military prison in andersonville, georgia, we talk to professor leslie gordon. this is 45 minutes. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. our coverage of ceremonies in andersonville, georgia at the site of the andersonville prison and you have been learning about it. earlier today we had a chance to talk with a historian on this topic. you saw the ceremony. we continue on with our conversation to learn more about life at andersonville prison. our next guest joining us now is going to be with us. she's the university of akron history professor leslie gordon. you heard her speak earlier. she just spoke at the funeral for 13,000. she will be taking your questions on andersonville and the end of the civil war. if you want to ask her questions, call us now 202-748-8900 for the eastern and central time zones and 748-8971 for mountain and pacific time zones. you can also tweet us at cspan history and post questions at facebook.com/cspan. joining us now is leslie gordon. she is with the university of akron, also the author of the book broken regiment, the 16th connecticut zcivil war. pr

park we sincerely thank you for being here. i invite you to stand as the georgia army national guard advanced the color. after the colors are posted, please follow me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. will you please stand. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> please be seated. we now turn our attention to the arrival of the ceremonial casket escorted by georgia state bag piper dan bray, deputies from the hall county georgia sheriff's office and members of the united states army, navy and marines. [ bagpipe music ]. [ bagpipe music ]. [ bagpipe music ]. [ bagpipe music ]. [ bagpipe music ]. [ bagpipe music ]. [ bagpipe music ]. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you may be seated. i would now like to invite to the podium reverend frederick a. buechner director at calvary episcopal church. his church was founded the same year that andersonville opened. reverend buechner will open our service with an invocat

from georgia, who i'm sure is glad that i brought it up. we can use these two witnesses when you hold that hearing. all right. thank you, mr. chairman. >> gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from georgia, the young vice chairman of the committee is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. things do change. sadly, in this case things tend to stay the same as we do december appropriations bill after december appropriations bill after december appropriations bill. i understand the committee's desire to get its work done each and every year. doesn't provide much certainty to anyone who serves our constituents when they don't get their october money until december. and that's december, if they're lucky. i am remiechbded of the -- remimed of the last cycle where we had a two-year bumting process where you had a top line number you could work with and you have moved your first appropriations bill out of committee in the last week of april. you moved it 4616-1 -- 416-1 and it went to the senate where it sat and did absolutely nothing. it was the v.a. bill and the v.a. didn't get its

, georgia for the next three hours, taking your phone calls and the commemorative funeral for the soldiers who died here. joining us from the andersonville national cemetery, adjacent to the cemetery location is the chief of the historical site and will be with us for the next hour to talk about the history of andersonville and why does consider the most notorious site of the civil war. we are joining our phone line so you can join the conversation. if you want to join the -748-8900.on, 202 you can also post questions and .omments on our facebook page mr. leonard, thank you for joining us this afternoon. mr. leonard: it is my pleasure to be here. let's start with where is andersonville? it is important to start with this idea that military prisoners and prisoners of war are often left out of the mainstream telling of the war. quite friendly, there are no winners in the story. this is not a battlefield. it is something entirely different. it is a valor and honor. those concepts take a different form here. and many respects, in a standard guess, they are prisoners of war, and then y

, georgia at the site of the andersonville prison. you have been learning about it. earlier today we had a chance to talk with an historian on this topic, you saw the ceremony. we continue with our conversation to learn more about life at andersonville prison. our next guest joining us now will be with us, the university professor leslie gordon, she just spoke at the funeral. she will be taking her questions, if you like to ask a question, call us now. you can also tweet us or post questions on facebook.com/c-span. joining us is leslie gordon --professor lesley gordon. professor gordon, thanks for joining us. professor gordon: thank you. host: can we start with a little bit of what you talked about in your speech as far as survivors of andersonville, can you give us a sense of what a survivor had to go through? in theor gordon: research i did, it's representative of many of the theivors that endured imprisonment here. if they made it their andersonville, it didn't mean necessarily their imprisonment was over. many were transferred out of it on to other prisons, they were infting pris

prison in andersonville, georgia for a ceremony commemorating union p.o.w.s who died there. next, program from there, including viewer calls with our guest, the chief of interpretation, and leslie gordon, university of akron history professor, this program is about three hours. >> good afternoon, catch sump s. live to the andersonville national historic site and cemetery for the next three hours taking your phone calls and watching a commemorative funeral for the 13,000 prisoners of war who died here in 1864 and 186 35 our guest eric leonard, the former andersonville chief of interpretation and leslie gordon, university of akron history professor. we are opening up phone lines to so you join in. if you want to give us a call and ask questions, 202. 748-8900 in the eastern and central time zones. in the mountain and pacific, 202-748-8901. if you want to send us a tweet, you can do so@c-spanhistory. facebook.com/c-span history. thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> it's my pleasure to be here. >> let's start with what is andersonville for someone who does not know. not aware

