The civil war. He discusses topics such as, how intelligence was used during the war and why they are so few primary source documents on civil war era intelligence gathering. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. It is a little under two hours. He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance office and at the office of director of National Intelligence. Dr. Laurie has taught at the American University and university of maryland at baltimore county. He specializes at the history of intelligence. He is the author of 40 articles on both military and intelligence history from the 19th century to the present. Please join me give you a warm welcome to dr. Clayton laurie. [applause] dr. Laurie
Should be assessed her role in the coming of the American Revolution . Sexist ortent is it just the opposite of that to call attention to the fact that the dominant event in her life are biological rather than political. Someone who wants to be true to the experience of women at this time, does that mean that you are going to be not interested in the political story . That the political story for them is the biological story. You know what im getting at here. A couple of comments on this if we possibly can. Yes. Where are you from . West chicago. 30 miles west of the city of chicago. That is really west. I think in the book parlor politics she was a student of mine. That make sense, why i enjoyed the book. Tell us what that is. It basically about how people like Abigail Adams and Martha Washington were working in other venues in political ways, whether it be in the parlors, through letters, through correspondence, to kind of make these connections. Behind the scenes. Making connections
Refuge crisis and after that, its question time at the british house of commons. Every weekend, the cspan Networks Feature programs. We are with live from Council Bluffs iowa for a town hall meeting with senator ted cruz followed by a live callin program. And on saturday night, its the Jefferson Jackson dinner. Speakers will be bernie sanders, martineau maly and Hilary Clinton and former governor of rhode island, and sunday evening, republican president ial candidate will hold a town hall in carolina. And book tv, the wisconsin book festival from madison, featuring interviews with nonfiction authors. Including mary norris and her book to english language. And David Maraniss on the city of detroit. And sunday night at 9 00 on afterwards. Former missouri on American History tv on cspan3. Saturday evening at 6 00, clayton laurie, and sunday morning at 10 00 on oral histories. Julian bond who passed away in august. On a interview growing up in the south and get our complete weekend schedul
Have relatives who are repeat scam victims. And these are often the toughest. Because they have developed an emotional relationship with the scammer often. And they really trust them. And this woman from the fbi, she tells people, call me. If somebody calls you, you call me. And im going to walk you through this. Im going to keep you from getting scammed again. Sometimes it requires really handinhand cooperation. In some of these, youll see they will get into it, they will send them a few thousand dollars. And well, weve got these additional costs over here. And all of a sudden they think im in this far. And they keep going and going. Its heartbreaking what you see. But thanks for your work on that. Really do appreciate it. Professor wallace, in your testimony you talk about how in your salesperson you have seen a lot of anxiety about using technology and naive trust about technology that pose risk to consumers. And things are constantly moving, as we see. And my adult daughter has, be
Program. You can see this or any of our programs in their entirety at our website cspan. Org. Earlier today Vice President joe biden announcing his decision not to seek the democratic nomination for president. Heres a quick look. As my family and i have worked through the grieving process, ive said all along what ive said time and again to others, that it may very well be that that process by the time we get through it closes the window on mounting a Realistic Campaign for president. That it might close. Ive concluded it has closed. I know from previous experience that theres no timetable for this process. The process doesnt respect or much care about things like filing deadlines or debates and primaries and caucuses. But i also know that i could do this if i could do this if the family wasnt ready. The good news is the familys reached that point. But as ive said many times, my family has suffered loss, and i hope there would come a time and ive said this to many other families that so