Award. Well hear about the hungarian immigrant and about the prizes that carry his name. And well see a selection of Pulitzer Prizewinning photographs and learn the stories behind the images. My name is patty rhule and im the direct your of Exhibit Development here at the newseum here in washington, d. C. And were standing in the Pulitzer Prize photograph gallery which is one of the most popular and important galleries here at the newseum. The portrait behind me is the photograph of pulitzer who created the Pulitzer Prizes. He is also probably one of the foremost journalist and publishers of modern history. Joseph pulitzer is kind of an incredible american migrant success story. He was born in hungary and he came to the United States at age 17 to actually fight in lincolns cavalry during the civil war. And he had been rejected by several european armies. He had a bit of a sense of adventure and came here. Was not very happy in the army. But when the civil war ended, he roamed around a
This event should get under way shortly. Nuclear experts will discuss the u. S. And Chinas Nuclear weapons policy. Theyll address how to promote dialogue and understanding. While we wait for this event to get under way, heres whats happening tonight on the cspan networks. Republican president ial candidate donald trump continues on the campaign trail. Today, even though hes now the only republican running for the nomination, the new york businessman is going to be in west virginia, which holds its primary on tuesday. Hell address supporters at a rally in charleston and cspan will have live coverage at 7 00 eastern. Tonight on American History tv primetime, a look at Church Committee. It was set up after watergate to look at possible intelligence gathering by the cia and fbi that led to the creation of todays intelligence committees in the house and senate. It begins at 8 00 eastern. Right now, waiting for the discussion on how to promote dialogue and understanding between the u. S. And
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david ensor, who has been as helpful and warm to me as any human being can be in helping prepare me for this big job. Please to acknowledge david ensor, who is now at the atlantic council. [ applause ] so as adam says, if you want to know my biography, just flip the page over and read it yourselves, but id like to tell you a couple things you might not know. Im of an age that i was part of a movement that cheap airfares and curiosity about the world sent all of us out around the globe. You know, migration
It was best known to history as the Church Committee. The committee met for 16 months and reviewed more than 10,000 documents and called more than 8000 witnesses before its staff. This included the creation of Committee Collection and the creation of the foreign internet Intelligence Surveillance act of 1978 which we know as i sub as isa. Providehave guests to Historical Context of the 40yearold video that you are about to see. Frederickork city, schwarz is with us and here in our studio in washington, d. C. Is elliot maxwell. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . Most of it came about from a series of articles with activities by the Intelligence Community within the United States and followed by many people. This was in the context of the postwatergate resignation of president nixon. Continuing the vietnam war there was the thought that the intelligence agencies would be directed agains
Ken mr. Trump unite the party . If you support the new york youreaire if supporting john kasich. If you supported ted cruz, want to hear from you. You can join the conversation on. Witter and you can go to facebook. Com cspan. It was not only donald trump who called for unity with ublicans, rights prevents saying at real donald trump will be the presumptive nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating Hillary Clinton, never clinton is the. ,he daily news puts it this way the Republican Party 1854 to 2016 and they had the headline, dearly beloved, we are here today to mourn at the gop, a once Great Political Party killed by the epidemic of trump. The New York Times has this on their website about the exit polls coming out of indiana where it showed mr. Trump faces a significant interparty rift. A majority of Indiana Republicans think the party has been divided by the battle fought by donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich. Half of those who voted for cruz or kasich on tuesday ni