Congress. How the process has changed since 1789 and the fliinfluence changes. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Authorized by congress in 1999, the dwight d. Eisenhower memorial occupies a fouracre park near the u. S. Capitol across the street from the Smithsonians National air and space museum, up next on american artifacts, a 30minute steuer of the new memorial, and following that, we talk to Washington Post art and architecture, to talk about the debates over the design and to hear his thoughts on the architect and the completed work. Hi. Im victoria tidwell and im the xe executive director of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and were at the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower and this story starts about a thousand miles west of washington, d. C. In abilene, kansas, and while eisenhower was born in dennison, texas, his family moved back to abilene, kansas, where he was just a toddler and he stayed there throug
I am victoria, the deputy executive director of the eisenhower memorial commission. We are here tonight in washington, d. C. , at the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower. This story starts about a thousand miles west of washington, d. C. , in abilene, kansas. His family moved to abilene, kansas, when he was a toddler, and he stayed there through high school. I want to direct your view to this speech inscribed on this wall. When world war ii ended, eisenhower came home to abilene and was given a heros welcome. In a very humble way, he started talking about not that he was a hero but what he dreamed of doing when he was a young boy. Ended with the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. That first paragraph of that speech, was a primary inspiration for the designer of the memorial frank gehry. He has expressed here in this statue of Young Eisenhower as a teenage boy sitting on the stone block looking in the direction of two of his gre
On cspans q a. Next, a hearing to examine the issue of College Athlete compensation. The Senate Health education and Labor Committee heard from College Athletic programs about how athletes could be compensated for their name, image, and likeness, which organization should oversee these decisions, and what implications it could have on the student athlete model. This is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible] good morning. The committee will come to order. There is no room for the public. The press is covering it as a pool. You can watch this on streaming or there will be an unedited recording that everyone can watch. All of our Witnesses Today and some senators are participating by videoconference. I would like to Say Something about masks. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk into the microphones since our chairs are six feet apart. Thats why my mask is off when im not back here. Im grateful to the rules committee, the
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Front page, the hash tag for the twitterratti among you. Its our honor to host the 70th secretary of state, mike pompeo, former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate, and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. The uae, israel, and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first theigned abraham accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. The leaders will sign with the foreign ministers. We have a lot to discuss and half hour. In half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east, although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Alliance structure look longer term . Then dig into the middle east.