In spanish, this means a man who works with his arms and his hands. The big question is why braceros . This video promoted the program, a guest worker agreement between the u. S. And mexico between 1942 to 1964. Sunday morning at 10 00 eastern on road to the white house rewind. My view is that the soviets are aggressive, they have overstayed in afghanistan, they have bitten off more in my judgment than they should be allowed to digest. I think the best answer to it is for them to know that the United States is going to keep its commitments. I agree completely. Where people want to be free on soviet or cuban domination where the proxy troops are used are the cubans. The United States should be willing to provide weapons to any men who want to fight for freedom against those hostile forces. The republican primary debate between Ronald Reagan and george h. W. Bush. At 6 00 on american artifacts. The russell building is very neoclassical. The Hart Building is very modern. Some people have
Combat ourselves for racial peac peace. The trenches that we have dug together around santiago shall the eternal resting place for all that separates us in our business and civil situations. Heres booker t. Washington offering the ultimate reconciliationist message trying to unite the United States in sectional and racial peace, not in a purposeful forgetting of the past, but in acknowledgment of the sacrifice of the devotion of black men that they had always shown to the United States. Of course, this reconciliation between the races was not to be at that moment, but neither was there as much reconciliation between north and south as popular images would have us believe. Popular images even from the time such as this cover of puck suggesting former confederates and former union vets had reunited. In 1865 the refusal of the United States government to bury confederate dead in national u. S. Cemeteries alongside the concurrent development of Confederate National cemeteries by the ladys
He did every day in my chief of staff. Mr. President , thank you for the privilege of serving . Did you say that . I did. Sometimes there was a variation of it. But i did as chief of staff, i visited with the president first thing every morning. He got to his desk at about 6 45. And i would get five minutes to get settled. Our tradition was the first person the president sees was the chief of staff. I would walk in at about 6 50 in the morning. I always said something to the effect of, thank you for the privilege of serving. And it wasnt intended to flatter him or to thank him, it was intended to remind me and to help me remind everybody else what a privilege it was to be inside the white house. So i just made it a habit. It was a privilege. What did he say back . He would just move on. He was a president i think really understood the presidency, understood the privilege of being in the oval office. He didnt need the reminding. He probably didnt even need the reminding that i was appre
Myself. When you think back about the last three years, whats the first thing that comes to your mind. The last three years of the Bush Administration. When you were chief of staff. Whats the thing that flashes in front of you . Boy, a lot of things flash in front of me. Theres a trauma and a recency effect to the financial crisis. That was the last thing that happened on the way out the door. For the Bush Administration. You remember we went through 7 1 2 very difficult tumultuous years, hugely consequential, dramatic changes in the world and in the united states. You know, wed had a recession. We had a crisis of confidence in american business. We had the 9 11 attacks, the war in afghanistan, the war in iraq, hurricane katrina. All of these things. So when we approached the last year of the Bush Administration, as we got to 7 1 2 years in, most of us thought lets try to wrap this up in a responsible and effective way and for whoever wins the presidency, leave the country and the whit
(Editor’s note: To mark Westmoreland County’s 250th birthday this year, we’ve come up with a list of 250 things — 10 things in 25 communities — that we consider to be important to the makeup of our area. This series will appear each week through December. If you have a