organizations and public works that represented racial equality. the discussion is about an hour. [applause] good evening. thanks to tom for inviting me to speak here tonight. and also i would like to thank sabrina mancy doing a good job on my visit. and i want to talk about what i try to do in this book that i wrote. and i m going to talk about it basically in terms of two threads. first, this book is designed to offer an updated history of washington, d.c., during the civil war reconstruction that highlights the significance of the national capital for understanding reconstruction writ large. and second, the book makes the importance of the debate over the meaning of equality in a period after slave emancipation. and i want to say something about my approach. i m interested in a relationship between people and government, policy and the law. this isn t strictly social or political history. it s not legal history but it s kind of an eclectic combination of all three. the f
and i usually take the 5:52 a.m. and that s delayed until 6:10. reporter: the apology malt spoke about was for this, passengers stuck on a closed dead train in 90-degree heat for two hours. this doesn t build up a lot of confidence in the efficiency of the system and how mark handles itself in an emergency. the director of the maryland transit authority road the trains in the morning and apologized for the problems but they are taking other actions as well. we have taken some steps to try and address problems with our big trains coming out of washington. one of the things that we have done is we have added double locomotives on the big trains coming out of d.c. during the peak hours so that if we have got a problem with one, there s a backup system there. reporter: he says mta and amtrak, whose personnel physically operate the trains are working to improve communication. he says no one is making excuses for what happened monday and the delays that continually playing th