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To learn about government, understand our heritage, so i thought, what is it we say to those people when they come to washington . What have been some of the controversies . What are some of the issues we should be aware of and what is missing . That is going to be my focus with the Capital Building here, rotunda, and of course the mall which stretches all the way back , down to the Lincoln Memorial. Building Capitol Building with its great paintings by John Trumbull of the American Revolution and at the opposite end of the mall, the Lincoln Memorial commemorating the civil war and Abraham Li ....
To put them on before i do the introduction and introduce our wonderful guests tonight. Lindsay chervinsky is a white house historian at the White House Historical association. She is the author of the new book the cabinet George Washington and the creation of an american institution. She is widely published. I had the great pleasure of interviewing her recently on a podcast, and i cannot wait to share her work and her insights with you. Lindsay, welcome to americas town hall. Lindsay thank you so much for having me. Jeffrey and edward larson, the hugh and hazel darling chair of law and professor at pepperdine university. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in history. He is the coauthor of 14 books, several of them on George Washington and the fou ....
Groups. Long story short, i was invited to speak at a church in Washington County in july 2016. The church was celebrating their 150th anniversary, and they invited me to come up and talk about what it mightve been like trying to start a church in the immediate aftermath of the american civil war. My wife and i drove up and we walked into the back of the sanctuary, and there was one lady sitting in the sanctuary, and she jumps up, runs to the back, shakes my hand, and says my family and i have something we think you may have an interest in. Would you come out to the car after the program . I said, sure. I go out to the car, she opens the trunk and tells me to hold my arms out. And shes in and out the truck, and the stack is growing taller and taller. And i say, what do we have here . And she says, these are my grandfather Thomas Wallace colleys seven volumes of handwritten ....
Its kind. Sitting on the dock of the bay captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Reporting tonight from southern california. Brush on the 101 this afternoon, and for stretches, shut down one of the busiest freeways in america. The worst of it, as we saw, in faria beach. You really get a sense of the intensity of the winds up in the air. And keep in mind whsht gusts really move through, they can pick up embers from one fire and start a new one. Those embers can be carried for miles. The thomas fire is one of six major fires. The latest in san diego spread quickly. Rich macklin is with the Ventura County fire department. Anyone anytime we have erratic winds like this, were never out of danger. Were not letting our guard down. Firefighters are still down the street here working on structure protection. Glor the challenge for firefighters is getting a handle on the steep, dry terrain, acting as fuel. W ....