Announcer 18 hours out. Unknown. On, a military secret. The Largest Overseas expedition. Theted by the blue and of american navy. Blue and y the end of the american navy. Moves even greater navy across the sea shielded by the british navy. Supporters, cruisers on the tanks, and on the horizon, battleships. From the decks of aircraft carriers and from the shore, patrolling the skies and searching the seas. Northeast, the american convoy. Southwest by west, the british. Nothing like these two armadas had disturbed the waters since the world was made. This is a combined operation that began some four months earlier and washington, d c the president of the United States and the Prime Minister of great britain. The gravity of the moment brought them together. The lights burned allnight that night in the white house where the two leaders met with their. Ombined chiefs of staff this was the picture taking alltodefinite form in the mind of the leaders now locked in secret conference. Two axis
Winston churchill, gives the keynote address at the International Churchill conference in new york city. This is about 40 minutes. Laurence i would like to ask we have a guest speaker tonight and i would like to ask the very beautiful, talented and brilliant lisa to come up tonight, if you would. Lisa is a fantastic journalist. Seven years of fox news, publishers foreign desk, and she has the privilege of no, that is wrong lord dobbs has the privilege of being introduced by lisa. [laughter] [applause] lisa good evening. I just realized that i am going to be the only person on this stage tonight who doesnt have a british accent. [laughter] lisa but i do have an accent, so you have to see if you can detect it at some point. [laughter] lisa more pertinent to the city we are in. If you would ask him, lord dobbs would tell you that he never had a proper job. Yet, it was in his restless search, as he calls it, for this ideal job, that he just happened to stumble upon some of the most wonderf
I call to order the committee on House Administration for todays committee markup. A quorum is present so we may proceed. The meeting record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included therein. We are here today to formally approve a Committee Resolution issuing regulations requiring members, officers, employees, including interns, fellows, and detailees of the house of representatives to complete a Training Program on workforce rights and responsibilities, including antidiscrimination and antiharassment training during each congressional session. This resolution will also serve to issue regulations requiring each house employing office post a statement of rights and protections provided to house employees under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995. Let me first say thanks to Speaker Paul Ryan for his attention and commitment to this issue. I would also like to thank representative barbara comstock, who is a member of
Fdr and british Prime Minister Winston Churchill worshiped together that day in George Washingtons hometown church. American history tv visited christchurch in alexandria, virginia to hear the story. Hi. Im john lawson. Im the former senior warden here at Christ Church in alexandria, virginia. With me is the rector, the reverend noelle york simmons. The story that i will describe today to me is really a lesson in leadership from from perhaps the greatest leaders in the 20th century, president franklin d. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. These are leaders that were willing to commit their country to a long bloody conflict in the name of freedom, to support the freedom and independence of their own homelands but to support freedom and democracy for other people around the world. They combined that with a deep humility. They believed that our countries had to be worthy spiritually and morally of the victory they were asking god to grant us. So on january 1st, 1942, our pres
That lament goes Something Like this. Young people are not interested in the civil war anymore. Civil war military history is on lifesupport. Nobody cares about the civil war after the sesquicentennial. Every time i hear that i have to politely push back. And the reason i do so in large part is because of the emerging civil war. It is a great honor and privilege for me to be here to support your work to support emerging civil war and all it has done in a remarkable space of five or six years. Truly incredible. I hope this weekend can be a real celebration of those efforts. First, a copy spine of marylands South Mountain. Sunday, september 14, 1862. Woefully outnumbered soldiers saw to stem the tide of a federal offensive. If successful it would defeat an already divided Confederate Army and curtailed and finish off robert e. Lees first invasion of the north. And three mountain passes almost unrivaled in its ferocity at , least in this point of the war, ensued. Breathless union and conf