Traditional tourist destinations are facing and a president challenge. Many holiday makers are now spending their vacation in their home countries here in germany this has led to beaches being shut due to overcrowding is this the end of the road for travel and tourism thats our focus this week on made im glad to have you. This is how it used to be crew ships giant floating condominiums carrying tens of thousands of tourists from one port to the next to see all the sites that could be packed into one week on the water but now the coronavirus has crippled industry ports have been refusing ships entry leaving passengers and crew stranded at sea and with operators struggling to stay afloat my colleague ben physical and asked if anyone will ever take a cruise again. My own holiday from hell 2016 highly contagious no wrong virus broke out i was trapped for 2 days in my cabin with severe chills vomiting diarrhea my 1st and last cruise. And now the w. Sends me to a boarding pact with idle crui
Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve had a century for these statues of those who foug
It, 202 7488001. If you are unsure, 202 7488002. You can also text us at 202 7488003, message us on twitter at cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. A harris it was from poll that was released on the 23rd of june. 58said that at the time, percent of respondents said the statues should remain, while 42 say they should be removed. A number of confederate monuments were torn down in cities across the United States recently. If you go to the u. S. News website this morning, an activity that took place yesterday in georgia this is reuters reporting a predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters stormed through a park in atlanta, calling for the removal of the confederate rock carving that the site that civil rights activist consider a monument to racism. Many were dressed in paramilitary style clothing and wearing face scarves, quietly parading down the sidewalk at the park. Supremacists have historically used Stone Mountain as a rallying spot of their own. Thats in stom
Jackson was elected president in 1828. We recorded their remarks at the u. S. Capital Historical Society in 2018. I will go ahead and start stuff. Welcome. Welcome to our latest lunch time texture. Im steve im chief historian at the capitol Historical Society, welcome. I am really pleased today to introduce you if you dont already know to jeanne and david heidler. They have been speakers here before for their book on George Washington circle. Today we are really honored that we are one day in to the official existence of their latest book on Andrew Jackson. The rise of Andrew Jackson. It was officially released yesterday. So we are at the threshold of greatness here. The book will be available afterwards, they will be available to sign it for anyone interested. I went to point out that their previous book was washington circle, we are also selling discounted copies of that back there. I am told that the hardcover that we are selling is five cents more than amazons soft cover. So that s
Youre taking that with a little bit different. Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve ha