our american revolution. guillaume: you see colonel stanton. mitchell: although it is often attributed to pershing, he did not say it. lafayette's grave is a private cemetery -- is in a private cemetery. people from but by it -- people from lafayette were killed by the guillotine and put there. mitchell: can you translate this for us? they are on their way to the front, is that what it says? guillaume: yes, it's as american troops on their way to the front. we see soldiers leaving the main towns and heading to the northeast of france. mitchell: this would have been 1917?ly early autumn guillaume: probably. they arrived to the barracks and the kitchen. this is looking like east of france already. at the beginning, american soldiers are closed by the frontline. true bigspeak about offensive in the 19 seventeenths -- 1917. they were training to get more and more experience because then they would face germans that .ave three years of experience [indiscernible] sammies was the nicknames that the french gave to th

americans are better off. i've heard from small businesses, slike shredx in griffin georgia, custom bodyworks, and emmitt manufacturing in la grage. they're all making investment, expanding, being more productive. most importantly, they're hire manager people and they're investing in their people with higher wages and better training. and the families are doing better throughout our district. but these businesses are doing more than simply investing in their people and in their businesses. they're investing in their communities. so our communities are become manager helpful. all of this is the result of a tax reform bill, better regulatory environment, and a changing attitude and education that ensures that people pursue their talents and not just a degree. but they are involved in making sure that they are able to make a living in viable careers for a long period of time. it's not just the economy that's making us more secure. we've invested heavily in our military and we have fully funded our men and women s

a 100% american and a 100% organic. - grown american means exactly what it sounds like. it's grown in america, the greatest country in the world where the streams are clean, where the air is pure. we have some of the best soil in the world. grown american superfood was developed and that's exactly what it is. a fresh crop out in the field at van drunen family farms into our processing facility in a matter of hours. - grown in america means beat quality. the best service, the best price. this is part of our job, farmers and processors, to get the best product to the customer as we can. - what means the most to me about grown american superfood isn't just that it's organic, but it's organic grown in this country. it's still hard to get home in time to chop, and clean, and cook vegetables for my kids. that's what's great about the grown american superfood is i can sneak healthy, organic vegetables into foods that they already like. this is some macaroni and cheese that i made for the girls, i call it green mac and cheese, and, boy, my girls just eat it right up, they love i

watching american history tv. to join the conversation like us on facebook at c-span history. >>> historians discuss defining quality and the declaration of independence. the talk about the views and interpretations of w eb the voice, frederick douglas and thomas jefferson as well as the perspective of 18th-century african-american and women. the american antiquarian society and the freedoms way heritage association cohosted this event. it's about one hour and 40 minutes. >>> good evening. my name is alan dunlap. on the president of american antiquarian society appeared is my great pleasure to welcome you all to antiquarian hall. which is bit of a construction site and process. but we are very pleased that we could get the chaos out of the way in order to have tonight program. it's titled holding of these truths, panel discussion about the declaration of independence. tonight our program is being filmed by c-span and later during question-and-answer period, we will bring the microphone here to the file and if you

they hide it from the american people because the american people don't agree with it. but they don't want it and they have pushed forward judge kavanaugh to be the torch bearer on the court for their mission. the list of 25 that president trump selected from was vetted and approved by this very heritage foundation. the heritage foundation would not give its stamp of approval to anyone who would maintain or grow our health care law, particularly for protection for americans with preexisting conditions. now the american people deserve to know where judge kavanaugh stands. this is a serious issue. this is not something that we can allow a nominee to hide behind and say i will follow existing law. we need to know their view of government's ability to be involved in people's health care, to help it be funded when the average person can't afford it given how high the costs are. right now several cases that challenge the structure and constitutionality of the court are winding through our courts. if one reaches the supreme court, i will say to my fellow americans your right t

in american occupied okinawa, both american and okinawa women turned out to be quite enthusiastic in terms of the participation in cold war internationalism. so against the backdrop of okinawa's vibrant transformation into the so-called keystone of the pacific, american and okinawa women engaged in a series of ferment and domestic activities to cultivate women to women relationship. people to people relation at the time. americanof a milken -- military occupies -- ranging from cooking demonstrations to also fashion shows. invitedvited ok now -- okinawa women. american home economists, you can see the first one on your left. they were dispatched from michigan state university. [inaudible] --ond the university hanoi also became very important. 1961, hawaii also became involved in the occupation. quite a few okinawa traveled from okinawa to hawaii to receive training in industrial sewing, commercial dining, cosmetology, and tourism and hospitality, under the supervision of an american woman who had previously served as home economist in the philippines. so, during the occupation, women'

