Welcome congressman calvert. Good afternoon. It is great to be here at the Nixon Library. Jim i want to commend you and hugh hewitt and the entire team for the incredible job what an amazing venue. Seems like it becomes a monthly occurrence to have a cabinet member i think the secret is out maybe a little warm this weekend it would be a whole lot nicer than the weather in washington d. C. Perhaps a good california weather is good for whats joined here today for the 50th anniversary of the epa. After all, one of the reasons californians have been at the forefront of Environmental Protection is because we spend so much time outside enjoying the weather in our beaches, our mountains, and certainly our deserts. 1969 however, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara was a wakeup call. That the environment we all love needs to be safeguarded. Around this time. In the late 1960s, polluted rivers in cleveland were literally catching fire. These shocking scenes of oil covered beaches had a c
Are portrayed in the musical were living people. They all had good sides and bad sides and pros and cons to their personality. The musical make it so that you understand who these people were. And i know theres a lot of conversation about, well, theres a latino man playing hamilton and an africanamerican playing George Washington. Okay. Thats just part of the conversation. And again, if that brings new audiences into the museums, like you all today, thats great. And i think thats what we should all think about when we think about the musical. Heres your sneak peek, too. So talking a little about the room where it happened. So this is George Washingtons office at the morrisjumel mansion. If youve been there before it was the dark green color. This is what it looks like now. This is our phase one of our reinterpretation plan. It is this gray wallpaper with little tiny flowers on it from 1770 and this very bright persimmon trim which is historically accurate. Were going through a big rebr
Are portrayed in the musical were living people. They all had good sides and bad sides and pros and cons to their personality. The musical make it so that you understand who these people were. And i know theres a lot of conversation about, well, theres a latino man playing hamilton and an africanamerican playing George Washington. Okay. Thats just part of the conversation. And again, if that brings new audiences into the museums, like you all today, thats great. And i think thats what we should all think about when we think about the musical. Heres your sneak peek, too. So talking a little about the room where it happened. So this is George Washingtons office at the morrisjumel mansion. If youve been there before it was the dark green color. This is what it looks like now. This is our phase one of our reinterpretation plan. It is this gray wallpaper with little tiny flowers on it from 1770 and this very bright persimmon trim which is historically accurate. Were going through a big rebr
Encourage him and she even would, you know, talk about him when she was perform songs, she would adlib about him a little bit. Think that mr. White would be pleased with what we have done here. Highlighting a citizen of a person who lived in cleveland for a number of years, and not only contributions to the world but his contributions back. [music] for more information on booktvs recent visit to cleveland and the many other destinations on our cities tour, go cspan. Org cities tour. Representative marsha blackburn, what is on your reading list . I have a great reading list. One thing im starting with is the constitution. And so many of my constituents are reading through the constitution, and the declaration. Theyre doing that with their kids this summer, and so were going to have some fun with that. Do some things working toward Constitution Day in the fall, and i think thats exciting. That so many families are going back and looking at those First Principles and founding documents. S
Produced University History professor Randy Roberts examines the relationship between malcolm x and mohamed ali. On wednesday just blocks from the capital well be taking a tour of the Folgers Shakespeare Library in anticipation of the 400th anniversary of the death of williams shakespeare. On friday we are back at politics and prose bookstore for signs journalist report on the spread of Infectious Diseases around the world over the past 50 years. That is a look at some of the author programs look to be as programming covering this week. Many of of the events are open to the public. But for them to air in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Now, new jersey senator cory booker discusses civic involvement and recounts experiences that shaped his political thinking. He discusses his book, united, united with Robert George of the new york post. Host senator booker, united, here we are in the middle of the more divisive president ial election years ever on both sides and you brought the bo