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Hello. I would like to welcome you to Union Station. This is a magnificent building here in washington, d. C. , just a couple of walks from the u. S. Capitol building. At the nonprofit here in washington dc who responsible loyalty is stewardship of this building. This building was built in 1907. It was not only one of the largest buildings in the world, but it was certainly the most magnificent train station that had been built to date. This station has undergone many changes throughout the year. In 1912 andeted service during world war i when the uso took over part of the building. It went through many, many changes from being an actual station to a place where it was not so active and people may have been here sleeping on benches, using the building for shelter and finally, with world war ii, the station became the center of the world again with the servicemen coming back here and serving 200,000 people a day and significant alte ....
Welcome back, everybody. As you know we have been in the gilded age for some time now. Weve already seen the Technological Innovations that made this economic expansion possible. We saw the economic transformations and the effect of those changes on the economy as far as lifestyles both for the very ritzy opulent robber baron lifestyles and also the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was the increasing problems of housing in the sanitation that came with this rapid and in many ways chaotic growth of the cities in the late 19th century. All of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. We saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime. As we talked about the farmers in this. That could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one. Today we turn our ....
The 1970 five saigon evacuation one of the saddest moments of his life, but insisted he has no regrets. Lbjinger sat down with president ial Library Director as part of a threeday conference in austin texas that organizers call the vietnam war summit. Then took questions from the audience. We will hear first from several introductory speakers, including it is my honor and privilege to introduce Henry Kissinger. He was a relatively young ,rofessor at Harvard University and i was a low Ranking Member of white house staff. In july, 1967, dr. Kissinger was a top secret channel for president johnson. Through french intermediaries, with north vietnamese Prime Minister, and the aging ho chi minh. Through dr. Ki ....
Please welcome the director of the lbj president ial library. The on may 22, 1971 crowd assembled on the university of texas grounds to dedicate this library. 2100 antiwar protesters were kept from interrupting the proceedings by a phalanx of highway patrolman. Warr chance of no more carried by high winds and accompanied by the pounding of trashcan lids were clearly heard. By former president Lyndon Johnson and his assembled guests including president nixon. It was an apt metaphor. Had filteredar into the administrations of both johnson annex in. Johnson and nixon. When johnson took his turn at the podium he proclaimed it is all here. The story of our time. With the bark off. There is no record of mistake or an unpleasantness or criticism that is not included in the files here. He wanted us to learn from them to build a better america. The lbj president ial library hosted the historic civil rights summit to mark the 50th anniversa ....
Ye linear deposit of hardware and nails and buttons and coins and actu actually the deposits of artifacts out there were so dense and we found glass ware and ceramics and based on the date range of them, i was fairly certain at that time that we had identified the site of the slave quarters associated with it. We did not have any funding for archeo logical research. What we are looking at is what we call structure b or the six of the structure laid out in a row. The way it manifests itself is a foundation of the stone chimney. It is i am lamsimilar of what yn the secondary house there. It is a cshaped that formed the foundation for the chimney. You can see two smaller stone pee pe pierce which would have form the corner of the building. So actually some intermediate pier as well. So they probably were one story or a story and a half buildings, they measured about 20 by 34 feet in dimensions of external chimney in the south elevation. Very simple and expediant structure that was constru ....