next on american history tv, the discussion on policymaking commissions inl american history. this talk from purdue university was part of the conference called making american history. i am the associate professor of instructions, a legal historian who has written about presidential commissions and administrative law from law reform. we look forward to you can tell, today s session is being filmed by c-span, so do with that information as you will. frank will be first. yes, my name is frank popper. i teach city planning. increasingly i take an historical approach to city planning. i do that with rutgers. the reason i am here, nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th entry fund, now the century foundation in new york city, on presidential commissions and it s one of the very few sources, i think, on them, and a they dug my ago, 49 year-old book they dug my 49-year-old book. they asked if i would participate. presidential commissions have a long his
[piano being played] narrator: hundreds of thousands of persons are waiting their turn to enter the united states under the old quota system. some have been waiting 20 years. their hopes, wishes and frustrations are found here, in the files of the immigration and naturalization service in washington, d.c. [jet taking off] [piano being played] anybody that came from france, england, italy, the men had to be physically fit, that women had to be physically fit, how come they let in everyone now? they opened the gates, and all the criminals and they came into our country. the u.s. immigration policy is just to let in as many people as they can t. dash cam. can. i know the country started as immigrant a nation of immigrants but there is a time to stop everything, and we have to stop now. [piano being played] they let anybody come in. the land of the free, the home of the brave. the melting of the world. bring the boats from hungary, from africa, bring more africa
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really need to adopt watch the rest of this event in the c-span video library at c-span.org. type center for american progress in the search box. going to leave and go live to remark some house veterans affairs committee chair ted poe, some john mccain, james mattis and the mr. secretary david shulkin. all living at the american legion conference here in washington. in deuteronomy it is written, a strong and courageous do not fear or be in dread of them. for it is the lord our god who goes with you. he will not leave you or forsake you. and in romans, what then shall we say to these things? if god is for us, who can be against us? with those passages in mind let us go to the lord in prayer. almighty god, for whom nothing is too difficult, we call upon you to call our spirit calm focus our attention and energy on the tasks at hand, knowing that what we do is a part of your divine plan. grant us the courage and faith needed for the assignments we are about to underta
is making to better serve veterans. this is two hours two 20 minutes. good among. good morning. my name is bill, as chairman i call this call to order. with our colors in place, hand salute, 1, 2. please remain standing and i ll call on harvey clay from the department texas to lead us in prayer. in duty rot me it s written be strong and courageous. do not fear. for it is the lord our god who goes with you. he will not leave you or forsake you. in romans what then shall we say to these things if god is for us, who can be against us. with those scripttural passage, go to prayer. we call upon you to calm our spirit. focus our attention and energy on the task at hand knowing that what we do is part of your divine plan. grant us the courage and faith needed for the assignments we are going to under take. centered upon what you would have us do all to your grater glory. shower us with forthright, hones honesty and sincerity. my our preparations be fruitful and touch the hearts