mince words, today was a terrible day for the american brand, for the american people, and for all of our allies area we did not negotiate from a position of strength. acted from a position of weakness. as a result, one of the world's worst despots walked away from helsinki with a win. vladimir putin is leaving helsinki with an undeserved a. lossnited states took a today when we backed away from our long-standing commitment to principled american leadership and frankly walked away from basic reality. the press asked the president who he believed on the subject of russian information operations in the u.s. in 2016. did he believe in the minimum of the u.s. intelligence community or did he of that she believe in vladimir putin? i thought turned russian desperate? the choice was between people who were risking their lives on behalf of freedom and people who go around the world taking people's lives to limit freedom. the president of the united states, how to answer? he answered that he didn't see any reason why putin would have interfered with your selection. make no mistake, to has a re

, so african-americans are the first group of people in american history to have entire states create anti-immigration laws against them, to create boundary laws against them. illinois's the first. then came indiana. i think this is really important for us to remember today. this was a difficult book for me to read -- to write and still to read, but to write because every single one of these communities deserves a book. every single one of these families deserves a book. this is basically an entire field; right? and so this was hard to write because i felt like a lot of the time i was skimming. i actually wrestled a bit with my editor because i wanted to have lots and lots and lots of families and he said that's going to be confusing and he was probably right, so i had to get it down to about five families. i'm going to read you a little excerpt about charles greer who home steaded on the frontier before indiana state hood and became later in life extremely successful underground railroad agents risking their farm and their family to do that work. they were also immensely wealthy farm

these incredible american heroes will soon lay at rest on sacred american soil. even during the campaign people would come up to me a long time ago, many decades ago, often times they were older. in some cases they were younger, great-grandfathers, great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, they asked if i could do something about it. i would look at them and say we don't get along well with that country. they said whatever you can do. something that was very important to me. many people have asked me. i asked the vice president and others to just pay a special tribute and they will do that. we honor the sacred memory of every incredible american who foreign died in that war. and everything we do and every action we take, we are fighting for loyal, hard-working, patriotic citizens of our blessed nation. we are making our country great again. we are respected again all over the world. our military will soon be stronger than it has ever been by far. that in itself will produce thousands and thousands of jobs. nobody makes equipment like we do. nobody, whether it

and most americans realize it is true. >> it is the americans who are celebrating. they are leaving. the vietnamese are not celebrating. they must stay and face the uncertainty of whatever is going to happen to them next. >> in hanoi, the american military involvement in the vietnam war finally came to an end. for if anything or anyone symbolized the american agony of vietnam, it was the prisoners. >> most were pilots, and many had spent more than six years in prison. now they were on their way home. >> it wasn't really until we rolled down the runway, finally lifted off enemy soil, that we all broke loose and and started hugging and kissing the air force nurses. it was just unbelievable. and it was all euphoria. >> families gathered in the den to watch the arrival of the planes in the philippines. there was no word as to which of the three planes the lieutenant colonel would be on. the first one landed, but it wasn't that one. then came the second plane. someone in the family said that he won't be on this one either. but he was. >> oh! >> it was him! oh, my god! oh

it creates this kind of mill you in the american southwest that reinforces a lot of these ideas of american ingenuity and hard work and a commitment to fighting. >> on sunday at 2 pm eastern on american history tv, we visited the buddy holly center to hear about the lubbock native and his musical legacy. >> the city is very proud of the fact number one, that buddy was born and raised here, and that the center is here to keep his story alive, to keep his music alive. >> them, a visit to the vietnam center and archive, located at texas tech university. the center is home to the largest collection of vietnam related material outside of the national archives. >> we have got a lot of the different types of equipment that veterans would carry, you know, the things they carried if you will. so the first aid kits, the c rations, the radios, the helmets that veterans would wear, that soldiers would wear, the still pots that would detect them from shrapnel. >> cspan's city tour of lubbock texas, saturday at noon eastern, on cspan's book tv, and sunday at 2 pm on american history tv. working with our

ends of the us political spectrum and the american media. are i don't know which side is the bride and which side of that is the groom enters a bit of sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. of this our full french honors the victorious world cup team returned home soil hero's welcome. this is our two international coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program. three social media giants facebook google and twitter are facing the u.s. congress at the moment over alleged political bias on their platforms the hearing is also expected to address advertising practices and fake news it comes as facebook admits that its algorithm labeled thousands of russian users as quote interested in treason supposedly for advertising purposes and that's raising concerns over who might really want to target these users are explains.

