One of the things that is here in American Life and letters is the use of reason. In many ways however incomplete or unfinished it was about putting reason at the center of our national experience. If you think about what is unfolding. Heading into philadelphia in 1776. It had been a story of a reorienting the world from being seen as vertical. With an incident of election were given authority over all of us. You have the european enlightenment. You have the protestant reformations. In entire reorientation of the world not complete at the beginning of that shift. When they sat down in the last of june in 1776 to write the declaration of independence he was seeking to create the fullest lyrical manifestation of that cultural shift. It was incomplete, it is unfinished it was in the history of a fallen people in a sinful world. It was a step forward. Maybe not as far forward as we would like but a step forward nonetheless. I think with the American Experience it hinges on the capacity to
If you have a question that you would like to ask gail collins, having just watched her program, heres how you can get a hold of us, 202 ab 2027488200 for the east and central time zones. 202748201 if you live in mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to send a text message please include your first name and city and that number is 2027488903. Gail collins, since you take that program with megan twohey and the library of congress ab whats her legacy as an older woman in American History . Her legacy in general theres a lot of legacy people have been talking about obviously that there are legal legacy the thing i think about when i think about her is that she is really the first woman i can think of in American History whose passing was more not as an wonderful person, which she actually was but as a woman empower a person and power, as a major part of the power structure of the government, as a person who made history and changed the way we live in different ways with her rulings
Not blocking out visibilities so your drive to work if you are this morning is nice and smooth 50s 60s for your current temperatures concord in pittsburgh and our low 60s. Berkeley, San Francisco at 54 degrees right now later today, not all that bad either we still have some 80s for inland areas, san jose 84. But comfortable in oakland and San Francisco in the 60s and the 70s back to you. So were seen an increase a steady increase and not only total number of positive cases, but total number of hospitalized patients in total number of patients in our icu news. Yeah, that is our top story this morning governor newsome set to tighten up today, some of the States Coronavirus restrictions in some or possibly all of californias counties. Yeah weve seen an increase in the hospitalizations in the last 24 hours kron 4 Sarah Stinson. Is in santa clara with the details there. Yeah thats right daria james were heading into a Holiday Weekend as our coronavirus cases are spiking not a good situatio
Our second president john adams said liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. President ,or as Thomas Jefferson, said life and liberty go together. Light and liberty go together. One reason the center was established is to inspire citizens of all ages. We do that every day through tours and Public Programs and educational programs. One of our contributions to achieving the Civic Education goals is our partnership with the we the people program. We are delighted to share lessons on the role of congress and our constitutional system with students from the washington dc area. Our Education Team supports this partnership, but i want to give special thanks to the Education Program manager, larin lauren. Ren [applause] established the program that gives students an idea of what it is like to be a member of congress. We try to stay current with our programming and are always updating a developing and doing our part to strengthen the we the people program. Than
That people are actually being detained that these families are and its very expensive to do this which is funding private prisons and basically another profit area. Now french president a man youre macron says europe wanted to be held hostage to the u. K. s democratic crisis across the comments a day before his years a mate of britains Prime Minister Abbas Johnson he added that reopening the Withdrawal Agreement wasnt an option only a johnson was welcomed by german chancellor Angela Merkel and then there were told johnson he had 30 days to come up with an alternative to the irish backstop bought at a break that day and was possible says the banks of the so you know what folk was it the backstop has always been a fallback position if one is able to solve this conundrum if one finds the solution and we said we would probably find it in the next 2 years to come but we can also maybe find it in the next 30 days then were one step further in the right direction and we obviously have to put