The National Park service until his retirement in 1995. Has published many books primarily related to the western fear of war and his three volume Campaign History of vicksburg which is viewed as a classic. In 2015 legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions to Civil War Preservation and history. So his talk today is recovering the uss cairo, right. Not cairo i always his frounds from from the yazoo. Mr. Bears. Thank you so much. [ applause ] always a pleasure being down to where we are today. Down to Longwood University to talk about the raising of the cairo. Now, if you want to find out how to raise a vestal you will not do it the way we do it. When i arrive at vicksburg on a in 1966 i entered on duty at vicksburg. And after i had been there about a year the superintendent called me in, mr. Mcconhi. And say, ed, i want you to see if you can find the gun boat cairo. It was one of 7 casemented city series ironclads built by the United States
Recently. This is just over an hour. Good morning. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the executive office for immigration review. And uncharacteristically, im not going to begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. I am going to introduce our witness and say welcome to him and ask if he would please rise so i can administer an oath. And then i will probably introduce you. May the record reflect that the witness answered in the affirmative. This mornings witness is mr. Juan osuna, appointed as executive director in may 2011, acting director from december 2010 to may 2011. Prior to that, mr. Osuna was the department of justice as an associate Deputy Attorney general from may 2009 to june of 2010. He was a Deputy Assistant attorney general in the civil division, office of immigration litigation from september of 2008 until may 2009. He served as chairman of the board of tkp
Other reforms such as those that affect the labor, the product in the Services Market are likely to unfold positive results over the longerterm horizon. Yet they are essential to enhance productivity and innovation which in turn can be powerful antidotes to the impact of something that we cannot do anything about and that is affecting all of us beijing. Aging. We done a bit of research not so much on aging. Of the people can do that a little better that i but weve done research on Structural Reforms and weve try to flush out priorities and payoffs in the area of productivity growth Labor Participation entry. Let me take a break will put one after the other. Lets look at productivity growth. Reversing that decline in advanced economies requires lowering barriers to entry in products and Services Markets. Our research shows, for instance, that improving the allocation of labor and capital can significantly increase total factor productivity tsb as its called. Another example is the poten
If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some point before we talk about the battle, there are three separate engagements referred to as the battles of Sailors Creek. As you enter the museum, it refers to it as battles. I mentioned the spelling difference. There were two branches, most of the
At the very moment the confederates come out at what was called devils den ready to attack, there was vincent putting his men into position. They attacked only minutes of vincent with his manager position. So his place ing of the men he did it on its own without any authority saved the day because those guys beat back the attack. Unfortunately, the confederate attack was years. Part of the lines began to buckle. Visit sees that part of the line was starting to cave in, rushed to the side and had his wife writing and is the with white writing crop. He just had the white writing crop. He was saying hold your position and had the writing crop in the air, and it was a perfect target. It got to the abdomen and proved fatal a couple of days later. Chamberlain who is been under vincent, developed a very close friendship was in charge of one end of the line took over when vincent was mortally wounded. He did not die right away. He was carried to the back. Chamberlain took over. Within the next