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[ inaudible ] i m sorry. can you just remind me? it was passed in 1902, made permanent in 1904 and it was repealed finally in 1943 during world war ii largely because china was our ally and yet when it was repealed it set a quota of 105 a year, so it was not really repealed. it s not until 1960 that immigration opens up for the chinese. 1882. yes? so there were sympathetic views among the working class so the people who excluded wanted them excluded were not the working class or not voters, and was there anyone in china who had any voice, any power at all to respond. china at this point was an extremely weak country. it was on the verge of being dominated by japan. this is really when japan s rise over asia is really just emerging. and china actually wants u.s. friendship as a bulwark against the japanese and a lot of european countries are going into china not to colonize it per se, but to force trade on them. so china is looking for u.s. friendship to keep t ....
ho you are looking at some of the images from the 1884 presidential electionthey discud his time. 1884 against cleveland. ironically, in 1876, it was b laine who prevented ulysses grant from making a comeback and winning a third term. besides being secretary of state for james garfield and chester arthur he was secretary of state under three presidents. what else did he do? he was a speaker of the house. he was a governor. he changed some of the rules in the house. the speakers are always changing the rules somewhat to their advantage is. this was after the civil war when congress was much more central, much more potent than it had been. their reaction against the strong executive said in. to be the secret the speaker of the house, to be a power in congress meant a lot more fun than it would today. do you have anything to say? what do you think would have happened if he won? i think he would be regarded as the best president between lincoln ....
grant felt if he ran for president it would have been because of conklin and he could have been the de facto president. grant s presidency, he was not a particularly strong president. and particularly when you look at reconstruction during this period, a lot of problems. when you look at corruption during his period, when people look back on corrupt presidencies, they jump out with grant and harding as the ones that lead the list there. an ill grant weakened by bad health and would not have been a strong figure elected. he wanted to block blaine. he just wanted to make sure blaine didn t get. could you explain more about how he could be serving microphone, please. how he could be serving in the civil war and being elected to congress but he can t be there? did that happen a lot? how did that work? the answer is yes, it did. not a lot, but anyone can be elected to congress if you are a hey, just look down the block. anyone can be elected to congress as long ....
but certainly since he was a significant general in the civil war, everyone understood he wasn t physically there. [ applause ] so i will hang out. some of you are wanting to go and find out what s happening in the hockey game. next week is mckinley. another set of really fascinating stories. on saturday, c-span s issues spotlight looks at police and race relations. we ll show you president obama at the memorial service for police officers shot and killed in dallas. when the bullets started flying, the men and women of the dallas police, they did not flinch and they did not react recklessly. and south carolina republican senator tim scott giving a speech on the senate floor about his own interactions with police. but the vast majority of the time i was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or some other reason just as trivial. our program also includes one family s story about an encounter with police in washington, d.c. ....
maryland, my maryland! [laughter] [cheers and applause] you have 120 votes. how do you cast your votes? chairlady,r] madam the great state of maryland, the great supremethe court justice thurgood marshall, author scott key and the of our nation s star-spangled banner is, the home of the academy, the naval home of the chesapeake bay, the in the united states and the third largest in the world, great, greathe senator barbara mikulski. [cheers and applause] who in 1986 became the first woman elected into the united states senate from maryland and and womanmarylander to chair the united states senate appropriations committee and, of course, the leader of the home ofnight, stephanie rawlings-blake. toam chair, we are elated cast 36 votes for a truly great .an, bernie sanders [cheers and applause] and we are excited and we are to vote cast 84 votes next president of the united states of america, hillary rodham clinton! [cheers and applause] mayor rawlings-blake: maryland, y ....