Christmas million optional museum, here in washington d. C. Its just over an hour. So its absolutely a thrill to see so many people here for this kind of a program, my name is johnny gray, and i have the wonderful privilege of being the director of your National Museum of American History. Particularly on nights like tonight, and which we really can look at American History in unique and unusual ways. We are really honored to be joined by tonight panel Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applause Supreme Court Justice Sonia sotomayor, applause catherine fit, applause and Supreme Court Society Publications director claire kushner, applause it is now my privilege to introduce the 13th secretary of the smithsonian institution, doctor david horton. Hes on Board Certified cardiologist a jazz musician, and doctor scorching with most recently the president of cornell university, and previously served as president of the university of iowa. Doctor gordon has interest in learning as wide
From the university describes the conflicts and relationships between the new federal government, settlers and native americans. Good morning, everybody. Weve been talking for the last couple of weeks in this class about the effects of the American Revolution and kind of framing that discussion around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Wide should we think of the revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So weve talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure of the states that were involved in our revolution, and on the last time we met, we talked about the impact of the revolution on africanamericans and on the institution of slavery, we saw that in that case the legacy was quite mixed, right . The revolution set the institutional slavery on the path to destruction in the nor
the president caps more of our strategic oil reserve and continues his war on fossil fuels. todd: while you are paying more for gas, the dallas federal reserve said the average americans like you have taken the steepest drop in more than 25 years under the biden administration, of course, also in quote the majority of workers real inflation-adjusted wages have failed to keep up with inflation in the past year. for these workers, immediate decline in real wages is a little more than 8.5%. carley: as gas prices soar, inflation skyrockets. the average price for a gallon of gas $3.89, but that won t stop president biden from economic achievements. since i came into office our economy has created 10 million jobs, 668 manufacturing jobs, proof that made in america is no longer a slogan, it is a reality. [applause] carley: senator tom cotton s response to the president there. what shows. the biden administration and progressive democrats in washington have waged a war on
Restore to a new generation of lawyers and citizens the understanding of the american founders about the First Principles of our law and the moral grounds of their own rights, natural law. We offer programs for attorneys, law students, judges, and the public to advance the ideas of natural law or natural rights and the constitution. One mention of note about the house we are in today the was built in 1825 during the first year of John Quincy Adams administration. He had just if he did jackson in a vote in the house of representatives that was a controversial election. The builder of the house happened to be here in washington at the time in charge of the reconstruction of the white house and the capital building, which had been burnt by the british in the war of 1812. He happened to also be a friend of John Marshall and justice story, and because the court only met three months in cheer, he rented rooms in this house to them because the court only met three months each year. Later on,
Wall. There was that much space between them. The walls were not conserved until later, but the house was rebuilt and it looked about what it did. It was more like a public building, maybe. It did notloors, have that saggy fielding that president roosevelt loved. But truman built it for all time so that the main thing would happen, the president would stay in the president s house. He was very emphatic about that. In fact, as the sub cellars were being dug, he came by and they were about to widen the door with air hammers, and he said stop. So they had to take the bulldozer and a truck all down, back, and, build them that is how they built the basement. There is enough space for a driveway to take them out. He saved these walls. He saved the mystique of the white house, president truman did. Susan you mentioned he did not conserve and thats probably where we will end. When of the properties you write about is that sandstone is very course and also subject to deterioration. So how was t