Display throughout the capitol. And after giving a lot of thought, the ohio delegation decided that one of their state statues, that of former governor William Allen just wasnt the best choice. So in his place they have decided to put a statue of the great inventor thomas elva edison, who was born in myland, ohio in 1847. I want to congratulate the people of ohio for this most excellent choice. And i thank all of you for coming here today, especially those of you who came from ohio for joining us in this celebration. Thank you, everybody. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors by the United States armed forces color guard, the sing of our national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs
Inalternativement camp. Booktv, 48 hours of books and authors. Television for serious readers. Next on booktv from the gershman y in philadelphia Matthew Christopher presents photos from his book, abandoned america. Mr. Christopher spent ten years documenting ruined institutions throughout the country from schools and churches to factories and military installations. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] all right. Sounds like the mics on. Thank you so much for coming out tonight, folks, on behalf of hidden city philadelphia. Id like to welcome you to this event, this celebration of Matt Christophers new book abandoned america the age of consequences. Before i forget, id like to point out that this event is actually being recorded by cspan. Everything that happens tonight will eventually appear on booktv. Now, what they need you to do is turn off your cell phones. Its like going to the ritz. [laughter] and to remember that were going to have a q and a session
we, congressman sessions and mike fitzpatrick do swear to uphold the constitution of the honorary mutant ninja turtles society of america. the republicans try to hit undo on the disaster. to the great credit of the maker of the resolution which we just got, it stipulates in the first couple of sections we violated the constitution on our very first day. arizona s transplant death panels. moved by the story of tiffany tate and the new lungs she needs, an illinois politician analyzed arizona s state budget and found ways to restore the transplant insurance budget 26 ways. and this illinois politician is a republican. he joins us. glenn beck defends the three-fifths compromise. that s an outrage unless you know why they put that in there? they put it in there because if slaves in the south were counted as full human beings they could never abolish slavery. except it still took 78 years and 600,000 american dead to abolish slavery because the original idea was to coun
realtime closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company if. for such a small word it packs a wallop. if i live to a hundred. if social security isn t enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with a plan that builds on what you already have. together we can create a personal safety net, a launching pad, for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we re metlife. sir harold evans, welcome. thank you. here is the monumental book that i referred to. what is the monumental book about? the monumental book is about the people who gave us our pros pierty. everything that we use today, everything that we enjoy today comes not from the politicians, it comes from the innovators and yet the innovators have been totally neglected in american history. everything going back from google, back to the motor car back to the
ellis tos innovation, since the time of the pilgrims, america has been the beacon of opportunity and the b the plenty. who are the innovate oos, the entrepreneurs who made electricity, for example, affordable in every household and every hospital. gave us credit cards and home equity loans for the exercise of our civilizing ownership rights and laid the foundation for mass media and the televised games and gaming. so many will relax with this weekend. we ll ask sir harold evans, author of the monumental they made america. [theme song playing] realtime closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company sir harold evans, welcome. thank you. here is the monumental book that i referred to. what is the monumental book about? the monumental book is about the people who gave us our pros pierty. everything that we use today, everything that we enjoy today comes not from the politicians, it comes from thennovators and yet the innovators have been totally neglected in am