this reckless spending fails the american people. they expect congress to spend their hard-earned tax dollars in a fiscally responsible manner. congress can no longer kick the can down the road and saddle future generations with insurmountable debt and economic consequences. i'm very proud mr. chairman of this committee's work to get her nation back on the strong fiscal path. last year this committee tasked with a sustainable budget would have balanced the budget within 10 years. it was also mentioned on enacting comprehensive tax reform that has revitalized our economy. now we are building upon that success in the budget for bright american future which continues to promote progrowth policies that create new jobs put more money back into the pockets of hard-working americans. as a former small business owner of seeing first-hand how federal regulations threaten jobs and hurt small businesses. her touch it reduces burdensome regulations to stimulate further economic growth. to balance this budget within nine years it achieves $142 bi

african-american unemployment has reached its lowest level in american history. hispanic unemployment is at its lowest level in american history. asian unemployment has reached its lowest level in american history. women's unemployment -- oh, this is too bad, marilyn. this is very sad. has reached the lowest level in only 65 years. but within about two weeks i think we will be able to say in american history because it's moving quickly. ok. 65 years not so bad, right? [applause] consumer and business confidence has reached its all-time highs. the highest ever recorded. and 95% of manufacturers are optimistic about the future. that's the highest number ever recorded. so a lot of good things are happening out there. every day we are lifting our forgotten americans off the sidelines, out of the margins and back into the work force. we're giving a second chance at life to the 620,000 former inmates who re-enter society each year. there's nothing like a great, great jobs market to take care of that situation. it's incredible what's happened with people that were in pr

mitchell: they were excited about having the american troops and hoping that the american go immediately get in line, but that wasn't so, and we required several months of training. french troops were hoping american troops would amalgamate right into french command. which, for the most part, did not happen, but pershing allowed some american troops to fight with the french including the african-american division, the 93rd. guillaume: here are troops already. this looks like the chans elysee. they parade on the main avenue of paris. now we are at the lafayette grave, east of paris. mitchell: this was a famous scene and the immortal words , "lafayette we are here" has been repeated over and over. it is part of the lore of the americans saying we are repaying you,less i at, -- repaying lafayette for your help during our american revolution. guillaume: you see colonel stanton. mitchell: although it is often attributed to pershing, he did not say it. guillaume: nowadays, it looks quite similar. it is a private cemetery. few people go there. killed during the french revolution by the guilloti

they started looking seriously --selling out the american selling out, the americans were interested in acquiring alaska as part of their manifest destiny that they considered it their god-given duty and right to acquire land from the atlantic all the way to the pacific. they saw a chance to acquire a russian america, as they called it, alaska, and get a huge increase of their shoreline on the pacific coast. very interested. william seward was the secretary of state at the time under abraham lincoln. he was a prime mover of america's effort to purchase alaska. eward atnting depicts s his desk, debating with a russian minister, the sovereign -- the final price. the critics at the time really felt the united states was being taken advantage of because the russians had harvested all the furs and got the resources out there were the easiest to take it manage of their they felt that was too much money. the sculpture is one of william seward and alaskans celebrate day inear, seward's made of the negotiator who alaska part of the united states. we are looking at a canon that was brought to

but for americans to see american kids dead, american kids wounded, it really had an impact. willhe american people kind of except the loss of the war from 1965, 1960 six and 1967. in 1968 we witness a much more vocal movement opposing the war. these images, which were relatively well-received initially, in time they started to affect the american position of the war in vietnam. these are the big three on the american side. you recognize johnson in the , mcnamara, the secretary of defense, then the secretary of state. of there the architects war in vietnam. those are the individuals who will effectively be blamed, we should say, forgetting the u.s. involved in the vietnam war. again, as we talked about on tuesday, it is unfair to pin all of this on johnson. his predecessors, kennedy, eisenhower, before him, it really made consequential decisions. made itwould argue almost impossible for johnson to just avoid an increased american commitment in vietnam. technically, american combat troops enter vietnam under johnson's watch. but in a way, that is the logical culmination to a p

