The story of how African Americans come to congress is not an easy story. We had many serve, we had how story. But it has to do with, the role of congress and during the civil war and in the decade after, and during the civil war there was a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of African Americans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war, that was a most racial society. These were radicals in the house, like fadi is stevens, who is chairman of the ways and means committee. And was a leader, also people like henry winter davis, elijah wash burn. The senate, Charles Sumner, an andrew wade. And they really drove the agenda, and push the lincoln administration, to not only prosecute the war more vigorously, but also to have a reconstruction after the war, that was one that was not so lenient towards Southern States. That would assure Political Rights were extended to African Americans. Also the war ends in 1865, but how do you get
You were just talking about times when its okay to sell if youve had gains on some of these big cap tech names. Yeah, im not advocating that this is a get out now moment, i just think that we have had such a good run, there was something that came out on the screen this morning that we are having the best quarter since the Fourth Quarter of 1999 and i just cant be, oh, well, so what, when was that that was a seminole top. Theres been some fantastic runs and i think that sometimes we forget why we own stocks we own stocks to create wealth there was a gentleman on just now, mr. Bailin and he said so many good points, he agrees with me on selling some of the ones that have really moved he would like to rotate into the stocks that havent moved yet. What i am saying is there is no sense for a lot of our investors who watch to rotate into something that hasnt moved when they can just sit and wait with some cash, which is cash has been so vilified and i think that i am not coming in early lik
Had a fever that raged 38 degrees thousands of protesters have tried to storm serbias parliament angry about tough coronavirus restrictions president alexandrovitch put a weekend curfew back in place after the countrys worst day of the pandemic with 13 deaths alexy obrien reports. Prices does in place beso on the streets around say be as parliament was i. Tried to storm the building some briefly managing to get inside before being pushed back. Theyre angry at president aleksander of the church and his decision to reimpose coronavirus restrictions. Some chanted calling him a thing. This demanded his resignation the government signed for the 2nd time. Put the seat. To impose current did for each. County. Its a responsibility because of the mistakes. The mistake they say was lifting what was one of europes strictest lockdowns. We gathered here to protest because our president lifted the state of emergency because of the election and now he wants to impose it again critics say the presiden
For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago
Next on American History tv, a decision on policymaking and president ial commissions in political history. This talk from Purdue University lasts about 90 minutes. 90 minut. Welcome to our panel on president ial commissions. At the intersection politics, policy making and forgotten history of president ial missions im joanna grisinger. Im a legal historian of the modern Administrative State who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law reform. Thanks to you all for coming, unfortunately Cynthia Spence is unable to be here today but we still look forward to great conversation. We will be informal today. There are two panelists, dov weinryb grohsgal and frank popper will introduce themselves for their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and polit