Many aspects of daily life. That includes food, socializing and science. The u. S. Capital Historical Society provided video of this event. Today is the inaugural scholar series. We thought we would start with our own. Hes really one of the nations finest scholars on the First Congress. And the early period in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have chuck as part of the u. S. Cbs society team for five years prior. Prior to that he was working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation using primary sources like letters of the times. Where people wrote to one another about the science, the food, the culture and the back and forth that made early days in washington. That being said, we invite you to stay with us for your questions and answers. Chuck will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. We have a couple of questions. We may be able to do a couple of questions during the presentation, but the majority
And some of the global science education. We do a lot of partnerships with texas a m university. We have exhibits that are here longterm and shortterm, we do lots of childrens education, and we have some live animals. I would like to show you a few things about our museum that we are so proud of. If you will look over this a muraln, you will see we are incredibly proud of. It was done by a nationally recognized artist, emma stark. It was painted on site and has been here since about 1993, 1995. Its the only place where you can see the brazos valley as it was 12,000 years ago. Some of the animals portrayed in the mural were the predecessors of our modern species. 12,000 years ago, we had liens, tigers and bears in the brazos valley. That is something a lot of our visitors enjoy looking at, the 50 different species portrayed in the mural. If you look hard enough, you can see the early people who live here in that time. Ourof the things in collection we are very proud of is our ice age ma
Feeling that this was unfinished business. Lbj deserves all the credit that he later claimed for piloting, navigating, guiding the civil rights bill to passage in july of 1964 when he signs it. But i think kennedy deserves credit as the kennedyjohnson bill. It had cleared the house of representatives by the day jfk was killed. Jfk had made alliance not with democrats but with midwestern republicans. He had reached out to them, and they were supporting it, particularly in the senate. He had gone to others. I think it would have gotten through. Eventually, it might have taken until 1965, kennedy would have gotten the civil rights act. But full credit to Lyndon Johnson for doing it the way he did, but i dont think he could have done it with the same success without the death of jfk. Thank you so much for joining us. The book is two days in june. It is a terrific read. I learned so much about it. By the way, it is beautifully written which is an extra bonus for people who like to read book
Historical society provided video of this event. Is the enoch girl scholars series. We thought we would start with our own. One of the nations finest scholars on the First Congress. That early time in the development of our country. We have been fortunate to have him as part of our society team. He was 20 seven years working on the First Congress program. He has put together a very imaginative presentation. Using primary sources, letters of the time, where people wrote to one another about science, food, culture. The back and forth that made early days in washington. Usinvite you to stay with for questions and answers. Will do his presentation and i will work through the questions. Questionscouple of during the presentation. The majority will calm at the conclusion. Andse put your questions in i will try to work them through both at the end and as we move away. Thank you very much. For the work you have done to put this together. Welcome to the platform. Welcome, everyone. I am very gl
And fifteen minute discussion. Were going to get started here with round two of president s on whom oliphant was able to bestow his gifts and a country on which he was able to bestow his gifts by commenting visually, and with words, on those president s. Im mike nelson, the guy you had to put up during the first panel. Fortunately we have new people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who were on the first panel. Once again, weve got military Center People here. And the Miller Center, one of its main emphases is the focus on studying the presidency in depth, historical depths, with objectivity. In other words, were all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, which is reacting to events on a daytoday basis, which pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. Whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist, and pat olip