At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
Tuskegee airmen. Please allow me to briefly introduce the panel, and then well come back and hear from our panelists and then well ask questions. I may recite a question or two just for clarity. Lets begin with the person closest to me with the blue cap Lieutenant Colonel robert friend. Lieutenant colonel brown. Lieutenant colonel george hardy. Lieutenant colonel Alexander Jefferson. Lieutenant colonel james h. Harvey iii. And our closer, Lieutenant Colonel harry stewart. Lets first begin with Lieutenant Colonel harvey friend. Well yield the floor to you and then well ask our friends in the audience to give a few questions. Lets have a round of applause for our first panelists. So, colonel, just give us just a brief history about you and your accounts in the military. Well, i was always interested in flying, and when that chance was offered me for instance i had a license in late 30s because i was part of a program the United States was doing in defense potential defense itself, and th
It was designed to display the bill of rights, and it opened in 1936. Only the bill of rights occupied the case. We had to wait until 1952 to bring all three founding documents together. The story of how the declaration and constitution came to the archives is the one we never tire of hearing. Now i would like to introduce jessie krantz, historian of the National Archives. She became the first historian in 2013. She was previously with [indiscernible] with the center for legislative archives and has been with the agency since 1999. Please welcome jessie krantz. [applause] jessie thank you, david. I am very happy that steve could be with us today during American Archives month to talk about his new book american treasures. It shows not only the important record created by other federal agencies but also the record that we as a National Archive has created ourselves. In writing his book, he discusses several different sets of records, but the nearest and dearest to my heart is that recor
Just in the last 30 minutes or so here as we see these stories unfold as the gang on power lunch talked about. You have not only conflicts brewing with north korea, triang gulated with china, but syria with russia. On the ground there in palm beach. Things growing by the hour here as we prepare for the summit between president xi and trump, yes . That is correct, and cannot be overstated, bill. We are watching as the first family descends the stairs at the airport nearby in west palm beach, arriving more than an hour after the chinese president and his wife arrived. Greeted by secretary of state tillerson. Interesting that the chinese president received by the secretary of state and not the president himself. Safe to say this is a tense relationship. Both sietsz ades prepared for a difficult meeting where potentially the chinese side comes with specific things it wants to see over the next four years while the trump team is said to look for tactical wins despite the fact that they have
So glorious would be its final issue that so god would judge me i dare not say then it is not to be desired. At the New York Historical society, james legacy of the sixth president. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. The Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in california completed a major renovation last month. The museums designer sat down to talk about how they revised the exhibits to tell a more complete story about president nixon and his administration. This is just over 90 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new Richard Nixon president ial library and museum. Todays program will be introduced by ronald a. Walker and david farial. The arcavist of the United States. [ applause ]. Thank you and good morning, everyone. Over the last four daek cades Richard Nixons career and Public Service was talking about many new nixons. But this museum, which opened yesterday, most of you were here, is truly the newest and i think youll agree with