Department officials, john and awardwinning author, shelby steele. At first, heres a portion of the 2013 interview with George Schultz freed secretary of state during the Reagan Administration he talked about his book issues on my mind. And the issues on my mind, you write that when it comes to terrorism, this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved and if we truly believe in our Democratic Values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend that. Passive measures are unlikely to suffice. Needs of our active defense must be considered and given the necessary political support. Estate if you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say okay, but a terrorist attack happened. Then we find out who did it. And then we try them in the u. S. Court. And we find them guilty. Then they go to jail. What has that accomplished. A certain deterrence but in the meantime, tara stark has taken place. In the terrorist act like 911 can kill a lot of people. So if you know something is co
In chicago some ways this was very specific in the wicker park neighborhood. Theyre hitting Liquor Stores and salons, getting bottles of shampoo. Hitting clothing stories. Other ways it is very indiscriminate. They are hitting Small Business and you can see they hit the target which is now being boarded up as we speak. It is about cleaning up, boarding up buildings that have been hit. Boarding up other buildings to prevent this from happening again. I want to show you video from over the weekend. What happened here in chicago, they shut down Public Transit into the downtown areas where we saw protested on saturday night. They shut down main arteries into the downtown area. As a result of that, the protests and looting became more scattered. They hit suburbs and south side. Where we are outside of the Downtown City Center in wicker park. I talked to a Small Business owner not far from here. She was getting ready to reopen the clothing retail space on june third. Because of this it is de
Happy may day. Thank you for joining us this afternoon in helping us make this program a great success. We have had over 350 people register for this from across the country and from places as far away as japan. I think it is about 4 00 a. M. In japan, so im not sure if that person made it, but still impressive that program has that much reachle i has that much reach. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of the virtual crowd and the geographic spread, im sure there are some that are interacting for the first time. If you are not familiar with us, we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Were founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our state and nations history for the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing, we have been we have taken to hosting Virtual Events. We have Online Events planne
Historical society. I would dont extend a special welcome to anyone who might be takenning a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the side of the virtual crowd and the geographic spread im sure there are here for the fir time. Youre not familiar with us were the oldest Historical Society in the america. Funned in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution defend indicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our states and nations history for the past 229 year. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Event and we have Online Events planned for every week through june. We have a virtual tour of plymouth, massachusetts, this year i the 400th motorcycle of arrival of pilgrims so join us for that program. You can fine additional detail notices program on our website, mass history. Org. Today we eave a great from. Joined by abram van engen, aen so professor oft english at Washington University in st. Louis. He received his ma
Good news for a lot of folks. If baseball is as american as apple pie, it seems only fitting the owners want to restart the league on the weekend of july 4. Mlb owners have reportedly approved a proposal to have opening day on fourth of july weekend. The plan will now be presented to the Players Association on tuesday. There are still plenty of hurdles to clear but here are some key points. A 50 50 revenue split between owners and players, thats going to be a sticky proposition. Spring training would start in early june at the teams home ballparks rather than arizona and florida, the regular season would be cut down to 82 games in the postseason will expand from 5 to 7 teams in each league, the 30 clubs, five of which call California Home will follow the rules of their respective states. I talked to the commissioner of majorleague baseball and he said we want to anything thats not consistent with state guidelines so im not concerned about what they do, as long as is consistent with sta