By comparison, over 70,000 died in 2017 and an estimated 10 million missed used opium is in 2018. Next on railamerica come a look at the drug problem in 1969. The film the distant drummer surveys the problem of narcotics and marijuana and details efforts to study and implement. Ew treatments for addiction it is one part London Bridge is falling down falling down London Bridge is falling down my fair lady i moved into this house, we thought it was a normal house where people were using some grass. Maybe some speed. We found out there was a lot of shooting up going on. Some people were using heroin to the point they couldnt trust each other anymore, the work wasnt getting done. We began to lie to each other. We took a stand against hard narcotics and called a house meetly. House members agreed we wouldnt have any more heroin in the house. Yet some people found them too groovy to give up, and it sort f destroyed the whole house. With you we build it up again, my fair lady now we build it
Jon voight. Ladies and gentlemen, the recipient of the National Humanities medal. The Clairemont Institute, Teresa Lozano long, patrick j. Oconnell, James Patterson. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Trump. [ playing hail to the chief ] [ applause ] [ applause ] thank you very much. Please. The first lady and i would just like to welcome everyone to the white house, a special place, very, very special, no matter where you go in the world this is one of those places that you never forget. This afternoon it is my immense privilege to present our nations highest honors for contributions to american art and culture, the National Medal of arts and the National Humanities medal. Please join me in congratulating each of todays recipients when they really, and i mean triauly phenomenal achievement and congratulations to all. [ applause ] with us today are Vice President mike pence. Mike, thank you very much. Secretary steven mnuchin, secretary betsy devos, thank
For those of us that have served , particularly those of us that have faced combat that opening scene is something that you will never forget. I hope you never forget. The scene that is most important to me came later in the movie. Tom hanks is laying on the rubble and he called over private ryan. He asked him to kneel down. He said to him to words. Earn this. Any victory Worth Winning must be deserved. As the victories are increased in scale so must be our exertion. Victory, Winston Churchill says, we shall not win through the evils in our enemy. We shall win through the merit in ourselves. Deserved victory. Let that be the touchstone of every thought, word, and deed. I think about that pretty much every day. To my ownng expectations let alone the expectations of younger others. Today we will hear from people who earned victory. Yesterday and the day before we heard from a lot of people on the ground. We will hear this morning from some incredible legends that thought and hair. It is
Alexis hello. Im dr. Alexis albion and am a curator historian at the International Spy museum. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. Today, we will be looking at cold war berlin. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. Between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the oviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries, the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone. This starts the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. That division became concrete with the direction of the berlin wall in 1961. The wall was put up by east germans ostensibly to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, by the soviet
Test test. Test. Test test. Test. Test test. Portrait of fanny lou him aer, who was a great activist, and especially in the 1964 democratic convention. She gave a speech that galvanized the American Public because it was televised. And she said, im sick and tired of being sick and tired. That was alluding to her long struggle to try to have rights as an american, Citizenship Rights in the United States. So earlier she had attempted to vote in the early 50s, and she had actually been denied because she was illiterate. As a young woman, she had to give up going to school in order to help her family. So she worked as young woman and never learned how to read. So this is one example of an activist who whose words were spoken from the heart. And she had this immeasurable affect influencing the American Public at large because her speech was televised in 1964. So the Voting Rights act was signed in 1965, in part because of that convention in which fanny lou him aer played a major role. And i