He had to reach across the aisle. Q and a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Coming up next, a forum on Global Security and a recently completed naval review of the seventh fleet collisions at sea that took place last year. The vice chief of Naval Operations also speaks at this u. S. Naval institute forum. I would like to ask everybody to come back in and take your seats. Okay. Weve had two excellent keynote briefs this morning. Both our speakers spoke to the comprehensive review. The u. S. Navy issued the comprehensive review of the recent incidents at sea that have occurred within the last year, almost all obviously forward in the western pacific. One aegis cruise hear the grounded. Another that was involved in a collision with a chinese ship. And two arly burke destroyers that collided with large merchant ships that resulted in a loss of life. 17 total sailors. That comprehensive review was conducted over the past well, it took about 60 days and was reported out approximately 3
Declaration of rights, was a delegate to the federal convention in philadelphia, but refused to sign the constitution because it did not include a bill of rights. Gunston hall. I am the education manager here. I am very excited to give you a tour today. We are standing in front of the house right now. And 1759ilt in 1755 and was the home of george mason and his first wife. If you look at the house, the carving and decoration outside, tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society he thought he did. Man. S a wealthy the house tells us that in the details. The driveway you come up was lined, in his lifetime, with cherry trees. Ever addon to the house. The house you see now is what mason built in 1769. Its kind of interesting because most other Founding Fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. Saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. Today we would think of it as keeping up wi
House right now. It was built in 1755 and 1759 and was the home of george mason and his first wife. If you look at the house, the carving and decoration outside, the house tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society he thought he did. He was a wealthy man. The house tells us that in the details. The driveway you come up was lined, in his lifetime, with cherry trees. He didnt ever addon to the house. The house you see now is what mason built in 1769. Its kind of interesting because most other Founding Fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. George mason saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. Today we would think of it as keeping up with the joneses or keeping up with the kardashians. Mason did not want to be in that position himself. So, we are going to have a chance to explore all of the spaces in the house. We will learn who george mason was and why we remember georg
Good evening, everyone and welcome to the New York Historical society. Im gail gregory. Welcome to the programs of our spectacular robert a. Smith auditorium. This Evening Program is presented in conjunction with mapping americas road to independence and the new revolutionary war expedition which is on here until march 11th. Tonights program, washington and the nations battle for the Nations Capital. And the distinguished Speaker Series at the heart of our programs, as always, id like to thank mr. Schwartz for his wonderful support. Lets give mr. Schwartz a great hand. [ applause ] id also like to recognize our Trustee Executive Committee chair and all the councilmembers with us for all of their support as well. Lets give them a big hand. [ applause ] so, tonight, the program will last an hour. It will include a question and answer session. Has everyone received a card to write their questions . No . Well, we have staff coming through, this is we will conduct the q a with written quest
And people still of associate omaha with the. You still want to get an omaha steak when you visit and things like that. Find out where the cspan cities tour is going next online at www. Cspan. Org cities tour. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan three. Each week on American History tvs american artifacts take you to museums and historic places. Up next in the second of the museum of the American Revolution, we visit the highland collection. I am scott stevenson. Im in charge of the team developing exhibitions and programs that will be in the new museum in philadelphia. This is about a century or fish a century old print we have been working on the project since five years. We expect to open in 2017. We want a place to show up these wonderful and amazing original object from the revolutionary era. For a general view where looking at firearms, they tend to look alike that this is a significant fees, one that really speaks to the power of the ideas tha