The race between Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. And alex isenstadt, how candidates plan to win nevada. Live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern tomorrow morning. Join the discussion. Coming up next on the civil war, author and historian james sw swanson compares the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Highlights the differences, backgrounds of the assassins and state of the country at the time. He also talks about the experience and reactions of the two widows. The Lincoln Forum hosted this talk. It just over an hour. Im harold holzer, vice chairman of the Lincoln Forum. Welcome to Lincoln Forum 20, the 20th anniversary of our great organization. Its time now to welcome our evening speaker. Its always interesting to find the reasons, the inspiration, that make a lincoln student into a lincoln scholar. What makes inspiration . What creates it . In the case of, say, george h. Cohan, we know he was born on the fourth of july, Yankee Doodle dandy, born on the fourth of july and b
Reporter. Stay tuned to our show tomorrow. Thanks very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer washington journal continues [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] on this president s day holiday, heres a look at some of the programming we have for you on cspan. Saturdaysext, last republican presence of the bait from greenville, South Carolina, presented by cbs news. Wrote to the white house coverage will be live tonight at 6 00 p. M. Eastern when we bring you a rally in charleston, s. C. Where jeb bush will be joined by his brother, former president george w. Bush. Eastern, at 8 00 p. M. Chief Justice John Roberts sits down for a lengthy discussion hosted by the knowing loss will in one of his last appearances for the death of Supreme Court Justice Anthony shkrelantonin scalia. Justice john roberts talks about the confirmation process. I do not think the p
History news. Up next on the presidency, journalist paul brandis discusses his book under this roof, the white house and the presidency. 21 president s, 21 rooms, 21 insider stories. He explains how president s from George Washington to barack obama have left their imprints on the executive mansion. Well hear about Thomas Jeffersons bathrooms, Abraham Lincolns war office, and jfks situation room. The National Library for the study of George Washington at mt. Vernon hosted this hourlong program. Okay. Good evening, everybody. My name is doug bradburn, im the director of the Washington Library here at mt. Vernon and it is my great delight to welcome you to one of our ford evening book talks. Id also like to welcome the cspan audience who is here as well and everyone watching live online. All ten of you, im sure. Thousands of thousands of you, of course. The ford evening book talk is a way to bring relevant books and important history topics and we have a great one for you this evening. I
Symbols around which conversations and disagreements over racial issues took place. This class is about one hour and 10 minutes. Matthew andrews we have been exploring the question of gender and womens rights and sports. We will return our focus to race relations. Were going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. You know all about the original great white hope. You did research on it. Jim jefferies in 1910. He comes out of retirements and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson. Was unsuccessful. He failed. In the 1980s there were a few white athletes who are thought of in the same way. These were white athletes that White Americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athletes suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to think. The United States may have entered what commentators were calling a postcivil rights era. The 1970s and the 1980s. Clearly race wa
It is inside the government which is mindbending. I think that is a differentiating factor between the folks on our teams and any other team. They are coming in to do this not because they get to put the white house on the Business Card where they get to make tons of money because they are usually taking a pay cut to come into government, but they are not shabby salaries. They are coming because they want to make a difference in the lives of americans and want to work on things that matter. Those of the type of people we are looking for. They tend to find us because of your looking to have an impact, there is no better place to be working than the United States federal government. Hillary we are really looking for people that can have empathy. And that they for the people they are building the services for, the people working across from them. For thateally screen sense of mission driven, impact driven person. Absolutely, we are screening for a certain skill set and certain level of sk