A land of paradox. Streams and luminous days animate the landscape where , there is tropical greenery. Along the coast, forests of alder, spruce, cedar and pine spread for 1000 miles. Deep into green beyond the boundaries of imagination. The indians who named the land gave shape to the real and ghostly figures of their world. Recorded their legends in the carved spruce logs. They left the carvings of the russians who drove them from the great land. In the mid 18th century, the russian empire was expanding. In 1741, russian explorers claimed the land in the name of the widow of the russian leader. They brought the christian religion here. There are Russian Orthodox church is with its outward symbols of crusted are, russia ruled absolute for a century and a quarter over the place we now call the state of alaska. A reenactment of a historical moment. October 18, 1867. United states troops were present on that quiet, misty day when the russian imperial flag was lowered for the last time. T
Go to cspan. Org. Washington journal continues. Ist Gene Karpinski president of the league of conservation voters and this morning we talk about the implications of president Donald Trumps decision to withdraw the u. S. From the paris climate deal. Thank you for being here. What is the practical effect of the u. S. Backing out of this deal . Can the goals of the paris climate agreement he reached in another way . Guest this decision was a horrible decision for our economy and china is celebrating. The United States economy will , it is bad for our security, asked people about the pentagon. Bad for our health, it will have more deaths more asthma tax, vat for the attacks. Bad for the planet. Most of the world knows Climate Change is real and the problem is happening now and we need to move forward. You are seeing governors and mayors, collective officials elected officials doubling down and saying we need to do more. This decision by the president to back out gives ground to china and g
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Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori