lose about ten members of the senate. sometimes a couple more, sometimes a couple less and this year it is seven. you look at georgia and what what has to go through to or gee amount of money being spent and the amount and the number of things said in those two races that there might be a shortage of people today who wanted to follow senator prescott bush s advice. but apparently not. instead of ten people leaving this year, it s only seven. and only four of us are retiring voluntarily. i d like to say just a minute or two about each of the other six united states senators who will not be coming back in the next congress. martha mcsally arrived with the same enthusiasm when she set records for women in combat as a pilot. she s a warrior. she knows how to take a hill. if you listen to her maiden address, and her farewell address, which i did, she has a great sense of purpose. and she had her usual effectivings in during her relatively short period of time in the united s
and it s my privilege to welcome many of you back to historic decatur house in the white house historical association for another one of our wonderful lectures. tonight is one of the annual national heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the us capital historical society and the us supreme court historical society. we have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my friend jane campbell who is the president of the national historical society. on june 4, 1919 the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. the suffragists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge an equity and bring attention to their cause. tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure women s rights to vote. before i introduce our speaker i have a couple of other introductions and things i would like to share. first of all we have guests smith college, the washington club of smith college. stand up. [ applause ] they are s
women s suffrage march, looking up pennsylvania avenue toward the united states capitol. it is overlaid with a photograph from the 2017 women s march from pennsylvania avenue, as well. it is a lenticular, which has a special effect. as he walked by, the image changes between the two. we really wanted to have it in the exhibit to grab the public s attention, and also signal that this is a historic exhibit, but the one that continues to have contemporary relevance today. let s head into the lawrence f. o brien gallery, where she is rightfully on display. this is the national archive exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, but it is more than a 19th amendment exhibition. that s because the 19th amendment landmark voting rights victory it was for women did not give all women the right to vote. many of the women were already voters by the time the 19th amendment was added to the constitution. millions of women for other reasons remained unable to vote.
prof. beverly gage, prof. dirk bonker and prof. 202-748-8000. i m going to set the tone with a few minutes of introductory remarks and introduce each panelist individually, 15 or 20 minutes apiece and then we will open the floor to discussion. we are here today to talk about the origins and effect that we call the deep state and it s important to say at the outset what historians always like to say. this is not really new. today we call it the deep state but in early areas activists spoke about the washington establishment, the power elite, the system, and the military- industrial complex. even though those terms very, they usually share a lot in common. the arguments that typically accompany these are almost always conspiratorial. they almost always talk about a cabal within the government working in secret to drive policy toward their own ends, their own ends, not the common good. the actual people seem to range all over the map depending on the politics. they can be the in
reconstruction eras. american history tv this weekend every weekend on c-span three. each week, american artifact visits museums, archives, and historic places. up next, we travel about 45 miles west of the nation s capital to tour a u.s. army can indications base in warrenton, virginia, which now houses a museum dedicated to remembering the cold war. is is just under an hour. welcome, my name is francie francis gary powers junior, i go by gary, i am the founder of the cold war museum at vince hill virginia, about 45 miles northwest of washington dc. i founded the cold war museum in 1996, to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history, and educate future generations about this time period. what i realized when i was giving lectures to high school students in this area, nine times out of 10, the students would not know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. they would think the u2 incident would have something to do do with the rock band. a the cold war p