Is harder on your family but you are in it because you care about this country desperately if you care you should not get into the race have thick skin but not in permeable. Staehely are and dont let it get you and just go do it. What about your family is . They just. My kids were pretty young. Everyone treated them well. Deal obama campaign, that was respected. My wife doesnt like the criticism that she learned how to grow thick skin as well. Both of our wives their goals strong and intelligent strong women who understood the stakes for the country so they could see it through as well speenineteen using the four year colleges necessary to get out of poverty . No. It is not necessary. Jobtraining reforms skills training is essential and we go through detail how that ought to have been. We dont have to answer to emphasize that we have to make it okay to get a welding degree or to get high values skills to provide a livelihood. With College Tuition and inflation if we just keep feeding t
[applause] i cant thank you enough. It questions. Not a bad question coming from you to him. Many thanks to all of you for coming today. Just one request and that is that you clear this audio because actually the two of them have to get to a press conference and rather quickly so we have a and i think if we clear the aisle and let them get through it would be much appreciated. [applause] thank you. Thank you. [applause] [applause] next new York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand call some women to rise up and make a difference in the world. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] its just such a pleasure for me to introduce two extraordinary women tonight in two extraordinary voices in our nations public life. Our guest of honor is the mother of two, a wife, a lawyer sunday schoolteacher Community Volunteer former democratic representative from the 20th district of new york and of course now United States senator from new york in her second te term. But thats not all. As of two days ag
And she was the one with the picture were soaked with the Russian Foreign minister with the Big Red Button reset and a big smile. Can you imagine such a thing . Did they not understand that people have very different ideas. Let them are putins objective may well be tube rebuild the russian empire but those mistakes combined with some other tactical mistakes in syria for instance to draw a red line and then say gosh i guess i cant react without getting congresses approval but right now hes willing to act in iraq without congresses approval. Nonetheless couldnt do it than in that sends a message to russia and others in the world that is extraordinarily unfortunate for america. We have seen an explosion of very bad things throughout the world because the rest of the world has calculated what is happening. That is a dramatic reduction in our military capabilities and theres a departmental review that was recently completed report on by commission including president clintons department of
Capitol and saw these pages and thought, wow, what a great opportunity this would be and saw they were all boys and was told, well, we just dont feel like this is the place for girls to operate. And i at that age between sixth and seventh grade said, well thats just not fair. He said, well, maybe we can do something about that. So when i went back to school in the fall, i wrote letters to mr. Albert. And wrote letters to mr. Albert and wrote letters to mr. Al berd for many years, and finally one day when i was just about to graduate from high school, i got a call from charlie ward, who was mr. Alberts administrative assistant, and he asked me how i would feel about being the first woman page. Well, needless to say, i was finally ecstatic about this. I said, well ill have to ask my parents first. He said, well, mr. Albert has already spoken the to your parents and its okay with them. And i said absolutely. So thats how it began. And by the latter 1970s. Its about half and half females,
News anchor on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan networks. For the complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. Each week American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. Im don richard, the senate historian, and were in the Senate Caucus room which is in the Russell Senate office building. Before cspan started covering the senate in late 1986, this was the most famous room in the capitol, and in the capitol complex, because this is where the major hearings had been televised going back to the well, newsreels covered it back in the 1920s and 30s, but television came along in the 1940s. In 1941 a senator from missouri named harry truman says that were getting ready to go to war. Were spending millions of dollars on defense. We need to look into the way the defense contracts are being allocated. We need to make sure that money is being spent wisely and were not being gypp eped by unscrupus developers. And i