. i invite you to stand as the georgia army national guard advances the colors. after the colors are posted, please follow me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. will you please stand? mr sellars: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it god,s, one nation, under indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> march. mark. forward. march. mr sellars: please, be seated. we now turn our attention to the arrival of the ceremonial casket escorted by georgia state bagpiper, deputies from the sheriff's office, and members of the united states army, navy, and marines. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] >> ♪ [pipes playing] mr. sellars: you may be seated. now like to invite to the podium reverend frederick buckner, inner and director at calvary and piscopo church. -- calvary episcopal church. he will open our service with an invocation. amen. mr. sellars: thank you, reverend. for the prisoners at andersonville, prayers provided comfort, community, and sometimes even solutions. the story of providence springs

get into the thicket, so to speak. >> exactly. >> gary is in macon, georgia. >> thank you for taking my call. my call is specific to -- very similar to the previous caller. baker v. carr spawned a number of other decisions as related to one man, one vote. specifically, gray versus sanders. with state of georgia, with the county unit system. could you speak to some of the cases that were spawned as related to baker v. carr, specifically the county unit in the state of georgia. >> we will. and will entice you to stay with us for another 15 minutes because the final segment is the legacy of the decision and the immediate state of the case the court took up. thanks for asking that question. to judith in anchorage, alaska and then we'll move on. >> thank you very much. my question is this. i understand that the court still allows significant variation in districts by, like, up to 10%. so i live in a state, in a district, that has been consistently overpopulated. while other districts in my state have been consistently overpopulated. so over the course of the 40 years that i've lived here,

georgia and they say, you're chairman of the va committee, aren't you frustrated with how screwed up the va is. and i said, well, you know, the problem is that we see every day the successes being made where we're fixing the problems we've had in the past and we've got a good secretary, we've got a good team, we're making some good progress on veterans choice. and for all the bad stories you hear about, they're mostly stories of things that happened in the past that we're trying to correct, not things that are happening today. so i want to start this hearing out by saying that what we're going to talk about today is an approach to address a number of previous shortcomings of the va healthcare system to improve it for the veteran in terms of their access and the coordination of their care, and the va in terms of the delivery of the system, but to ensure that we magnify choice and not minimize choice so that we can deal with the challenges of the 21st century for the veterans of the 21st century. with that said, i'll recognize the ranking member, senator blumenthal. >> thank you. welco

assaults for fueling the civil rights movement. the georgia center for books hosted this event in 2010. it is a little over one hour. >> good evening, everyone. i'm bill star, executive director of the georgia center for the book. we are the host for this evening's program. we welcome all of you. rosa parks is one of the truly iconic figures of the civil rights movement. we know her as the older, quiet woman whose tired feet led her to defy segregation on montgomery, alabama's buses back in 1955. her courageous, spontaneous refusal to give up her seat to a white man sparked the bus boycott, which gave birth to an entire movement. that is what we have been told up till now. but do we really know rosa parks? the answer according to our guest this evening is very definitely, no. we welcome to the center for the book tonight, dr. danielle mcguire, assistant professor of history at wayne state university in detroit. her new book is "at the dark end of the street: black women, rape, and resistance." a new history of the civil rights movement from rosa parks through the rise of black power. a

moment we were speaking president davis was fleeing to georgia. i told him there's not a southerner under arms who will not obey your order. and he said -- and what i disagreed with him, i respect him for it -- he said this is a political matter that i cannot deal with. i can only deal with my army to surrender. >> let's get one more call from illinois. this is mike in metropolitan, illinois. mike, go ahead. >> caller: yes, this is mike in metropolis, illinois. what kind of documents, were there any particular documents or records that were the most helpful to you in preparing what obviously you have an almost comprehensive knowledge of general grant. were there any particular documents that were especially helpful? >> no, there weren't. i had been giving the document quite a bit of thought. that's a good question. it gets to the root of the matter. i did not have any templates or pattern to follow. i had to write my own terms. president lincoln did not dictate to me what he wanted me to say. so it was up to me. i refer you to the surrender document, or the terms that i wrote for ge

