Speeches by president obama, bill clinton, jimmy carter, and members of the family of Martin Luther king junior. Our live coverage from the memorial begins at 11 a. M. Eastern. One of the things i looked at was a lot of the county records, the counties where these colleges are. When you look at the colonial county records, you will have the name of the president or the name of the professor and then listed with their taxable property will be an enslaved person or two or three. Brought their slaves to school . Yes, if you look at the name of the president and three lines overcome a part of his taxable property is enslaved person. What you will often have in the case of princeton or harvard is you will have the president s the college. Who owns the person . Knowledge of the town, the local area, the president and the college or kind of inseparable anyway. Kreg Steven Wilder on the connection of elite universities intertwined with slavery sunday ards. At nine on afterw book tv returns in
We dont have any monuments officers nearby that were able to make it tonight. One, in fact, does live not too far from philadelphia. However, were very fortunate and its such an honor for me to introduce to you all dean hellers other son and his wife are with us here tonight. Thank you very much. [applause] i recall reading a quotation by president kennedy that said a nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but the men it honors and the men it remembers. And by that standard, we as a country today very poor job because we dont remember. We didnt know this amazing, remarkable legacy of our country during the most destructive conflict in history. And we paid a horrible price for it in the years that followed, not having monuments officers. In particular, in the aftermath of the looting of the National Museum of iraq in baghdad in 2003. This is one of the things that i created the monuments been foundation for the preservation of art to deal with, not only with a legacy of
Away the state fire marshal. The state fire marshal himself joins us later in the show. It is wednesday, september 4. I am sam sachsen youre watching rt. We begin in sweden. Asking again to make the stakes for serial. Can you explain the dilemma of a Nobel Peace Prize winner getting ready to attack syria . I will refer you to the speech i gave one and gave the nobel prize. i think i started by saying that compared to previous recipients, i was unworthy. The question all of us face, not just me, is at what point do we say we need to confront actions that are violating our common humanity. The president pots pans for congress to improve approve strikes are unraveling. The released its shaft of an authorization for force. It narrows the much broader authorization submitted by the white house over the weekend. The plan imposes a 60 day limit on any military operations and explicitly forbids deployment of u. S. Troops on the ground in syria. The S Senate Foreign Relations committee passed t
In agreement that in the face of such barbarism, the International Community cannot be silent and that failing to respond to this attack would only increase the risk of more attacks. And the possibility other countries would use these weapons as well. Sweden believes that syrias matters concerning International Peace and security should be handled by the united nations, but i also understand the potential consequences of letting a violation like this go unanswered. Obama says he believes the u. S. Congress will approve military action. He said that with such congressional support, his administration will be able to send a stronger message to syria. Members of the u. S. Senate Foreign Relations committee have passed a resolution approving a military strike. The resolution is agreed to and is ordered favorably reported by the committee. Members agreed that the action should exclude Ground Troops and not exceed 90 days. The resolution now goes on to the full senate. Members are expected t
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