Policy issue you want to discuss this morning. If you cannot get through on phone lines, try social media. Twitter cs[apanwj. Facebook. Com . . Cspan and you can send an email. Heres the front page of the Chattanooga Times free press. Nightmare for our city is what they say about the shooting by mohammed abulazeez. The Washington Times leads with that story. Down lower on the front page is a story about congress and what they did. Congress guts no child left behind system. Both chambers of congress have voted to scrap much of the bush Era Education plan, meaning the government will continue to shift billions of dollars to states but well cut her loose and many of the Strings Attached to funding that is a little bit about what happened in congress this week. And the president was in oklahoma, and heres the article in the wall street journal. Rivals team up for justice revamped. One president obama praise conservatives charles and david koch for their efforts laughter rippled through the
When she died in 1947, she lived an additional 51 years after leaving the white house, longer than any other first lady. Frances cleveland in cspans series. Sundays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. 70 years ago on july 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was tested near los alamos, new mexico. Heres a portion of the library of congress and Los Alamos National laboratory coproduction, the moment in time, the Manhattan Project which documents the moment of the explosion. The scene inside the shelter was dramatic beyond words. It can safely be said that almost everyone was praying. Oppenheimer scarcely breathed. At 45 seconds the automatic timer was started. The test was out of mans control. A physicist who was usually the coolheaded one changed his mind. He said, i am excited. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. In the dead silence of the morning at 5 29 45, the coronado de muerto was based in a flash that most men had only seen from the stars. The atom bomb did not fit into any preconcept
Building and we will start putting of steel in another month. We are right on schedule to open a museum in early 2017. Narrator that was the first of a twopart look at the collections of the museum of the american revolution. In part two, we will see part of George Washingtons camp tent from the revolutionary war. Narrator all weekend, American History tv is featuring the city of lexington, kentucky, home to kentucky senator john pope. The pope villa is one of only three remaining domestic designs by architect benjamin latrobe whos more notable designs include the white house and u. S. Capitol. Hosted by our Time Warner Cable partners, cspan city tours staff recently visited many sites so katie showcasing the citys history. Learn about lexington all weekend here on American History tv. We are at ashland, the henry clay estate in lexington kentucky. Clays original home had to be rebuilt. It fell into disrepair, and his son found it could not be saved. He built upon the foundation, so wh
My wife said, when you get a pulitzer, you can get an armani. [laughter] im hoping to get mostimproved historian james that is a distinguished award too. [laughter] peter thank you for so much that you have done over the years. Thank you. [applause] the civil war airs every saturday at 10 00 eastern time. To watch more programming any time, visit our website cspan. Org history. You are watching American History tv, for weekend, every weekend on cspan3. This weekend, the cspan cities toward travels the country with time warner cable. To mourn to learn more about the life of lexington, kentucky. In the mid1940s, if you had asked who is a bright shining star in american politics on a national scale, someone who is going to be governor, perhaps president. A lot of people wouldve said ed prichard of kentucky. He was one of those people who worked in the white house in his early 20s. He was destined for great things. He came back to kentucky in the mid1940s. He wasnt dieted for stuffing the
The american dream. What does it look like when it does not work and when it does . When i think about a time when it did not work, i will never forget the experience is my mother had growing up in poverty in eastern arkansas. She was one of eight kids, three of whom died in childhood. Not child earth, childhood. Her father died when she was 10. There was no educational opportunity. There was not social security. She chopped cotton, picked strawberries. When my dad met her at the age of 17, he said her hands felt like the bark of a tree. She gave me the energy i have today to be standing in front of you. But it was Franklin Roosevelts programs and the Democratic Party that gave people in that part of america the safety net under them and the chance for true fairness. [applause] senator webb when it works, i think of the journey of my wife. In 1975, when the coming us the communists took over the anon, her family went into the south china sea. They did not know whether they were going t