we feature an empty pedestal. it's modeled after the 18 foot tall one that new york revolutionaries left in bowling green after tearing down its monument king george iii and we invite community engagement with it. we do this in two ways first. we provide an ipad preloaded with an augmented reality app called kinfolk which visitors can use to envision monuments to black and brown heroes including surely chisholm whom you see here as well as frederick douglass and the native american activist ruth revels and second. we transform the mt. pedestal into a piece of community driven installation art. there's so many questions about what should be done with contested monuments and who should decide it should offending figures be laying down or half buried. if they stand in own ruin and decay. should they be relocated to a park of fallen monuments or to museums which can provide historical context can context be created on site with the addition of new monuments set in conversation with the old ones should controversial mo

because our society is put so much on a high pedestal. i can only really be done on individual level. someone of integrity that worked hard. put that on the higher pedestal. i know that i can that's how i see things. and i'm a lot more respect for people who are working hard and have integrity than for those had set that aside in order to get attention. i am way out here on the east coast. thank you for taking the time to answer questions. there are so many outlets now cable channels amazon tv youtube et cetera are we seen better talent being discovered or too much mediocre talent, and our people really just there to become a star. there wanting that 15 minutes of fame so to speak. >> you have a dress addressed that a little bit. that is a great point. i think you'll really like the book. there is a great writer who have a good angle on that. they sometimes rise up because of the public can feel like a creator of fame. we did that. if someone is truly talented what are they getting it credit for just noticing that someone was a great acto

there is his website and his latest book, "operation pedestal," and as you.tice he's working on the book forthcoming "operation pedestal," about one of the fiercest battles of world war ii. peter: think you max hastings for the last two hours . max: thank you predict. >> be sure to his cspan.org. here's a look at some books being published this week in the outlier, pulitzer prize-winning historian re-examines the carter presidency. burns, the first black female ceo of the fortune five company, recalls her life and career and where you are is not who you are. an preventable and former senior advisor to president biden, offers his thoughts in the united states response to the covid-19 pandemic. and linguist amanda montel examines the use of language in creating and maintaining cult and cultish, also being published this week is ms. educated, friend and fleming recalls his journey from a school dropout to harvard educator and journalist weighs in on america's current struggles and offers his thoughts on how to fix them and last best hope. find these titles this

in the mind of readers or do you feel it's important to examine what is on the pedestal? >> i think it's important to examine because his favorite herbs or explore, investigate, research and analyze the you are right i did have that apprehension and i thought i've known him 25 years and i have had a good impression. maybe if i go deeper i will see some discrepancy or smudge or shadow and wish i hadn't seen it and i was surprised after five years of research camaguey respectable and i think part of his great power obviously -- >> [inaudible] >> i see absolute integrity, solidity. that is to say whatever ankle you approach, political, monastic, human, he's like a tree with deep roots and he's always exactly the same person and whether he's going to the white house or talking to the monks he's voicing the same principles but different applications have rarely in my life that the degree of integrity to use integrity in the sense of wholeness and consistency. i found while i was researching this on an account my father wrote meeting that dalai lama -- i think part of the power

but they will not pay for the pedestal. they built the statue we have to come up with the money for the pedestal. this takes a long time. one of the projects to raise money is an album of literary productions mark twain write something they may have some poetry and then one writes a sonnet about the statue that she identifies as the mother of exiles it's called the new colossus from the ancient statue that everybody would have thought of at the time. that celebrated a triumph. she said this is different. this is not about that. this is welcoming people here as a refuge and this is what we should be proud of to have a free country of liberty we are willing to welcome people to it. it is put on the statue after she is dead. she tells her sister who is her executor make sure the new colossus is its put on page 404. [laughter] there were some family issues going on. [laughter] but she had a friend another blue stocking who was a descendent of alexander hamilton who lobbied on the pedestal where it is today. i think the problem

