Brooks is blurred through his glasses because he is so close and brooks strikes sumner on the top of the head with a cane. Sumners head explodes in blood almost instantly. Author Stephen Puleo on the caning of massachusetts senator Charles Sumner by South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks that drove the country closer to civil war. Sunday night at eight eastern and pacific on cspans q a. On tuesday gary sydni spoke to the National Press club in washington dc about his advocacy for u. S. Veterans and the work of the Gary Sinise Foundation. This is an hour. [captioning performed by the National Captioning Institute which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] welcome to the national restaurant. Im an editor for bloomberg thats our breaking news desk here in washington, and im the president of the National Press on. Our guest today is actor, humanitarian gary sinise. He will discuss challenges facing americas servicemen and women, and what can be done an
Brooks is blurred through his glasses because he is so close and brooks strikes sumner on the top of the head with a cane. Sumners head explodes in blood almost instantly. Author Stephen Puleo on the caning of massachusetts senator Charles Sumner by South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks that drove the country closer to civil war. Sunday night at eight eastern and pacific on cspans q a. On tuesday gary sydni spoke to the National Press club in washington dc about his advocacy for u. S. Veterans and the work of the Gary Sinise Foundation. This is an hour. [captioning performed by the National Captioning Institute which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] welcome to the national restaurant. Im an editor for bloomberg thats our breaking news desk here in washington, and im the president of the National Press on. Our guest today is actor, humanitarian gary sinise. He will discuss challenges facing americas servicemen and women, and what can be done an
Does bend toward justice and i believe that it does, it takes all heart and all hands to keep its path straight and true. My friends, i stand before you today having been blessed beyond compare. But to those who much is given much is required. And so i make these pledges to you here today. Mr. President , i place to you to lead this department of justice with integrity, honor and total dedication of the cause of justice. To the people of the nation, i pledge your protection , your liberties, and your legal rights will be my sacred charge. To the Law Enforcement committee, i pledge this department will be your partner as we work to bring about our highest mission the protection of the people of this great nation. And to all of my colleagues in this department of justice i pledge to always remember the place of justice is a hollowed place and continually strive to be worthy of the trust you have placed in me as we Work Together to uphold the constitution, to protect the american people,
Thank you to the rabbi for that remarkable introduction. I have to say that the subject of my lecture not only concerns a historic event, but actually put my academic career in jeopardy. In 1982, i was a young faculty member at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of religion in cincinnati, and i was invited to deliver a talk before the institutions board of overseers. This was an important rite of passage for a new faculty member. And i was determined to prove myself. Since 1982 coincided with the 120th anniversary of ulysses s. Grants general orders number 11 expelling jews as a class from his war zone, i decided to take that infamous 1862 order as my subject. Grants order was the most notorious official act of antisemitism in American History. It is really the only time that jews as a class had been expelled from anywhere in the united states. And around 1982, new information concerning that order had become available from the association that published ulysses s. Grants papers
It was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. Only the bill of rights occupied the case. We had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. The story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. Now i would like to introduce jessie krantz, historian of the National Archives. She became the first historian in 2013. She was previously with [indiscernible] with the center for legislative archives and has been with the agency since 1999. Please welcome jessie krantz. [applause] jessie thank you, david. I am very happy that steve could be with us today during American Archives month to talk about his new book american treasures. It shows not only the important record created by other federal agencies but also the record that we as a National Archive has created ourselves. In writing his book, he discusses several different sets of records, but the nearest and dearest to my heart is that recor