Who kicked off tonight with a keynote. Plus two former president s, jimmy carter and bill clinton. And one of americas most prominent republicans, general colin powell. It is also a night for some traditional Convention Business and like Everything Else this year, its being done in a brand new way. The roll call of the states from the states. Starting with alabama, in selma. Delaware will secure the nomination for favorite son joe biden at the close. Lets check in now with the state of nebraska. A lot of us dont have paid sick leave or even quality protective equipment. We are human beings, not robots, not disposable. We want to help you feed your family, but we need a president that will have our backs. Nebraska casts 33 votes for our next president , joe biden. Nevada. Working people are the backbone of our economy and the key torecovery. Joe biden knows its not enough to praise them, we have to reward them. So, lets raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, empower workerss and safer wo
Ellis island. This island for Many Americans is the place where their american story began. 12 to 13 million americans came to this island and to this building in order to be given the okay to go out and start their lives in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Now, a lot of people dont know about ellis island before that time. Im going to talk briefly about ellis island itself. Today were 27 acres in size. But in the original form this island was, it was three acres. A small island in the middle of the harbor. Barely above sea level at high tide. It was a military installation first as a fort during the war of 1812 and eventually during the 1800s as a storage depot. Around 1890 it was decided by the federal government this would be the place they would institute the first building specifically constructed for the processing of immigrants. They did construct the building between 1890 and 1892. The building here is not the first processing center. Its the second. The first was a large wooden
Should the military be used for domestic unrest such as the recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and even contemplating resuming Nuclear Testing . Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and other statue be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power americas failures, successes and a new path forward in the post cold war world. Doctor gates is an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served as the cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head the agency. Secretary gates served as a membe
Our free radio app and be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily washington General Program or through our social media feed. Cspan, created by americas People Television company as a Public Service and brought you today by your television provider. This was the europe of 1941. The nazi blitz krieg, had overwhelm fronts, holland, belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining death and destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all north africa. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forces were driving forward in their bloody conquest of china. Only one of the worlds major powers was still not at war, the United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 1941. The statue of liberty towered over the new york harbor as if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling free world. Afternoon in ne
Im jamie colby, and today im on the road in lawrence, kansas, on my way to the university of kansas home of the jayhawks, one of the most storied teams in all of basketball. Now, kansas is actually not where the tale of this strange inheritance begins, but through a turn of events, it does wind up here. In 1939, my grandfather, dr. James naismith passed away and left us an artifact that dates back to 1891. He was my greatgrandfather, and what he left us was the magna carta of basketball. Naismiths. Jamie. Im jim. Good to meet you. Hi, jim. How are you . Jamie, im sean naismith. Great to meet you both. Likewise. I am interested to hear about your strange inheritance. Im awfully curious what the connection is to k. U. Wed love to show you. My greatgrandfather, dr. James naismith, started the first basketball teams here at k. U. [ whistle blows ] but time out lets reset the clock. The boy who would grow up to invent basketball, James Naismith, is born in ontario, canada, in 1861. At age 9