to make someone of integrity who works hard and put that on a higher pedestal to value that more. i cannot help influencing her society but i know -- that's how i see things and i have a lot more respect for people who are working hard and have integrity than for those who does put that aside in order to get attention. host: let's hear from carolyn in virginia beach, virginia. >> caller: hi my name is carolyn christopher and i am on the east coast. aykey for taking time to answer my question. there are so many outlets now, cable channels, amazon tv, youtube et cetera. are we seeing better talent being discovered or too much mediocre talent and are people really just obsessed with becoming a star and wanting that 15 minutes of fame so to speak? host: can you address that a little bit. guest: that is a great point. ikthink you will really like the book because they do go into -- there is a great writer breckenridge who had a good angle on the idea that mediocre talent sometimes rise up because the public can feel like a creator of that because they can point to it and say, we did th

pedestal was built that way and in time the statue of liberty was put up and a statue pulitzer in the park where the statue is on the island. my last bit of this architectural tour of new york to show you the significance, pulitzer is re-created american journalism. is vital, important and papers are published every hour of the day. if there as-- is an important trial in new york, reporter would sit in the room, write his story, handed to a copy boy who would go downstairs and pick up an open phone a dictator back to the paper. they would print that hours trial, put it on the streets and little boys would sell it. that was the cnn at the time. it was so important that on election night people would gather by the thousands on park row because there was no radio to tell you who would win and you will look at the front of the newspaper and they would that the resulting chock. pulitzer became as i said the midwife of this whole world of journalism in which people dependent on it, turned to news for entertainment. they would see at dinner, did you read that story in the new york world or m

we must keep the pedestal of european policies because otherwise how can we go from the? my second principle is that the budget, the financial framework which is to be proposed must continue the growth partner we adopted in june of this year. last year. now, that means that we must promote innovatioinnovatio n, infrastructure, new energy, new

>> guest: well, it's any individual who places president obama on a pedestal during the 2008 campaign although the election of this man meant ipods would drop down and melt away their student loans. and now they're paying the price big time. and that's why i wanted to write it to set the record straight. >> host: is it just -- you're talking about young people. what about the total of people who voted for him? do you think anybody who voted for obama is a obama zombie?

pedestal about the fierce battle of world war ii. >> still empty in the fire of german guns rinks the shore. the arrival of motorized equipment marks the end of the first phase of the landing. the lci now on the beaches for the transports to bring more troops in sure. host: 77 years ago today on the shores of france. our guest joining us from england are max hastings writing a book about the day. max hastings 77 years later is there a different perspective on d-day? >> to host the host of people who actually had been there. and i should never take up the evidence of that oral history but they do give you a feeling of how they felt but i remember when i was watching one particular guy he was very articulate and landed on utah beach and ian asked him how before it all happened is huge event how did that all seem to you? he said lily higgins age 18 and said i just could not get my mind on the idea i was abouthe to invade france and it was incredibly young for most of those in the book not long after it was all over that they understood the biggest event in human history one reason that d

i locked onto operation pedestal which one of the biggest naval battles of the war in the west.edger starvation the british attempted to run several convoys to the island had failed they had been sunk. germs had more than 600 aircraft they got new boats out the italian service fleet. the predicament look pretty desperate. they're told they cannot get supplies through thousand population could no longer be fed per the island would have to be surrendered. now some people the royal navy the armed forces they thought that's what it's gotta be that so it's gotta be. but in the grand scheme of things at that time a lot of people still thought the russians were going to be defeated. and they thought they'd lost a lot of stuff already so what. churchill writes he was in 1942 deep and politically in battle. he knew by the americans and many russians after seeing what was defeated so often on the battlefield did not think much of it. it was an opinion upon the summer of 1942 which according to one of my books and the americans that he was trying hardest to win the war. of course they were

that pedestal. but if you are tested with being put on the pedestal, you had better make sure that your relationship with god is very strong. that is the number one mechanism. this goes back to sincerity. do you truly believe, do you truly believe that allah is watching, will reward, will deal with every person according to his or her deeds? that faith has to be in a leader. it is not a leader then you're setting yourself up for trouble because our, prophet, of the most destructive dangers to person our fame and greed for wealth and power. these are the most destructive to a man or woman's ego and pride. fame, wanted to be famous is destructive for you. wanting to be powerful, wanting to be wealthy. these are potentially the most destructive of all diseases and when you are a leader these things are given to a silver platter. you can't be a leader without fame. you cannot be a leader without a level of prestige and generally speaking, generally speaking with leadership comes opportunity at least a l

