Capitol and saw these pages and thought, wow, what a great opportunity this would be and saw they were all boys and was told, well, we just dont feel like this is the place for girls to operate. And i at that age between sixth and seventh grade said, well thats just not fair. He said, well, maybe we can do something about that. So when i went back to school in the fall, i wrote letters to mr. Albert. And wrote letters to mr. Albert and wrote letters to mr. Al berd for many years, and finally one day when i was just about to graduate from high school, i got a call from charlie ward, who was mr. Alberts administrative assistant, and he asked me how i would feel about being the first woman page. Well, needless to say, i was finally ecstatic about this. I said, well ill have to ask my parents first. He said, well, mr. Albert has already spoken the to your parents and its okay with them. And i said absolutely. So thats how it began. And by the latter 1970s. Its about half and half females,
News anchor on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan networks. For the complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. Each week American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. Im don richard, the senate historian, and were in the Senate Caucus room which is in the Russell Senate office building. Before cspan started covering the senate in late 1986, this was the most famous room in the capitol, and in the capitol complex, because this is where the major hearings had been televised going back to the well, newsreels covered it back in the 1920s and 30s, but television came along in the 1940s. In 1941 a senator from missouri named harry truman says that were getting ready to go to war. Were spending millions of dollars on defense. We need to look into the way the defense contracts are being allocated. We need to make sure that money is being spent wisely and were not being gypp eped by unscrupus developers. And i
Events. Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan networks. For the complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. Each week American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. Im don richard, the senate historian, and were in the Senate Caucus room which is in the Russell Senate office building. Before cspan started covering the senate in late 1986, this was the most famous room in the capitol, and in the capitol complex, because this is where the major hearings had been televised going back to the well, newsreels covered it back in the 1920s and 30s, but television came along in the 1940s. In 1941 a senator from missouri named harry truman says that were getting ready to go to war. Were spending millions of dollars on defense. We need to look into the way the defense contracts are being allocated. We need to make sure that money is being spent wisely and were not being gypped by unscrupulous developers. And in fact, truman was a great scholar of history and had read a
I think there is a little truth in advertising to begin. I am not a cuba specialist. I study the u. S. Cuba relationship. What i would like to spend about 30 minutes doing now is focusing upon what intrigues me most about washingtons policy toward cuba. That is the mental software we use to undergird our policy. And thats what the book is about. What it attempts to explain is what everyone agrees is a dysfunctional policy. But first, as wolf blitzer says on the situation room, we have some breaking news. I want to talk a little bit about what president obama did yesterday. He announced a relaxation of the u. S. Embargo of cuba. This is an embargo that began in october, 1960. It was instituted by president eisenhower just a few days before the election between Richard Nixon and john kennedy. Candidate nixon asked the president to do something to show some spine toward cuba and the embargo was the step that was taken. I think theres a little truth in advertising to begin. I am not a cuba
Century. The author recounts the development of the new York Vigilance Committee in 1835 and other organizations throughout the north that provided protection against slave kidnappings that occurred in new york city. He speaks with edna green medford, chair of the History Department at howard university. Host we are joined today by professor Eric Foner Dewitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of two dozen volumes, many of them award winners, including the fiery trial Abraham Lincoln and american slavery, which won the pulitzer, bancroft and lincoln prizes in 2011. Professor foner, thank you for joining us today. Guest thanks very much for having me. Host gateway to freedom the Hidden History of the underground railroad, how did you arrive at this subject and this title . Guest well, the title, i guess, is meant to reflect its the book centers on new york city although it deals with a lot of other places, but the title is meant to suggest th