From public disclosure. Second the committee is discussing conducting this hearing in compliance with house regulations. It is being broadcast live on the committees website. Because of the threat posed by the pandemic remains ongoing, we are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and public. While we wish we could return to all standard in person events, health and safety protocols dictate we find alternate means of carrying out obligations. Ok so, let me remind members of a few remote hearing procedures. First consistent with the regulations the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on using themselves when they seek recognition or been recognized for their 5 minutes. Because there are sometimes delays, i would ask members and tonesses to allow some time ensure the last speaker has finished. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away, leave your camera o
Book in the lobby. They will be able to take your credit card. Lynn will be ready to sign it. It is not true early to be making a christmas gift. [laughter] so that all the shopping done well before. Dumenil is the professor of American History at occidental college. She has taught a number of distinguished institutions, including berkeley, whitman college, and she specializes in u. S. Womens history and cultural and social history since the civil war. She is a distinguished professor, having received many honors, including being a senior fulbright lecture, and many other recognitions, which is also to say we are in for a treat. She brings to this topic a richness which i think is going to make this experience one of real memory frost. So, once again, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here and for participating in the activities of the national war or one museum and memorial. I invite you back. Please join me in welcoming dr. Lynn dumenil. [applause] dr. Dumenil thank you. I am
To be the supreme allied commander and it was an accident of timing with this decision. So i was the accidental admiral. Host that the navy was an accident as well as a career . Somewhat. Going way back i grew up in the marine corps family. My father was the fighting in korea and vietnam and i grew up in that environment and i went to Quantico High School and then went on to the Naval Academy thinking i would be a marine corps officer. After my first year the navy sends everybody out on a cruise and you go out on a ship beautiful cruiser on san diego it was late in the day the sun was setting and and i just wanted to be a sailor at that point so i told my dad and my mom and they were hoping it would be a marine that they got over it years later when i got my first star is that i think that came out okay. Host you almost left the nav navy . I did i graduated from annapolis and went to see for five years three on a destroyer in san diego and then to florida where i come from you today my
The supposed vow of William Randolph hearst to reform spain at the end of the 19th century. This is become over the years an allpurpose media anecdote. Useful in describing any number of media sins and short comings, including the scourge of fake news. Including the scourge of fake news. So what are we talking about here . What are media myths . These are prominent stories about and or by the news media that are widely known and often retold, but which under scrutiny, under examination, dissolve as wildly exaggerated. Media myths. And in a way, media myths are cousins to fake news. We thought of cases of fake news that have mass car aided as accurate for many years media myths. And also they could be thought of sort of the junk food of journalism. The junk food of journalism. Appealing, alluring, delicious, perhaps, but not terribly wholesome and not terribly healthy. The junk food of journalism. Some of the features of media myths, these invariably are pithy tales, suck sink and short
Buildings have evolved, the surroundings have evolved in almost a haphazard way, which does not give the appearance of a place that was suddenly created to be what it is. It gives a sense of the passage of time and a variety this and otherh programs on the history of communities across the country at cspan. Org cities tour. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Up next on the presidency. Two programs from the Franklin Roosevelt president ial Library Series at home with the roosevelts, designed to keep connected with the public during the coronavirus pandemic. First, the directors of the hoover and roosevelt president ial libraries talk about the 1932 campaign for the white house in the midst of the Great Depression and the transition that followed from a hoover to fdr administration. We will hear a conversation about relationships between the