the georgia homosexual sodomy law was not unconstitutional. noting the constitution says nothing about a right to commit sodomy and that prescriptions against homosexuality quote have ancient roots, yus tis byron white concluded that to claim that the constitution protects a right to engage in such conduct is at best, feegs. added that condemnation of ho homosexual conduct is rooted in christian ethical standards and that the act of sodomy was somehow protected by the american constitution would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. justice harry blackmon dissents. although the values that describe intimacy for hundreds if not thousand of years, blackmon insisted that fact alone could not provide adequate justification to the georgia law. that certain religious groups condemned behavior an issue, he reasoned. gives the state no license to impose their judgments on the entire citizenry. to the contrary, the legitimacy of secular legislation he said depends on whether the state can advance some justification for its law beyond its conformity to religious doctrine. finding n

women for fueling the civil rights movement. the georgia center for books hosted this event in 2010. it is a little over one hour. >> good evening, everyone. i'm the executive director of the george's for books. we have the host for this evening's program. we welcome all of you. rosa parks is one of the truly iconic figures of the civil rights movement. we know her as the older, quiet woman who's tired feet led her to defy segregation on buses iny alabama's 1955. her courageous spontaneous refusal to give up her seat to a white man sparked the bus boycott, which gave birth to an entire movement. that is what we have been told until now. but do we really know rosa parks? the answer is very definitely, no. theelcome to the center for book tonight, dr. danielle mcguire, and >> her new book is at the dark end at the street, black women, rate, and resistance." the bulge is not merely shed on rosa parks and the beginnings of the civil rights movement. it offers a new way of approaching an understanding the women's history and the underpinnings of the civil rights movement. it traces a sor

december 6th, 1865, my home state of georgia became the 27th state to ratify the 13th amendment and thus provided the requisite number of seats for ratification. the 13th amendment became effective the moment that the georgia legislature ratified it. 245 years of slavery in the united states of america is legally abolished. hallelujah. [ applause ] >> nearly 4 million slaves are free. to god be the glory. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, dr. louise toppin. ♪ ♪ lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring ♪ ♪ ring with the aharmonies of liberty ♪ ♪ let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies ♪ ♪ let it resound loud as the rolling sea ♪ ♪ sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us ♪ ♪ sing a song full of the hope and the present has brought us ♪ ♪ facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won ♪ ♪ stony the road we trod bitter the chastening rod felt in the day that hope unborn had died ♪ ♪ yet with a steady beat have not our weary feet come to the place on which our fathers sighed

agents were mocked and forced to resign except briefly in georgia, none of the colonists ever paid a stamp tax. the stamp act sparked more than riots and mobs. it precipitated one of the greatest constitutional debates in western history. this debate involved all of the fundamental issues of politics and government. power and liberty. rights and constitutions, popular consent and representation differences , between statutes and fundamental law. and the problem of sovereignty. once begun, this decade-long debate escalated in several stages until it climaxed in the declaration of independence. the argument was exhilarating. it forced the british and the colonists to bring to the surface and clarify their different experiences in the empire over the previous century. these had largely been hidden from view over a century and a half. by the time the imperial debate was over, americans not only to the less had clarified their understanding of the limits of public power but they had prepared the way for their grand experiment in republican self-government and constitution-making in 1776.

of georgia became the 27th state to ratify and thusamendment provided the requisite number of states for ratification. becameh amendment effective the moment that the georgia legislature ratified it. slavery in the night states of america is legally abolished. hallelujah. [applause] nearly 4 million slaves are free. to god be the glory. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, dr. lo uise toppin. ♪ singlive the rewards and ring with the harmonies of libert y that is resounded along as the rolling seas sing a song full o fthe faith that the dark past has taught us the hopeng full of that the present has brought us facing the rising sun of our new day begun victory ish on till won road we trod bitter the chastening rod felt in the days when hope unborn had died yet with a steady beat have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed we have a come over a way that with tears has been watered we have come treading the path through the blood of the slaughtered out from the gloomy past lastnowe we stand at where the white gleam of our castt star is years our weary