sbecause our society has put it on such a high pedestal. it can only be done on an individual level. to make someone of integrity who works hard in all of this, put on a higher pedestal to value that more. i mean i cannot talk about the entire society but i know that's how i see things and i have a lot more respect for people who are working hard and have integrity then for those who set that aside in order to get attention. >> let's hear from carolyn in virginia beach, virginia. hi carolyn. >> hi justine, my lamb is carolyn christopher. i am way out here on the east coast. thank you for taking the time to answer my question. there are so many outlets now, cable channels, amazon tv, youtube, etc. are we seeing talents being discovered or too much mediocre talent and are people really just obsessed with becoming a star and wanting that 15 minutes of fame so to speak? >> thank you, carolyn. you were just that a little bit. >> yes, carolyn. that is a great point. i think you'll really like the book because they do go into, there is a great wri

pedestals are high. when you fall you go through the other end of the cycle. i deliberately made a set of decisions i would not let my sense of self-be hostage to either the golden girl phenomenon or the crash off the pedestal, that i was the same person on the days the newspapers were running well for me and the days when newspapers were running badly, and i think that's an important kind of coping strategy. on getting ready for politics the sort of, what falls, in a wonderful party style, i got some early lessons in resilience because it took me until my sort of mid-20s to decide that i would like to be in politics, and then it took me ten years and three failed preselection attachments to get there. i wasn't thanking the labor party for this treatment at the time, but looking back on it, across the full swath of politics probably did toughen me up and enable me to get things how to deal with rejessica how to deal with when it's hard. so i'm not suggesting you throw yourself into as many negative experiences as possible are but in the way of things as a habi

pedestal about the fierce battle of world war ii. >> the troops prepared to land bases still empty in the crossfire of german guns still breaks the shore the arrival of motorized equipment marked the end of the landing. the lci's their first loads of men on the beaches to the transports to bring more troops ashore. >> that was 77 yearsea ago today on the shores of france, our guests joining us from england sir, max hastings has written sa book about d-day overlord d-day in the battle for normandy came out in 1984, max hastings 77 years later do we have a different perspective on d-day. >> i wrote that book many years ago i was able to interview a host of people american and french and british and german who had actually been there although you should never get the evidence and supported by anything but they do give you a feeling for events of how they felt that is very hard to get books and movies while i was watching that clip one particular guy interviewed was lindley higgins, he was very articulate guy and he landed at the beach on d-dayay and i asked him before it all happened, th

operation pedestal.eter: just to give you an idea of war death and military and civilians, these numbers are a little difficult to find. and you get completely and will get maxax hastings' reaction tot but according to world population review and history .com, world war i, 9 million military and deaths in world war ii, 70 million at least in the korean war, about 5 million read in the vietnam war, about one point $3m. never going to talk to max hastings about some of his other books, and the vietnam war as well but, this is a call in program and once a month on tv on "c-span2", we invited author to talk about his or her body of work and sir max hastings is joining us from england for this month on this anniversary of d-day and here is how you can participate 202 and if you live in the east central time zone, you can call in at 748-8200 and if youf live in the mountain or pacific time zone, 748 - 8201. now if you are watching us from the uk and he would like to call in, feel free to call in on either one

but they're not going to pay for the pedestal. they built the statue. they pay for the statue themselves. we have to come up with the money for the pedestal. this takes a long time. one of the projects to raise money is an album of literary productions mark twain writes something and they have some poetry in there. one of the poems is by a new yorker named emma. she come it is she who writes the sonnet about the statue which identifies as the mother of exiles. it's called the new colossus because she's contrasting with the colossus of rhodes which is the ancient statue everyone would have thought of at the time. that celebrate a military triumph. she says this is different. this is not about that. this is welcoming people here as a refuge and this is what we should be proud of that we have a free country from a country of liberty and we willing to welcome people to it. it gets put on the statue after she's dead. i she leaves her poems and she tells her sister with her executor, when you publish my poems make sure the new colossus is at the front. the si

