Have on dday, if you get an opportunity, i hope you will go over and visit it while you are here. It looks at the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as they prepared for dday. The special exhibit will be up through the end of the year. How many people here are members of the library . Raise your hand. That is fantastic. It is your support that allows us to do programs like this. We really appreciate it. I think it is important Public Programs allow us to bring authors and experts in from around the country. Today we have a real remarkable historian and author with us. William casto has written a series of books. He is a Paul Whitfield one professor at texas tech. His scope of Historical Books range from Foreign Affairs and the constitution of age of fighting sale. And the Supreme Court in the early republic. He jumped ahead in his latest book about robert jackson. Robert jackson is truly a remarkable figure in the era. The solicitor general, attorney general
Programs allow us to bring authors and experts in from around the country. Today we have a real remarkable historian and author with us. William casto has written a series of books. He is a Paul Whitfield one professor at texas tech. His scope of Historical Books range from Foreign Affairs and the constitution of age of fighting sale. And the Supreme Court in the early republic. He jumped ahead in his latest book about robert jackson. Robert jackson is truly a remarkable figure in the era. The solicitor general, attorney general and justice on the Supreme Court. He was a prosecutor during the nuremberg trials. When he was serving in the Supreme Court. Under Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, japanese internment took place. Executive order 9066. The executive court case worked its way through the case. Robert jackson was one of the justices that dissented into the case that was unconstitutional to be imprisoning american citizens without some due process. He really was the voice and conscious
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With the latest. John jummy, there is a budget meeting going on as we speak inside of metro headquarters in northwest d. C. Transit officials figuring out how to deal with an operating deficit next year of close to 300 million. If you ask general manager paul whitfield, he will tell you he wants to cut 1000 jobs and raise fares once again. He wants to make more changes to rail service. Chairman, jack evans, threw a wrench into the plants, recommending the federal government should take over. About a mile from here, earlier today, we were over at Mount Lebanon baptist church, where metros Largest Union gathered with spiritual leaders to oppose the chairmans idea, and discuss what they call a death spiral budget. Paul whitfields plan includes bus routes, and a five cent to . 25 rate increase. The riders that ride in the system are part of the community, and the workers that live in the jurisdictions that is too responsible who is responsible for the system, not the federal government. It
Trains are running again. Metro crews are working after this smoking incident. You see them down here and up on the tracks. Metro as it was a smoking boot that caused the smoke this afternoon. The boot is the portion of the track that is supposed to contain, and protect the power cables. This stretch of track happens to be one of three sets of track identified by the fta that metro needs to address immediately. In a letter to metro gm, paul whitfield, fta says the three areas that need urgent attention. You might say, isnt that the point of metros safe track plan, that systemwide maintenance effort that metro recently announced, and is about to undertake. The fta says these three segments of track must be a priority before metro begins that safe track plan. Those areas include the red line for Medical Center to van ness station. On the blue, orange and silver of where we are at the silver linery. Finally the area that needs tock addressed is bolston to East Falls Church on the east sil