Compiling this topic, lecture topics for this year, she called me into her office and pitched me this idea. She ended up, when i told her and i agreed i probably did know somebody who might be interested in doing this topic, she said, when i think of outlaws, scalawags, and scoundrels, there is only one person who comes immediately to mind. I am so touched. That is exactly the type of characters every girl longs to be associated with. Before you can start looking at the outlaws that the civil war spun off, you have to take a flip back and see and understand the guerrilla warfare that was going on during the civil war to understand how that same mindset continued after the war and manifested itself in the wild west. Irregular warfare in the civil war, you have those who are somewhat associated with the organized military and calvary raiders in the borderland area, kentucky and everything, were probably the most closely associated. Rangers had partisan who acted on their own, but answere
That revolution is going on and the revolution will continue its path will have fees mohammed is the director of Justice Africa and he says that members of sudans old regime have been allowed to keep their positions while plotting against the government. We havent had the fact. That since that seems or political coming into that this is the kind of show its been introduced by the victim which is you know using political weapon to ice cream i want to suppress people i think the only people who have been its been it was beef usually from i describe. Cats and im do you consider a person that simply either imminent or did you and they are still functioning properly unfortunate but i think this is a little for everyone that we need to deal with we need to deal with them aggressively out according to the law but we need to do it we need to do then get i know i said a source but the law dont do this but you live in a currency market. Gloom a crisis as acute and i think we need to actually liv
President ialcratic candidate Deval Patrick as he campaigned in new hampshire. We begin with his stop in dover. [laughter] you forssor, thank moderating this. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to open democracy for the opportunity to be here. I can make it as plain as possible by taking that card and reading it aloud. A handful of big ideas and when i say we i mean we americans upon which there is a broad consensus. Theyhey do not happen and do not happen because we have been treating our democracy for a long time as if it would tolerate limitless abuse without breaking. Things like the amount of money, much of it dark, the gerrymandering of districts as the saying goes, representatives choose the voters into not the other way around, the influence of lobbyists, especially lobbyists for money interests, these all thesere and things conspire to prevent us from getting democratic outcomes from our democracy. My view is we have to start here. We have to go right at that. We have to
He was history teacher and came to congress and realized there was no organization saying nice things about the congress and thought there ought to be somebody who did that and created the u. S. Capitol Historical Society as a way to create an organization whose responsibility would be to educate the public about the capital, the capital building, the people who served here and the architecture thats here. For over 50 years, we have been doing this with publications. With guide books to the capital. Calendars that we produce and many members purchase and issue to their constituents. And other ways. Were formed by congress, but were not a federal agency. Were a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We have to raise all of our own dollars for people who help sponsored this evening tonight are part of that organization of people who help us stay in business. And every year we try and honor a committee of the congress. This year the ways and Means Committee and we try and alternate between
And subsequent financial reforms. Im donald ritchie, the senate historian, and we are in the Senate Caucus room in the Russell Senate Office Building. Before cspan started covering the senate, this was the most famous room in the capitol complex th, becausee this is where major hearings had been televised coming back newsreels covered it in the 1920s and 1930s, but television came along in 1940. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, the kefauver crime investigation, the mccarthy hearings and the watergate hearings. So this was the most televised room until the Senate Chamber was open to television. I bring people in here from time to time. You can hear the echoes. Point of order, mr. Chairman. You can hear the gavel. Of the chairman. My point of order. [gavel bangs] counsel advised the chair that the senator is engaging in a statement im getting sick of getting interrupted in the middle of a sentence. Mr. Chairman, do i have the floor or do i not . Oh, be quiet