First ladies during wartime. From Martha Washington visiting soldiers, to Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands of an estimated of troops. The National Archive hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. [applause] good morning, and welcome to my house. [laughter] the National Archives was created by an act of congress in 1984. The mission to preserve the records of the United States government and make those records available so that every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from the past. Today that collection is over 13 billion documents. Miles of film a video and more electronicillion records. At valleyrds start forge and go all the way up to the techniques that are being created as im speaking the tweaks that are being created as i am speaking. We are a nationwide network of facilities, one of the busiest is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 billion veterans records. Central responds to a billion requests each yea
First ladies during wartime. From Martha Washington visiting soldiers, to Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands of an estimated of troops. The National Archive hosted this event. It is a little over an hour. [applause] good morning, and welcome to my house. [laughter] the National Archives was created by an act of congress in 1984. The mission to preserve the records of the United States government and make those records available so that every american citizen can hold its government accountable and learn from the past. Today that collection is over 13 billion documents. Miles of film a video and more electronicillion records. At valleyrds start forge and go all the way up to the techniques that are being created as im speaking the tweaks that are being created as i am speaking. We are a nationwide network of facilities, one of the busiest is the National Personnel Records Center in st. Louis which houses more than 56 billion veterans records. Central responds to a billion requests each yea
Lincolns view of the world in one word, the word is is. He believes the United States is a country not the United States are. In the prior, states were reviewed as part of an overall confederation of states. He believed we were one country. And he wanted to bring the Southern States back. Second, he wanted to improve the status and the lot of the lives of the americans the africanamericans living in the United States of the time it. Those who were free before, and certainly those who became free. Many of them as a result of lincolns own efforts. When he was killed, everything changed. It sent back relations in this country over 100 years. And it setback the quality of life, and the economy and social development of the Southern States to the point where many Southern States to this day are lagging behind the rest of the country in education and health care and in so many other criteria. Would this have been different if lincoln survived . Impossible to know. But he would have tried. He
Um, i think all the different stages matter. From my knowledge of children, you make one impact before they are six or ten or whatever and then when they are adolescent they seem to forget everything. And later on, you are surprised as they seem to remember some. But i think they did the best they could as parents. I think they were strong parents. Some of them turned out and some didnt. So much had to do with luck and the era. [ applause ] thank you so much for coming. Wednesday night, booktv features books about exploring america. First is astoria and then all america and then citizen explorer the namesake of colorados pikes peapeak on the next washington journal, a conversation on prison reform. General mills announced they were reversing plans to make consumers to forfeit their right to suing the company. Later as part of the spotlight on magazine series, brian miller talks about his article on trends in the gambling industry. And an update on the Supreme Court and take your calls.
Reenforced concrete tunnel. It would percent him to get from one wing to the other. It was accessible from the house above. This is what it looks like to stand inside of it. That concrete is two feet thick. Before i move on here, i want to make one point very clear. The bomb shelter was obsolete almost from the time it was built. As soon as the soviets tested a Hydrogen Bomb in 1953 moving from the kiloton to the megaton range, the idea of a president shelters in place became completely to postrows. The bombs too powerful. The other thing is truman never had intention of using his shelter, and he said so. He had told one of security men, and im quoting here, go ahead with all this planning and arrangements, but one thing, if a situation ever develops, i dont intend to leave the white house. Im going to be right here. As it turns out, in my book, i relate this story, there, indeed, was a false alarm, and truman stayed upstairs and did not go to the shelter. He believed if americans didn