that is a little bit from his newest book operation pedestal about the british navy.et's get our callers involved and hear from mike in lakeside california. you are on with author max hastings. >> thank you. my question was about the end of world war i and i was impressed with the various parties and what they thought about getting into world war i earlier. but coming out of world war i, woodrow wilson started the league of nations and i think it was maybe a french politician said it is pretty good and it was also may be a british or french politician that said there were 20 million, too many germans and so it was basically like let's not sign the treaty too quick. >> given all that you are saying, what is your conclusion? that's mike in lakeside california. >> i could keep you here all night. i think it's become a clichÉ among some students to say that it was a disaster. there was never going to be an easy way to call and ending to the treaty after the war that destroyed the empires and left a legacy germany itself had almost no damage at all and it was very easy for

but they will not pay for the pedestal.they built the statute and they paid for it themselves, but we have to come up the money for the pedestal. this takes a long time. one of the projects to raise money is an album of literary production, and he writes something and mark twain write something and they have poetry in their and one poem is by emma. she who writes a senate about the statue which she identifies of the mother of exile. it is called the new colossus because she's contrasting with the colossus of rhodes which is the ancient statue everyone would have thought of at the time. that celebrated a military trend. and she says this is different, this is not about that. this is welcomingt.g people hers a refuge and this is what we should be proud of that we have a free country, a country of liberty and were willing to welcome people to it. it gets put on the statue after she is done, she leaves and she tells her sister who is her executor, when you publish them make sure the new colossus is at the front. the new sister

and part of it is to take himself off the pedestal. we may be daunted to see the leader of tibet wittheir british month he made tweak your ear but you do forget he is a leader of evidence -- eminence. >> was going to ask you about the. [laughter] >> it is very real. >> it is and it is a way to relax people and put them at these and sai am not a solemn ferocious man who knows everything brest lay in new york he was with the former president of parliament and she was asking my good questions but over and over he said i don't know. what is the future of tibet? i don't know. i cannot tell the future he said part of my title is the although wayne sawyer have the prerogative to say i do not know many things. >> is there the danger of being intimidated? i think i would be intimidated to sit with him or interview him, are you able to challenge him? when someone's title is his holiness it may be intimidating but in the many nversations you have had heavy prober challenged him on the position? is the receptive to that? >> he likes nothing more.

and then they started to create the concrete structure for the pedestal. but sometimes they would just to stop. and there was this one period of time where they had the the the structure about this height. they had the statue over in paris and everything stopped for about a year. there was nothing, no money. to do it. and bartholdi was frantic because not only was he frantic because he needed to get this thing done, he also had to come up with a way to move it out of that workshop. he couldn't just leave it there forever and. so money was, you know, it was costing money all the time that it not being built. this is when pulitzer steps in. so pulitzer kind of basically hated the rich people of america, but he loved the little man. and so he saw this as a fight of just in just those terms that that if the millionaires would just give their money, the thing would be made. and so he said he wrote an editorial and he said, you know, just forget about them. they're too they're too cheap to do this. we are going to do it. so i'm going to run the name of every per

, that a not me who should be on a pedestal. ... pedestal. cyntoia: in very different version of love than what you had experienced as a child. hilary: you talk about the intertwining of love and god printed. >> about how i was told everything about my existence should revolve around pleasing a man and the men i was introduced to come i was supposed to put them and their needs on this pedestal and that was i was taught to do as a woman. and then, i mean, jamie and he's like wait a minute, that's not what this is. you don't live for me, you don't live your life for me, you live your life for christ. and i was like wow. that is completely different and he showed me the difference between being with someone who is led by their own ambition who with how they should treat other people and being someone who is by their love for christ it's completely different and that's what really showed me that cap at this man in my life. god sent me every time i was looking for a man i was looking for my own ideas of what my relationship was when he c

