National Archives Foundation which supports her education and outreach activities and there is a gaggle of members of the board of the national Archives Foundation in the theater. Nice to see you. Check out Archives Foundation. Org and to join them on line. A littleknown secret i tell everyone no one has ever been turned down for membership from the national Archives Foundation. Some of you think of archives as a place for dead people. Writers who have not spent much time and fall back on adjectives like dusty musty, or crumbling much to the education of archivists and preservationists. Some say the riches are buried. Can study and of lifeless remnants of history, archives are filled with many lives, billions of pages contain stories of payments of ordinary people who intersected with recorded history. Mo rocca tells a story of hidden records and send them into the world. With mobituaries great lives worth reliving he looks at the lives of men and women, those wellknown and those now f
Phones were all theho rage. [laughter] facebook was founded the world war ii memorial was dedicated, george w. Bush was reelected president. Major League Baseball retur to washington as the Washington Nationals. [applause] fast forward 15 years the Washington Nationals are in the world series. [applause] and David Rubenstein is back as we all know cofounder as well as chairman of the board or the boards of trustees of the jfk center for performing arts. The Smithsonian Institution and the council on Foreign Relations and we all know he is a engaged in many many many other philanthropic activities too numerous to mention. David coined the phrase patriotic philanthropy with generous financing of the restoration of the historical landmark including the Washington Monument the Lincoln Memorial the Us Marine Corps war memorial Washington Library and monticello in montpelier and the arlington house also purchasing copies like the declaration of independence, the emancipation proclamation and
Warner is, i dont know, approaching old age. I will not say he is there. Is approaching old age but you would never know it. We have been sitting in the back and talking about this race and that race and all kinds of things and i was thinking about his career and it is absolutely incredible. You can go back as far as world war ii and korea. He was in both of those and you didnt have to. He was always willing to jump in and participate. He did lots of things in between. Lets start with secretary of the navy in the early 1970s, head of the bicentennial commission. Those of you old enough to remember the wonderful celebration of the bicentennial of the us which helped bring the country together. And he went to a place many of you never heard of, the United States senate. He was elected in 1978, elected very narrowly, 5000 votes, very narrowly. That was the end of his time test. Occasionally he would have one within a few Percentage Points but mainly was unopposed. In the u. S. Senate from
Two other programs are coming up here on tuesday novemh at noon Richard Brooke heiser will talk about give me liberty to examine americans history through 12 documents on thursday novembe november 14 at 730 we will have a veterans day tribute from the u. S. Army signal corps for co authors of the new book entitled aftershock will join historians for the less wellknown images of the war. You will receive email updates and find information about her other National Archives programming. To support the outreach activities and there is members of the board from the archives foundation. And a littleknown secret that i tell everyone nobody has ever been turned down for membership. [laughter] with our archives as a place for dead things and many often fall back on dusty or musty or crumbling much to the those of our professionals. Rather than being custodians of life they are filled with many lives and billions of pages of stories of those people who intersected in history. Mo rocca discovers
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by a you can do the things you like to do with reless plan designed for you. With talk, text and data. Consumer cellular. Learn more at consumercellular. Tv su and with the ongoing pport of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contrutions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thanyou. Woodruff the United Nations released a grim and alarming t assessment abo impact of climate change. Even worse, it found that acountries around the wor not doing nearly enough right now to slow the damage before it becomes worse. The probability of avoiding Dangerous Levels of global average temperature increases is dwindling. So essentially, if you look at the global emissions, they are still going up. A new u. N. Report. S according to it found the planet will have to reduce Carbon Emissions by 7. 6 a year between 2020 and 2030. Instead, emissions have been increasing by about one a