Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
In 1968 following then saturation of Martin Luther king jr. And subsequent riots, the office of Economic Opportunity which created a pilot district project as a model to help improve poor relations between the police and community. According to the National Archives, the are they commissioned a series of documentary and training films to record the implementation of the projects, hoping they could be shown and use as a model for other cities. Despite investing almost 200,000 dollars in the films, they were never released, but instead worsened to a warehouse in maryland. Up next on american three short pilot District Training films that are recently rediscovered and digitized by the National Archives. The pilot district project, the development of Community Control is a 15 minute fall featuring 32 year old activist marion barry, who later became mayor of the district of columbia. Hold people, young people, poor people all of whom live in the Third District. And it is not fair for the ci
Humanity can overcome the most accurate of weather predictions. [laughter] thank you to our new sponsor wells fargo specifically sponsoring the new history and biography on pavilion was 1h annual National Book festival all of us at the library of Congress Hope you enjoy it as much as we have planning and bringing it to you with so many great sponsors and partners but its also an important because building a key reading is essential not just to enriching our own lives but extending horizons of society to sustain that democracy and we are grateful to those 115 riders bringing us the creative spirit and collective in a national way here at the mall. At the 11th National Book festival not only a success but the unprecedented number of people participating with the work of over 100 volunteers giving of their time with more than 1000 it is a record in that respect as well as people like you who have been here. Also special recognition to the wonderful librarian the executive director Jennife
In this car bomb, and all of this happened at sheridan circle, on embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. In the car with him were two colleagues from ips, Ronni Moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cuban americans who had helped put a bomb underneath the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at the time by augusto pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that Orlando Letelier, a former ambassador to the United States from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know now that it was the dictator who ordere
Letelier. At the same time, Ronni Moffitt, a u. S. Citizen, was also killed in this car bomb. All of this happened here in Sheridan Circle in the heart of embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute for policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction in bethesda, maryland. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. In the car with him were two colleagues from ips, Ronni Moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner over here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the drivers seat in the chevelle that Orlando Letelier was driving. The order to put the bomb in there was given by the secret police of chile, and chile was ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator, who didnt like the Political Activities th