. no, don't cheat. dr. bali did he hau. for south georgia, that's pretty good. and dr. diaz. is that pretty good? >> no doctor. >> take it if you can get it. keep it within five minutes if you can. if you go a little bit over, as long as it's factual, relevant and important, we're happy to hear from you. the program is yours. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'll offer a bit more elaborate information of these three. david is undersecretary of heating. he's been at va for all of four months. he comes to us from a career in the private sector managing large health care organizations. dr. dehey ya has been with va for all of 18 months. he has years of clinical experience and continues to see patients inside va. a brilliant young infectious disease doctor. and joe is the network director for business 17 down in texas. he has been with va over 30 years much of it as medical center director. he spent most of the last several months working with this team on this report addressing care issues. we are facing an historic opportunity by consolidating and streamlining va's various means of providin

charles beckwith of atlanta, georgia. what kind of fighters are the viet cong that you met here? major beckwith: i would give anything to have 200 of them under my command, they are the widest soldiers i have ever seen. morley: the viet cong? major beckwith: yes, they are very good. morley: what about your own resistance that you put up a. major beckwith: the u.s. is here and as far as i am concerned, they did an outstanding job. of course, in my opinion, they are held in a lot better opinion than the vc. morley: for the defenders of pleime, the battle is over, but for the first air cavalry division, it was just beginning. pleime was the jumping off point for a new kind of operation against a new kind of enemy. the original mission of the cavalry was to secure the immediate area around pleime. the first few days of search and destroy operations, they met only light resistance, light fire. they moved further west toward the can't -- towards the cambodian border. they met over here in the chu pong hills. then they met the people pop -- people's army of north vietnam. >> i think th

right of an englishman, whether he was in massachusetts, virginia, the carolinas, georgia to argue his concerns before his government. columnist dear fellow nists say to you? thomas: will we survive as englishman in the country that is america, north or south, as truly englishman or would we continue to evolve, to evolve as a people that which we have already come to refer to one and the others as americans? to realize it was not only the englishman but so many others seeking an asylum in the colonies of great britain. could the english law continue to substantiate our grievances and our right to argue on behalf of ourselves? could be as well be properly represented before the crown in the parliament. we were denied any representation in his majesty's parliament. host: what did you do next? thomas: it was in williamsburg that we began the protest with respect to the closure of the port of boston in the spring of 1774. the closure of the port of boston was the cause of that particular riot in boston harbor, the previous december, the destruction of over 356 cases of tea thrown overb

president. he did not know that president davis was pleading to georgia. i told him there is not a southerner underarms who will not obey your order. disagreed with him, i respect him for. he said that is a political matter i cannot deal with. i can only deal with my army to surrender. get one more call from illinois. this is mike from metropolitan illinois. dr. fields, where there any particular documents or records that were the most helpful to you in preparing what obviously -- you have a comprehensive knowledge of the background of general grant. were there any particular documents that were especially helpful? no, there worked. i had been giving the documents quite a bit of thoughts and it is a good question. it gets to the root of the matter. i did not have any templates or patterns to follow. notident lincoln did dictate to me what he wanted to say, so it was up to me. i've refer you to the surrender i wrote for the terms for general lee. it is simple, it is straightforward, and i did not or, in aragraph document that you could argue about. before we went on the air, you tal

and senior advisor of the school of medicine in atlanta georgia. previously, he served as the 16th surgeon general in the united states. only the second person in history to have held both positions simultaneously. as surgeon general and assistant secretary for health, he led the department effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health. to theed as a director senate for disease control and prevention and the administrator of the agency for toxic substances and disease reginald say. he was also a contributor to the 2015 report for health disparities in america. he graduated from atlanta, georgia in 1963. he holds md and phd degrees. alpha omegaer of society and the american college of physicians. webster, the director of the john hopkins center. webster is a professor of policy and management at the john hopkins bloomberg school of public health. he is the director of the john hopkins center for gun policy and research. he is on the faculty of the center for injury research and policy. he holds a joint appointment as professor in the school of education division of pub

