Who kept the road open coming out of the chosen, 189 marines held 10,000 chinese to allow the First Marine Division to get out, and there were certainly Marine Security guards alive to interview who have been mistakenly left on the roof of the Saigon Embassy in 1975. Obviously, there was no one left from the 19th century, but what we did find was our forebearers were such literate people. We went into this expecting maybe wed get after action reports from the army. When the soldiers move west, maybe an officer wife kept a journal. As it turns out, every wife kept a diary, and we found them and letters, and tom, excuse me, tom, hell explain to you, at some of the libraries and historical centers, they brought out a journal in a case, and they had to turn the pages with tongs, because the oil from the fingers and there were letters from 12yearold girls who passed the train, tom was killed last by the indians, first train this year said they dug up his graves, maybe it was wolves, but we
Justice of the winnebago tribe supreme court. This event is a portion of the symposium hosted by the National Museum of the American Indian. This is about an hour. It is my great pleasure to introduce United States senator jon tester. We are honored today by the presence of the senator who will give opening remarks. He is a thirdgeneration farmer from montana and a former teacher. As a senior u. S. Senator from montana. Following election to the montana senate, he rose to minority whip and minority leader before becoming president of the state senate in 2005. He was elected to the u. S. Senate in 2006 and again in 2012. He is the chairman of the Indian Affairs committee and serves on the veterans affairs, homeland security, Indian Affairs, banking, and appropriation committees. He is an outspoken voice for Rural America and an advocate for small businesses. He is a champion of American Indian nations. Working to alleviate poverty. And pushing for improvements in education, health care,
The programs youre watching. Tonight on cspans American History tour going west. First to st. Louis to visit the museum of westward expansion. Then a look at the expedition led by William Clark and mary lewis. And well speak with an author who wrote a book about the lewis and Clark Expedition. After that, first Transcontinental Railroad. After that journeys along the mormon trail, the pony express from the National Historic trails Interpretive Center in casper wyoming. Next a tour of the museum of westward expansion. Our tour guide is a historian with the National Park service. Were in the museum of westward expansion which is the main museum here at Jefferson National memorial. It tells the story of the settlement of the American West during the 19th century. Were actually underground directly below the 630foot stainless steel arch. Originally there were going to be surface buildings that would have housed museums and restaurant complexes and things like that but the National Parks se
Did you make any commitments . We are above 2 . We are one of only four countries. Estonia, greece, and britain in the european union, and america, four out of 28. We have stayed above 2 even at a time when we have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. I think that is important. I think it is worth looking at what the declaration says pretty what is remarkable is there has always been the 2 pledge in nato, but it has never been set out as clearly as this. It is very clear what has been signed up to. It makes a differentiation. It says those meeting 2 should aim to continue. Some year after year have not been spending 2 . It says allies whose current proportion of gdp spent is below on this level will default any aim toward [indiscernible] an aim to move toward the 2 within a decade. I would argue theres a lot that has been achieved. Proper Training Missions that will go to countries like jordan and georgia and iraq. Here an important breakthrough in terms of getting
With the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american status. And what does that mean . So were going to build from some of the ideas. We talked about with manifest destiny. From the discussion of Political Violence and build into these are other things. Couple key concepts that we need to deal with first of all a settler colonialism. Have you heard that phrase before . I see a couple yeses and a couple knows some heads kind of bobbing every which way, okay when we talk about settler colonialism, let me give you kind of a gen