in the american embassy and -- in saigon, the spanking new american embassy in saigon. any problem here? >> it is supposed to be a bastion of safety and security. prof. faulker: what do we say an embassy is? so what have these viet cong staffers been able to do? [inaudible] prof. faulker: they did not get into the building, though there is debate back and fourth, but you are killing these guys in the center of the american embassy in saigon. any problem with that? >> you are winning under a normal program, and now you're embassy -- you're embassy -- your embassy -- prof. faulker: how about that picture on the far right? how about that picture on the far right? >> they say they are to help the people in the south, but the context of this picture, we don't know what is happening. we have a person whose arms are bound being shot execution style on the street. at that point, there is really no threat. prof. faulker: the police chief of saigon. >> correct. prof. faulker: so if you are in peoria and seeing these images on your television, what you thinking? >> what is going o

is a rogue state because i think american economic institutions many american political institutions want to maintain international order but donald trump and his inner circle are roque's they are the ones who have a particular vision which is that there is no need for international cooperation and a that international cooperation is a threat and let me explain that by going beyond what pauline just said i agree with her that key trump advisers see the fight with china as being foremost that includes former advisers like steve bannon the white house chief of staff but two things one is is that donald trump can hold that idea of china as a threat while quite liking the chinese leaders nation paying because he had myers strength and secondly this war and it is a trade war was not just with china it is with the european union truck doesn't believe there should be a european union it is with canada and mexico trump doesn't believe there should be a north american free trade area it is with the pacific no trans-pacific partnership in other words the united states is not america first here

officials from the american prosecution with regard to that charge do you think the american side is like. to take up on that all for a because i'm sure try to trump actually said that it was a good idea but do you think the bureaucracy is likely to welcome something like that well i'm sure the bureaucracy won't welcome it and i think from an american point of view the temptation is to say well we'll go investigate your. folks but you cannot come here and investigate ours so i suspect it'll bogged down over reciprocity with whether in fact. such an investigation would likely produce anything i'm i'm not so sure i think that from what i can gather i've seen the indictment but i haven't seen in the material that underpins it but i have talked to some of the people who are involved in the process and i think they have evidence that's pretty conclusive you know so if you had a tape of a phone conversation between a and b. who say we have got the e-mails from the d.n.c. headquarters and we are proposing to release them on this schedule and then somebody else says no don't use that schedul

the americans decide for a quick victory and had three goals. be the germans in europe, pivot and defeat japan and come home. that their goal was going to evolve over the course of 9043 which is a subplot in the book as the americans realized the meaning of roosevelt's rendezvous with destiny and come to grips with being a permanent presence in the world. the allies needed agreement on a defined goal they needed a strategy to do it in the concentration to implement the strategy and they needed a supreme commander. summer of 1943 that was agreed and in the absence of a plan for an attack across the channel the people could agree would work it was easy to resist the american option so the third dynamic going on within the alliance is creating the plan and they were trying to do that within they had agreed to set up a planning team in london to develop and interestingly cross channel attack was the third of three tasks and they were priority tasked and first was the develop a feint that would draw them toward the sky so we could reduce them second,

like many americans, the family had an important decision to make. they were more than 100,000 casualties of americans during world war i. 53,000 were killed in combat like quentin. the united states government gave families the option to bring their ones that let one spec united states government expense for burial in private syria terry's or national cemeteries -- private cemeteries or national cemeteries or keep the remains here in france or belgium or elsewhere on the western front, to lie in perpetuity. the roosevelt had the money in the means to bring back quentin 's remains at any point, but they made a decision that would also impact some of the families who lost loved ones. when the tree had fell, let it lie. they elected to have his remains stay here in france, not have one of the american battle monuments or mission cemeteries, where he fell, the village of chamery. a tribute to him in 1919, they placed a beautiful fountain. it is inscribed to him, saying he fell in the battle of chamery , part of the battle of the second marne in june and

