that excerpts his diary his presidential diary. just take the weekend and read it and tell me no and i read the i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldn t say no. i was fascinating by the man. did you know much about him before you started in this? you know, he was a tennessee and i knew that his his grave is behind the capitol. there is no marker in nashville except plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall his old home place in columbia is preserved and i had been there many times and have been there since but i knew virtually nothing about him and and almost nothing that was good. i mean his reputation is result result of what was done. to him during his presidency over the mexican-american war left him a bad reputation reputation as warmonger and and and the attacks on him in congress in the latter latter days of his administration. reminded me a great deal of the attacks on lyndon johnson. at the end of his administration over the vietnam war similarities there. ja
effort i think. it s not just going to say we want women to run, there are going to have to be doctoral plane just changes in place. after words airs at 10 pm and sundays at 9 pm eastern and the specific on on c-span2. c-span2. .. then and about 15 minutes we will visit the special collections at the university of texas in san antonio. later in about 40 minutes the debate surrounding confederate statues and memorialization. we begin our special feature with lewis fisher on his book saving san antonio. we are standing in come to the geographical center of san antonio, texas. when fun of what s called the spanish governors palace in account that was actually set up here due to the complex between two european empires, france and spain, in the 18th century. spain had of course established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico, and northern mexico was a special important to spain because of very rich silver mines. france was over to the nort
and i think that s, i think, part of the reason that you ve had so much discussion today about what s next, because if they re willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we don t care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. and when you think of the presidents who made this happen, beginning with ronald reagan, but more importantly now, george h. w. bush, because he has clarence thomas on the supreme court, and the reagan justice there right now. but from george w. bush, to ronald reagan and donald trump, it is just a statistic statistical likelihood without even getting into their life histories. it s a statistical likelihood that it least one of them has personally, in some sense, participated in an abortion, possibly by paying for it. as is very commo
for all that heb and walmart, lowe s, and soon to be home depot are doing. so there is much to do, and those are just the most immediate steps. importantly, this is a place that texas and fema will be involved in for a long, long time. we will be here until we can restore this region as back to normas possible. or as we discussed in our meeting earlier, we need to recognize it s going to be a new normal. will be a new and different normal for this entire region. but we will not stop until we get as far as we can. i want to provide some important details and then pass the mic to senator. and then to the national fema administrator. i want to explain a couple of details that citizens need to know about. as governor, i have made a state disaster decoration for 54 counties across the state of texas. in order for a disaster decoration to become a federal disaster decoration, it requires certain financial thresholds to be met. those financial thresholds have been met in 18 counties
of reconstruction. i would suggest that probably very few of you could pick these rebels out of the group. william sylvan died young, so there could be a reason why you d don t william sylvis died very young, said there could be a reason why you don t recognize them. red cloud yes, most of you recognize him. he won a war against the u.s. government, and he had largely been written out of american history. and you might have a shot of recognizing susan b anthony or elizabeth caddy stanton. these are not faces that you would know if you think about reconstruction or you think about the reconstruction days. these are people you read about in your textbooks that you don t think about them in popular culture. let s try this. the marlboro man has been recognized in every single country in the world, and i will talk more about the marble man marlboro man in a moment. the image that everybody in america and most people in the world recognize is the american cowboy. the american c