On ten occasions disney sea and has the honor of hosting restitution ceremonies where painting or other artifacts stolen by the nazis and their collaborators have been returned to the rightful owner. [applause] thank you. Some of you were with us last year. With the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york here and we presented with a red one of stolen from a grandfather by the nazis. It was very moving event and we are proud to build on that with this series. We hope youll join us for the next event in this series. That will be recovering nazis looted art. They will discuss several cases and provide an overview of the ethical and legal issues involved in recovering Nazi Looted Art. We hope youll join us for the programmer that will be october 17 at 7 p. M. Tonight we welcome mary lane from the author of hitlers last hostages a fascinating new study of art the trace the roots of hitlers obsession with art and how its your decision of the perfect nazis did the author
You can also send us a text at washington journal, we will be happy to read that as well. Please leave your name and where you are writing from. I text 202 7488003. You can post a comment on facebook and twitter. Here is a look at the website of the newspaper out of tupelo, mississippi. Trumpave this headline, takes strike at impeachment inquiry. A big rally that ran about an hour and a half. President donald trump unleashed an aggressive show of oratorical force fighting friday night in mississippi. [video clip] yesterday the democrats voted to potentially nullify the votes of 63 million americans, disgracing themselves and bringing shame upon the house of representatives. They have been plotting to overthrow the election since the moment i won, but the people here that are highly sophisticated no long before i won. 19 minutes after i took the oath of office, the horrible newspaper, fake Washington Post declared the campaign to impeach President Trump has just begun. At least they gav
Military historian Gregory Erwin talks about challenges the british army faced in adapting to north american terrain and battle tactics during the revolutionary war. The museum of the American Revolution, Pritzker Museum and the richard vann has foundation cohosts this event as part of a threeday international conference. My name is philip mead, director of Curatorial Affairs on the American Revolution, and it is my pleasure to welcome today to welcome to welcome today ,resident Gregory Urwin professor of American History from the revolution through world war ii. A longtimerwin is friend of this museum project. Thene of it is one of great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to the professor, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications , and the development of our core exhibition. Professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story weighinged runways, the promis
Congressional staffer. In her remarks, the democratic lawmaker apologized to her constituents and explained why her decision to resign. Ms. Hill this is the last speech that i will give from this floor as a member of congress. I was not ready for my time here to come to an end so soon. It is a reality i am still grappling with, and i will be for some time to come. I expected to be here or i hoped , to be here after the voters of the 25th district deemed me worthy of the honor of representing them. I thought i can make a difference in making our community, our great country, and the world a better place for generations to come. I, like so many of my colleagues, ran for office because i believe our political system was broken, controlled by the powerful and wealthy come ignoring and failing to regular people that it is supposed to serve. I came here to be a voice to the unheard in the halls of power. People, to show young queer people, working people, and Perfect People that they belong
Panel. I will introduce the moderator and she will introduce the panelist. I will introduce to you monica, monica is currently with a nationally known expert on Immigration Law and policy. I know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the House Judiciary Committee. She focused on immigration and refugee issues. Also, i know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda, resettled to new orleans by my organization. Without, monica thank you so much for being here. Thank you for putting on this wonderful event. As you said my father was resettled in 1972 so i have a personal connection. I worked very closely on refugee policy and i have been an immigrant space for a while it is wonderful to be here. Today we want to acknowledge our standup panel and get more into this conversation about the lead up to the refugee act. I really want to take a look at how the refugee act is and take a step back at where we are today and see if there are any lessons we can learn