Welcome to csis. I am the head of the project on military diplomatic history. Thank you all especially for braving todays weather. Its great to see all this interesting world war i. For those who havent been here before a project is focused on history that provides insight into contemporary affairs. We are delighted to cohost todays event with csis project and prosperity and development. Sam runde runs at project here and thank you for your support. When we think about, when historians think about what are the most important events in World History world war i usually comes out at number one but americans actually fixated on other wars like the civil war and world war ii. This one is the most important and we are here today to provide additional awareness. 100 years ago to this very day Woodrow Wilson appeared before a joint session of congress here in washington to deliver his working points speech. Wilson had been a professor at princeton and the president of that institution. He dre
Forum. [inaudible conversations] welcome to csis. I am the head of the project on military diplomatic history. Thank you all especially for braving todays weather. Its great to see all this interesting world war i. For those who havent been here before a project is focused on history that provides insight into contemporary affairs. We are delighted to cohost todays event with csis project and prosperity and development. Sam runde runs at project here and thank you for your support. When we think about, when historians think about what are the most important events in World History world war i usually comes out at number one but americans actually fixated on other wars like the civil war and world war ii. This one is the most important and we are here today to provide additional awareness. 100 years ago to this very day Woodrow Wilson appeared before a joint session of congress here in washington to deliver his working points speech. Wilson had been a professor at princeton and the pres
On one of the upper floors. Heres the update we just got. We have used the dogs, we have used our doan Technology Drone technology. We feel at this time we will not find any more victims. Reporter that massive fire broke out early yesterday morning just before 6 00 in the morning, people were desperately trying to escape the smoke and the flames, the main tenant is a Faith Based Group offering housing to people that were formerly homeless. People that lived here complained about the conditions of the building. The city inspected the building days before the fire, the inspection revealed eight violations. A short time ago i talked to an attorney representing the tenets, he described the issues. I described conditions as deplorable. You had water running down the first floor, you had exposed wires near the water. You have people doubled and tripled up in rooms, i have rooms that look like there is a lot of junk in them, hoarding and that type of thing. Reporter as many as 100 people mana
The Wine Industry significantly 1850s, when a man but some property in the Sonoma Valley and started a winery that he called when a vista winery. That is the birthplace of what we now know as California Wine culture. He didnt plant the first grapes. Somebody was already going growing grapes when he came. He got interested in european in 1863, the state established a Wine Commission because people were getting interested in that. They sent him to europe, and he brought back varietal cuttings. F european grapes the old Mission Grape went out the window and we begin to grow real grapes, real wine grapes, and he was the father of that movement. 1920, Sonoma County was the ninth ranking county in Agricultural Production in the entire united states, not in california, but in the nation, and that was significant because it was the product of a lot of different things. We were first in hops, significant in wine, chicken and egg basket of the world. In addition, we had apples in the north count
She was voted one of the nations best dressed. Mimi eisenhower, tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans original series first ladies, influence and image. Examining the public and private lives of the women who fill the position of the first lady and their influence on the presidency. From Martha Washington to michelle obama. Onight, at 8 00 p. M. Eastern American History tv on cspan3. Tonight on q and a Supreme Court correspondent and author of a companion book to an oncoming series, tony morrow on that case is featured in the series and the Supreme Courts new term. One of the judges who did not get his office, his position because of this, sued. And the Supreme Court dealt with it. It was Marbury V Madison. Marbury was one of those judges. Basically, hesaid probably deserves some remedy but the remedy that congress has provided for this goes beyond the power of congress. The authority of congress. So the Supreme Court was going to strike down that law. This is something the court had