This man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. We are in henry clays parlor. Let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. Thanks for being with us. Glad to be here. Why henry clay . Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . I think a couple of counts. First of all, his famous comment, i would rather be right than be president , still speaks to us. Its a clarion call to people doing. Whether were in politics or Something Else, to do the right things. He also said, you know, that in a sense, that the politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country. I think that is still something we need to remember, as well. The man known as the great compromiser. A man that forged compromises that not only kept the nation together, but were constructive. Those kind of things i think are the things we need to remember about henry clay, as well as all the things that he
And god bless the United States. Its the late show with stephen colbert. Tonights stephen welcomes dr. Jon lapook and musical guest maroon 5. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on facebook ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city its stephen colbert. Stephen are you ready sto do it . Im ready to do it too. Okay. Whats going on . Whats going on here . Its good . All right. I know the ladies love it long. Thank you very much. Welcome to a late show. I am your host stephen colbert, still. Some things have changed you might have noticed. You heard efi, she is still there, hello, i dont know how long that is going to last. Shes bossy. Always telling me what to do im back in new york city, as you can see. Look, new york. Right there. Here, in the historic ed sullivan theaters office building. There is the first time i havent done my show in my house in five months. I am so happy to be here to see members of my crew. Theres mark, stage manager, this is chris, he ha
The American Historical Association. James this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. Historical context essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. This is a membership supported organization. Anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, never siblings are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. And especially grateful thankful to History Channel four their generous sponsorship of this webinar. Lets get started. It is an honor to introduce todays panelists, Annette Gordon reed. Blight, he studies slavery and abolition. These professors are Pulitzer Prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. They have written and spoken frequently and insightfully on issues relating to monuments, history, memory and our nations contin
Leading up to the vote. Nized. Mr. Butterfield thank you, mr. Speaker. I bring this legislation to the floor today on behalf of the committee on house administration. I want to thank our chair, congresswoman zoe lofgren, for her leadership. I thank Ranking Member rodney davis for his friendship and leadership on our committee. Thank you, mr. Davis. I said this to you privately, thank you for the spirit in which you have approached this important but delicate issue. Recognizing the issue of removing confederate statues from the capital has been simmering for years. Since i recognize that, ill now approach the issue today with the utmost respect for those who are opposed to the goal of the legislation. But, but i ask the dissenters to consider that america has been a divided nation since its founding. And its past time for us to close this chapter of American History that remove statues that depict an era that caused enormous pain to africanamerican citizens. Mr. Speaker, as you, i grew
From the lake observatory. Looking heavenly. Plenty of sunshine for livermore, low clouds for San Francisco and santa rosa. Mid to upper 50s to start off the day. 67 in San Francisco, and 87 in san jose, and heating up in concord to 93 degrees, and it will be a breezy day. I will show you futurecast in a few minutes. Happening today a vote to phase out police from Oakland Schools amid the growing calls for reform. The Movement Getting star power support. For more on this, our reporter kiet do is live in oakland this morning. Kiet, good morning. Reporter leading up to todays vote, protesters have been ing the prsuonan show and this is the sidewalk here. Black sanctuary equaling police freeway schools. This is happening at break neck speed. The item was introduced for the agenda two weeks ago and the big vote will come tonight after two weeks of constant rallies and demonstrations over police at Oakland Schools against the backdrop of the worldwide protests over the death of george floyd