He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if you want to watch it again it is now available and easy to find. I dont know when they are putting garfield or mckinley on. It would save us a lot of time. Todays talk is quite different than the other three. A lot of us in this room were alive
In world war ii. He arrived in june, just after dday and fought literally to the very end, some of the fiercest battles. You were in the thick of the fighting in normandy. Possibly one of the bloodiest and most costly conflicts for americans in world war ii. Of course the battle of the bulge. The film that we experienced january, 1945, 22,000 other americans killed in europe the bloodiest month of world war ii for americans. From my point of view, and having written about the gia experience from the foxhole and also from the g. I. Experience from the foxhole and also having talked to a war photographer, a very good friend of mine, i am honored and delighted to speak with you. I cannot think of anybody else who spent as long as you did in war actually taking photographs. You did not separate until you were kill until you were wounded. I want to go through the first photograph. Tony, can you see what is behind us . Tony yes. Alex can you tell us about this photograph . You are coming in
Erwin griswold was surely one of the most remarkable lawyers of the last century, distinguishing himself in many ways during his 65year legal career. Among other things, he was a renowned expert in tax law. He was a professor for a long time. He was the dean of the Harvard Law School for 21 years and he was the solicitor general in an unprecedented and on succeeded on succeeded phenomena and of being appointed by Lyndon Johnson a democrat, and being kept on for several years in the Richard Nixon administration, which we will hear about tonight. He was also the Historical Societys first chairman. Following his term as closer journal, solicitor general the dean or just dean as we called him to his face joined in 1974. When i joined in 1985, i had the pleasure to work with them on a number of cases. Nothing significant. Commercial disputes, pro bono criminal appeals. But i was quite taken with the fact that that had no effect on the level of enthusiasm, interests, and just effort into whi
Later in 1965 to combat poverty rebuilding our cities and making housing more affordable by all. Yet by every official measure, poverty and its consequences is as bad as 50 years ago. Poverty rate today is essentially unchanged from when hud was founded. Millions of more americans fall below the poverty mark, including an unbelievable one out of five children. This is shameful. Hud says its mission is to build quality Affordable Homes for all and yet, according to inflation figures, the median price of new homes as doubled and median rents have gone up by more than onethird. In other words, its not just the poor who find the cost of housing beyond their means, its almost everyone. This is unacceptable. To make matters worse, to achieve this unenviable record, hud has spent 1. u dollars and is asking for a 9 budget increase. 1. 6 trillion is more than 13,000 for every household in america, equivalent to the cost of feeding a family of four for an entire year. Meanwhile, one of our great
Later in 1965 to combat poverty rebuilding our cities and making housing more affordable by all. Yet by every official measure, poverty and its consequences is as bad as 50 years ago. Poverty rate today is essentially unchanged from when hud was founded. Millions of more americans fall below the poverty mark, including an unbelievable one out of five children. This is shameful. Hud says its mission is to build quality Affordable Homes for all and yet, according to inflation figures, the median price of new homes as doubled and median rents have gone up by more than onethird. In other words, its not just the poor who find the cost of housing beyond their means, its almost everyone. This is unacceptable. To make matters worse, to achieve this unenviable record, hud has spent 1. u dollars and is asking for a 9 budget increase. 1. 6 trillion is more than 13,000 for every household in america, equivalent to the cost of feeding a family of four for an entire year. Meanwhile, one of our great