an amazing crowd. we had to turn away a good 50 people or more. there is a briefing on u.s. and it is part of a national history center bringing historical perspectives to current issues that have confronted congress. it is a political position. it is nonpartisan. it is intended to inform policymakers in public about the sorts of finishes they re dealing with. i want to give a few thanks to the melon foundation. i also want to thank our assistance jeffrey who is outside of this room for helping make the arrangements. i want to thank the off the of gerry connolly. i want to explain why there was index cards on your seats. we will get questions, answer questions, but we would like you to write those questions on the index cards. so keep them ready and jot down questions when they come to mind. everyone out there that supports the national historic center and thank you for coming to the event. we have to get you information about professional organizations like schaffer. panel
a great american. it s a little too black american men who resident to the, the very top of the military and political life and the native states colon power bought a car bama both of really a sense of essential decency which has been very strong in terms of the reputation imitation general po and lucas town said to state where you stood alongside them as you did when he was chair of the joint chiefs of staff. it was a sense in which some of the snake o salesmen, around the presidency. it took advantage of, of that decency and that optimism about human nature, that general pow radiated when i 1st went to work for him in 1989. i consulted a young lady was working for laurie gary sectors and navy at the time. but new power rather well, and i knew she did. and around her fire in a town home in alexandria, virginia, she said to me, beware of it. no, you would. and i said, what do you mean? and she said he can be incredibly naive about the people around him because he believes som
he could have been the man who rose to that very pinnacle in 1995. both parties were recruiting him. both parties had set up an apparatus and had an office in every state in the union. and most wanted him as they wanted eyes. now, for example, post war to any decided not the wrong time. and the 2nd is the fact that he was a great american and always will be remembered by historians as a great american. that blemishes he called on his career, the presentation of the united nations, which represented the ultimate blemishes support for war. that truly was a sad and disastrous strategic decision from united states. but nonetheless, his legacy will persevere and i think historians will look on him positively not unlike the way they look on our towards marshal, in terms of military leaders. he was a great american. if a look at the 2 black american men who resume to the very top of the military and political life in the united states colon power bought a car bama both of really a s
manchin threw cold water on that, too. when will talking actually amount to action? we have a lot of action going on. are you saying you oppose the climate tax or you just aren t talking about it right now? the carbon tax. carbon tax. the carbon tax is not on the board at all right now. so now on the docket, as we said, are those house progressives, including the leader of the house progressive caucus, pramila jayapal. in about two hours from now after the president leaves the white house, they will welcome house and senate moderates. perhaps the biggest sign that something constructive could be happening is that two progressive leaders, congresswoman jayapal and bernie sanders, actually met yesterday with joe manchin. the two actually in the same room and talking to one another. no one actually in the room is letting us in on what they said. so as senator manchin tells us what is not on the board, the question is what is? and can the president put the pieces to
hearings, investigating the intelligence activities of the cia, fbi, ins and nsa. look for our programming every weekend on c-span3. coming up next, a discussion with two men at the center of the events known as watergate. alexander butter field fle flekts on the subject with bob woodward. the event was co-hosted by the harry ransom center in texas and the lyndon b. johnson presidential library. it s an hour. good evening, i want to welcome you to this conversation with alexander butterfield and bob woodward which will be conducted by my friend and colleague, mark updegrove. my name is steve ennis, i m director of the harry ransom center which is pleased to be co sponsoring this evening s progr program. bob woodward has a special tie to the university of texas. in 2003 he and his wraug post colleague carl bernstein, placed their watergate papers here at the university s harry ransom center. it was a historically excite in acceptance. the identity of deep throat was made