And today, you are joining us on a very special day. Were broadcasting here from the historic pastor reading room. Where for the past 80 years , scholars from around the globe have come to use the largest shakespeare collection in the world. I would like to extend a warm welcome to you today who joining us on cspan2. And those of you joining us forhe live feed, thanks making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arrival was accompanied by the folger consort. Ourfolger consort is inhouse ensemble. If you are interested in their music, you can find it on itunes and have a look at the wonder of will room that has been created by itunes. Apple has partnered with us so we collect shakespeare material for everyone who wants to celebrate. Today, we are here to celebrate the legacy of the worlds greatest storyteller. And what better way to do that than pay tribute with stories. People are celebrating shakespeare al
But people want to spoken bitsy this isnt a bed. Its a sofa. Thats how you get, you get another 10 pages of regulations on what a bed is, right . Is true, when sabre taxes went up you had a boom in the sale of small cigars. Its a lot like cigarettes. So the question he broached, and it still unanswered, is that we built the fence sufficiently so we can ward off what we know has always come, which is some kind of financial panic. Have weedeater limited the most egregious behavior, things like the volcker rule are designed to limit activities that michael bad, or have we contended, the equivalent of the sprinklers would be capital controls. You have had more capital into Balance Sheet so when it goes bad it will go bust. Things like living wills, even if you go bust will have the documents in place the sake you would not pull the rest of us down with you. Theoretically everything doddfrank tried to do is what we need to do. I have no idea whether its going to be successful or not. I thin
Joining on the live feed for making it possible for shakespeare fans to enjoy this special day. Shakespeares influence goes beyond the written word, your arrival was accompanied by the folger consort. If you are interested in their music you can find it on itunes and have a look at the wonder of will room that has been created by itunes. We collect shakespeare material for everyone who wants to celebrate. Today we are here to celebrate the legacy of the worlds greatest storyteller. What better way to do that than pay tribute with stories. I am willing to bet that every one of you has a story to tell about how they got to know this amazing writer. 400 years ago to this very day, april 23, 1616, William Shakespeare died. The world is much larger and connected today than it was in 1616 and a lot has happened. We are still talking to shakespeare. For many it feels like he is still in the room. If you look around he is still in the room. How is it that we still have more to say about this w
All around the earth. It really was a truly dangerous phenomenon, the cold war. There have been many cold wars in history. The british and the french were in cold war most of the centuries back to the Norman Conquest if they engaged in many hot wars with each other, but the cold war, the war that we know as the cold war, that was the most dangerous war of all. And thank god it never became a hot war. There were wars between the principal allies of the principal agents of the cold war, namely the soviet union and the United States of america. There were wars in many states of africa between allies of one side and allies of the other side, but america and the ussr never went to war with each other. Even though it came very close to that at times. For example, in 1962 and again in 1983. The accounts for the end of the cold war tend to be onesided, tend to concentrate either predominantly on the american side, or predominantly on the soviet side. And the reason i thought it was worth writi
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] you are watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Coming up next, several law professors explore the origins of the magna carta and the influence of the british document on the creation of the american bill of rights. The professors spoke at the library of congress, where 1215 copy of the magna carta is temporarily on display. King john originally signed the document under pressure from his barons. Revolutionaries looked to the rights guaranteed by the magna carta as they rebelled against the british crown. This is 90 minutes. Good morning. I have proposed to cover three things in my brief opening remarks this morning. Why me, why now, why are you here . The relevance of the magna carta today. From an early age growing up