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Sir you were just joining us youre watching live pictures from the polish capital of abortion a sea of people there commemorating the a warsaw uprising that broke out 75 years ago to fight the nazis the People Holding up clarence the sirens sounding applauding lets take you to a live you critize so our correspondent who is right there shes joining us now on the line a libya weve just been a watching those impressive the pictures from warsaw the country coming to a standstill to commemorate that to uprising what does the memory of these resistance fighters mean to the people of poland. The boresome brightening with each one of them not any more emotional than the hillary the families are holding they can say that its quite obvious i dont see any until molly and although there are some that think that horse 11 the right. Than the negatives are you writing a headline. Today everybody like quality from the left to the right agrees to boehner is under the long arm he would have the courage
Have advised us in the opening of our new gallery, civil war and reconstruction the battle for freedom and equality. [applause] who has seen the new gallery . And everyone who has not can vibe about vision 2020, which is really important and is cosponsoring our event this evening. Isnt it wonderful . Its so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted in the original constitution, resurrected by lincoln at gettysburg, and Frederick Douglass, and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and then resurrected by king. And Thavolia Glymph and kate masur are two of the scholars who were on our scholarly advisory panel. Youll hear from them as well as Catherine Clinton tonight in a conversation moderated my colleague lana ulrich, our head of constitutional content who worked with the Incredible Team to create that exhibit. If you havent seen it, i want you to go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me
For freedom and equality. [applause] ho has seen the new gallery . D everyone who has not can see vision 2020, very important and is cosponsoring. Its so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted, resurrected by lincoln and Frederick Douglas and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and hen resurrected by king. And theyre two of the scholars who were on our advisory panel. Youll hear from them as well as katherine tonight in a conversation moderate bid my colleague lana, our head of constitutional content who worked with the Incredible Team to create that exhibit. If you havent seen it, i want you to go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me what you think. Now please join me in greeting lana and our panelists. [applause] good evening. Welcome to the center. Thank you, for that kind introduction. As jeff mentioned my name is lana im the senior director of content here at the center. Tonig