Congress. How the process has changed since 1789 and the fliinfluence changes. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Authorized by congress in 1999, the dwight d. Eisenhower memorial occupies a fouracre park near the u. S. Capitol across the street from the Smithsonians National air and space museum, up next on american artifacts, a 30minute steuer of the new memorial, and following that, we talk to Washington Post art and architecture, to talk about the debates over the design and to hear his thoughts on the architect and the completed work. Hi. Im victoria tidwell and im the xe executive director of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and were at the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower and this story starts about a thousand miles west of washington, d. C. In abilene, kansas, and while eisenhower was born in dennison, texas, his family moved back to abilene, kansas, where he was just a toddler and he stayed there throug
Postworld war ii Marshall Plan. Hosted by the institution this is about 45 minutes. Good morning and good afternoon everyone. Its great to bee with you. Thank you for joining us. In the economy and Development Program. It is a great honor and privilege for me to open this event. We are very grateful for the presentation in thehe secretary general. In the foundation from both exempla terry leaders for development. It we are glad there with us today. We arere u very honored by the presence and participation. The lunch of the is a historic moment for global program. In a time of much dislocation in the Global Economy. Ba we need to build back up and include a sustainable economy. Policymakers and all other people around the world, have the senate, his power and leadership for Sustainable Development. We are grateful to our partners his support has been tremendous. Especially thank you for the bookings highlevel policy roundtables for the development over the years. In the creation of the
Brutality where individuals lost their lives and what we have the tendency to do is group everything together as the same and what america felts is its rugged individualism. What die mean . Its very difficult for us to look at the case that, lets just say in minneapolis, of where george floyd e george floyd died and the Law Enforcement we think about he was a black guy. Oh, it was white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this to an took place. When you try to make an vanderbilt that the individual who died was black and the person who is responsible was white, you sort of eliminate other human beings who should also he the same moral outrage, too much time is spenting on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person. Its the fact this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens
Group everybody together as the same and what america forgets about is at the rugged individualism, its very difficult for us to look at the case, lets just say in minneapolis were george floyd died and Law Enforcement, the first thing we think about we think about, he was a black guy, it was a white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this took place. What happens is when you try to make it an issue that an individual died was black and the person whos responsible for it was white, you eliminate other human beings who should also have the same moral outrage, too much of our time today is spent on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person thats the fact that this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens is that individual dies it takes away some of our humanity and who we
Assassination attack that left him seriously wounded. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv. This weekend on cspan three. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically in visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. We are about two thirds of the way through our 12 week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights 1954 case of school segregation. Brown v. Board of education. We are going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. In the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered black man took his sevenyearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly, four blocks from their home, to the all white school and tried without success, to enroll his child. Black parents into peak felt that the day of trying to enroll their sch