Virginia is 45 minutes. Our first speaker we are privileged to have here today is scott harris who is the director of the James Monroe Museum and library. He has been as such since july 2011. Previously scott was the dwrekt to of the New Market Battlefield state historical park owned by vmi and previous to that historic of the city. He received his ba with honors and holds a masters degree from the college of william and mary. Mr. Harris. [ applause ] im not going to drop the mic but i will lower it gently to the ground. There. Thank you very much and good morning. Oh, come on. Good morning. Good morning. If youll turn in your hymnals to number of of 61. Oh, thats tomorrow. [ laughter ] if i may take the chance in a house of worship to spread the gospel of james monroe as my colleagues will be doing today. Any time that we have the opportunity to help raise awareness of the man that i like to call the hardest working president in show business we like to do so. So its a real treat to b
All of you here tonight. I am nancy stats. I manage Education Programs at James Monroes highland. We are delighted to be doing the program of general jackson, president and roe, and the florida territory tonight. In partnership with Andrew Jacksons hermitage in nashville, tennessee. Now, a little bit about how this program came to be. We are delighted to have aaron adams with us tonight who is the director of education at the hermitage. Youll be hearing a little bit more about her in just a moment. Highland was fortunate to open new exhibits this past september. These exhibits for the first time in history interpreted the building into that you see the photograph as a guest house built during monroes presidency by two enslaved carpenters named peter in georgia. Prior to we thought this building to be part of the main house. This is a really significant recuration to now have this building curated as it was as a guest house. In one of our exhibit goals, it was to really anchor this buil
Branding or any of their egos. Now, we all have egos that engage in some kind of public life, but the cause must be bigger than the ee owe ago and focus must not get off the purpose of your gathering, and they did that perfectly yesterday in a most impressive way i have seen in a long time, aside from they probably had the largest march and rally in our lifetimes. But joining me now are three high school students, Dominique Johnson from harlem here in new york. Jackson monroe from washington, the district of columbia. And juan reyes from chicago, illinois. Let me start with you, dominique. You went down, you lead the huddle part of the civil Rights Action group, you brought buses and cars down. Why was it important for you and youngsters . Youre 16, and none of the speakers yesterday were over 18. So now the millennials that used to play the age card on people like me that are old activists, yall are younger than them. Why was it so important to you and your peers, your contemporaries
President over the omnibus spending bill but trump is leaving it behind. In a couple of hours he will leave washington to spend the weekend inside the safe confines of his maralargo estate. This morning he caught lawmakers off guard when he tweeted this, im considering a veto of the omnibus spending bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus Daca Recipients have been abandoned by the democrats. Not mentioned in the bill and the border wall which is d desperately needed for National Defense is not funded. And then four hours later he took the opposite approach and signed the bill. I looked very seriously at the veto. I was thinking about doing the veto. But because of the incredible gains weve been able to make for the military, that overrode any of our our thinking. And now this comes on the heels of the president s decision to replace the Current National security adviser with the military hawk and former Fox News Contributor john bolton. Following all of the action at the white hou
The Coulee Region saw record breaking temperatures today as heat and humidity persists. Tomorrow will be relatively the same with another shot of temperatures breaking records. After a hot day