there's his website and his latest book operation pedestal as he noted he's working on a book on theuban missile cries. crisis. we will look forward to that. sir hastings, thank you from england. >> there's a collection of c-span products and browse to see what's new and you have time to order congressional director with contact information from members of congress and the biden administration. go to c-spanshop.org. >> historic synagogue in washington, d.c. hosted event with best-selling author and new yorker staff writer malcolm gladwell request he discussed latest book on the development of precision balming. >> the 3 major technological feats and the second biggest project was the b29 bomber, but the third was this little analog computer, mechanical device and a bunch of nobs and buttons and pullies that was intended to solve a problem since first bombs were dropped. how do you make sure it's supposed to land. insanely difficult thing this problem. your plane is going 200 miles an hour, the wind is blowing at 75 miles an hour and the temperature is going to change 100 degrees from

important anonymity remain because what tends to happen we idealize -- idolize people putting them on a pedestal and then let the government attack or slander but it is a tool to give freedom and protect your money more than the government is protecting your money and it is important to keep that anonymity. >>host: in your children's book bitcoin fred is that the big bad government? >> you can't leave the analogy into that. but potentially although it was more about normalizing bitcoin rewrote it at the time nobody was talking about it anytime you did here anything it was about money laundering. i go back to a story i live in new york now we would talk about bitcoin they say we never hear of that. so this was a way to normalize the world with the everyday vernacular not how it works but just to say this is something you could use in your everyday life is able use your computer or visa debit card you don't have to understand how it works but just know about it and it's very easy to use but getting people talking about it so the children's book then you could get away from the school bully to intr

, but she said the pedestal is actually a cage. and that is when she began her campaign. >> and the genius insight of her litigation career at least as i have always understood it is that the leading woman's rights advocate in the history of american law pixmap. >> she likes to say there's a story that we tell at aa dinner party someone introduces her and says this is ruth bader ginsburg. she says actually it's women's and men's liberation. it is not just about women achieving these roles in public society but in order to really dismantle these gender stereotypes you need to show that men also could do the things that we might consider to be feminine. >> give examples. >> she represented clients who are trying to be the primary caregivers of children. >> the story is pretty amazing. it's really unbelievable story. >> he cofounded the aclu. it's not the men's rights but the women's rights project. but they represent everything she was trying to do for the broader project. had fallen in love with a woman, she was a teacher, he was in

that's a little bit from his newest book "operation pedestal" about the british navy and malta. callers involved in let's hear from mike in lakeside california. mike, thanks for holding and you are on with author max hastings. >> caller: thank you booktv and thank you mr. hastings. my question was about the end of world war i and i was impressed with the candor about the various parties and what they thought about getting into world war i. they are coming out of world war i and woodrow wilson started the league of nations and i think it was maybe the french politician that said even the good lord need to take commandments which was pretty good and also i think it was maybe a british or french politician said about the end of the war there were 20 million, too many germans and so would not sign the treaty to quit. let's go given all that you are saying there what is your conclusion about the end of the war? >> caller: just a little bit of tender from the same spirit of mr. hastings about the british. i think perhaps lord grey and some other characters decided to butter up preside

as the judge in one of the many moments of the trial says knocks bar by off her -- barbie off her pedestal. and so the story begins with a very unlikely hero. think about a shy elton john, a very creative young designer, carter bryant, who always dreams about being a fashion designer, has been sketching from childhood all sorts of angels and fairies, and he describes himself as being sort of that awkward boy when he was growing up in los angeles who, while other boys were maybe playing with trucks and cars and with balls outside, you know, soccer, he was actually playing with barbie. and his, and reading fashion magazines, and his mother was very supportive. she actually testified in court about all of this. and he wants to be in high fashion, but the second best when you're working in los angeles is this conglomerate, mattel, that criminals such a big market share and has such, you know, huge purchasing power of, you know, talent. he takes a job designing barbie clothes. he becomes really frustrated with the culture of mattel. he feels like it's been very stagnant, there's not acceptance

if they are on a pedestals because more of us can see them.to me it's this is more of sequential work in my own life to a book i did almost 20 years ago now called "american gospel", which was about the role of religion in public life and a book i did two years ago called "the soul of america" which was how the vision, fear, anxiety, tend to be the rule not the exception in american life. things have tended to move along on a spectrum of progress. where the lewis book fits into that argument, doctor king said, the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. if that arc is going to bed, there has to be people insisting that it swerved. that's part of the dialectic of this and i wanted to shine a light on john lewis, who insisted as effectively as anyone in american memory insisted that that arc swerved toward justice. >> let's hear from our viewers and we will start with barked in baltimore, you are on with jon meacham. >> thank you so much mr. meacham, it's a great pleasure to hear you. i was looking forward to hearing you

