Of the select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the foreign intelligence act of 1978. Two former staffers are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see from new york city. Fredericks forges with us. And here is elliot maxwell, a counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. In this installment of our series looking at the work 40 we will focus on the committees investigation into andnational Security Agency the Fourth Amendment rights of american citizens. To get us started, lets watch a clip from 1979. The agency remains unknown to most americans either by its acronym or its full name. , one hasst to the cia to search for in life to find someone who has heard of the nsa. To his right is the chief counsel to committee. He is with us in new york. The nsa is something of a household world for anyone who fol
Please welcome the director of the lbj president ial library. The on may 22, 1971 crowd assembled on the university of texas grounds to dedicate this library. 2100 antiwar protesters were kept from interrupting the proceedings by a phalanx of highway patrolman. Warr chance of no more carried by high winds and accompanied by the pounding of trashcan lids were clearly heard. By former president Lyndon Johnson and his assembled guests including president nixon. It was an apt metaphor. Had filteredar into the administrations of both johnson annex in. Johnson and nixon. When johnson took his turn at the podium he proclaimed it is all here. The story of our time. With the bark off. There is no record of mistake or an unpleasantness or criticism that is not included in the files here. He wanted us to learn from them to build a better america. The lbj president ial library hosted the historic civil rights summit to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lbj h
Senator mitch mcconnell. We hear about Historic Events that occurred in what is now the Republican Leaders suite. Posted hosted the house of representatives, the u. S. Senate, and library of congress. Senator mcconnell takes us behind the scenes into the Republican Leaders Conference Room and private office. He recalls his own political career in the historic moments in which he participated. Host we are in the United States capitol in the senate wing and about to be given a tour by the majority leader himself. Thank you, senator mcconnell for opening you have this week to us. Where are we in the capitol right now . Senator mcconnell we are not in the senate wing, which is further down. We are in the main capital. The government came down from philadelphia in the summer of 1800 and the capitol looked quite different at that point. The two wings were added right before the civil war during the 1850s. But this particular space like every space in the capitol has its own history. We do kn
And he recalls his own political career and the historic moments in which he participated. We are in the United States capitol in the senate wing and about to be given a tour by the majority leader himself. Thank you, senator mcconnell for opening up the suite to us. Where are we in the capitol right now . Senator mcconnell we are not in the senate wing, which is further down. We are in the main happen toll. The main government came down from the philadelphia in the summer of 1800, and the capitol looked quite different at that point. The two wings were added right before the civil war during the 1850s. But this particular space, like every space in the capital has , its own history. We do know that during that general period they began to , develop what subsequently came known as the library of congress in this particular space. Its been the office of the republican leader of the senate, whoever that is whether we are , in the majority or minority, since probably the 1950s. But before
History tv . Visit our website, cspan. Org history. See our schedule or watch a recent program. American artifacts, lectures in history and more at cspan. Org history. Each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, makeups and history sites around the country. Next we tour some of the oldest rooms in the u. S. Capitol with senator mitch mcconnell. We hear about the Historic Events that occurred in what is now the Republican Leaders suite. The very rooms that early in the 19th century hosted the u. S. House of representatives, the u. S. Senate and library of congress. Senator mcconnell takes us into the Republican Leaders Conference Room and his private office. And he rawles his own political career and the historic moments in which he participated. We are in the United States capital in the senate wing and about to be given a tour of the Senate Majority leaders office. Thank you, senator mcconnell for opening up to us. Where are we in the capitol right now . We are actually