Known for his work at the National Park service. He was parked historian at vicksburg and became chief historian of the National Park service until his retirement. He published many books, primarily relating to the western theater of the war. He has a Campaign History of vicksburg, which is viewed as a classic. In 2015, legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions. His talk today is recovering the uss cairo from the yazoo. Mr. Bearss. applause thank you so much. Always a pleasure being where we are today at longwood university, to talk about the raising of the cairo. If you want to find out how to raise a vessel, you will not do it the way we do it. When i arrived at vicksburg in 1966, i injured on duty, and after i had been there for about a year, the superintendent called me in and said, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gunboat cairo. It was one of seven ironclads built by the United States. I said yes, i would be interested. And i
Parliament has voted to dissolve itself sending the country to its 3rd election in less than a year now the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main opponent benny gantz were able to form a governing coalition after septembers inconclusive vote. U. S. President donald trump has signed an executive order which he says is intended to end anti semitism but there are affairs that its actually designed to restrict criticism of Israeli Government policies our fisher explains. President donald trump has regularly boasted of his pro israel record he did it again as he signed a new executive order this time into fighting what the white house sees as a growing problem of anti semitism on University Campuses across the u. S. As this is our message to universities if you want to accept the tremendous amount of federal dollars that you get every year you must reject anti semitism and i essentially the order extends part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act it allowed the department of education to wi
Represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the American People so much so was there was just given to me by the king of saudi arabia and i can tell you its a horrible thing that took place and were getting to the bottom of it all of the investigators are there now and theyre studying it very closely mike hanna is in washington d. C. With more on the political reaction. The governor was very quickly on the scene expressed deep concern at the situation and deep true tragedy at the situation as well he pointed out that the pentagon the naval pilot is an integral part of that community and the attack on the base would have a massive impact on the 10s of thousands that live in neighborhoods surrounding the particular base he also raised the question of the Saudi National being the gunman and the cost whether its possible that reparations might have to be made by the saudi state theres obviously going to be a lot of questions about you know this individual being a Foreign National
Benefit the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our National Security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections this actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the stick. Castro explains from washington that the impeachment is likely to reach the senate. That announcement was a dramatic marker in this impeachment saga it puts the full weight of the House Speakers Office behind the drafting of these articles of impeachment which is significant because these articles are in essence the charges the political charges that trump will face when and if his impeachment reaches the senate and all indications are that it will now exactly what these articles will include now thats the bigger question we saw from the house intelligence committees report that was put together after interviewing the heat of the testimonies from 17 witnesses as well as the call transcript between t
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