You are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. While congress is on august break, cspan prime time programming will feature a wide range of political views and topics. Includeks programs latino elected officials, the conservative summit, and Netroots Nation conference. Up, Arthur Christian mcburney talks about his book am kidnapping the enemy. It chronicles the capture of two high ranking officers during the revolutionary war. British dragoons kidnapped Major General charles lee, then secondincommand of the Continental Army. They were confident the war would soon be over. But the americans decided to respond with a special operation of their own. This event from the National Archives is a little under one hour. The special is operations to capture general charles lee and Richard Prescott by Christian Mcburney.
Possibly to elect gerald ford as speaker of the house. And he said if nixon had put more of his attention toward republicans in that congress, then in building up this huge eh electoral land slide but the key thing about watergate was the tapes. Without them, nixon he would have probably survived. Host and one final personal moment you have been sharing about richard and pat nixon. With the helicopter departed the white house, what happened . Guest nixon is looking out as theyre leaving and the only thing that breaks the silence is pat nixon saying its so sad. Host nonfarrell, the book is Richard Nixon an american tragedy. Thank you for being here today. Guest it was a pleasure. Thank you. And a defining moment in its own way for people like me. Not that i want to make anyone feel old, but i was in college when mixing resigned nixon resigned. Was that journalism that helped inspire me to get into the field, as it did with many others. Be able toate to introduce your wonderful moderator
Are using them online. The courses we teach at george washington, for most of these kids, if it is not online, it does not exist. So part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources, loosed from the government through the freedom of information act, and then get them into in digital formats, organize them, curate them, index them. So students and journalists can find them. Citizens can find them. We get calls from congress. They have questions, too. How are you funded and where did you come from . We really were started by a whole group of journalists and historians back in the mid1980s who, each of whom had used the freedom of information act to get documents declassified from the government. I think the piles were stacking up in the kitchens. And to save their families i think they created the National Security archive. Not juast a repository but as an institutional memory and a followup because we not only inherited boxes and boxes of documents from these pioneering j
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I surprised my family and spent Easter with them last weekend in Fort Wayne, Ind. I didn’t have any plans other than watching Purdue play Tennessee in the Elite Eight