has stood as a beacon of hope while getting those from other lands and inscribed at the foundation pedestal of that statue are these words. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to pay three, the wretched refuse of your team ensures send me the homeless, the tempest tossed to me and i lift my lamps besides the gordon door and those for the welcoming words to hundreds of thousands arriving here in the united states. as i speak at this moment 800,000 young men and women right here in america are yearning to breathe free as full participants in the nation they have grown up in in these rr dreamers. it dreamers like this group of oregonians who visited my office in december came to this country as very young children and who went to elementary school here in high school here and who are our neighbors, our community members and gone on to college taken jobs in ourg contributing to every possible way to our community. studying in our schools, practicingpr in working in our industries. they are now young adults striving to support their families and build the strength of this

what i found from those individuals that have worn the uniform of the people we hold on a pedestal like the presiding officer, what i found is that theyct respect diplomacy more tn almost anyone else because they know that it's the thing thatt keeps our men and women from being in harms way and i know this nominee believes strongly int the role of diplomacy. and he's seen it in action first hand on the ground. he graduated after serving in the military can he graduated from harvard law school where he was the editor of the review and he then founded his own company acting as ceo and became president of another company after that so he served in the private sector. four times he was elected in kansas to the fourth district and let me just say this sometimes people say things when they are in public office and running and campaign and i know some has been said about that. i will say we confirmed secretary by 94 votes and i can assure you during the campaign they may have said some things the republicans didn't particularly w care for, but we went ahead and confirm them with 94 votes on th

tell the story that i thought had to be told was that in order for barbie to be knocked off her pedestal and in order for a new doll line to thrive really like a greek tragedy, that parent had to be written off. carter bryant the individual becomes sort of a pawn and then just disappears really from the scene. this is still a david versus goliath story, but the david here is not carter bryant. it's actually a much more powerful david. it is isaac larrikin, a jewish iranian immigrant who starts, violence his own toy company and is really that bold, used the owner owner now because of brats, of the largest most lucrative privately held toy company in the united states because he really has that ability to go over, after a resist the goliath, mattel, that as the story unfolds you see how it really uses everything it can to fight off competition, different expressions, images of barbie that they don't control. so going after not just toy makers are going after artist the represent barbie in a different way, musicians, film producers. there's just sort of a roller coaster story of who mattel

he leaves mattel and they develop a huge empire that knocks barbie offer pedestal, so i went to read to you to actually set the stage the very first paragraph from not even the first chapter, the introduction of "you don't own me" to give you some sense of how the story begins. she was blonde and beautiful, statuesque with a long slender legs, a tiny waist and a chest so large that researchers claimed any similarly endowed woman would surely tip over. four years carter bryant to beautifully served her. he styled her hair am addressed her skirts, dresses and luxurious grout-- cows, adored her injury and even applied her bake-- makeup and shows looked fabulous. today, we week she was unblemished, shiny and new and in a 3 billion-dollar industry she dominated over 90% market share for five decades and perhaps i was what carter decides for perfection at absence of a single flock and never change while people gain weight, their skin wrinkled and sag their hair grade, barbie stood perfect and closing of the changing world and while she remained ageless and pristine the world she had been b

women were at home and they said it was like a pedestal but she said that pedestal is actually a cage and that's when she began hercampaign . >> host: and the genius insight of her litigation career, at least as i have always understood it, is that the leading women's rights advocate in the history of american law pics men for clients. why? >> guest: she likes to say, there's a story we tell that at a dinner party someone introduces her and says this is ruth bader ginsburg. she works on behalf of women's liberation and she interrupts that person and says actually, it's women's and men's liberation. that's indicative of her view of feminism which is that it's not just about women being in these roles in public society which is obviously important but in order to really dismantle these gender stereotypes, you needed to show that men also could do the things that we might consider to be feminine. >> host: give someexamples. how did that work ? >> guest: she represented male clients who were trying, for example, to be the primary caregivers of their children and get some sort of benefit f

