Commissioner meiberger commissioner paskinjordan commissioner stansbury will not be present we have quorum thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, the first one on the genocide a closed session for item 3 mr. Clerk, call item 3 for me and action item closed session. Any Public Comment . Were going to take Public Comment now before closed session no, no Public Comment okay. Thats because we started on time and our Public Comment didnt get the memo okay. Thats the secret everyone were going to go into closed session. Okay weve come out of closed session he united a vote or need to take a motion not to disclose what weve talked about in closed session so moved well take that without objection. Lets the house rehabilitate that commissioner paskinjordan is not here well take that without objection. The motion passed unanimously thank you, everyone at this time, id like to do something to accommodate the number of folks that are here the pob welcomed id like to have director huhuh irration
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And questions from cspans audience. We tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now, lou hoover on first ladies influence an image very this is about 90 minutes. . Susan lou and Herbert Hoover came to the white house as trained geologist. As experienced world travelers who were successful in the public and private sectors. Months into his term, the market crashed. First Lady Lou Hoover used her office for advocates of charity but as the depression deepened, their one term and it a midst great public frustration. Good evening. Tonight story is up Lou Henry Hoover. 19291933 and what an interesting life she had. Here to tell us about the life she led before the white house is a net dunlap. Annette dunlap. She is working on a biography of Lou Henry Hoover. What interested you in looking at this woman . Annette i got interested in her when talking with a friend of mine in canton, ohio. When i started looking at lou, i realized this woman story had not been fully told. There were so man
Forgotten war, but it was the first talk or in the cold war, in which the United States really did go to war with communist enemies. In this case, north korea and the volunteer army in china. And because it really does impact our world today. Korea is one of our most important allies, trading partners, and so our involvement in korea was a very important moment. Vietnam is very important for its role in activism and in getting many of the younger people in the United States involved in politics, involved in protest. And it demonstrates that the United States government is very much influenced by his constituents and responses to it. But we are going to focus on the environment of both these places. And we are going to start here with korea. So, that means land of the morning calm what koreans believe is the phrase that best captures the essence of the peninsula. The war we are going to talk about is the fighting between 19509053. For the allied troops, the war went on much longer than
Gettysburg. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1963. The Centennial Anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. I remember being a child, standing there, not fully understanding with the civil war was about. What the gettysburg address was about. What had really happened gettysburg. But knowing, in my heart, as i stood there, feeling the summer stones if you have been there, they are unforgettable i knew something extraordinary had happened. This was a sacred place. I took home from the visit in 1963 a small wooden revolver, a souvenir, with the dates of the bowel stamped on the barrel battle stamped on the barrel. I keep it as a reminder of what history really means. Morei set out to write than 25 years ago, hard to believe, but when i set out, i wanted to maintain a sense of childlike wonder about history. I could not understand people saying, history is so dull. So boring. All these days and battles and speeches. History is anything but that. It is the story of real people and