So ill get us rolling. Were going to have a pretty informal discussion here where well throw out some questions that have occurred to all of us as weve been listening to these wonderful talks and the first question i will throw out, i think, i trust has occurred to many of you in the audience, and that is its really aimed primarily at gary and christopher, and that is are your two interpretations garys with the emphasis on centrality of the theater on the east and then west. Are they at odds or reconcilable . Im happy to have you go first. Set the tone. I think its all in the definition of the word is. I actually dont disagree with gary on a lot of points. The war was. Without the Virginia Campaign and without the successes that grant brought to it, that stalemate could have continued longer. Im not certainly exactly what sherman could have done had grant not had the successes that he had by bringing a different type of war fair. My point is not to critique garys emphasis on the east i
Birwood, where were standing, and mendota, on the other side of the wall. The federal government in 1934 had passed the First National housing act which will help workingclass people get home mortgages. Its part of roosevelts new deal. National housing act. Its going to create the federal Housing Administration and the homeowners loan corporation. This will help streamline loans and make it more accessible during the Great Depression for people to get a home loan. Here. Ere are some issues one of the issues is to get one of these home loans, the federal Housing Administration states that the neighborhood has to be racially homogeneous, which means that people have to be from the same racial and ethnic group. They do not believe that a neighborhood is stable if it is integrated, so they wont give loans if the neighborhood is integrated. So theres a problem this is ng to help create neighborhoods that have been integrated are going to become segregated and whole new neighborhoods are goi
Im the chair of the special Investigative Committee and thanks for joining us for this very special book for him. What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know the American Veteran centers presenting the Andrew Goodpaster award and i want to turn it over to jim roberts. [applause] thank you very much tom peter. And officers of the army and navy club thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen on behalf of my colleagues at the American Studies Center i welcome you to the armynavy club for the presentation of the eighth annual Andrew Goodpaster award named after he read rate american and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters retired. Before her proceed further i would like to say that we are honored by the presence of Andrew Goodpasters granddaughter and her husband matt. Would you please stand. [applause] is great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpaster family here. I would also like to th
What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know were the American Veteran center is presenting the Andrew Goodpasture award and i want to turn this over to the president of the American Veterans center. Jim . [applause] thank you very much, tom. Peter. And officers of the army and navy club, thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of my colleagues at the American Study Center i welcome you to the Army Navy Club for the presentation of the eight annual andrew j. Goodpasture award named after a Great American and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters United States army retired. Id like to say we are honored by the presence of general goodpastures granddaughter and her husband, matt. Would you please stand. [applause] great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpasture family here. I would also like to thank the Bradley Foundation for underwriting the goodpasture award. Diane, would
Nicely. Manassas now. We will have plenty. Temperatures will reach the mid 60s. A westerly wind. Tonight will stay clear and we start the day with sunshine. Change is underway. A lowpressure moisture will consolidate over the next 24 to 46 hours. Rain moving in during the afternoon tomorrow. Snow in the Higher Elevations. Melt. Hing that falls will the better chances of any snow or accumulating snow will be further north and west. Night, snow and a changeover to rain morning but not long after sunrise, changes over to rain. I think any issues will be in the Higher Elevations. Any snowflakes will be more of a curiosity than anything else. We will talk more about potential impacts of the movement of the storm system in a few minutes. A live look at the d. C. Eagle cam right now. You can see proud pop a and mama eagles. They have a hatchling to crow about today. The staff at the auburn arboretum as the the waiting for this for days. It finally happened. One egg hatched. At 8 27 this morni