Takes years into archives, museums, and Historic Sites around the country. Takes usate historian into their hearts on this Office Building. Hart is the83, newest of the Senate Office building. In the hearts and Office Building which is a separate building, there are really two has of the same building but they are entirely different. There standing overlooking essential hearing room which is known as hard to 16. This room was specifically designed for television, and we are in one of the television boots overlooking the hearing room. That the dirksen building was not going to be , they originally thought they would just replicate the dirksen building and build an identical twin on the other side. It wouldnt be sufficient. , the u. S. Senate safed triple in size. Part of that was a result of vietnam and watergate. The executive branch had provided most of the information that congress needed. Once congress felt that they they felttrust them, that they needed their own separate independe
University. Received the he is Army Historical foundations distinguish writing award. He is also one of americas foremost experts on the First World War and he holds a doctorate from the Royal Military college of science. Discuss and later answer your questions about his new book, 47 days. Ler notes that mitch has become a preeminent world war i historian. Commenting on the book, waller has written with an absorbing narrative. 47 days brings to life that war is final and bloody offensive when general john blackjack pershing and more than one million americans and french soldiers broke the back of the mighty german army. Son. Se welcome mitch yockle good afternoon everybody. Im excited to see a nice crowd come out and here a talk on a subject that doesnt get a lot of attention in the United States. That is the United States effort in the First World War. We got into the war in april of 1917 as a partner to the allies. And slowly build our forces until it turned into the ofmactic battle