Did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago, uncommon man . Richard its taken actually from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. Remember Vice President henry wallace, who was the second of fdrs Vice President s, gave a famous speech in 1942, i believe, maybe 1943, about the century of the common man. And wallace, from a left of center perspective, was projecting the goals and ambitions of the generation that was fighting world war ii. It wasnt enough simply to the nazis, but to create at home a true democracy, a place where the common man would finally come into his own. And hoover approached this from a different place on the political spectrum. He was in effect making the case for what we might call a meritocracy. I should not paraphrase it, but when you get sick, you want an uncommonly skillful doctor. When we go to war, we want an uncommonly able general. You get the picture. The advances in society were brought about not by common, but by
Every weekend on cspan three. Mr. Henesy my name is greg henesy. Im one of the people who give school tours to the weeks and the world war ii section. In this area we have set up represents the buildings we quickly put up at the start of world war ii. The reason we had to cook up to quickly put them up was that we were not prepared for war. The u. S. Military had less than 350,000 soldiers at the outbreak of world war ii. The army, navy, and marines combined. No air force yet, they were the Army Air Corps. By the end of the war we had about 17 million people. To do that we had to put Training Centers all over the country and expand what we had. We had to put Training Centers all over the country and use those types of buildings that are represented. Now, if you notice this is a friend of mine. His name is richard. This is him in september of 1942, when he started his training in georgia. Im wearing boots, coveralls, just the way they did to train. One reason they issued coveralls to tr
Section a General Information and section b opening items. First item is approval of board minutes. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Any corrections. [roll call]. Clerk thank you. [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda and for closed session are necessary if you wish to regards board of education. Members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. And presented it to the executive session. To my right and to your left. Members of the public are reminded that individual members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the item and or the time as set by the president. According to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board. Item number 2, dr. Matthews. Thank you, president sanchez. Good evening, everyone. This month the entire country will join us to elevate the diverse histories, experiences, stories, and voices of African Americans
Left. She stayed. This year she worked in an r. S. P. Position and she worked with k3 and has done an excellent job and supporting kids and you will get some stories about that and the concern about it is she had a coach. The coach supported her throughout the whole year. There was no conversation between admin and her coach about what her hollis trick growtholistic growthhas been. Also, this young lady has received five satisfactory evaluations. Last year, she received four for soar and she received a pathway score and shes received a satisfactory. Please support this young lady and reconsider, give her an opportunity to go elsewhere so she can develop her skills and get to support and resources she needs. Thank you, very much. [applause] thank you, my name is Dianne Thompson and im a span induction coach her coach. Ive been supporting and coaching this particular teacher for throw years. Shes four months away from getting her credential cleared and im here today to just urge you to t
don t just watch. participate. worship with us now. come on. his goal is to walk out of the dark. and to resurrect his heart. come on, rise up, take a breath here and rise up. can you hear up the voice of jesus calling us. the power that controls you, can t you hear the voice of jesus calling us. out from the grave of nazareth. that is a awesome. s that s cain performing rise up as our seven week faith and friends concert series wraps up this easter sunday. and a that s what we ve been celebrating all morning on this easter sunday. it s wonderful. cain s going to hang out with us, no relation, by the way. [laughter] we ve been making that joke off camera all morning long. they re from alabama, so roughly the same region, somewhat. they re going to hang out all morning long, performing later in the show. easy there, texas. those are my neighbors over there. it s closer than new jersey. are they making sure that people don t draw the correlation of rela