House conveniences for business at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The house is expected to take up Energy Legislation that week. Live coverage of the house of representatives is on cspan. On cspan2, the senate comes back monday at 3 00 p. M. Later that day the Senate Begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u. S. Agency for international development. Coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the Civil Rights Division. They heard members from that division. This is about three hours. This hearing will come to order. Welcome to everyone here. Welcome to the witnesses in the first panel and welcome to those who have come to participate in this hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to look at the challenges facing the brave men and women of Law Enforcement. A great many of us have been growing more and more concerned at seeing Police Officers the subject of public vilification. Seeing Police Officers being undermined and hearing from Police Off
Test. Test. It was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. So he was one of the engineers on the Washington Monument. Another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 was George Washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. That looks like the Washington Monument. This is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. Randolphs were very prominent in virginia. Her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. Her cuss cousin was the wife of George Washington custis and she was buried there. Born april 30, 1781, and died in 1857. From his death until the union troops came a
Did so in such a compelling way fooled the slave institution. Not only that they escaped but also demonstrated their cunning, intellect, ingenuity, and mastery over the slave institutions. The story was just very extended compelling. It became celebrities in london. That story to spread like wildfire. So stories of escaped slaves are very, very important and encourage the slaves to know that there was hope. So you get this real sense of intrigue and cunning. So this is why the store was so compelling. For more information on book tv recent visit to georgia and the many other cities in our local content vehicles go to cspan. Org local content. Military historian recounts the career of general henry harley have parnells, commanding general of the u. S. Air force during world war ii. The author reports that general arnold is often considered the father of the u. S. Air force for its expansion of the Military Branch during the war and the technological and strategic advances deployed under
Because most protestants in germany were lutherans and one who was roman catholic. So he called upon two highly decorated, highlyrespected men who were fluent in german. Henry garriky was a missouri lutheran who grew up in southern missouri and had been in a germanspeaking family. There was a chaplain priest. He agreed to stay behind and so did henry. They decided to stay behind and minister to these guys that were on trial. Four of them would be acquitted. 11 ultimately were lynched. The others were given long prison terms. It never occurred to me what the two chaplains had to go through. Many of the american soldiers, including highranking officers said, we shouldnt give these nazis any comfort. They shouldnt have our chaplains. We dont want them to stay there. There was great pressure on these two men not to say. Oconnor was a priest. Catholic priest, he didnt have a family back home waiting for him, a wife and children. But henry had a wife and three sons that he hadnt seen for oth
this week on q & a our guest is neil sheehan. his new book is on the nuclear arms race told through the life of general bernard sleefer dshriever who led the research. we also look back at a bright shining lie, america in vietnam. it won the pullitiesier prize in 1989. you started the trek to look at books and this interview show every sunday night at 8:00 and 11:00. i want to show you a little moment from 21 years ago. what do you want to do next? i don t really know. i want to help promote the book because that s a necessity. and then the only specific thing i have in mind that i would like to do is to go back to vietnam, see what s happened to the country and write about it. then what i will do, i don t know. i m not worried about it. i might go back to daily journalism. don t know. i ve stayed busy all my life. and the one thing that i ve been taught is that if you want to work, you ll find plenty to do. so i m sure i ll find something. you learn as a newspape