treaty it innovate add sovereign country georgia. i've been to georgia. serve years later russia occupies a third of that nation. last year putin told the world russian troops were not in crimea while the world watched russian tanks and little green men come into that area. russia is conducting strikes in syria to prop up a dictator that has murdered thousands of syrians. putin seems to want to expand his empire out of the cage and it's time we recognize them for what they are doing. they are being aggressive. no surprise russia is once again breaking its word when it comes to assigned arms control treaty. the intermediate@range nuclear arms forces treaty is a treaty between the united states which places limits on ground launch and blus i can missile which range up between 500 and 5500 kilometers. the united states has held up or bargain, the russians have not. according to press reports, it appears russians have tested a ground-launched cruise missile. they have responded that this is a sea-based missile which does not fall under the treaty. that's nonsense. according to press

his opening statement. i'd like to recognize the chairman of the oversight committee from georgia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning to our witnesses and thank you for being here, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing. today we'll be hearing from gao and noah regarding the geostationary satellite programs. the jpss programs that noah maintains has speerngsed setbacks. today, we intend to change what was learned since last hearing back in february of this year. detailing concerns that the noah polar satellite program, jpss, is facing an unprecedented gap in satellite data. gao believes that while it remains within is new life cycle cost estimates, recent rises in technical issues during development increase the likelihood of a near term data gap. additionally, although noah has reduced its potential gap from 15 to only 3 months, gao noted that this assessment was assessed on incomplete data and does not account for the risk to satellite hardware. this is even more concerning in light of a recent break-up of a satellite in orbit. its data gap may last longer than n

will do the job. >> next call from garry kasparov comes from georgia, democrats line. >> caller: thank you for c-span. great tool for democracy. the more ship calls in cuba, we are seeing they reear reactivating, lessening posts. we see them extending cooperation in bolivia and others. what is putin up to in this part of the world? >> i think it's too early to say he has specific plans because he doesn't have the resourcefulness of the soviet union. so to attack simultaneously in many directions but naturally putin will be looking for every opportunity to extend his power and he now enjoys working relations, nice working relations with cuba because he has written the soviet -- old soviet debt. and as a strong russian ally. you correctly mentioned venezuela and other countries in the continent that putin could believe -- you know, eventually would be his allies and to defy the united states. to challenge american interests. but it's very important to remember that unlike for the soviet leaders, for putin this expansion is important for domestic purposes because he has to demonstr

. 2008 the same year russia violated the inf treaty it invaded a sovereign country georgia. i've been to georgia. i've seen the russian tanks on the hills. seven years later russia still occupies a third of that nation. last year putin was at it again. he told the world that russian troops were not in crimea while the world watched russian tanks and little green men come into that area. russia is conducting strikes in syria to prop up a dictator that has murdered thousands of syrians. putin seems to want to expand its empire and the russian bear is out of the cage and it's time we recognized them for what they are doing, being aggressive. it's no surprise that russia is breaking its word when it comes to a signed arms control treaty. the nuclear forces treaty is a treaty between the united states which places limits on ground launched and ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers and the united states has held up our bargain the russians have not. according to press reports it appears the russians have tested a ground launched cruise missile. they have responde

, not only in ukraine, but in other places, such as georgia and so forth. so it is helpful to continue to ensure that information is flowing, that inspections take place, and notifications of activities are flowing. >> thank you. i yield back. >> chair now recognizes gentleman from arizona, mr. franks for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you both for being here. ms. gottemoeller, i understand that ambassador thomas graham has suggested publicly that the administration is looking to circumvent the constitution and allow or actually pursue a prohibition of nuclear testing through a u.n. security council resolution. i obviously would recoil at any security council dictating american defense policy. can you assure this committee that the administration is not pursuing this idea? >> sir, i have been in constant battle with our ngo colleagues over this issue. we do not agree with this notion. >> all right. i appreciate that. and you're assuring me that that's not being pursued. >> correct. >> okay, that's good. see, answers can happen. knowing that since the 1996 era three coun

kansas and montana and connecticut and georgia and washington state, everybody, ya'll knew we believe the choice was a veteran cannot get service at a va vas sit, they got the choice. if we talk about consolidation to provide choice and make it meanful for our veterans, that ought to be the ultimate goal where we go. >> especially the folks in liberal, kansas, that's right. >> that voted for jerry moran. >> how is that spelled? >> i have no idea. >> senator. >> thank you, i thought i was hearing wrong when you -- of the senator talked about liberal. i was thing on a political continuum. obviously, that is not what we're talking about. i'm looking at your testimony, secretary gibson, and i would like to make sure that i understand your testimony. so in looking at page three, you say the consolidation plan will center on five functional areas. and then going on to page five of your testimony, you say that again we're talking about the new will involve. and you list one, two, three, four, five -- five systems. so are they enhancements? in alignment with the five functional areas?