and investing in people, and the greatness of ordinary americans and invest in ordinary americans and that will get 4% economic growth. that is the message is all democrats should agree on. i don't know if we call it demand side economics, rise up economics, innovation economics but we need an answer to supply-side. two final points. the eit see expansion can be explained that way. if you look at donald trump's $1.5 trillion tax cut you can say here is how it works. if you concede is number $1000, $10,000, getting $9000 to corporate executives and investors. and if you believe that is what drives america's innovation and drives america's success you are for that plan. what we would have done is $100,000, if your machinist or firefighter or teacher you would've got $9000 could have gone to the corporation. now you can. you get $9000, we believe in the greatness of the teachers and nurses, the best in this country is going to drive america's economic growth. we believe ordinary people are, the elites are, the party of elitism, the final thing i would say is we have got to get the sense

what makes you a proud american? >> i'm a proud american because we are free. >> we have a right to vote and have a voice in our democracy. judge jeanine: your mom and dad gave the spart smartest answer. do you want to add anything? >> the right to vote. judge jeanine: i love this family. >> i love everyone, i love america. >> i'm proud of our history and our great accomplishments. definitely. judge jeanine: are you proud of america today? >> yes, ma'am. the return of patriots in the country with all the military vets. judge jeanine: do you think we should have a military parade? >> yes, i don't see anything wrong with that. judge jeanine: how come your hat costs $34. you have got and tag. it says $34.99. around proud american because you can pay $34.99 for a cap. >>it is what it is. >> the american dream. we can come here. i'm from houston, texas and i'm all the way up here in new york city. >> freedom in our country. a great president. the snrord jesus christ. and watching you. just being happy, raising a family in

it is about who we are as americans. she was able to convince the war she createdut also a movement. the new york times picked up on the story, the ap, and a young congressman named hamilton fish from new york city, who was a white officer in what was known as the heartland -- harlem hell fighters, a segregated unit that fought bravely and heroically in france, fish decided it was time to recognize his men and all of those who had fallen in world war i and spearheaded a campaign to get through the tomb of the unknown soldier. got through the funding and the bill. president wilson signed it. year goes by, it is 1921. the four major cemeteries in france which contain unknown soldiers, the remains are removed from each of the cemeteries. at belleau wood, at san miguel, where saunders and all the others fought, at the muse ar gonne, the somme, the four remains are removed, they are checked to make sure there are no dogtags, letters, diaries, anything to identify these individuals. then at that point that registration people

when american media say agent they think secret agent. i speak in eyes agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal or something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not. hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the shoals of these i am powerless to give our hero's welcome to the victorious won't cops squawk when those were taken to the presidential residence where they were greeted by emanuel. was the in the. face he said i think he was thank you both so it was she said i wasn't seeing the source i think of they think she was right it was she was i was going. through. the snow was. right in shanksville going over with the cries of the french the only true lucky ones these witnesses who broke up she was in the congo. the street people will be watching the team for

but it is concerning to me, as well, that when we see african american, african american, african american in terms of the data, in terms sts disproportional -- of the disproportionality, it's based on positive behavioral support, it's behavioral management, and it's not actually focused on i say ra, class and culture which is -- it's not race, class and culture. this year, they had -- all year, they read books by white female authors until i brought it up to the principal, and then, there was some changes made, but this was curriculum that's been in place for a long time. and last fall, their friend -- well, in their math class, a boy said black kids are dumb in the math class when there was a subthere. this is in a class that my daughter loves. the teacher has great classroom management. kids are coming in with stuff in middle school, and there's no consistent proactive way that the schools are making black students feel welcome, and i just wanted to add, as well, about the underreporting, i'm hearing from a lot of black parents that when their children with victimized, they are -- are v

the president's strong leadership on improving trade relationships for american jobs and american workers. cheryl: lee, what is your reaction to comments and this is all about at the end of the day, it's about the american worker that is their focus? >> that's right, i've got to say that this messaging, getting people to come to long-term strategy but also this message that we are fighting for the american people putting america first set people up to believe this is what's going to happen. they keep seeing the kinds of things, they see the growth, they see the markets, they see 401(k)'s and irs growing, you know what, i'm willing to take a bet on some of these things that i'm not agreeing with and let's be very, very clear a lot of voters out there are saying there are certain things about the president that make me uncomfortable but when i look at members, when i look at balance, when i look at tax reform, when i look at growth in the economy i'm willing to take it. >> erin, it's the economy stupid, that quote still rings true today. >> at the end of the day i think lee probably knows b

