Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Give us a wonderful, wonderful presentation about george h. W. Bush. Well have question and answer after weekends awards and becaus filming tonight, please, use the microphones that we will place, i think one right there and one over to the side there, and thats so your question doesnt get lost on cspan. I want to welcome all of you, and let you know how much we appreciate you all being here tonight. Especially knowing that the democratic partys done a little bit of counterprogramming. [ laughter ] of course, weve got another, another 15 monthsplus to get our fill or probably more than our fill of 2020 president ial campaigning. Here were going to take a few moments to remember a man who won it in 1988. A president who it seemed the longer he lived, the more loved and appreciated he became. I was struck like many others, i think, by the national outpouring of respect and affection in the days leading up to and through the funeral of George Herbert walker bush last november. The funeral
People are here when you say i wonder if i am irredeemable to hear all white people and white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity. So when i go to the second paragraph, what if we took this identity apart that people would not have the different history but a different relationship to identity. And potentially have as a consequence a more humane relationship to each other. So later into the first paragraph an individual someone that was raised by a white man or someone take for example john brown or bob zellner. Who i think are the most precious people in the world but its important to me not to have a formulation that removes them from my sense of the struggle that i am engaged in. So thats what i was thinking. One more question about breathe, mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yes. Thats the sentence my mother said to me. And i think about it in a number of different ways. One of course is all the risk so people talk about it incessantly an
We know better. Look at the facts. He was inviting the heckle to the point that he was like, what did you say . You guys dont want another two, trillion dollar tax cut . He has turned the State Of The Union into an interactive speech. It was difficult to sit through. It was a hyper partisan speech. These guys are whining about, oh. There was no unity. Marjorie taylor green was on the house floor wearing a maga hat. This was a happy warrior. He gave not only as good as hes got but he gave better. They call it golden Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one. There will be a rematch. We like that rematch. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes in our party. Here is the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Good evening. Once again, i am stephanie ruhle. Where 242 days out from the election and it has been quite a week. Donald trump is now the Presumptive Republican nominee and we saw a fiery state of the Union Address from President Biden. He touted his
Hes the author of many books, including peace works the citizens role in ending the cold war peace a history of movements and ideas and as the springboard for this session, a peaceful superpower. Lessons from the Worlds Largest Antiwar Movement, which was just published this year on the 20th anniversary. More or less of the start of the u. S. War in iraq and i think all of you who registered in advance for the conference received a pdf of that of that book. From 1978 to 1988. David was the executive director of sane first and then sane freeze after. The two organizations merged. He was an antivietnam war activist as an an enlisted soldier, and he was later in 2000 to a founder of win without war, which he discusses in the in the book a peaceful superpower. We will next go to my right, carolyn, rusty isenberg, who is professor of history at hofstra university. She just published this year fire and rain, nixon, kissinger and the wars in southeast asia. Her first book drawing the line the