Museum for the history of world war i. It is a global museum. We talk about all of the belligerents that were involved in world war i. It is not just about the United States during the war, but everything from the summer of 1914 to the peace treaty of june 1919. Our collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i materials in the world. It is not the largest, but it is comprehensive in that we do deal with all nations that were involved in the war. Were not just centric to the country that were located in. In the museum when youre going through the exhibitions you see about 10 of the Museum Collection at any one time. The rest we use for research, for references, for loans to other institutions, and just to make sure that we have an encyclopedic collection of the war. When we are teaching about the history of it we want to cover everything from point a to point z. Where im standing right now is in front of a wall that depicts the various Shoulder Sleeve Insignia worn by
Brought to the Hoover Library by cspan in partnership with mediacom. The curator shows us the additional artifacts that accompany each of the portraits. Today we are at the Herbert Hoover president ial library in west branch, iowa. We are in the museum portion of the building. This is our temporary exhibit, which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit from cspan. And then adding something personal from each man to show Something Different about them. We think of them as about the president s, but we want to show them as human beings as well. And that is an interesting aspect. Some of these guys were very interesting. To borrow the objects, it was an extensive process trying to find sites associated with the different people and getting them to agree to loan us items. We did with other president ial libraries and the archives, and then everything from the National Park service to individual historica
That was 27 years ago. It is one of the First Federal civil rights laws focused on protecting persons with disabilities and against discrimination and public accommodations and services and telecommunications. I am especially proud to highlight the commissions role. The disabilities focus and legislation in a 1983 report accommodating the individual abilities. A former staff attorney with the commission was one of the primary authors of the report described his job as to survey the whole field, history, legislation, legal commentary, and Court Decisions on the status of people with a in American Society and the law. The conclusion of the report was that society has tended to isolate and segregate people with disabilities and to despise and despite some progress, discrimination continues to be a serious and pervasive social problem. As i expect to hear in a few minutes, the council followed with a report that ultimately led to the americans with disabilities act in 1990. Before we hear
The United States entered world war i a century ago on april 6, 1917. Next, we tour the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city. To learn about objects related to americas role in what was then called, the great war. Doran i am doran cart. I am the senior curator. Of the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. The museum is the Nations Museum for the history of world war i. It is a global museum. We talk about all the belligerence involved in world war i. It is not just about the United States during the war. Everything from the summer of 1914 to the peace treaty of june 1919. Our collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i materials in the world. It is not the largest, but it is comprehensive in that we do deal with all nations involved in the war. We are not just centric to the country we are located in. In the museum, when you are going to the exhibition, you see about 10 of the Museum Collection at one time. The rest we
Announcer sunday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Our series of interviews on new members of withess, we met congressman thomas suozzi, democrat of new york. Congressman tom suozzi represents new york democrats in the third district. Tell us what you were doing before you ran for the seat. Rep. Suozzi i was trained originally as a lawyer and a Certified Public Accountant and i worked for Arthur Andersen and company and i clerked for the chief judge of the Eastern District in the federal courts and i worked for a big law firm and thentirling i was the mayor of my hometown for eight years and then i was the county executive of a very large county Nassau County on long island one point three Million People two point eight billion dollars budget. I did that for eight years. I had actually run for governor of new york state against Eliot Spitzer in a democratic credit primary that did not turn out very well for me than turned out very well for Eliot Spitzer either. But then i lost my ra