you but out of the congress business for a couple of years what is your take on the evolution of congress from your perch out there in washington state? i have to say congress is not what it used to be i started covering congress in 1974 and it was pretty continual in america is on a nice edge of political parity and it s also a huge goal separating two very large significant fashions of american politics and if you put those things together you will get a lot of turmoil and a lot of nasty politics and that s what we re experiencing today. why do you think that change? i think a lot of it has to do with the nature of the issues, i think if you look at american history you will find in politics were always the most intense throughout our time throughout her history when the issues facing america are definitional and in nature of america who we are, where were going, what is our connection to our past, our heritage, all those kinds of things and whether we knew it or not
evolution from your perch in washington state? congress is not what it used to be i started to cover congress in 1974 it was pretty congenial compared to what it is today. n american lives on a nice advantage political parity but there s also a huge goal separating two very large and significant factions of american politics. if you put those two things together you get a lot of turmoil and nasty politics that is what we are experiencing today. why did that change? a lot of that has to do with the nature of the issues. if you look at americanst history politics row is the most intense throughout our time and history when the issues facing americans were definitional who we are and where we are going and what is our connection to our pastor heritage? and we are in one of those periods today to have that elite driven large faction of america that is very interested in a transformational program and a large section of americans that trump voters generally is a large segmen
journalist lies a monday, talks about her book cold girls. the american woman code breakers of world war ii. the next session is one that i had mentioned earlier, unfortunately lynn olson could not make it and our other panelists, lies a monday has agreed to expand on her original top. we ve asked catherine to lead this section this session. she s been involved with the museum for over a decade, and just a month ago she had organized a joint program with our museum and the second world war research group, where we had everyone come for a deal-long program. so catherine s information is in your program, and i would point out in addition to being a professor at the mississippi state university, she s an author of two books. one called a curse, and the other one strategy and tactics. ladies and gentlemen doctor catherine barr b.a. and liza munday. good morning, happy to see all these nice faces up in front, this is a fantastic event and i m excited to be part of it, i would
despite investing almost $200,000 in the films, they were never released, but instead sent to a warehouse in maryland. up next on american history tv s real america, three short training films that were recently rediscovered and digitized by the national archives. the pilot district project, the development of community control, is a 15 minute film featuring 32-year-old marion barry. who later became mayor of the district of columbia. mr. barry: this is a people s movement. old people, young people, they all live in the district. it is not fair for the citizens to be left out of the picture. down and out place. people be hitting people in the head. mr. barry: i don t think anywhere in america people can take this. what do you think about the police? they ain t nothing but pigs, man. they pick me up just because i wasn t in school and shit like that. i said, what you going to do to me? he said, i take you to the pig pen. i said, no, you ain t. you got to take me to my aunt
session. catherine has been involved with our museum for over a ecade and just two months ago, she helped organize a program where we had scholars from around the continent come for a daylong program. catherine s information is in your program. i point out that in addition to being a professor at mississippi state university she is the author of two fine books, one entitled, the battle of kursk and the other, strategy and tactics. ladies and jump in, dr. catherine barbeeand liza mundy. [applause] good morning. happy to see all of these nice faces outfront. this is a fantastic event and i m excited about being part of it. i would like to introduce liza mundy, a journalist and author of four books and you can read her bio the program. she is going to talk to us about an amazing book, code girls: the untold story of the american women code breakers of world war ii which i recently read and highly recommend. so i m looking for to her presentation. [applause] liza: thank you s