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thank you all for coming. i think we will wrap up right there. [applause] >> with live coverage of the u.s. house on c-span and the senate on c-span2, here on c-span3, we show you the most relevant congressional hearings in public event and on weekends, c-span3 is home to american history tv with programs that tell our nations story. including the civil war visiting battlefield and key events. american artifacts touring easy him's and sites to discover what artifacts reveal about america's past. history bookshelf, with the best-known history writers. the presidency looking at the policies and legacies of our nation's commanders in chief. lectures and hit -- lectures in history and our new series reel america, featuring archival films from the 50's through the
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70's. c-span3, created by the cable industry and funded by your local cable and satellite provider. like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> today, on c-span's "road to the white house as good a conversation with likely democratic presidential candidate jim webb. he discusses growing up in a military family and his service as a marine in vietnam. american for a pop -- american foreign-policy and what he likes about campaigning. senator webb: i enjoy the face-to-face campaigning going out to town meetings and talking to people and listening to what their thoughts are and clarify mine. what i'd don't enjoy his campaign finance, to be very blunt about that. i said it when i announced an exploratory committee that one thing i can say is that i will never know anything to anyone if
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i am elected but it is a tough proposition to be able to raise enough funds to conduct a viable campaign. >> jim webb, today on "road to the white house 2016 close vote on c-span -- "road to the white house 2016" on c-span. >> each week, c-span's reel films rings you films the archives from the 20th century. ♪ >> in america upon first long-duration mission, gemini four would complete three
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complete revolutions inserted at 185 statute miles over bermuda. people were already adding a new word to their vocabulary stashed eva. it stood for extravehicular activity. it was uncertain whether you said eva or eva, but it would become a pronunciation of our time. the flight land called for it to begin on the second orbit, somewhere over hawaii. the pilot was to open the hatch of a depressurized cabin and stand up. over the west coast of the united states, he would leave the spacecraft and expose himself to space. for 12 minutes he would perform maneuvers over the united states and return to gemini for and continue as the spacecraft entered the night side of the earth. this was the flight plan. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 zero,
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ignition. liftoff. >> at 10:16, eastern standard time, it was on its way. >> roll program initiated. >> gemini iv was an encouraging landmark for the apollo program. >> monday night, on "the communicators" we met up with author andrew keen and asked him why he feels the internet is not the answer. >> the internet is not the answer at the moment, not the
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answer in the sense that it isn't working currently. is lending itself to undermining jobs, it is compounding the inequality of our economic lives and creating new massive monopolies that were unimaginable in the 20th or 19th century and it has created this data economy in which we have all in turned into products and you and i have been packaged up when we use google or facebook. we become a product like a big hitchcock movie. >> the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress, with color photos of every senator and house number plus bio and contact information and twitter handles. also district maps, a fold out map of capitol hill and a look at congressional committees, the president cabinet, federal

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