Dirksen building. Senatere in the hart office building, which is connected to the dirksen building. They are two halves of the same building, that they are entirely different. Building is the central building. We are in the room known as hart 216. This room was specifically designed for television, and we are in one of the television booths overlooking the hearing room. When they knew that the dirksen building was sufficient, they originally thought they would just replicate the dirksen building and build an identical twin on the other side. They said it would not be large enough. It happened what happened between when the dirksen billing was and the Hart Building, the u. S. Staff tripled in size. Part of that was watergate. The executive branch had provided most of the information that congress was given. When they felt they could not trust it, they felt the need for an independent staff. Every senator was allowed to have at least one staff person on each committee to serve. That was
Executive producer, moderator and editor of closeup on cspan. Please join me in welcoming john and the panel to the stage. [applause] john hi, everybody, good evening. Thanks for joining us. You received information on your way in and my guests also did. So if you are here you know who the panelists are because that is part of the draw. Correct . Let me tell you where they are sitting from left to right. Jack, athe left is Pulitzer Prizewinning historian from stanford university. Just innext to jack, case we always like to have a backup Pulitzer Prize winner. Joseph ellis from the university of massachusetts at amherst. The rose between our thorns is a professor at austin Boston College and an author and she , will be back here on the stage tomorrow to talk about her book. And Kenneth Boling is the editor of the George Washington University First federal project. Let me tell you this unlike , delegates to the constitution convention, dying to get out of the overheated hall, you will be
His academic career teaching at Mount Holyoke college where he was dean of the faculty at one point and dow prof. And taught at williams and west point and university of massachusetts and and his. On the side when he hadnt been teaching he had been riding bestselling books. Among them biographies of john adams, george washington, thomas jefferson, the National Book award, the book on the revolutionary brothers, founding brothers, revolutionary generation won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Most recently he has written a book, at the quartet, that has been on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks. It is what he calls the second American Revolution, the revolution that began in 1787, not 1776. Lets go into that. Thank you for coming, joseph ellis. Why did you decide to focus your academic career on the revolutionary war period . What was it about this area that was interesting to you . I do seem obsessed, dont i . They asked Willie Sutton back in the 50s, why do you rob banks . Wi
Montgomery but they have to leave montgomery in 1957 and she will spend the second half of her life as an activist in detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow no. She will continue to do that, rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, she will be active against the war in vietnam, she will be active against South African apartheid, showing a picture with my favorites in the book about an older rosa parks protesting outside the South African embassy, she will continue until the end of her by saying the struggle is not over, there is much injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting but yet the way rosa parks is taught is a problem we salt in the past but the actual rosa parks says theres much more work to be done. Susan siegel host how did you do the research on this book . Guest i had to do a lot of digging. I did all sorts of oral history interviews, in part because part of rosa parkss favors were caught up in a dispute over her stage, got the papers
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