first place. she was a little afraid of them so she was terrified to see these strangers waiting to a qasr all times of the day and night. mcnamara had sent an oil president of the painting as a gift to her. i discovered this when i went through some unpublished correspondence and mcnamara s files which i publish for the first time in this book and other things also from that collection. she wrote i cannot have that painting here. it brings too many things to the surface. the only photograph of jack that i even keep in the house he has his back partly turned to the viewer. and then she told mcnamara it s heartbreaking because just last night john kennedy junior walked up to the painting and kissed her goodnight and said goodnight daddy. she said he had been eating candy so i apologize if you plan you get the painting back there will be sugary imprints on the face where he kissed his father. so these are the stories to me, these human stories that are as much history as the st
the cultivation of the instinct of beauty, he observed, is a primary practical concern, especially under a government that makes no plans for an astocracy. on a day i1760, young thomas jefferson rides into williamsburg, virginia. back home, at the foot of the blue ridge mountains, he had already begun his study of greek and latin. [bell tolling] now he will enter the college of william and mary to gain what he called a more universal acquaintance. though he is critical of the government and the architecture in williamsburg, he will return here many times over the next 20 years to study and practice law. and eventually to take up residence with his family as the second governor of virginia. i was bred to the law, he once reflected, and that gave me a view of the dark side of humanity. then i read poetry to qualify it with a gaze upon its bright side. the books he was purchasing in these years embraced the whole spectrum of 18th-century knowledge. none were more treas
the cultivation of the instinct of beauty, he observed, is a primary practical concern, especially under a government that makes no plans for an astocracy. on a day i1760, young thomas jefferson rides into williamsburg, virginia. back home, at the foot of the blue ridge mounins, he had already begun his study of greek and latin. [bell tolling] now he will enter the college of william and mary to gain what he called a more universal acquaintance. though he is critical of the government and the architecture in williamsburg, he will return here many times over the next 20 years to study and practice law. and eventually to take up residence with his family as the second governor of virginia. i was bred to the law, he once reflected, and that gave me a view of the dark side of humanity. then i read poetry to qualify it with a gaze upon its bright side. the books he was purchasing in these years embraced the whole spectrum of 18th-century knowledge. none were more treasur
it happening here, and it s pretty incredible. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder in yangon, the capital city of myanmar, it s dark. blackouts are frequent, with the ancient power grid. but sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie yellow-orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. in 1948 after helping the british fight off the japanese, there was a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence. after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections? they came and went. the results ignored, opposition punished, or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell once served as a colonial policeman, where he first had grown to despise the apparatus of a colonial state, make more orwellian than imagined, in a nation where even having
last several weeks. the around under repeated shelling, the neighborhood where the embassy is, shelling, violence, rival militias battling it out for control. the government had libya growing increasingly fragile, increasingly unable to control the situation. so this somewhat became inevitable, i suppose. there had been a lot talk about it over the last several days, and they decided finally that the americans really had to get out of the country for a while. the state department is making the point, the embassy is not shut down. they say it is relocated to neighboring countries, that the diplomats will continue to carry on their work, but make no mistake, the complex, the compound, is shuttered and the americans will not be going back until the security situation improves. all righty. barbara starr, thank you so much. dig deeper and bring in ed royce, a house republican from california, chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs. congressman, good to have you wit