And warned against corruption. Their definition of corruption was not bribery or quid pro quo, money under the table. It was putting special interests ahead of the common good. By that definition, washington today is a massively corrupt place. Brian let me show you some video of harry truman after he was out of office talking about his future as a next president. [video clip] some of them, when they became president were rich men. Some of them were in the same financial situation that i was myself. Those men who have had to go ahead and do what was necessary to make a living, did not under any circumstances use the fact that they had been president to promote their own welfare and benefit. That is one of the great assets the country has had. President s of the United States are men who understand what it means to be the integrity of the greatest country in the world and that is all there is to it. I had offers from half a dozen people who wanted to pay me a great big salary. One of par
Lonely battle by herself. ,o, we can talk about the guns but there is a much deeper issue. It is who are these people, why are they so alienated, why are they so alone. When we deal with that, then we get to the root of the problem. So, the idea that if we just are , we will not take what everybodys guns. It is not practical. Who want topeople commit violence will still do it. I think we need to look deeper. Everybody was to talk about mental illness, i am open to that. There are supposed to be a way in which you will have Automatic Access to a gun dealer to understand that somebody has and issues mental illness. Need to do that, there does not need to be a loophole. The bigger issue is something we all need to think about. What is our responsibility echo what a societys responsibility to end this drift into isolation. Does government have a role in preventing gun violence . Its part ofch the reason i expanded medicaid, so that people could get help. So that the mentally ill could get
Physician who was working with the u. S. Army. Posted in many different places. Two of them are the things that actually resulted in the suit. One was fort armstrong, which is in the state of illinois which was not supposed to have slavery. Up in the territory of wisconsin. Fort snelling. Rick scott was taken to these places as a slave, held in slavery there even though slavery was technically illegal in those places and then brought back to st. Louis. While he was at fort snelling, he met a woman named Harriet Robinson who was enslaved when other officer at the fort. Dr. Emerson actually purchased to and allowed the scotts marry legally. Which was a rare thing at the time. Scott returnedt to st. Louis. They had two children, both daughters. Emersontime, dr. Passed away. Was asked by the scots if they could purchase their freedom from her. It was something that was not that unusual. She refused. She was not interested in selling the scott family. They decided based on the fact they had
And Chattanooga National Military Park, one of several small areas that are part of the Missionary Ridge battlefield of the larger chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The veterans will come together and get congress to establish in andst of 1890 chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park as the first such public area in the United States. Subsequently, battlefields at antietam, shiloh, gettysburg, and vicksburg will be created in the first era of preservation and commemoration of the civil war, on the very ground where it occurred. Today, this National Military park, with its units at the chickamauga battlefield, on lookout mountain, the small areas preserved here on Missionary Ridge still tells this story, a vital story in the course of our nations history, an important part of deciding how the civil war turned out. You can read about our countries but here youoks, can walk some of the very ground where those decisions were made. Even though here on the chattanooga
The late Currier McEwen of Harpswell hybridized dozens of Siberian irises. A collection of his irises will go on display at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.