Comedian by the name of tim sample and he has this great bit where he talks about getting directions and he says you cant get there from here. Ryan is a fell mainer and he has proven that you can get there from here. Ryan comes to you from the great state of maine. He began working here at the Military Park as an San Bernardino then as a seasonal. Hes also a tour guide at ken moore, an Historic House in downtown fredericksburg. The thing im most excited about with ryan and there are many things because he is an absolute rising rock star in the vein of kevin pollak. He said i love this story of monocracy and he started writing about lew wallace and monocracy and he was fascinated by it. And the emerging civil war gave him the opportunity to explore that passion and you could absolutely see it in the way that his research came together, in the way that he told the story and story and hes opened up what is essentially a littleknown bat until a fresh, exciting and especially relevant way s
For three days in july, 1863, the union and confederate armies faced off in gettysburg, pennsylvania. One of the most decisive battles of the civil war. Next on american artifacts, we visit confederate general robert e. Lees gettysburg headquarters. The Civil War Trust, a nonprofit organization, purchased the house and surrounding land in 2015. We talk with Jim Lighthizer and Garry Adelman of the trust about the propertys history and restoration. This house is significant to the battle of gettysburg, one of the most, if not the most important battle of the whole civil war because it was the epicenter of the confederate effort. This is the headquarters. This is where robert e. Lee was. This is the building in which he made crucial decisions during the course of those three days of that battle that literally determined the outcome of the battle. This property, when we bought it, looks nothing like it does right now. It was a Hotel Complex with a brew pub restaurant attached to it. So it
Shutdown our conversation we had earlier on washington journal. Eric katz is a Senior Correspondent and joins us now on the impact on the ongoing shut down. This is a partial shutdown so explain why. There is no funding for government. Have carved out certain exceptions for employees that can continue to work. There is a memo from the Carter Thicke administration as to who can work and who cant. Employee funds that come from other appropriations can continue to work. They are fee funded and they can continue to work. If they are fee funded, they can work. Host whats an example . Guest for example, some operations of customs officers are funded by fees because you pay a fee every time you fly on an airplane. That would go to paying that persons, certain persons salaries or checking passports. Those employees, you pay a fee to get your passport renewed and that helps pay the salary of the employees who process those. There are also exceptions for employees who work to protect life or pro
Not last of there is no funding for government. But they have carved out certain exemptions and exceptions for employees that continue to work. Law andbased on an old a memo from the Carter Administration lays out who can work and who cant. Funds come from annualother than appropriations. If they are fee funded, they can work. Host whats an example . Example, some operations of customs officers are funded by fees because you pay a fee every time you fly on an airplane. To paying that persons, certain persons salaries or checking passports. Those employees, you pay a fee to get your passport renewed and that helps pay the salary of the employees who process those. There are also exceptions for employees who work to protect life or property, basically how they call it. Anyone working national security, defense department, homeland security, Justice Department are also working protecting property the government owns. Its part of that exception. Host how many federal employees are furlough
Magazines Kim Henderson talks about efforts to reduce assistance to the supplemental nutritional assistance host good morning monday, january 22. Its day three of the first Government Shutdown since 2013. House and senate will try to find a way out of the current impasse. Hassle meet at noon and the senate at 10 00 a. M. With a vote scheduled to move for a bill to fund the government for three more weeks. Well talk about it on washington journal. We want to hear from you. Democrats can call in at 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7848001. Independents 202 7488002. Have a special line this morning for federal employees. 202 7488003. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling and as we show you headlines in the papers this morning. Workthe washington post, week begins. The front page of the New York Times and their wrapup of the events of the hill. Much of the day yesterday, the work by a Bipartisan Group of senators offers a reason for cautious optimism that a deal might be rea