Of angst, especially if you came for medical or health reasons. I think today we forget there is this connection to how we developed in the country or in texas in particular. If it were not for the gulf andt and the transportation viability of bringing ships and so forth, we wouldnt exist. Galveston, you really have to think of it being the point of creation for texas for what we see as the modern state and the modern part of the country. Our next part of the galveston tour is the uss uss cavalla. [klaxon sounds] announcer in 1917, the submarine force was battling Public Opinion as well as the enemy. Both saw submarines as im chivalrous, that and chivalrous nonchivalrous, that war under the sea was unfair and inhuman. If we paid much attention to these protests, we would not have had that tough s boat and the longrange fleet that made up our small submarine force in 1941. When all the training of 25 useful years was suddenly put to the test. [explosion] a small submarine force based in
A new report from the Washington Post says the cia is reporting the russians were indeed involved. This news is getting lots of reaction from both campaigns and members of congress. We have Fox Team Coverage at this hour. Caroline is live from our washington newsroom with more on the fallout from these charges by the cia. But we begin with bryan llenas at the trump tower on the trump transition. Bryan . Reporter president elect trump tells our Chris Wallace that hes very close but has not yet settled on a decision on who will be ace secretary of state. The Trump Transition Team says we wont expect an announcement until next week at the earliest. Also, on top of that, the Trump Transition Team confirms that trump met with exxonmobils ceo, rex tillerson, today. Thats the second meeting they have had. All eyes are on tillerson, thought to be under serious consideration for the secretary of state post. This is the second meeting the two men have had watt trump tower. Hes been at exxonmobil
A new report from the Washington Post says the cia is reporting the russians were indeed involved. This news is getting lots of reaction from both campaigns and members of congress. We have Fox Team Coverage at this hour. Caroline is live from our washington newsroom with more on the fallout from these charges by the cia. But we begin with bryan llenas at the trump tower on the trump transition. Bryan . Reporter president elect trump tells our Chris Wallace that hes very close but has not yet settled on a decision on who will be ace secretary of state. The Trump Transition Team says we wont expect an announcement until next week at the earliest. Also, on top of that, the Trump Transition Team confirms that trump met with exxonmobils ceo, rex tillerson, today. Thats the second meeting they have had. All eyes are on tillerson, thought to be under serious consideration for the secretary of state post. This is the second meeting the two men have had watt trump tower. Hes been at exxonmobil
You had europeans, mainly germans coming into the port of galveston and as a group settling a different parts of the state of texas. If you had been here in the 1850s german was the most common language spoken in galveston. On the streets, that is what people were talking in. We have a number of groups you can see in galveston today if you go to the garden, you can see what became the center for german entertainment and social life. You can go to st. Joseph church the first German Catholic Church in texas. You can see where they worshiped and where they were educated and how they spent their lives in galveston. But the height of immigration with the late 19th century and early 20th. And it continued up to 1954 when it was no longer a point of interest for immigrants. But the story of that is the backandforth between the state of texas managing immigration and eventually the federal government doing immigration. But it became a place where there want they wanted to push immigrants away
Party to the 1938 agreement, americans would access over munich from that day to the present. For over seven decades, munich and appeasement would be among the dirtiest words in the american political lexicon. They are really political four letter words. To americans, the terms are synonymous with weakness implying a craven willingness to barter away a nation possible vital interests for empty promises. But certainly, in the minds of most historians, munich was a major mistake. Even one that, in the context of its time, had a certain logic. There has been a swing in historical interpretations in this regard, at least to some degree, looking at the context and the poor set of choices that chamberlain in particular had. Still, the take away for most later observers and historians was that appeasement of a highly wound up and heavily armed totalitarian state, in the context of a relatively firm and articulated continual equilibrium of power, was likely to upset the balance and make furthe