Obviously never had that motivation before. Theres a new way to keep your number when you switch mobile phone provider. From today all it takes is a text. Ill be looking at what the change means for you. Better the devil you know. A triumphant kylie steals the show at glastonbury 14 years after her cancer diagnosis prevented herfrom performing. Well bring you that and the rest of the highlights from the weekend. Dry all week for wimbledon. Weather forecast, showery, rain and windy forecast, showery, rain and windy for scotland and Northern Ireland but improving through the day. For england and wales, some sunny spells. I will have more in 15 minutes. Its monday istjuly. Our top story riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its shift from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a proposed law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to face justice. The H
Of both the miller and the university of Virginia Press welcome to todays im steve cohen. I am a nonresident senior fellow with the Miller Center, the scholar in residence at the History Channel and a of history at the university of oklahoma. Many of us, when we about the american presidency, we think people like lincoln and tr and fdr and we think about the 20th century as being the defining century and defining and determining the president ial power. But Stephen Rockwell in this provocative new book turns out all that on its head. His book is called the presidency and the american state leadership and decision in the adams grant and Taft Administrations. The book is published by the Center Studies on the presidency with the university of Virginia Press. So here to these topics are, first of all, the author of the book, steven rockwell. Steven is a of Political Science at Saint University in new york. He earlier worked as a Senior Research analyst at the Brookings Institution and as
Of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doing things like adding new states to the original 13 also. So the bill of would become a part our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol in fact the secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally an
Independence National Historical park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story as the us capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doi
Travel to park, learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place of the u. S. House and senate between 1790 an18 is park Ranger Matthew ifill. We are standing in the old house of representatives in a building that we Call Congress hall, although originally it was built as a courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary us. This room serves for the house of representatives. That well see in a moment was the United States senate, the house of representatives. Each representative at that in history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house we would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states and the story a capitol the story where were taking a new and actually offer it doing things like adding new states to so the bill of would become a part our constitu