Our first speaker tonight keith snyder. He has worked for the National Park service for 33 years it four National Parks. Harpers ferry National Historic park, the National Mall in memorial parks, monastics national battlefield, and anti to no battlefield where he currently holds the position of visitor services. Keith received his undergraduate degree in 1984 and Park Administration with the concentration in American History from shepard university. His masters degree in strategic studies was earned the United States Army War College in 2003. He has also served in the air force and Air National Guard for 40 years, and recently retired as a colonel with 167th their left wing. He lives in martins bird, West Virginia with his wife cindy. Please welcome our first speaker as he talks about the battle of antietam from the perspective of the soldiers who experienced it firsthand. applause thank, you kevin. It is great to be with you. I certainly had a very enjoyable drive down here. This is s
His line and say welcome to my house. I am pleased you could join us and whether youre here participating through facebook or youtube, welcome to those of you who are joining on cspan. Today we listen to christian teller discusses most recent book the great partnership, Stonewall Jackson and the state of the confederacy. Doctor keller is the eisenhower chair of the National Security and strategy of the United States Army War College in carlisle pennsylvania. This year he became a director of military history program. In many articles he is the author, coauthor or editor of several previous books on American Civil War including the germans ethnicity and civil war memory. In the introduction in the book he lays out clearly and concisely several things. Including the value of this book. Historical and what youll find in his notes versus the text itself. I greatly appreciate him confronting ahead on interpretive value and reliability of material particularly confederate wartime sources ver
Ladies and gentlemen, my is jim byron and i have the honor of being the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation, and i want to welcome you to the Richard Nixon library on this very wet day today. Thank you. Today, 50 years after the end of combat operations by American Forces in vietnam, we recognize Vietnam Veterans and the service that they provide to our country in uniform in the 1960s and seventies. And then after coming home, members of their community who went on to be forces for good and. And additionally we remember and pay tribute today to those who never came home or remain missing in action. Youll see throughout todays program, traditional elements of military ceremony represented by different branches of the United States military. And to begin id like to ask United States Army Chaplain William Williams to the invocation. Chaplain williams served in the army for 27 years in both infantry as enlisted man and as a member of the chaplain corps. He is currently the fa
Trump administration is changing the outlook for defense right now . Their first shot was an increase, the 54 billion, but i think probably more important is ifhe actual numbers, they can repeal the budget control act, as they have suggested they would do. That, in my mind, is what produces the inns ability in the defense budget. We have to do one and twoyear deals to adjust that budget control act. Its almost impossible for the department to do any longterm planning. To see that reveal is the first priority. Are you hopeful that will happen . As you anticipate that happening, has that changed the outlook and some of the planning on your side . I think if it does happen, you get growth and you are able to plan theto invest, and i think administration is committed to doing it. Its challenging to balance domestic needs, defense needs, against the deficit to get that bca repealed, but that is their commitment, i think. Its been less than two months that he has been in office, and i think
Righteous citizens must step up and make the country work. Justice is something we should all expect and stand by police to make sure justice is done, even if other police are the ones we question. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. The return of mccarthyism. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in san francisco. Let me start with the return of mccarthyism. I speak of the behavior of senator ted cruz who accuses president obama of undermining the relationship with israel. It is cruz once again with the reckless charges of joe mccarthy
in the 1950s. As he once suggested future secretary of defense chuck hagel was taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from north korea or saudi arabia he now accuses barack obama of working mischief against israel. Didnt this country have enough of this stuff 60 years ago . When the reckless communist mccarthy was brought down . Is senator cruz trying to mimic the bad old days or just so ignorant are of what th