The barriers which were put up are no longer effective. It is an experiment. A lot of political scientists it is not clear there is evidence it is going to have much of an effect, at least not yet. I think we need a couple of elections to find that out. Thank you. [applause] are watching american his pretv. All weekend, every weekend, on cspan three. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Next, we will hear from a panel about the personal and political consequences of Warren Hardings love affair. Surviving love letters detailing the relationship were until very recently kept under seal by the library of congress, which hosted this event. The former president s grandnephew explains why they insisted to keep the letters seal and how the family continues to deal with the fallout of the love affair. This is about two hours. My name is jim hudson, chief of the librarys Manuscript Division. On the stage with me, we have james, a distinguished trial attorney, partner
And then the book on Warren Harding, published in 2009. We also have karen who is an archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. She graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was the president of the American Psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,000 pages of correspondence between Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips who was the wife of one of hardings good friends in marion, ohio. There was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. The collection, however, only has letters between 1910 and 1920. Most of the vast majority of the letters all of them probably i dont know if there are any carrie letters in there. There are a few. The vas
Title and seems to have been a magician. A real magician. But he was the chairman of the Ohio Democratic party during the harding era. On warren e book harding, published in 2009. An so have karen who is archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. He graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. E was the president of the Association American psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,000 ages of correspondence between Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips who was the wife of one of hardings good friends in marion, ohio. There was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. The collection, however, only has letters between 1910 and 1920. Most of the
Im tom blanson onn r the to floor of the main library of George Washington university. Which is where we live. And were in a room ful of declassified documents. A lot of the people using our collections are using them online. For a lot of these kids, if its not online, it doesn exist. Part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources loose from the government through frae dom of information act request. And then get them into digital format how are you funded and where did you come from . We were started from a group of journalists to save their family, i think they created the National Security archive as a institutional memory and a follow up. We inherited their pending information of class. The really sensitive documents, theres a debate about is this kl ally secret . ejnni or can this be released . It can take years to get a declassification request through the system. This has been an iterative story for 50 years. To get the documents loose. Bits and pieces and not t
Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Since 2006 when i introduced the legislation that game the Iraqi Special immigrant visa, ive been haunted by the prospect of the brave iraqi and afghan nationals that risked their lives to help american efforts in these troubled countries that they themselves would be victims because of their trust in us. As my friend, kirk