is not me who should be on a pedestal. very different version of love and what you had experience as a child. can you talk about that? that sort of intertwining of loving god? >> i was speaking earlier how i was told everything about my existence should involve around pleasing men. the men i was introduced to i was supposed to put them their needs on this pedestal. zoe's top that's what i'm supposed to do as a woman. and then i meet jamie and he's like whoa, wait a minute that's not what this is. you don't live for meat you don't live your life for me live your life for christ. i was like wow. that's completely different. and he showed me the difference of being with someone who's led by their own ambition, who lived by how they should treat other people and see someone who's led by their love for christ it'sel completely different. that's it really showed me that god put this man in my life. all this time i was looking for a man i was looking for my own ideas about what relationship was he's the one that sent me the perso

can you redesign in, give me a pedestal. the crawford, fast worker just takes meigs brings back a pedestal here, but also the lady is completely different. most important, she is wearing this cat. this is known as a liberty cap, symbol from antiquity as a man united ways. it had been resurrected during the american and french revolutions and crawford wanted to use a. you have freedom triumphant and more the sword and peace and freedom that. well, meigs knew that davis didn't like liberty caps. davis really didn't like liberty caps because he thought that they were inappropriate in the united states because the united states -- people of the united states were never slaves. they were always free. this is an unusual statement to make in a country with 4 million equal in bondage. but okay. so meigs said already. we won't have the liberty bell. and so, he sent back to crawford for a third design. and this is what crawford came back with and this is the freedom from triumphant warrant peace we have today. crawford is feeling toda

so i don't see myself as one who should be in any way put on a pedestal. that was the one thing growing up that my father and both parents instilled in us, that we were normal, ordinary people. and i often tell young people that my father did do extraordinary things, but he was an ordinary man. and he was a human being who wanted, like so many people, to be a part of society, wanted -- believed in community, was a very compassionate person, a very warm person, a very giving person. and i feel like all of those values and all of those qualities were instilled in all of my family members. so i'm very proud, as i said, to have that rich heritage. and i would lastly say that having this opportunity to be in a real sense the first king sibling, if you will, king offspring to have a book at this point, to be presented is a real honor and privilege for me because it took a lot out of me to be able to go inside and reach deep down and tap into my inner most feelings and my vulnerabilities and be true to my own inner voice. and this process really has been liberati

time not just during of few hours on june 3rd, 1864 north the same time should we put a brand on of pedestal. human flesh and blood with flaws. however what is undeniable about grant and then to make it a disappointment or a few days. using it as a stepping stone pretty soon the sites for the southwest the rail junction of petersburg the confederate capital is attacking lee's army in the open field they would attack was logistics'. as for me cold harbor was a tactical victory despite the hits this sustained through the first week of june june 1864, he could hold his army together. leadership and the endurance of the men that he led. the herring that granted minister does nothing like the confederates had seen before but they were worn down and the ability were reduced the capability was reduced to a stand of prolonged attack that is coming in the next two weeks after the fighting ended at cold harbor. now i will pass it over to use. >> thank you mr. davis. so to talk about what is the battle of cold harbor? today it is one of the great quotations recently by historians from a lieutenant-colo

they maybe ignorant of the pedestal, but they knew what the statute of liberty is.ned and looked at the new york sky line. it's the first view of the world in which they are basing their nurture hopes on. if the conditions are just right, the sun is gleaming after of the gold dome. and so the tallest building, taller than trinity church, the thing that's lighting up in the distance is not a monument of commerce, not a monument to banking or retail or agriculture. it's a monument to the american mass media, the only constitutionally protected business in our society. specifically, it's the first glimpse of the world newspaper that will be their key to the economic growth. their key to learning americanisms of all sorts. their key to learning the english language. he admonished, pulitzer admonished reporters to write sentences to tell everything in the the form -- in the form of a story. his interest was political power. he hoped they would eventually turn to the page. the first president after the civil war is grover cleveland. do the math. it's the paper that got hi