 10 00 eastern on road to the white house rewind. My view is that the soviets are aggressive, they have overstayed in afghanistan, they have bitten off more in my judgment than they should be allowed to digest. I think the best answer to it is for them to know that the United States is going to keep its commitments. I agree completely. Where people want to be free on soviet or cuban domination where the proxy troops are used are the cubans. The United States should be willing to provide weapons to any men who want to fight for freedom against those hostile forces. The republican primary debate between Ronald Reagan and george h. W. Bush. At 6 00 on american artifacts. The russell building is very neoclassical. The Hart Building is very modern. Some people have
Combat ourselves for racial peac peace. The trenches that we have dug together around santiago shall the eternal resting place for all that separates us in our business and civil situations. Heres booker t. Washington offering the ultimate reconciliationist message trying to unite the United States in sectional and racial peace, not in a purposeful forgetting of the past, but in acknowledgment of the sacrifice of the devotion of black men that they had always shown to the United States. Of course, this reconciliation between the races was not to be at that moment, but neither was there as much reconciliation between north and south as popular images would have us believe. Popular images even from the time such as this cover of puck suggesting former confederates and former union vets had reunited. In 1865 the refusal of the United States government to bury confederate dead in national u. S. Cemeteries alongside the concurrent development of Confederate National cemeteries by the ladys
Keep it from being too strong, but keep it from being weakened on the floor, and because they conducted debate in whats known as the committee of the whole, votes were not recorded by and large, and the only way to know how someone voted was to be there physically and watch, and except for reporters, no one could take notes on paper in the house gallery so the forces led by Clarence Mitchell and others devised a system of gallery watchers, the segregationists called them vultures, but they had to sit there and keep notes in their head who was voting how, what amendment, and in the precell phone era, had to round up family members to make sure enough were on the floor at any one time to defeat hostile legislative mischief, so a bunch of young activists led by a Woman Working for the textiles who is still alive fighting all the fights, would sit in a telephone tree and they heard something was happening on the floor, they would physically go run office to office, going come on, and after
Awarding the congressional gold medal to dr. Martin luther king, jr. And his wife core letta scott king. This is a little less than an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our honored guest, members of the United States house of representatives, members of the United States senate and the speaker of the United States house of representatives. Ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the United States house of representatives the honorable john boehner. Good afternoon and welcome to the United States capitol. [ applause ] as you can see the dome is under construction. Getting some repairs and theres a technical term for that canopy but the architect said we could refor it refer to it as the doughnut. On july 2nd, 1964 congress completed the most fundamental and consequential ladies and gentlemen legislation of our long history. The Civil Rights Act recognizes every citizen has the right to pursue happiness without discrimination on grounds of race, color, or national origin. This was
Of our republican forbids it. The principles of our freedom forbid it. Morality forbids it. The law i will sign tonight forbids it. That law is the product of months of the most careful debate and discussion. It was proposed more than one year ago by our late and beloved president , john f. Kennedy. It received the bipartisan support of more than 2 3 of the members and the house and senate. An overwhelming majority of republicans as well as democrats voted for it. It has received the thoughtful support of 10s of thousands of civic and religious leaders in all parts of this nation and it is supported by the great majority of the american people. The purpose of this law is simple. It does not restrict the freedom of any american so long as he restricts the rights of others. It does not give special treatment to any citizen. It does say the only limit to a mans hope for happiness and for the future of his children shall be his own ability. It does say that there are those who are equal be