Good afternoon everyone, its my great privilege and honor to introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston, mississippi, and received a ba in business and history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in spotsylvania i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spaced n
Television Companies Support cspan 2 as a public service. Good afternoon everyone, its my great privilege and honor to introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston,misa in history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spa
Introduce the matt atkinson. Matt is a native of houston, mississippi, and received a ba in history from the university of mississippi. He has worked at Petersburg National battlefield, National Historical park, Manassas National battlefield and Vicksburg National military park. Hes currently employed as a ranger slash historian at gettysburg National Military park. And he will be presenting to you about the fallen leader Earl Van Dorn. [applause] this is the adjustment period, right . Where you find out what the mic is like. Or like Hank Williams said, one time, in 1952, my good friend down in georgia, his daddy saw him and Hank Williams stepped up to the microphone and he blew in it. And he says, well, boys, this works. Lets see if i do. [laughs]. I appreciate you all having me again. Its good to be back in i have an impossible task, i will go ahead and tell you, ive got 13 pages of single spaced notes on Earl Van Dorn and ive got 45 minutes. And ive got a man standing in the back. T
you are driving down a country road beside a shady river the sky turns dark as stone the trees begin to shiver the grace of god is nigh 25 years have come and gone and that story s still unfolding suitcase packed you re moving on with your memories you re holding will you be home when you arrive after 25 years? if you look into your future life decades from this question do you imagine a familiar light burning in the distance the love that never dies? 25 years have come and gone and that story s still unfolding suitcase packed you re moving on with the memories you re holding and you ll be home when you arrive 25 [cheering and applause] beautiful. beautiful. [oprah sighs] hello, sweetheart. oprah: thank you, audience. thank you. you know i i m gonna have to stop that surprise thing. so thank you, audience. i have to say, we owe it all to you, you know? i m standing here because you have been who you ve been all these years and supporting us, and you re one of my favorit
republican colleagues of john boehner are now upset over the house minority leader s comments about supporting the president s tax proposals. boehner says he would support president obama s plans to renew the expiring bush tax cuts if tha that s the only option. hi, john. reporter: good morning, vinita and rob. yesterday the senate came back to capitol hill and today the house returns and issue number one on their plate is tax cuts. the president says republicans are holding a middle-class tax cut hostage. we re still in this wrestling match with john boehner and mitch mcconnell about the last 2% to 3%. reporter: most democrats want to extend the bush tax cuts for those earning under $250,000. most republicans want to extend them for all americans, including the wealthy. this weekend house republican leader john boehner seemed to cave. if the only option i have is to vote for those at 250 and below, of course i m going to do that. but i think that s bad policy. re