Guide to harrisburg. You can do this and all other programs at our website cspan. Org history. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, fromay the Heritage Foundation discussing the recent testimony of warmer fbi director james comey in his discussion with president trump. And an author will talk about his new article, the great democratic divide. And the middle east institute Gerald Fierstein talk about gulf states. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern sunday morning. From the discussion. Joined the discussion. Cspan is that they frank Teddy Roosevelt library and museum were we go inside for a room look at fdrs personal office and collection of artifacts with the museums director. This library open in june of 1941. He was the president of the United States. This became the northern oval office. Fdr had an incredibly inquisitive mind. There are 914 books in his room alone. Every book was selected by fdr t
Prof. Hess thank you for that generous introduction. I was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book . Whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the civil war . And never dawned on me to say the most hated men of the civil war, but maybe i should have said that . Let me start out with a story, and i know many of you know this story. I overheard at least two people this morning telling this story to somebody else, but they did not know i was sitting next to them. Grant memoirs, ulysses as enlisted a story. Even though grant himself admitted he did not know if it was true or not, but he said, it is kind of emblematic. The story is before the civil war, Braxton Bragg in the u. S. Army commanded a company h
[applause] for those who have more questions, he will be in the lobby signing his books. You can ask questions. One thing to keep in mind, there were also native americans that did fight in the union army as well. Particularly from minnesota. And yesterday we talked about ely parker, who drafted the terms at appomattox. Bert has several books, the confederate surrender at greensboro no turning back. And then, his talk was about to to the bitter end. People only say i would like to buy a book for my friend. They love the civil war but i do not know what books they have. They do not have this book, i guarantee it. It came in just as we were loading up the van to bring it too long with. To longwood. Just off the press. You can find books and answer questions. Mark bradley, yesterday, our last speaker sign some of his books. This astounding close, blue coats, tar heels. If you buy 50 of books, they give you a nice bag. You get the bag otherwise for 2. 95. Were live with American History tv
Summers i worked construction with my dad. Had it not been for pell grants, financial aid, Student Loans at low Interest Rates, i could not have gone to stanford. We have to do what we can. The best way to do well abroad is to do well at home. If we are strong domestically, we can be strong abroad. Your point is well taken. We are a country for a reason. Hopefully by our example and with our assistance, we can help others do it well also. Right now, especially since were barely coming back from that deep recession, its time to really make sure that we take care of folks in america who work very hard to build this country. I dont think we will ever shirk our responsibility around the world, i do think we need to be very smart about how we do things. Whether it is iraq or people who come to our border, we have to do this the smart way. We dont want to give the wrong impression of what we are trying to do whether it is an iraq war kids at the border. Thank you for your question. Before hu
,y states including tennessee this region was one where the National Divisions played out on a local area. The population here was very split, very divided. The decision whether or not to stay in the union to protect to depart thes or United States, to depart the constitutional protections and make a bid for the protection of forming a news by separate nation, the Confederate States of america. There literally were troops raised from here on both sides. There were for Real Companies operating on three rail lines. Connect or intersect here at chattanooga. They do that to take advantage of the naturally occurring mountain gaps, passes, or passages, which allow beyond and through the Appalachian Mountains here at the southern end of that Great Mountain chain. Chattanooga was important from the beginning of the war in initially because so many southern soldiers going to fight for southern independence passed through chattanooga on the way to what they described as the seat of war, or the e