Meghan stas, senior director and Grocery Manufacturers Association here in washington, d. C. And diana aviv, kre feeding america in chicago, illinois and emily leib, the director of food law policy clinic, harvard law school, jamaica plains, massachusetts. Ill let everybody get to their seats. All right. Miss gunders, if you will begin when you are ready, maam. Ranking member peterson and members of the committee thank you for inviting me to testify today and be willing to explore this issue. Any name is dana gunders, im a Senior Science at the National Resources Defense Council and the author of a widely cited report on food waste and a book called the wastefree kitchen handbook which is a guide to not wasting food. Imagine walking out of the Grocery Stores with five bags in the parking lot and dropping two and not bothering to pick them up. It seems crazy but that is what were doing when we are wasting 40 of our food. Were leaving entire fields unharvesting and eliminating produce fo
Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate at stanford university. Her research very well suited to this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the america from the 18th to the 1970s with particular attention paid to the middle of the 20th century. Peggy vandenberg is an associate professor of philosophy. At grand valley state university. Her teaching and research primarily concern the figures of the 18thcentury scottish enlightened. This morning
There i am in the back of the johnson signed the Voting Rights act of 1965. I had a better seat than i did for the Martin Luther king speech. One more antidote you might be anecdote you might be interested in, in 2008, i was in the rotunda, we were celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of lbj and i met lucy johnson who i had never met before. On thelucy, i was here day your dad signed the Voting Rights act. She said i was, too. Nobody knew i was here, but im sure everyone knew you were here. She said her dad said , on, get in the car. I will take you to the capital, this is something important. Oh he explained to her that every person was be right beside while he signed the bill and she said why would you want to have a republican there . He said it was important that the American People understood this was not on a bipartisan basis of the American People would be like much more likely to accept what we are doing if they think both sides are involved. That was the story lu
Thelegacy in includes creation of the senate. New requirements for the executive branch to notify congress about his activities rate to go former staffers of the Church Committee are with us to provide context for the 40yearold video you are about to see. Here in our studio in washington is Elliot Maxwell who was counsel to the committee. Thanks to the both of you. This is our third installment of the series. Were looking at the church possible hearings on Illicit Activity of the fbi. To share the staff findings on these activities. Were going to see a clip of you reading an anonymous letter to Martin Luther king. The bureau went so far as to mail anonymous letters to dr. King and his wife. They were mailed shortly before he was awarded the nobel peace prize. It finishes with this suggestion. There is only one thing left for you to do. You have just 34 days in which to do it. Host give us some context for what we just saw. Why were they looking into the activities of Martin Luther king
Incoln held a Cabinet Meeting for the previous weeks, he had been getting telegrams from republican politician say it, you cannot be real elected. The people have had it with your administration. In you have to address certain things. His meeting, he did he asked every member to sign a letter which lincoln had written. In that letter, he and his cabinet pledged their support to the next administration, who lincoln thought would not be him. Touched upon it, but if you go back a little bit, think of this. If you look at the overland to put it in perspective, the army of the defendedthat army that Little Round Top disappeared in may and june 1864. They suffered more casualties than antietam, chancellorsville, and gettysburg combined. I saw a newspaper from new york. In those days, when you publish pages. Ng, it was for it was published that summer in a small new york county. It listed the casualties. That is all the paper was about. Hurt thatagine that is going on within northern communit