This was the first of a twopart program, you can view this and all other american artifacts programs at her website, cspan. Org history. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next we take you inside thes house wing of the u. S. Capital to learn about the history of women in congress. And second of a twoFarar Elliott program we continue the story beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswomen Clare Boothe Luce. Im Farar Elliott curateor for the house of representatives, which means i take care of the artwork and objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im Matthew Wasniewski and historian at the house. And my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists, and to con dpdu oral histories. We reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. And we try to tell the story of the house, which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can
Book republican populist spiro agnew and the analysts of america. They compare to president donald trump. The center for the study of democracy at st. Marys college of maryland hosted this event. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you. I appreciate that. Im tuajuanda jordan, president of st. Marys college of maryland, the National Public honors college. It always makes me smile to say that. Im delighted to welcome you to this afternoons discussion with authors of republican populists, spiro agnew and the origins of Donald Trumps america. The centers are joint initiative of the college of st. Marys city, the site of the capital. The centers goal is to promote understanding of democratic values, traditions and institutions through the exploration of contemporary and historical issues. Dr. Antonio uges, junior, is the director of the center. He joins us this afternoon. Thank you, tony, for being here. Charlie musgrove, chair of the department of history here at the college is also here
Music shows us around his home city of vision on. Hello im christine window welcome to news africa its good to have you along theyve been some big developments in angola in recent weeks the latest being a court order to seize a 1000000000 dollars from the daughter off the countrys former president Isabel Dos Santos behind me who is africas Richest Woman is the daughter of all jose it was. Hes 38. 00 yet as as president when mocked by widespread corruption in which billions of dollars of state funds and went missing. Down in 2017 the man he picked to take over for him. So long. In anticorruption drive almost immediately after he took office he ses said to have recovered billions of dollars from abroad not Isabel Dos Santos has said she will use all the instruments of angolan and International Law to fight the court order so odd the developments in angola political is the new president genuity bringing the system of corruption to answer this and other questions weve invited Rafael Marque
Gentlemen, um, obviously this is one of the rare cases where the cliche is true. My next guest does need no introduction and i will not waste your time giving him one. I just want to make sure the video connection is working. So, can we, can we make sure we have president zelenskyy . Uh, and, ahh. Mr. President , it is Fareed Zakaria from aspen, can you hear me . [applause] pres. Volodymyr zelenskyy [indiscernible] translator good afternoon audience. Thank you for the invitation. Fareed zakaria thank you for doing this, mr. President. We know that you have many many things to deal with and we appreciate you taking time out of your schedule. Um, we have known each other a while. And so, i will begin with a very frank question that has been on everyones mind. Uh, the ukrainian counteroffensive seems to be going more slowly and has many more difficulties than people might have anticipated. Can you tell us from your perspective why you think these why you think you face these difficulties
Gentlemen, um, obviously this is one of the rare cases where the cliche is true. My next guest does need no introduction and i will not waste your time giving him one. I just want to make sure the video connection is working. So, can we, can we make sure we have president zelenskyy . Uh, and, ahh. Mr. President , it is Fareed Zakaria from aspen, can you hear me . [applause] pres. Volodymyr zelenskyy [indiscernible] translator good afternoon audience. Thank you for the invitation. Fareed zakaria thank you for doing this, mr. President. We know that you have many many things to deal with and we appreciate you taking time out of your schedule. Um, we have known each other a while. And so, i will begin with a very frank question that has been on everyones mind. Uh, the ukrainian counteroffensive seems to be going more slowly and has many more difficulties than people might have anticipated. Can you tell us from your perspective why you think these why you think you face these difficulties