Day. Because this is where we are proving that the system where we the voters elect our leaders and we change them when we vote, ato washington, d. C. Are burned when washington is burned in the war of 1812. We lose a lot of the early things. Thats one of the challenges with a building like this, you dont necessarily have all the thing things, but you make due the best you can to give people the sense when they come in to see them of what it looked like when men like James Madison or Young Andrew Jackson were sitting in this room as members of the house of representatives. Were in the Senate Chamber here at Congress Hall in philadelphia. The room as you can see is quite a bit more grand than the house of representatives would have been. Theres a couple of reasons for that. Our roots as a nation go back to when we were british, of course. The british have a parliament with two houses. An upper house, the house of lords, lower house, house of commons. Theres definitely parallels with our
Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfortunate soldier was given the job of burning it. But they came and they gave us a bit of context about what it was and when they left it and why. So thats really cool. Theres some donors who are still really active and want to see the things that they left. So this, as you may or may not know, is a roll of toilet paper. You may wonder why we have it in our collection. But toilet paper was as good as gold in vietnam, because if you were out in the field and you didnt have any toilet paper, you ha
Portrait gallery and a member of the National Press Club Speakers Committee. Able lopez associate producing director of the hispanic theater. Jerry, the rock Washington Bureau chief of the Washington News past president of the National Press club and chairman of the press Club Speakers Committee. Skipping over the speaker for a moment, nick of the u. S. Capitol Visitor Center and the National Press Club Speakers Committee who organize todays event. Thank you, nick. Vapian of the Dance Institute of washington, freelance reporter and blogger who covers the arts. [applause] i also want to welcome the cspan and public radio audiences and remind you that you can follow the action on glitter. Use the hash tag npclive. Thats npclive. Jane chu was born the daughter of chinese immigrants in shawnee oklahoma and was raised in arkansas. She studied music growing up. She received a bachelors degree in piano performance and Music Education from the baptist university. She received her masters degre
Problem. Theyre trying to figure out how to keep their agents from looking at all the nude photographs that are sent, but theyre finding it hard to filter out for the nude pictures. Text messages are similarly not immune. The nsa collected almost 200 million Text Messages per day globally, using them to ascertain travel plans, social networks and credit card details. Let me be clear, this information is being collected on individuals who are not themselves suspected of any illegal activity. Georgetown professor Laura Donohue gave the keynote address at a National Security conference hosted by westminster college. Its in fulton, missouri. You can see her entire speech tonight starting at 9 30 eastern on our companion network, cspan. This monday on cspans new series landmark cases, by 1830, the Mississippi River around new orleans had become a breeding ground for kohl ra and yellow fever, partly due to slaughter houses in the area dumping their byproducts into the river. To address this
We takeeries premiere, a look at the real story behind marlborough versus madison delving a today heated political ands between John Adams Thomas Jefferson as a newl appointed chief justice, John Marshall. Crooks John Marshall established the court as the interpreter of the constitution and his famous decision he wrote marlborough versus madison. The mostprobably famous case of this court ever decided. Announcer yell Law School Law school yale professor joining us pretty exploring 12 historic ruling by revealing the lives and people who were the plaintiffs and lawyers and justice is pretty landmark cases premier at 9 00 , as on cspan, cspan3 cspan radio. For background, or your copy of landmark cases come paying for 8. 95 plus shipping and handling. Jane chu, chair of the National Endowment of arts outlined her plan for the 50th anniversary activities. She spots a National Press club breakfast. This is one hour. She spoke at a National Press club breakfast. Thats Bloomberg News breakin