community. a swiss born pastor from georgia pushed beyond this argument and challenged the very idea of virtual representation. he called it actual representation. if people will be properly represented in the legislature, not only do they have to actually vote, they had to be whoseented by members numbers were more or less proportionate to the size the population. he had a modern american view. james otis of massachusetts said what purpose is served by the continuing efforts of englishmen to justify this lack of representation? those places ought to be represented. in the new world, electoral districts were not the products of history that went back hundreds of years. ,hey were recent creations within people's memories. when new towns in massachusetts were formed, two new representatives were usually sent to the general court. the same was true in virginia. in the 1760's there were rebellions because they had been extended representation to the provincial assembly fast enough. they expected to be represented. the expectations of the colonists had become very different. most ame

england at the end of the 1730's. he worked his way up from georgia to pennsylvania to new england. giving these barn burning and mesmerizing sermons. sometimes whitfield was invited as local churches. sometimes the local minister was suspicious of him. the more sedate and sober ministers did not like this kind of rabble rousing. if a minister refused to allow whitfield to preach, he preached outdoors. god andonalization of his everyday presence in life. he was in the business of saving souls. the conflict that arose at this time was between those who worried about how their polite congregations being disturbed by .his excess of passion the new lights were the dissenting sects. just gaining followers at this time. the older ones tended to be the congregationalists of new england. successors to the puritans. aside from this enthusiasm of this great awakening, one of the interesting up shots was the establishment of denominational colleges. you have presbyterians founding the college of new jersey which is known today as princeton university. in providence rhode island founded brown

and wanted me to come down but i didn't lose anything at fort benning, georgia except blood and sweat and tears. i decided that bruce can handle it and i did not need to go. i thought it was very well done. i enjoyed it. it was about 85% accurate in my book. i think most people i talked to would give it at least 85%. accuracy they sent me a copy of the script and asked for comments. the day, that i had was get rid of some of the profanity. in my case i have two young grandchildren -- granddaughters. they probably heard it before but ended up with and become an adherent out of the movie. i don't think they paid any attention to me because you probably have seen the movie and you notice they did not -- a waste of effort when i made my comments. job updated a pretty good of making it. i did not approve of some of the things but most of the -- most of it was accurate. host: how about the ending when bruce came in? the greg kinnear character? he comes in and takes out on the third morning on the 16th? major freeman: he and i and the gunships? not true. you can't use a gunship when yo

, the carolinas, georgia and in betwixt to argue his concerns before his government. >> what were your fellow colonists saying to you? >> well, we were all saying the same thing to one and the other. will we survive as englishmen here in a country that is america, whether north or south, as truly englishmen or will we rather continue to evolve, to evolve as a people by which we had already come to refer to one and the other, americans. to realize it was not only the englishmen, but so many others who were seeking an asylum here. could the english law continue to substantiate our grievances and our right to argue on behalf of ourselves. could we as well be properly represented before the crown and the parliament. remember, remember we were denied any representation. >> and what did you do next? >> it was here in williamsburg that we began our protest particularly with respect to the closure of the port of boston that the spring of 1774. you may remember that the closure of the port of boston was because of that particular riot in boston harbor the previous december. the destruction of w

