An august day maybe because its a cool august day what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill and that is due to the extraordinary lineup of people who will be presenting and talking and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe before five years ago the United Nations with the corporations of the United States and many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Developments and it would apply not only to the least developed countries but equally university to the critical space and affairs and human rights for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation became this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to lead the way for all countries voluntarily to collaborate and how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years 20152030. We are two years into this and already theres significant progress to talk about the build on the progress of the millennium the following goals t
Importance of Work Force Development. This is an hour 40 minutes. Governors and distinguished guests, please rise forhe presentation of the colors followed by our national anthem. Presenting the colors today is the district of Columbia National guard. Performing the national anthem, dean murphy. Please remain standing until the color guard exits the hall. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [ applause ] thank you, everyone. Please be seated. First of all i would like to welcome everybody. I would like to officially gavel in the 2017 winter meeting of the nations governors. Let me start off and than
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
I want to thank mr. Yoder and mr. Antweiowe had a meeting last month on the role of the legislative branches together and directing your role in sacramento and there was a bunch of process improvements leading up to that hearing and im very pleased that you are here in person thank you for making the trip on short notice from sacramento in the middle of a very active legislative session in our state capitaland i want to thank mrs nicole wheatonelliott. And her staff for the work that with a have done and were now getting minutes from the Legislation Committee that we have been in endeavoring here at the board regarding pieces of state legislation to get them in your hand in our clerk has been giving them to use so thats been a resolution on our part and i want to give an opportunity for the public is watching as well as my colleagues to get to know youre in person it was a pleasure to get to meet know you over a bowl of soup i confess i am sick and have a fever so thank you for humorin
We have our own victims of war here in america. There were headlines recently when a 76yearold veteran shot himself to death outa va hospital in north port new york. Suicides by vets happen on average, 20 times a day. Tonight, jim axelrod has a remarkable story about an organization that is helping to rescue, vets in distress. After trying to drink himself past the demens that darkened his mind and after a second member of his old platoon committed suicide, Frank Lesnefsky got help. In his therapists office he can talk about his posttraumatic stress instead of being haunted by it. You know the tension across my chest. I was immobilized. Like being frozen. Just watching time pass. Its crazy. And contemplated taking his own life. I had a great person tell me once that you know, dont so, theyre killing us, theyre killing us over there and theyre still killing us here. The guy told me dont let it happen. Dont give them that satisfaction and let them know that. Reporter in 2014 he found hel