You why he was chosen to enter richmond 150 years ago today. You may remember his name when you walk out of here. The book is actually on sale upstairs in the gift shop. I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What an understatement that is, to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather george weitzel. He was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. His parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. He was adopted, and the family name was changed to quatman. Im a blood weitzel. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probably more than in 150 years. Welcome. This is Major General Godfrey Weitzel
I will be doing a book signing upstairs. If you have a copy of the book there is time to get one. If you do not have a copy, there is still time to get one. Richmond was captured april 3, 1865. What antzel understatement that is, to capture the historic event that happened 150 years ago today. I got interested in this project 12 years ago when i was going through my grandfathers Family Archive and memoirs and came across this entry. My fathers uncle was a general in the civil war. My grandfather was born in the United States in ohio. His parents were immigrants. Jacob lew is weitzel was his father and his parents died at a young age when george was 18 months old. He was adopted, and the family name was changed. Im a blood weitzel. So the title of my talk is im a is weitzeltalk returns. We have weitzels in the Confederate White House. We have some weitzels here today. Probably more than in 150 years. Welcome. This is Major General Godfrey Weitzel. Age 1835, died in 1884 at 49. He was bo
Find out where cspan local content vehicles are going next, online at cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] next, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell speaks about the life of fellow kentuckian senator Albin Barkley who was majority leader of the u. S. Senate between 1937 and 1947 and was minority leader from 1947 to 1949. Democrat, Alben Barkley it was 35th Vice President of the United States elected with hair harry truman in 1949. This 45 Minute Program is part of a series of talks by Mitch Mcconnle about former u. S. Senators from kentucky. Thank you very much, linda. Its great to see all of you. I enjoyed my tour of the museum and i recommend you do it. Ive been doing a series of speeches over the last couple of years on some of the more significant members of the United States senate from kentucky. Weve had a bunch of them because we came into the union in
Obamacare was a huge legislative mistake has fouled up the Health Insurance market, put states in a deep hole in terms of the Medicaid Expansion in their own ability to finance it a few years from now. If i had the ability carl obviously i would get rid of it. Obviously its also chair he is still there so we will be discussing how to go forward on this issue when we get back. I will say this for sure there are pieces of it that are deeply unpopular to the American People. The medical device packs which has exported an enormous number of jobs, the loss of the 40hour workweek, a big mistake. That ought to be restored. Individual mandate. People hated so i think we will be addressing that issue in a variety of different ways. Host Jackie Kucinich this morning the Washington Post george will talks about what he says is a fresh start for congress and he makes reference to what senator mcconnell referred to as the medical device packs following a 29 billiondollar blow to an industry that has
In the era after the civil war, america changed radically from a nation of Small Farmers and small producers and small lateacturers, and by the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, we had concentrations of wealth. We have growing inequality. We have concern about the influence of money and government. He spent the later part of 1890s giving speeches all over wisconsin. If you wanted a speaker for your club or your group, he would give a speech. He went to county fairs. He went to every kind of event that you could imagine. He built a reputation for himself. By 1900, he was ready to run for governor, advocating on behalf of the people. He had two issues. One, the direct primary. No more selecting candidates in convention. Two, stop the interests are , specifically the railroads. For all our events on cspan2 on book tv. The 2015 student cam video competition is underway. It is open to all middle and high school to create a 57 minute documentary on the theme the three branches in you, showing how our pol