Everything im going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and antiintervention. I dont think America First has received the attention it deserves. Justice don has done some good work on it. It is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the Antiwar Movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to America First committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. It is truly the Antiwar Movement to 19. It deserves more attention. Arthur slashing said the battle over intervention was the greatest split in American History except the runup to the american civil war. He said it was greater than the split during the war in vietnam and the anticommunist crusade in the 1950s. I wonder what he might say about that now. Let me go back and show you one more. This is one of the very strong antiwar pieces published during this time. Within this contest, since hoover is an anti in
Your host meghan lee heres a look at what else weve got coming up on the program. A visit to one of germanys a lasting garden gnome factory. And. How warm austrians enjoy some traditional grilling in the great outdoors. But 1st we start off with a daredevil of sorts a young rosa from estonia isnt one of the worlds best slack liners now for him the slacker the line the better because that means more flexibility for tricks and flips roza has become a master of this art but like with anything only practice makes perfect now some of his stunts have taken him years of fails and falls to perfect but all the hard work finally paid off when he established a world record. Its 9 in the morning in vasco a village in south eastern a stony. One of the worlds best slack liners its the start of a normal training day. I feel freedom. Is the trains daily for up to 8 hours which. Gives this feeling of something impossible in the beginning but its quite easy to reach just by 3 practicing those so we all
My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of many scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at 120 scrapbooks that misses bush mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbook or and documented their entire history avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for their entire marriage. This one is from 1944 and 1945i believe. Misses bush his granddaughter mrs. Bush his granddaughter was doing a book on the president and misses bush. Half mrs. Bush. And she was using the scrapbooks as a resource for that book. One of the things she found because it was sitting inside this envelope was what we think is a scrapbook from their first thanksgiving. She has the guests that were there and
Toure cspan cities continues its clock at prine Bryan College station with a the final resting place of president bush, his wife barbara and their daughter robin. Were about 4 10 of a mile label. E president bush chose this site final resting place. So in april, about a year and a ago now, we buried mrs. Bush here and then in after his death in november, and then the funeral inut six days later, december, he was brought up here the up, 4141, in the special car. Amazingly, there were there lined, all the way from houston. Its probably about 80 or 90 miles from houston here. And there were people lined up thealong the tracks, all way here. I was in a bus. We kind of followed the path of train. And it was just amazing. You could see the people all tracks,l over the places likeoe, that. Ended at thetrain university about a mile from here. Ad the casket was put in hearse and brought here. Theres a walkway on the other the gravesite. Lined the walkway all here. Y the Funeral Service here was
They talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. Of the wonderful things about bryanCollege Station, you have two cities one community. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here. After the civil war it continued on and brian for the first few years after the civil war struggled to get itself created but was able to do that. Its876 the University Got first six students and the city of brian was really getting going. Are still some of the first buildings that were being built. 25 years ago this area was a ghost town. Has created growth and renewal in the city of brian. The line between our cities is blurred not just in how we Work Together but geographically. Texas a m founded in 1876. But it wasit grew five miles from the nearest town. Calledknew about a town factge station except the in 1938 when some a m faculty and staff got together and said lets create our own city. We are growing somewhere