-state tuition hike when i went to georgia for school. but i'm glad they're getting rid of that. also with the troops for teachers. they told me you have to do it within three years, but it takes four years to get your bachelor's degree so it seems like they're not doing a good job informing us what's hiring. you know, we end up going back to school and back to school and back to school. >> mr. rausch? >> i think the caller brings up good points that tie in previous callers' statements. i think the broad takeaway that i'm hearing him talk about is all of the efforts and initiatives buts that have been put forward to help the community and i can't state this enough as a post-9/11 veteran. the support that i've receive at a personal level and professional level in my community, several communities throughout the country, has really, really been remarkable. up fortunately, there's a lot of misinformation, to the caller's point. there's also a ton of information. there's too much information whether it's trying to get care in the community at the v.a., whether it's understanding your bene

p.m., we visit the camp sumter military prison in andersonville, georgia, for a ceremony honoring union p.o.w.s who died there. later, at 12:35 a.m., we talk to historian leslie gordon. the civil warr the 8:00 p.m. eastern wednesday on c-span3. wednesday night, book tv in prime time features programs on the supreme court and its justices. at 8:00 p.m., melvin urovski on dissent and the supreme court, its role in the court's history and the nation's constitutional dialogue. at 9:00 p.m., eren carmen on notorious rbg, the life and times of ruth bader ginsburg. at 10:05 p.m., linda hirschman on sisters in law, how sandra day o'connor and ruth bader ginsburg went to the supreme court and changed the world. and at 11:00 p.m., justice stephen breyer on the court and the world, american law and the new global realities. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >>> this holiday weekend, book tv brings you three days of nonfiction books and authors. on friday, back-to-back airings of "after words." at 7:00 p.m. eastern, arthur brooks discusses had i latest book, "the conservative

all the time in georgia and they say you're the chairman of the va committee, aren't you? are you frustrated with how screwed up the va is? i said the problem is that we see every day the successes we've made, we've got a good secretary, good team, making good progress on veterans choice and for all the bad storyies yo hear about, they're mostly stories that happened in the past that we're trying to correct, not things that are happening today. this is to address a number of previous shortcoming of the va health care system to improve it for the veteran in terms of access and coordination of their care and va in terms of the delivery of the system. but to ensure that we magnify choice and not minimize choice so we can deal with the challenges of the 21st century. i recognize ranking member senator blumenthal. >> thank you. welcome to our witnesses and thank you for your good work on behalf of our nation. this task of consolidating and reorganizing community in the care and patchwork of programs we have now is certainly an urge enter one and apparently a very expensive one, $1.9 bi

covering russian issues for 20 years and i just went back from the georgia war when i arrived in august in 2008. i was struggling here in washington, the people didn't seem to see that srussia was becoming a serious and obvious threat to european security. there was not this awareness. it was strange. and also a total under estimation in europe. i know that it's kind of politically incorrect to talk about in europe but despite the fact that the president and many people here think it's not about islam and what's going on. it is not about all of islam but a branch of islam which is at war with western civilization and wants to destroy it. this lack of awareness created a situation in which the elite in the united states prefer to blame supposedly racial institution in france and anti-muslim not giving any space instead of seeing that there was a defined and brutal ideology threatening europe and also a huge part of the muslim world. so i think this is the context and now you have the situation now and i was very pretty critical of the lack of awareness of the administration in the past but

over from england at the end of the 1730's. and he worked his way up from georgia to pennsylvania to new england. giving these barn burning and mesmerizing sermons. sometimes whitfield was invited into local churches. other times the local minister was suspicious of him. he was known to call out parishioners, all you sinners, you have devil's -- half d evils, and the more sedate and sober ministers did not like this kind of rabble rousing. when a minister refused to allow whitfield to preach, he preached outdoors. and people loved his animated presentations his his, personalization of god and his presence in everyday life. he was in the business of saving souls. the conflict that arose at this time was between those who worried about how their polite congregations were being disturbed by this excess of passion. those known as old lights. and the new lights who were the dissenting sects. the methodists and baptists who were just gaining adherents at this time. the older lights tended to be the congregationalists of new england. the successors to the puritans. this cross-colonial en

surrender. at 10:20 p.m., we visit the camp sumter prison in andersonville, georgia, for a ceremony honoring p.o.w.s who died there. here on c-span 3. >>> this week on c-span 2 an encore of our q and a interviews. molly crabapple on her drawings of the israeli and palestinian conflict and the guantanamo bay prison. >>> this holiday weekend american history tv on c-span 3 has three days of featured programming. beginning friday evening at 6:30 eastern, to mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters gather for a rare family discussion at gettysburg college to talk about his military and political career as well as his legacy and relevance for 21st century americans. then on saturday afternoon at 1:00, 60 years ago rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus for white passengers. we'll reflect on the boycott and see what role lawyers played in that protest and the civil rights movement as we hear from fred gray, attorney for rosa parks, and montgomery bus boycott demonstrators. william davis on the