up next "american history tv" was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in sacramento, california, where we spoke with historian carolee klimchock, about the role of coach drivers during the gilded age. she explores how relations between coach drivers and their passengers resulted in public scandals. this is about 15 minutes. klimchock, anee independent scholar, living in today, anyour panel interesting title. romance, reverence and renegades, scandal as gilded age history. so explain what this is all about. , it was writing different scandals. one of them that

at that point, italian-americans, german-americans. after the integrated, they found that the integrated troops were as were more effective than the all white troops. they conducted all these interviews and the people said when you are in that same foxhole, when your life is at stake, when you have to put your life in the hands of some of the -- somebody else, it does not matter what the color of their skin is or whether they are white working class. that was -- there were lots of positive examples. in my own classroom, i have tried. i'm not trying to say it is easy. i think it takes a lot of structure and leadership. i try, admittedly, it is not a class about abortion or death penalty, but i teach a class called international business transactions that is well known for being the most diverse, both racially, ethnically but i have a large number of conservatives in my class. what i do is i lay the ground rule. i say we are going to have this conversation. if somebody says something in a way that is not the way you would say it, for jus

baseball is part of the american way of life and remove it and remove something from the lives of american citizens and soldiers and sailors. startling is the mom and apple pie in niche that baseball build in a nation's income accepted without a trace of doubt. above all, the post world pearl harbor morale key to winning a worldwide war, baseball commissioner judge wrote fdr on january 14, 1942 seeking help. he said the time is approaching when an ordinary conditions we would be heading to spring training camps but however inasmuch as these are not ordinary times i venture to ask what you have in mind as to whether professional baseball should continue to operate. the next day, one day after he received that letter that roosevelt read aloud at a press conference's reply that such was baseball supported to the land in 1942. writing speeches for president reagan's cabinet and then for president hw bush i saw how aides within and outside a white house policy and a conservative commissioner of baseball and roosevelt a liberal hated one another. the commissioner load fdr's agenda and eleanor ro

economy, reduce the american g.d.p., and hurt american jobs. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. neal: mr. speaker, i'm discouraged to come to the floor today as we squander the valuable time of this body arguing over a pointless resolution that will accomplish nothing for the people of america, whether it's accepted or rejected. nothing. so let's be clear about what this resolution does and does not do. we are not arguing today over whether this body will or will not adopt a tax on carbon emissions. this resolution, and i'm quoting, expresses the sense of congress about a carbon tax. so what we are trying to achieve apparently this morning is a discussion of the mood of congress. well, we should hold some hearings about the mood of congress, because i would submit that it's not very pleasant ti

cannot say that yet to his american cousins. he said that what the british needed was american shift budget ships, planes and other weapons. up to that point in december the british had been able to pay for american weapons and transport them through dangerous waters on their own ship and this was known as cash and carry. now churchill wrote that the moment approaches when we shall no longer be able to pay cash for shipping and other supplies and the bottom line was that the leader of the world's greatest empire was backing the american president for help. fdr's closest aide, harry hopkins, had joined him on the cruise and hopkins watched the president sitting alone in his deck chair reading and rereading churchill's letter and brooding silently and then hopkins wrote one evening fdr's mood suddenly changed. in a matter of days while failing in the caribbean the president had come up with one of the most consequential policies of the entire war, a commitment to supply the british army, navy and air force with all the tools of wa

leach, american battle monuments commission. subcommittee hearing is when our and 15 minutes. morning. we're going to discuss how our nation honors veterans who passed on. it's appropriate we're closing so close to memorial day, and yesterday's anniversary of d-day, and the anniversary of the of bella day of battle woods, when general john jay ordered a counter-offensive to drive the of belleau wood during world war i. on june 6th, 1918, the u.s. the command of a the attack against the germans in belleau wood. a private was barn in jackson county, illinois, near my hometown. he survived the battle, but fell 1918, less than a month later when the marines through theng french countryside. post,e american legion illinois,freesboro, now bears his name. i thought about his name, the of those determined and who spent june 6th, chargingeatedly entrenched germans with no regret. day of thebloodiest battle. by the end, 10,000 americans were dead or missing in action. each hedge stone was a monument to a husband, father, son, a brother, w

