Since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressman from mississippi, john r. Lynch. Here is some of what our speaker said. It is now less than a quarter of a century since in this city, chicago, the Great Republican Party organized for victory and nominated Abraham Lincoln of illinois who broke the fetors of the slaves and rant them asunder forever. It is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this convention one of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the bl
And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
Former president obama and former Vice President biden gave tribute speeches. This is just over an hour and a half. Boston has given this nation some of the greatest leaders from john adams the john f. Kennedy and that is something that we are very proud of. Secretary kerry is in that same tradition. As a diplomat, he has called many places all. Home. Any places i do not know these been at any address longer than here. Thank you for being a boston voter. [applause] in case you are not committed, walsh is on the ballot. In all seriousness, the secretary is a true bostonian and a good neighbor. I secretary of state, he took every opportunity to showcase our city with foreign dignitaries. We know the impact of your leadership not only in washington dc, but on washington street. Not only in middle east but in east boston. Thank you. As a senator, you took on issues that were not easy or popular. Protecting the environment, investing in education, fighting for local and small businesses, gr
Television coverage has impacted politics through the years. Cspan founder, brian lamb, moderated the Panel Discussion with two former u. S. Representative from indiana, steve buyer and tim roemer. Rolealso talked about the of social media and its impact on politics. Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anders bursary anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am robert browning, the director of the archives. Ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. I have to explain what those are. Noise as theyt of rewound. We round it is all digital recording. Was to indexgoal it and make it available for public use. Fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. Vision a vision of what could be if we kept this material not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy the history of americ
Are absolutely coming for our jobs, you can see it already, take a look at the relatively low decline rate Labor Force Participation rates, and number two, it will allow for the creation of completely new jobs and industries, just as in previous revolutions, so there is nothing to worry about. In any event, occupational internment is at an alltime low. The truth is probably somewhere between those, maybe. That is what this panel will talk about, automation and ai, are they a substitute or complement to human labor . We have a great panel to discuss this today, and i will introduce. Hem very quickly first, we have diane daly, an associate professor at the school of information at ut austin, she studies technology and work. Her Current Research interests include engineering product design, data and health care, and economic development. Conductive material to studies conducts imperial empirical studies as well. James bessons from the Boston University school of law, he is an economist. H