worked. >> i think the best thing with me was as a georgia peanut farmer, i needed a lot of help. [ laughter ] and i felt the vice president would be the best one to give me the help i needed. i never had served in washington as you know and fritz was an expert at least for this help from hubert humphrey and others on what was going on in washington so that was the main thing. >> right. >> and so we began really to explore every possibility of moving the vice president close to the president. he never had been in the oval office, never been in the white house before. and i spent one weekend with hubert humphrey because i found out just before he died and while he had serious cancer that he had never been permitted to go to camp david. >> that's right. >> and so i -- invited him to go and had a peach to make on the west coast and came back and picked him up in minneapolis and went and spent the weekend at camp david just me and him and his medical doctors, as a matter of fact. and he unburdened to me that weekend things that i'm sure he never had said publicly, never have since th

toast to herman talmage as one of the great governors of georgia and the greatest governor who was his father also. that really got the african-american community exploding. starts to sound familiar. was: part of the difficulty co-can become 24 karat gold. the standard of the world for the cola drink. there were many drinks that could not crack coke. was exceedingly clever. he would do all he could to keep from hiring any african ancestored americans that would lead to greater jobs and dignity. at the same time he dropped millions in tuskegee. this was a difficult job. a difficult thing to fight. ,hen we were pushing pepsi people would serve coke in the living room and have see in the kitchen. it was a tough struggle. but it worked. the evidence of it working is you look at pepsi today. pamela: do you think the boycott empowered african-americans within the pepsi-cola company? are there any lessons that can be learned? jean: yes. the battle is never over. you have to continue the fight and you must be able to constantly analyze the opposition, can know that gains could be made come ver

, if you compare taft and wilson with recent events. taft and nelly departed for augusta, georgia, where taft could recuperate from the rigors of the presidency by playing the golf he loved so much. he felt very gratified. he felt very gratified when he broke 90 for 18 holes. now, to understand what taft faced in march of 1913, as i begin my book, as an ex-president, thinking about ex presidents, you have to put out of your mind all modern assumptions about former presidents. today, men such as bill clinton and george w. bush have left office with pensions, staff, secret service protection, and in time magnificent presidential , libraries like the harry truman library. i'm glad to join and welcome to the fraternity of presidential libraries because historians, we need them. we live for them, we visit them and do research on them. they are an ornament in american civilization. so in our day, a former president has everything that makes him resemble the white house without the power, of course, but it's a very comfortable existence as bill clinton and george w. bush could testify. o

with my colleague across the aisle from georgia, mr. scott, about this very misguided administration's rule letting by the department of labor on the fiduciary usual. i would encourage you all to speak to the president on this issue, he did not seem interested in my concerns last night at the christmas party. i'm particularly interested in knowing the role the financial stability board has played with regard to decisions about domestic matters made by fsoc. due to the kind of non-transparent nature in which fsoc conducts its business:00 cause one to question i think whether our u.s. regulators are really fighting on behalf of the interests of the united states of america when they are at the international negotiating table or whether we are simply letting international counterparts make important decisions for us. mr. woodall, in your dissent to the sifi designation, you made the point that the international and domestic designation processes are not entirely separate and distinct. specifically, sir, specifically, you noted that an unnamed u.s. national authority agreed to the internat

georgia or a hospital here in washington. as shattering as the circumstances were, they were often compounded by a second displacement. a metaphysical displacement of the body from its name. in literally hundreds of thousands of cases, soldiers became unknown or missing. the unknown were bodies that had lost their names. the missing were names that had lost their bodies. in both cases, the metadata, the name had become attached from its object, the body. these legions of the unknown and the missing were two sides of the same coin. the metadata crisis created by protracted mass warfare between armies totally unprepared for human disaster on this scale. the signs of this crisis were almost everywhere and were dealt with in sermons, editorials, and graveyards. families, contractors, and philanthropic agencies all made unprecedented efforts to find bodies and reconnect them with names. in the weeks and months after gettysburg, for example, the battlefield was overrun with people searching through gravesites, sometimes opening up graves and rummaging through personal effects that had al