Moment totake a mention a couple of additional arele who are here they three who came from vietnam who will be participating this afternoon and i think that for a number of reasons i want to introduce them including in reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and tran teortunate to have wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. Will beguyen fu talking about an effort to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance. Lai who is ao van victim of exploded and unexploded ordnance. I also want to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this panelence and the wednesday afternoon. That is terry province and John Mcauliffe from that vietnam peace memory she committee. We out peace commemoration committee. [applause] a great pleasure to chris ap
reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and we re fortunate to have tran te wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. we have nguyen fu will be talking about an effort of projetc renew to clear the landmines and unexploded ordnance. and we have van lai who himslef is a victim of exploding unexploded ordnance. i also want to take a moment to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this conference and particularly the panel of wednesday afternoon. that is terry province and john mcauliff from the vietnam peace peace commemoration committee. now it is a great pleasure to introduce chris appy. he is a professor, historian at the university of professor of massachusetts amherst. he is best known for three of his books on vie
To avoid any tax hike during the Great Recession that he had to make transit riders pay more in fares and in fact he raised fares twice so far. We wait, not knowing if there may be another fare hike to finance wh tever deal may be in the works. Th governor has been here basically all day long since he flew in from his vacation in florida. And were waiting to see if he will approve whatever theyre hammering out upstairs. Live in ne. Ark, brian thompson. If a strike happens new Jersey Transit says its has developed a contingency plan, but that would accommodate only a little over a third of its riders. On average there are more than 500,000 passenger trips already on the bus lines during the week. Nearly as many on weekends. And the regions light rail serves up to 75,000 ride a week and more than 60,000 on the weekends. Penn station right now. Reporter as you know, there are going to be extra ferries and the Port Authority will be cross honoring on path trains if theres a strike. Those a
Live coverage on American History television, on cspan3. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president of the United States and mrs. Michelle obama accompanied by president bush and mrs. Laura bush and congressman john lewis. [ cheers and applause ] good afternoon again. I have the distinct pleasure of introducing the Alabama State governor. President obama, mrs. Obama, president bush, mrs. Bush, congressman lewis, congressman sewell, mayor evans, its an honor for me to be on the stage with you today and to welcome all of these people to this great state of alabama. Its a personal honor for me to join in todays historic occasion of the edmond petis bridge that has become a monument in itself to the struggle for civil rights over the past 50 years. This bridge represents the strength of the determination, the loss and the pain that have come to define the Civil Rights Movement in america. And its an honor for me to st
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