With a little daunting. You do the historian thing speak generally. I guess i think if they are looking at american politics, from the beginning straight through we can even go half of the several work, they areal talking the boat paradoxes and conflicts and improv. Tend to focust i on is the early part of the ark. His improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else. The nation was founded and a world of monarchy. The United States is a republic. What that means was a super clear at the moment. People knew that they were trying to do something that wasnt that. Beyond that, theres a lot of open ground. There is a lot of improv in those early decades the boat what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the government, how this nation is going to stand tough amongst the nation of the world and other kinds of nations. What does it mean to be a republic and a world of monarchy. How is this nation going to get any degree of respect and equally if not mo
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. So nixon was wrong on that one. Bill clinton talked to him a lot, which was strange, considering no two politiciansing hapoliticians could have ever been more opposite. And hillary had been on the staff of the Judiciary Committee that had voted to impeach him. But clinton respected him and listened to him. And nixon was sort of he wasnt he didnt despair about the fact he didnt have a great influence in his exile years. But he was a realist enough to know that he was not like at that point, he didnt even reach the class of kissinger who really did have all their ears and probably had much more influential input. Yes, sir . In light of all youve learned in all the research, if you could interview Richard Nixon, what one question would you most like to ask him . What one question would i like to ask Richard Nixon if i could interview, other than why didnt you burn the tapes. Im fascinated about the formative years. People say i write too much abou
This Senate Aging Committee hearing include actor Victor Garber in a 9yearold girl from maine to testify about their experiences living with diabetes. Senator Susan Collins chairs the committee. [inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Good morning, everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you to washington dc. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is a privilege to work with jdf families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research, to prevent and ultimately q or type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest, and that is the code chair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator jean shaheen of new hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have the votes beginning at 11 00 and i want to make sure we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. I want to begin by welc
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And there hadnt been a good book on race in washington, d. C. , for about 20 years, so we wanted to fill that void. The reason we made it 400 years is because most of the books about the city ignored many racial populations in the city, in particular the native american population. So, we wanted to start in the historical beginning, the first time we have written records of washington, d. C. , which john smith came up the potomac and went to the native american settlement. Lets focus on the from the beginning, the racial makeup of the city, once congress got here in 1800, was about 20 africanamerican. D. C. Was carved out of prime plantation county. There were plantations in the middle of where the city is today. There was already a Large Population in the area. As the folks who were building the capitol decided to employ slaves and in certain cases free blacks on the Construction Projects of building the capitol, that population remained relatively constant through the antebellum peri