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campaign 2014 has one outstanding race yet to be decided. louisiana senate. democratic incumbent mary landrieu is up against republican bill cassidy. that s live at 8:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network, c-span2. congress is in recess for the thanksgiving holiday. when they return, lawmakers will work on extending government funding past december 11th when the current spending deal runs out. in the house, members will consider how to proceed on immigration after the president s executive action. in the in the senate, votes are scheduled on nominees beards to argentina and hungary. and work on a spending deal to continue funding the government. live coverage when congress returns monday at 2:00 p.m. eastern, the house on c-span and the senate on c-span2. this thanksgiving week, c-span is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. watch thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. i was elected in 1980, came in in 81. if you look at my newsletters from 81 to 84 ....
transportation security issues. now the new president of the kennedy center for the performing arts, deborah rutter, outlines her u future plans and emphasizes the importance of arts and education and cultural diplomacy, from the national press club, this is an hour. good afternoon, and welcome. my name is myron delkheim, the washington school of media and public affairs and former international bureau chief with the associated press and the 107th president of the national press club, the national press club is the world s leading committed to our profession s future through our programming, with events such as this, while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website at press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today s event. our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journal iists who are cb m ....
to be enough just to put up a little window dressing in front. now they had to take what the local newspaper called a tourist s eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. so in short, already with this very first stretch of i-70 to be built up in the high country we can already see a hint of how large-scale post-war tourist development was going to change people s view of the land. the way people related to place and the ways they saw fit to take care of it. so i ll dive into the story now sort of a condensed version of the story i tell in vacationland about how tourism came to be in this region. really, making the high country seem like a great place for a vacation would mean fundamentally changing how most people thought of this region. if that sounds weird to you, because of the ways we think of this regio ....
in terms of blood, nearly 120,000 u.s. troops paid with allies and another 20,000 were wounded. it was a dramatic dramatic conflict. to my second point, the media lessons learned after this conflict, it s odd that this sort of idealism emerged, and this idealism trump sober pragmatism come and sort of a realistic assessment about the nature of man, the nature of the international system. we saw the league of nations form which tried to impose the domestic structure international of domestic law internationally. we saw later in the 20s a aipac, 1928 which sought to outlaw war. something, they could just outlaw. within the united states, rather than sort of prepare for possibly there could be another major conflict, this is from a u.s. army history, the war deparle urged congress to authorize the astonishment of permanent regular army, about a half a million, and three-month the universal training system, and congress and the american people said no. rather, not just mel ....
If you’re looking to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the armed forces this Memorial Day, there are a few events scheduled Monday in and around Eagle County. 10th Mountain Division. ....