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battlefield because he was born in a hospital that sits on the battlefield grounds. this is a man who is deeply rooted in that part. he also has a passion for parks that reach beyond the boundaries of his daily work life. he is finishing up work on a book for the emerging civil war series. earlier this afternoon, davis talked about the rise of john bell hood and we will talk about the beginning of the fall of that very same army. ladies and gentlemen, mr. lee white. [applause] mr. white: i have a special connection there and it is one of the reasons why i tell that story. i became familiar with general patrick cleburne. my first really big civil war biography was on patrick cleburne. his story is set in franklin. i have been interested in it ever since one of the top experiences of my life is when i went to franklin for the 150th on the actual date, november 30, 2014, and i was there and i found out that there was a commemorative march. hold on a minute. this picture ....
at 2:10 p.m. from the shakespeare theater on capitol hill, to the romeo and juliet wrongful death mock trial where supreme court associate justice samuel alito serves as presiding judge. and a look at the career of vice president-elect mike pence. watch on c-span and c-span.org and on the free c-span app. up next, national park service ranger lee white talks about the confederate army of tennessee s failed assault at the battle of franklin. in november 1864, after union general william sherm captured atlanta and began his march toward the sea, confederate general john bell hood engaged his rear forces on the way to nashville. this talk was sponsored by the emerging civil war blog and is about an hour. it is my pleasure now to introduce from the fields of chickamauga in chattanooga, my friend lee white. lee has been with the park service since 2000. he s been down there at chickamauga chattanooga longer than that. we can say lee has spent his whole life on the battle ....
depending on things. it is not an uncommon place for me. what i feel and what i hope we will have going forward is the need to really address the communications of this nation. there is a lot of work to do when it comes to broadband coverage, mobile coverage is something i care about in particular. really connecting communities and really bridging these digital divides. those are the things that i care about and i trust that those will not have partisan leanings. host peter slen: do you plan on serving out your term? ms. clyburn: i plan on completing my term which is on the 30th of june. as you know, this part of the i do nots something necessarily have that much of a say in. as tradition would have it, that particular post one of the features is one where the minority leader has a say in. i read some things in the paper but i am not sure what will happen with that. i have enjoyed my last heaven and a half years. it has been the highlight of my professional life. i ha ....
i paint. painting. i am in the process of writing a book. i m an editor, and i have been working away on which direction i m going to go on a book. and there is some places i haven t been. i have been 101 countries in my life, but i have never been to portugal. i have only been to barcelona in spain and i have only been to paris in france, so there is a whole lot of things that i want to do. ski. various parts of france and portugal. maybe some french cooking. i mean, this is the first time in my life i can do what i absolutely want to do. greta: you seem excited about that. rep. mcdermott: yeah. i mean i have been working since , i was 12 years old, always someone telling me what i had to do, i had to go here, i had to do that. for the last 28 years i have had 700,000-some odd people telling me what they think i ought to do. now i am going to tell myself what i think i ought to do. greta: what did you do when you were 12? rep. mcdermott: i was a peter boy. that was whe ....
thank you sarah. now let us welcome from northern ireland, manchester francesca drumm. francesca: the world around us is changing fast. that just our political landscape but also on a social, geographical and cultural level. we all agree that the past months have been amongst the most chaotic and confusing that we as young people have witnessed. and yet we strive to raise our voices, the argument and the discourse. as bystanders and observers. disregarded by the debates. generation cryur for recognition. we seek to be had. heard. we seek integrity. values that we believe to be a cornerstone to any political argument. and we have been overlooked among state beer mongering and recent times. today, as we consider the prospect of a kinder, there were democracy, we have the crucial task of young people to communicate the values that are integral to our generation. hope, possibility and vision for a new world where boundaries between them and us must be breached. a societ ....