In world war ii. Whoral mason was a veteran served in the european theater in George Pattons third army and went on to have a long career in the military. Several retiring, held highranking positions in the pentagon, including assistant deputy chief of all operations and special assistant to the deputy chief of logistics. So it is a very special night any time we have a mason lecture at the museum. Thanks to the generosity of general mason and his family, we are proud to host tonights by one, a Public Lecture of the worlds most distinguished holocaust scholars. Museum,to think, at the we tell the story of the entire experience of world war ii and feel that too often the holocaust and world war ii are studied as separate, almost isolated topics. We believe it is our role to help our audiences understand the broader context surrounding the holocaust and the legacies it continues to impact on her world. We have one more exhibition to come. Believe it or not, there is room for one more bui
Noorani on the houseboat extend protections for Daca Recipients. At 8 30, americans for tax reforms Grover Norquist on the Trump Administrations trade and tariff policies. Host good morning. It is wednesday, june5. Begin on the rift opened between Senate Republicans and the white house with President Trumps new threat of tariffs on mexico. President trump saying they would be foolish to try to block the tariffs. Republican callers only in this first hour. We will hear about if you support the tariffs on mexico. Give us a call if youre a republican eastern of central time zone at 202 7488000. If you are a republican in the mountain or pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also catch up with us on social media, on twitter and facebook. Morning. Od wednesday you can start calling and now. We are asking for republican callers only for the first halfhour for your thoughts on the new escalating tariffs that is it is from this will begin next monday unless mexico does more to curb illegal c
For cooperation from china to avoid any miscalculation of a north korea, investors like that one too. Here is number two, today President Trump will sign infrastructure plan, thats got a good shot at bipartisan support and investors as well. It seems the market is ignoring the intense hostility that the president is facing and ignoring the three ceo resignations from the manufacturing Advisory Council. Here is how the day is shaping up. A trump win on north korea maybe a trump win on infrastructure, solid economic numbers just coming into us, and, yes, another market rally, welcome to the show, Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart just coming into us, iran threatening to quit the nuke deal if u. S. Imposes new sanctions. Liz, they say they will quit, quote, within hours. Within hours, hour an and day. Iran allocated a hundred Million Dollars to new missile program. This is tough Senate Sanctions or iran, russia and north korea. Iran not liking that. Iran is ramping up the rhetoric,
The early days of the republic until 1791. George Washingtons Mount Vernon home posted this one hour and 20 minute event. Hello. My name is megan dunn. I am the chief of staff here at mount vernon. You are about to have a fantastic event. Them forwant to thank continuing to provide for the monthly talk, which is very popular throughout the year. I would also like to recognize a very special guest in the audience. We have our George Washington leadership fellows here with us. You are 16 students here who are spending five weeks on the stage in a Leadership Program inspired by George Washingtons life and legacy. They are here through the generosity of david m rubenstein, who made a wonderful guest and helped us conceive of the idea to have this group of people here. I would like you all to stand so we can all recognize you. [applause] megan this is our second class of fellows. They have just arrived this week and have very busy schedules, but they are wonderful to speak with. If you get
Of the action is taking place. It is on wall street. The coffeehouse, the scene that. Showed first, is behind us we are looking in the direction of the hudson river. Congress, despite the significance, the First Congress has generally been treated as an convention. R the the government the constitution outlines, thats what it was, and outline, spurring fullgrown from the document. It did not. It took two years of creative and sometimes twofisted down and dirty politics to accomplish the job. That job was creating the institutions of government, henry, whoat patrick may have been referred to once or twice later on, referred to as the crazy machine of government. That is what these men are doing in federal hall. In the First Congress gathered in new york, march and april of 1789, two months . It took more than one month to get a quorum. Everyone who showed up on time, in looting James Madison, was in a blind panic that not enough people would show up to make a congress. In their letters