Historically black sites helped to tell the story of africanamerican migration. They argue for additional efforts and resources to preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life in history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and histories 104th annual conference. How the National Park service tells the story of black migrations. My name is madeleine, and im the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks Conservation Association. Is this better . Sorr sorry about that. On behalf of theresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks Conservation Association, weve been a powerful, independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through our nationwide network of offices and with our more
Render impartial justice with the chief justice of the Supreme Court presided as the chief judge. I will administer the oath in the chamber in conform airs with the constitution and the Senate Impeachment rules. To be sure no vote would be parted, you take a vote three times to render impartial justice. Ne as group, then as individual, and the third, you go into the well and you sign the book for all of history where i hereby, barbara mikulski, u. S. Senator from maryland do pledge to render impartial justice in the matter of impeachment. Your hand shakes with that kind of historical amendment. Historical and media commitment. Host don ritchie, u. S. Senate historian emeritus, we have asked you to spend an hour with us to give us some perspective, to guide us what might happen. Senator mikulski talks about how important this felt, as the United States senator, the job that they were doing. As a whole, as the process gets underway, how should the public think about impeachment . Is it a
We had never seen anything like trial was e the last in the 1860s. What do you remember about what how all of this transpired the next month . The senate trial was fascinating because of the idea but it is ed a trial not a legal proceeding and it is very political. It had so many interesting dynamic characters involved. Bird of West Virginia scholar constitutional and not a supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way, he ended up at one point throwing up his hands and saying this should not have even happened, the trial is misguided and he even told his colleagues he was going to introduce a otion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators played different roles. Managers were ascinating the president s legal team was interesting. He had a strong array of legal and tried to sort some, put some english on the ball because he wanted to he had women as his legal representation. Own personal russ was the k and he use counsel relied on them to give this assionate idea abou
Send the articles right away and there is this pressure theyre trying to bring to bear on Mitch Mcconnell and the republicans to have more than just a pro forma trial. That is righta and this is an idea that has been floated by people outside of congress to say this is how democrats could insist on getting witnesses like john bolton and mike pompeo from the trump administration. It has become a bit more of a political confusion then pull oc intended for it to bit the nancy pelosi intended to be. She was asked about it and had an unscripted moment where she said she was not happy with the senate trial, but even her top deputies were surprised and admitted behind the scenes that was not their first plan a. David thank you so much to anna from washington. Now we turn to los angeles where our chief washington correspondent is in los angeles for the president ial debate. What are we expecting . Kevin seven candidates will be on stage. The toptier candidates dynamics have not significantly c
Clinton, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god . The clerk will call the names and record the responses. Was january 7, 1990 nine. From the floor of the u. S. Senate, the trial against president bill clinton. Joining us is alexis simendinger. We had never seen anything like this before, because the last trial was back in the 1860s. No television, of course, with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how all of this transpired over the next month . Alexis the senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it is called a trial, but it is not a legal proceeding and is at its heart very political. But it had so many interesting, dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of west virginia, a stalwart and not aonal scholar supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way, he ended up at one point just throwing up his hands and saying that this