Thank you. Thank you very much. Chancellor cole, governor mayor, ladies and gentlemen, 24 years ago, president john f. Kennedy visited berlin. Speaking to the people of this city, and the world at the city hall, but since then two other president s have come, each in his turn to berlin, and today i myself make my second visit to your city. We come to berlin, we american president s, because it is our duty to speak in this place of freedom. But i must confess, were drawn here by other things as well, by the feeling of history in this city. More than 500 years older than our own nation. By the beauty of the people, but mostly by your courage and determination. Perhaps the composer paul lenke understood something about american president s. You see, like so many president s before me, i come here today because wherever i go, whatever i do, [ speaking german ] our gathering today is being broadcast throughout western europe and north america. I understand that it is being seen and heard as
Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Throughout 2014, weve the had cities throughout the country. Heres a look at one of those cities. Eldridge johnson was a delaware boy. He was born in wilmington, but soon at the age of 3 he moved to dover, and his family decided in the mid 20th century, in the 1960s that it would be nice to have a memorial to him. So that is why this museum was created in 1965. It opened to the public in 1967 to tell his story and to get the message out that this delaware native invented the spring motor that would take the flat disk machine to fruition and make it a success. Er johnson, as he was growing up here in dover didnt really do that well in school, but he was such a genius that i think when youre young, its really hard to do well in school and pay attention, and he was actually told, growing up, that he would not be smart enough to go to college. So, instead of trying to make that happen, his parents decided to apprentice him to a machinist in philad
Just two years later, the wall came down. We continue now on American History tv with our look back 25 years to the november 9th, 1989 fall of the berlin wall and the events that preceded the end of the cold war. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Chancellor kohl, governing chancellor kohl, governing mayor deacon, ladies and gentlemen, 24 years ago, president john f. Kennedy visited berlin. Speaking to the people of this city, and the world at the city hall, but since then, two other president s have come, each in his turn to berlin, and today, i myself, make my second visit to your city. [ applause ] we come to berlin, we american president s, because its our duty to speak in this place of freedom. But i must confess, were drawn here by other things as well, by the feeling of history in this city. More than 500 years older than our own nation. By the beauty of the grunwald and the teargarten, by the people, but mostly by your courage and determination. Perhaps the composer p
Phones for our last halfhour of the show today to talk about Public Policy issues that you want to talk about. Well be right back. Sunday, Washington Post fact checker columnist on his biggest pinocchios of 2014 awards, given to politicians and political groups he believes made the biggest false claims this past year. Democrats tend to get a little more upset at them, because i think they bought into the myth of the liberal media, and they kind of think that the media is on their side , whereas republicans, they firmly believe in the myth of the liberal media, so they kind of expect that theyre going to be, you know, a reporter for the Washington Post calling it, theyre not going to be fair to me. I kind of think, i hope that over the last four years ive done enough back and forth, treated both parties with equal fervor that people have now come to, you know, grudgingly say, ok, youre someone we can do business with. I know that the Senate Majority p. A. C. , which is affiliated with h
A subject that illuminates the american experience. It in a way that is worthy of the smithsonian and worthy of the culture im trying to explore. What would it be called . Been Natural Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Ill figure out a shorter name. Was legislation introduced by john lewis and sarah, they came up with the name. A decade ago it would have been a debate. Is africanamerican . Black american . Is it just history . Is it just culture . Lets make it an inclusive museum. , favoriteur personal thing about the africanamerican culture . The optimism and the humor. What i want to do when i create a museum is i always struck at getting at that point where you were not old enough to sit with a old men who its in the backyard and hear stories, that you would sneak in and here. I would love the stores of watching Jackie Robinson play at what it was like to north new jersey. Then they would just laugh. Sadnesser the story trivial a sense of optimism and belief that all th