Represent the wasps today. Every single one of these ladies deserves to be standing where i am standing. [ applause ] it was passed in record time in congress and the event was held in march of 2010 with the largest body of people ever in the u. S. Emancipation hall at the capital. Approximately 200 wasps were able to attend the ceremony and wasps deany bishop parish accepted the medal. She accepted it on behalf of all of them. The original medal was given to the Smithsonian Institution as directed by the bill that president barack obama had signed. The story of wasps is one that even though they were granted veteran status and awarded congressional gold medal of honor it is a story that not a lot of people are familiar with. They didnt ask for all of this credit. They came to serve their country and did something when america needed them at a time and they came together and released men to fly overseas during world war ii to help america win this war. And when it was done they packed
Bloomberg knows better than that. Thatheard some people say we stop crime. I can go door to door and stick it in. We cannot do that. I wish you would emphasize that we cannot allow Police Officers to do that because the constitution says you cannot. I appreciate the point. That is one more point from the judges ruling. Judges ruling. It may lower the crime rate but it is unconstitutional. That is not where we begin, that is where we end. Situation, you can lock down an entire city. In that particular situation, that made sense will stop sense. Legal and moral problems. We cannot look at these issues through the narrow problem prism of what could reduce crime. We have to look at Public Safety and the fact that we are a democracy with open values and tolerance. Some sense of equal treatment. Even people who disagree with me and think that this is a toward that should be used sometimes and disagrees with the court, i should mention, we have to look see our eyes wide open to how these prog
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] sarah polk was on diplomacy and her strong suit is intelligence and political discussion. She made no bones about the fact she took an interest in politics. And that she was her husbands partner. She grew naup political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature. Because she would not have married him if he had unfortunately for james k. Polk he died three months after leaving the white house. And sarah began a 42year widowhood. Polk place became a shrine to her husband and she would invite anybody who wanted to to come to visit and see the objects she had collected through her long and illustrious political career. To live there for many years on her own. During the civil war, generals on both sides would come and visit her to pay respects. It is an interesting commentary
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