american exports are on the rise. this is a strong economy and leadership on improving our trade relations for american jobs andworkers. >> when do you expect them to announce another solid trade deal. will you be able to announce them before the midterm elections. >> we are encouraged about the free trade agreement. the u.s. trade representative continues to believe there is a possibility before we get to labor day we might have a reformed nafta agreement. those details are still being worked out. look, the president came into this administration with the belief that for too long americans, our economy, our workers are being taken advantage of by trade deals. whether it's renegotiating with south korea or renegotiating nafta or resetting the balance in our relationship with the european union or resetting the imbalance lancimbalance with che that strong leadership is contributing the moment -- momentum. >> will you have a relationship with mexico? >> i hope to reach an agreement. president trump will stay focused on

americans in poverty. the worst homeownership rate in 51 years. the worst recovery since the '40s and took on more debt than any every other president before him combined. on my radio show president trump said this about america's record setting economy. >> a big factor, sean, was regulation. and obviously a big factor was the taxes. but a lot of this, really the taxes are going to help in the future. i look forward to seeing the next quarter. because this is so sustainable. this is going to go for a long time. for the economy, we can go a lot higher. and people don't talk. we have 21 trillion in debt. when this really kicks in we'll start paying off that debt like it's water. we will pay that debt down. 21 trillion dollars, a number that is unthinkable. but that will go down very quickly. because the numbers with growth and the kind of growth that we've produced, the 4.1 can actually go higher. i look forward to seeing next quarter. i think the 4.1 is just a steppingstone. when we make good trade deals th

aron american female nurses they originally we wanted in the army nurse corps.. that is compareed to the nearly estimate -- estimated 8,000 african-american female nurses who were prepared and had the appropriate degrees for servings a nurse in the u.s. army. flip side of this, of course, is you also have nearly 2,000 male nurses who were trained and had degrees ready for service who also continued to try to push the military to change particularly the army to change the way in which it accepted nurses. this, of course, was met with -- with an outright negative as it came to male nrses. regardless -- about concerns -- regarding nursing shortages they persisted throughout the war and as a result by the time we get to late 1944, in 1945, grumbles started to become quite public about what to do concerning ors inning shortages. it gets so bad by january 6th 1945, is part of his public announcement to congress president roosevelt announced his support for legislation to expand the selective services act of 1940 to include for the first time the drafting of female nurs

there were more than 100,000 casualties of americans during world war i. about 53,000 of them were killed in combat like quentin. the united states government gave families the option to either bring your loved ones back to the united states at the expense for burial or private ceremonies at private or national cemeteries, or to keep the remains here in france or belgium or elsewhere on the western front in perpetuity. for those of us who had the money and means to bring back -- the roosevelts had the money and means to bring his body back -- they made a decision that would impact the families who lost loved ones. they decided in the sense where a tree would fall to let it lie. they elected to have quentin's remains stay here in france, not at the american battle monuments commission cemetery but where he had so near chamery. in tribute to him, in 1919, they placed this beautiful fountain. it is inscribed to him, saying he felt in the battle as part of the battle of second marne in june and july of 1918. theodore roosevelt famously said " only those that a

no american, no american devoted himself more completely or told more constantly to bring reconciliation to a shattered nation than did robert lee. could haveattox, lee shown anger, bitter disappointment, deep-seated resentment, and the fires of civil war would have smoldered for years. instead, in the face of failing health, lee called for dedication to a new union and a careful, positive national healing. he set the course himself. he refused to discuss the war. write memoirs. he did not grant newspaper interviews. he would not attend veterans reunions or monument dedications. today, lee would be appalled to see the confederate flag flying in the public. he labored as a college president and church estimate to produce an american motivated by national ideals and a stringent faith in god. was he successful? 1868, three years after appomattox, a new york city newspaper endorsed lee for president of the united states. had he been elected, he could not serve. his amnesty had never been granted. he was not an american citizen. , henry ward beecher openly called him a friend. in five years,

and american our witnesses here today. you always join us and provide important perspective and feedback about what's happening on the ground. it's not just the laws we pass, the regulations and funding. people. to work for you enensure that we understand our good intentions are being realized for the families and veterans we're honored to serve. your work with the committee is greatly appreciated and greatly needed. mr. matz, we appreciate your work on topic exposure. mr. wiseman. i'm sorry. we know you're moving on to be virginia state v.f.w. commander. please know our gratitude to in, because of your work part on your fears advocacy. we appreciate your hard work. >> thank you. i wish you good luck with your next endeavor. >> thank you. withm feeling outnumbered these marines. we want to ensure that our nation's veterans receive a resting place. last month, i and others on the committee, were honored to visit several overseas cemeteries and monuments to the brave men and served in world wars ii.and but most of war i, our

