Last year, we declassified the basics of the u. S. Military pot cap towers and the u. S. Militarys counterterrorism activity in yemen and somalia. It was a long and difficult process to get there. Certain people in the white house persevered. We said publicly and officially what we were doing. As far as i can tell, the world has not come to an end. That event is available on our website, cspan. Org. President obama expected to johnson this afternoon. Leftover john cspan starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern from the rose garden. Live coverage on cspan. The syrian envoy to the u. S. Will speak in washington at 11 00 eastern, we will have live coverage. For guys like us who have been in the game for a long time, we know that there are landmines and that you have to be careful about the way you manage these things. Issues to do with abortion in race, care of, israeli relations. In other countries, i have lived in other countries, they have their own bread lines to be aware of. What a cartoonist ca
This is Eleanor Roosevelts typewriter. This is the typewriter on which she read her my date was code column. I have some that i want to share. My day column. I have some that want to share. She is talking about here about the comings and goings in the white house after getting back to a regular schedule after the holiday season. From november 6, 1940, election day, she talks about how, at midnight, a larger crowd than usual came in from a hyde park. The president went out to greet them. This is a tradition on election. Ight care first lady eleanor roosevelt, monday night, live at 9 00 eastern on cspan and cspan three. Also on cspan radio and c span. Org. Next coming discussion on the state of the u. S. Housing market and what the Federal Reserve is doing to prevent another housing bubble. Reckoningthe enterprise institute, this is a little less than two hours. It is my pleasure to welcome you. In a postbubble and does bernanke world. Post bernanke world. At the peak of the infamous hou
Europe and asked several questions. Affirmativeaction means a lot more than just the use of race or sexbased preferences in university of michigan. Section 26 only focuses on this one aspect of university of missions. Another point to understand is that section 26 is not all about university of missions. This is a much broader law that applies not just your race and ethnicity but also sex and other this is a broadbased law that was primarily motivated by the people of michigans decision to move past the day when we always focus on race and exactly as greater invited the states to do you can you can see how that discussion gets mired when you look at some of these statistics that we have been talking about. Is someone who has multiple racial boxes checked more or less diverse than someone who only has one box checked . Is someone who comes from outside the country say from mexico youve done something much more. You are basically saying, because fisher and grutter weve always applied str
Which is some of the things ive been talking about this week on the news and how the parallels are with iraq and whats going on there. It amazes me that people dont see some of the patterns that keep repeating themselves. But thats what the book is about. Its not just straight history. Its again read like this one is periodically from the cockpit from the f. 100 from the f1 05 and a f4 at the very end. So its going to be a good book, i hope. What else . Do you have a call sign . I will tell you but im not going to explain it. They call me to dogs. Dont ask. My mom is here. [laughter] read viper pilot. Actually its the Readers Digest of how i got the call sign. I flew with guys for years and maybe knew their first name and very rarely knew their last name because we always went by nicknames and call signs. Its just a pilot thing. Do you have one . Do you want one . Yeah. You have to earn it the hard way by usually doing something stupid. [laughter] what else . [inaudible] at the end, ye
Tomlinson hill and when they were freed they loved it so much they took tomlinsonm as their last name. And going through the desegregation they were still segregated into their was a court order so race was very much an important topic in that time and so i was aware of that as a child and the idea that there were black tomlinsons that my family once had as slaves and it just boggles my imagination. And that became an important part of my identity growing up. And white southern culture, having a family that fought in the civil war and that was part of that antebellum law was a big deal. It wasnt until one became a journalist and one became educated. No one was questioning it. Its what they know about the south from learning about as an adult, so i started to decide well i think its time to examine this myth. Host the house appraisal learned the truth guest by the time i started on the buck. I knew i was going to find wasnt necessarily going to be pretty. But that is all i had to go on