Last to get them back. We struggled vainly to regain our bearings while depression, fear and failure took stock of the nation. A 10th of the population of the United States was unemployed. One out of every four of us was on relief. In vain, we looked for something to restore our confidence and hope and our courage. Without jobs we had no money and without money we could not purchase food for the hungry mouths at home. Our only hope lay in charity. Hunger drove people to the bread lines, anxiously waiting for a sign of better days. Then came the federal governments work program. One by one, it took us out of the bread line and gave us a new chance to take a normal place in the normal life of our community. It made us selfsupporting. It changed the haggard hopeless faces of the bread line to the faces filled with hope and happiness. For now, we work again unskilled laborers, the forgotten men of past generations, now work steadily at decent wages. They are building and repairing schools,
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He is a professor of Political Science. Bachelorse with a degree from university of oklahoma and a phd from georgetown university. Assistantss research to a political scientist, economist and author and teaching assistant to former u. S. Secretary of state madeleine albright, who was here for a private inner earlier this year just to drop a name or two to impress you. Jewellined the William College faculty in 1992 and now serves as chair of the department of Political Science and director of the International Relations major. The William Jewell student body has voted him professor of the year an amazing four times. Gary is also a longtime supporter of the National World war i museum and memorial and for that we are very appreciative. Please give a warm welcome to dr. Gary armstrong. [applause] good evening and thank you for coming tonight. Of interesting questions. On the 100th anniversary of the senates first rejection of the versailles peace treaty. What a great moment to talk about
Betsy we are delighted to have congresswoman cheri bustos of illinois. She is currently the chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She has served four years in the house and in her previous life, she spent nearly two decades working as a journalist. With18, she was reelected the largest victory for any democrat from a district which trump won in 2016. We are delighted she is with us. Thelso have lucinda guinn, executive director of the d triple c since september of 2019. She is the first latina to hold that position. Previously, she was Vice President of campaigns at emilys list. And she worked at the dnc, so she has now come full circle. Were going to talk about their efforts to expand their House Majority and build on the success we all saw in 2018, year of the woman. They will give us the landscape, how it looks now, then i want to go through some of the Democratic Women to watch in the districts they are targeting. The bottom of your screen, you will see a a
And watch for of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Good evening everyone. The study of George Washington at mount vernon, and the washington leverage we have an annual event that were finally getting around to this year. We are going to have our annual lecture fostered by the foundation here. Were thrilled to have this opportunity to bring together some of this most important scholarships on the mother of George Washington. Mary ball washington. This popular event was set up some time ago. And understand the world, the times and the experiences the Martha Washington and other women of the 18th century. One of those of course Mary Ball Washington. They state womens History Month from the month of march. And because of the closure here we are tonight. One important thing i think everyone in the audience pretty much knows right nobody can say too many times, mount vernon, we have open to her to audiences to visitors i should say if you come to mount vernon and have an o