and this alliance system has served americans and the american people so well. here's the president of the united states actually plotting with vladimir putin to undermine nato. nothing freaks out the kremlin more than nato. and so when the president says that nato expansion, which encompassed montenegro and it's been growing over these many years since the berlin wall fell, when the president kind of dises the nato enlargement, he is parroting a well worn well established kremlin talking point. >> let me put this up. montenegro, here was the president shoving the leader. we'll try to rerack that for you. what gives? >> what's amazing about the fact that trump sees this firsthand as he reports on the white house, trump creates chaos on purpose. it's comfort zone. it's actually how he operates. there is no amount of shame or outrage, there is no regret. >> there it is. unbelievable. >> this sort of chaos makes him happy. so, when i was watching the nato summit last week, i realized that even the heritage foundation had released a report saying the central focus o

it is with latin americans. at the beginning of his presidency and later in the peace negotiations with the japanese. and veracruz, the panama canal has just opened. when i started writing about that period, i thought, i cannot remember ever reading about the fandango's they must have had when the panama canal opened. it opened the same time world war i began. it just got moved to the back pages of the newspapers. the way the state department and wilson were looking at the world, there is the mexican revolution going on, bandits are riding across the border and stealing cattle and killing people, they are hauling americans off trains and shooting them, so there's a lot of agitation for the government to do something about these renegade mexicans. in addition to that, they talked about the caribbean basin as the caribbean lake. they wanted stability because of the canal. there are all these interventions in the caribbean during wilson's presidency. and then veracruz, it looks like the germans are supplying the cu

certainly, the american plan was implemented in u.s. territors and really anywhere the -- territories and anywhere the u.s. had power. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. >> did everyone hear that? >> imposing decency. it's a really great book, really important book. >> and we're going to end over here. >> hi, thanks. it's been wonderful hearing you. very interesting story. i just wanted to comment because i worked in public health for 30 years, but i also was so intrigued by what you talked about, because i didn't become an academic, but i did my dissertation on the history of a boston hospital, and it reminded me -- i got to look at all this great stuff, and i looked at the early records of the outdoor department. >> 1910. >> outpatient department. and the biggest diagnosis was stds, which isn't surprising. you know, i think a lot of this is sort of a complex interplay of forces. waves of southern eastern european influences and people of other backgrounds. eleanor roosevelt because she and many upper class women, you know, they started nurs

americans saved and budgeted. there was a tremendous interest in household budgeting during the 1920s. they traded and bartered. they traded eggs for a homemade dress, they bartered and traded services amongst each other, sometimes they resorted to stealing. and they went to secondhand stores. they purchased things on the black market. so these are a few of the ways that americans tried to stretch their dollars. it didn't work entirely. there's only so far you could stretch something. americans begin to look for ways to increase their purchasing power, they moved away from trying to:troll -- control price . they took care of the other set up equation which was purchasing power. we tried to get paid more, ford paid five dollars a day which was twice the wages of all other automobile factories, in the 1920s ford changed the wage to six dollars. after the stock market crashed in the economy was in decline, for -- ford raised his wages to seven dollars per day. they laid off workers but those who -- those who are luck

every american citizen, all equal regardless of economic power, every american citizen can have their voice heard to determine the direction of the country and the makeup of their government. we saw a hundred 43 million eligible -- we saw 143 million eligible americans not voting in the 2014 midterm elections. we need everyone voting this year. joanne joins us from california on the democrats lined for liz kennedy. caller: good morning. , c-span,ing and thanks for taking my call. i've a question. if i vote, regardless of which system i use, my daughter asked me, how do i know that my vote went in for that candidate. i will hang up and listen to response on the other end? guest: thank you for calling in with that question. it is important that americans understand that our local and state election officials are -- lots excellent job of people have tough jobs, running our election is a another tough job. we should not shake our fundamental confidence in the integrity of our elections which is that we have free, fair, and accessible elections in which every american can have their voice