English bill clinton overlying about a matter. That man, who is an enemy, i compared him in my forward, hypocrisy and took out ads in the Washington Post offering money to those who thought there was some hypocrisy on the part of clintons congressional accusers. At the time, people accused larry flynt of being a bottom feeder. He has an answer to that. He resigned and did an interview with the New York Times and they asked him what they thought about me. Feeder,i was a bottom so they called me for a comment. Said thats right let meill let you know what i found there. [laughter] you did not print everything you had. You listen to the pleading of the wife. Mrs. Livingston called my you dont said realize how many people have been hurt in this. There are too many to count. She said now that bob has think it isyou necessary to print the details of what was going on in the various affairs. Took this lady of a lot of courage to call and ask. E i thought, he resigned from congress and is out.
Cspans series first ladies. Washington to michelle obama. Sundays at 8 00 eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Recently, American History tv was at the society for historians of American Foreign relations annual meeting in arlington, virginia. Professors,h authors, and graduate students about the research. This interview is about 15 minutes. Keisha blain, a graduate of princeton, and you studied at penn state. The premise of your research is really working and looking at women at the margins. Africanamerican women. Why . Dr. Blain i have been interested for a while in capturing the voices of women who have just their voices have been lost, and really hidden in the crux of u. S. History. I wanted to excavate their stories. I wanted to help us better understand africanAmerican History, the lack freedom struggle, and the complexities of that struggle. I wanted to add to the discussion, beyond mainstream narratives of the civil rights movement, for example, or womens involvement. I w
Camps of building all the Cancer Hospital and airfields in the United States and the pentagon. I became one of the five to the bossofficers of the pentagon job. He supervised 40 or 50 architects, and a great big team of general contractors. Our job was trying to stay on top of all that. When the contract was finished, the general picked me up and i went to the manhattan district, it was a very quiet, very secretive project. Secretive, it so was five or 10 years after the war that i began telling people what i really should have told them at the outset. After the war, i went into the Construction Business on my own. I worked at that for 50 years. Built about 800 buildings. If one of them was leaning, we would go profit up. Trying and keep it from collapsing. We quit that just recently, i do for the general contracting work. At the time we had 250 people on the payroll. Most of the time it was more like 70 or 80. We built churches and hospitals, whatever came along. Schools, lots of scho
Hammering the enemy to his knees. The unimaginably destructive atomic bomb. The First Mission was Industrial City of heroes shema. Hiroshima. Japan had a choice, complete surrender or complete ruin. They laytamp, even as the foundation for a stable european peace, they decided on common action against japan. As agreed at delta, russia joined the allies on the last or meaning axis enemy. Japan was attacked. Andemperor hero tito japanese militarism, the war was lost. They sued for peace. Secretary of war stanton and secretary of state byrnes hurried to the white house with secretary of the navy forestalled. Meeting with president truman, they studied japans surrender messages. The world remembered friend delano roosevelt, commanderinchief, american war casualty. Years of brave response ability took their toll. A grateful world honors him today. Douglas macarthur, leader of pacific armies now named supreme allied commander in japan. Leader of fighting china. Chester nimitz, leader of the
Lobster boats going back and forth all the time, you see the islands, sailboats, all the activities that probably people think of a maine visit would be. We take a boat to fort gorgeous, a civil war era just off the portland kos. We are on hog island ledge. Where they built for gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor. We have completed an 18 6 it was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south. Its camel on how silent. They were designed to work in conjunction with each other to defend the harbor. Everyone thinks for gorgeous is a civil war fort when it was funded long before, and it was approved by congress. Things that occurred much earlier. We begin our feature on portlands history, talking about lobstering. In 2016, the Maine Lobster industry generated over 500 million. Next, we learn about its history and economic impact. Over here is my gps and radar. Here in the fog, it helps us figure out where we are. Traps with amy gps. I kind of do it by fe