what does it mean about us and our relationship with george washington? washington died on september 14, and this is a victorian rendition, a mid 19th century rendition of it. it seemed like a very peaceful scene, actually. there's a gentle sadness about it. it's like he died peacefully at mount vernon, and americans shared collective tears; the great man has passed, and we're now going to move on and live by his example. actually, it was for most americans a wrenching, emotional moment. it was an event that cast us into a state of anguish. we were mortified, we were terrified, what's going to happen now? the great man has passed away. we're on the cusp of a new century into the 1800s. we are at war. a lot of people don't realize that when washington died, he was an active -- in active military service as the commander in the field of our armed forces when we were expecting at any moment we might be invaded by france. it was a period called the quasiwar when it was kind of undeclared war between the united states and france, and there was this fear that th

i'm a freshman and george washington high school. my goal is to attend college and to do so, i need, of course, at least three to four years of math and science to get into u.c. or c.s.u., so why let budget cuts determine my future? i will not sit here and see my education thrown away out the door. i just studied this year, in the beginning, and i plan on doing dance for several years. it's what keeps me going and a passion i've had for the longest time from elementary school through middle school and up to now. as you can see, it's a pretty big deal to me. not only are you cutting dance class but you are also -- i don't have enough years of my world language and i would like to take spanish for the next three years but now that budget cut will cut me so i will only have to do two years. please stop our budget cuts and find the money in your budget, please, somewhere else. thank you for listening. [applause] >> good evening, my name is john frank. i am a music teacher at hoover middle school but i'm here in support of the reinstating

my name is -- and i am a junior at george washington high school.st, i want to say that i want to thank people for giving us the best opportunity to succeed in life, which is like giving us the best education, and one of my goals is to get into college, and right now, i feel the language issue is going to lessen my chance. so i really want to ask you guys to give us more students so we can get enough money. give us more students at george washington high school, it is that would give enough money for next year's fund. they keep. -- thank you. [applause] >> i am the chair of the languages department at george washington high school. we wrote you a letter, explaining the situation. i will be brief, and i will explain what is going on. this year, two of our teachers are retiring. we cannot replace them. so now, we are cutting eight sections. chinese, for example, is not going to offer a third year. it is not going to offer and ap class. this is something that is not for us. this is something that is affecting our students. i am thinking the students ar

i'm a freshman and george washington high school. my goal is to attend college and to do so, i need, of course, at least three to four years of math and science to get into u.c. or c.s.u., so why let budget cuts determine my future? i will not sit here and see my education thrown away out the door. i just studied this year, in the beginning, and i plan on doing dance for several years. it's what keeps me going and a passion i've had for the longest time from elementary school through middle school and up to now. as you can see, it's a pretty big deal to me. not only are you cutting dance class but you are also -- i

in this panel, we have a depiction of george washington moving west.is interesting about it is the image of lewis and clark here is in black and white, something that is occurring in the future, painted as though it was in the past. what is interesting about it is the very obvious conclusion of slavery. the number of students were expressing unease around some of the themes. the additional mural would be placed in the school, one with more positive representation of the student body. in 1974, they completed three panels that were placed in the library -- in the lobby. they depict native, latino, asian american, and african- american heritage and culture. >> that artist was talking about the history coming alive. that is what we want for the students here. i also think they might share that with past alumni and the community, so they could no the treasure that we have here in the schools. many people have the same experience i did when i first walked into this building three years ago, being the new principal. the grandeur of these murals is fantastic.

my name is melissa connelly, the parent of a beautiful freshman at george washington high. i'd like to thank our counselor and also the parent that handed me a flier this morning and now i'm standing before you. i've never done this before and only been educated by the counselor this afternoon on what's going on. i'd like to represent our family and thank you for your hard work but please help us and george washington high with our budget cuts. right now, our daughter's goal at george washington high is to accumulate credits to attend college. currently, that budget cut will affect her chances. it is cutting into her -- there's going to be three only limited three years of math and science and world language. these are credits she needs to attend college so she will be speaking next. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> do i just press this button?

in this panel, we have a depiction of george washington moving west. what is interesting about it is the image of lewis and clark here is in black and white, something that is occurring in the future, painted as though it was in the past. what is interesting about it is the very obvious conclusion of slavery. the number of students were expressing unease around some of the themes. the additional mural would be placed in the school, one with more positive representation of the student body. in 1974, they

and the florida senate i recounted a choice that general george washington made twenty thirty years ago. york city and long island and capture washington and the continental army had retreated across new jersey to pennsylvania suffering tremendous casualties here in new york american prisoners often held in the halls of boats anchored in the harbor off of brooklyn were suffering unspeakably at the hands of the british because of american independence was in doubt then washington won the battle of trenton capturing nearly one thousand prisoners of war and he had to decide what to do with them he ordered he gave should still speak to us treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the british army and their treatment of our unfortunate grad run there can be no mercy for those who perpetrated nine eleven and other crimes against humanity but we have to pursue justice and a way that lifts up our values the rule of law and sets an example we can point to with pride not shame and in fact george washington's policies were followed was a

they sent 21-year-old major george washington 242 came from a french court that sat on the site of present-day pittsburgh before the students started playing pictures they are. washington ordered the french to leave. the french refused in the following spring washington returned with troops and attack again most americans do about this, but washington fired the first shot in what he can do world's first true world were. his attack on the french and the western pennsylvania wilderness group that would last seven years and above england, france, austria, russia and a dozen other nations fighting for control of colonies in north america, africa, asia and the season between. the seven years war change the map of the world, shifting national borders in europe and africa and india and elsewhere. towns and villages in europe show remained more than a million soldiers in civilians and bankrupt due to destinations including england and france. it started in north american colonies in the reduce government and british people naturally thought british subjects in british north america should share the co

but susie, the stuff won't be sold commercially, so don't look for george washington to replace sam adams on the bar list. >> susie: that new brand is a mouthful to say. >> tom: yes it is, absolutely. >> tom: that's "nightly business report" for wednesday, may 4. i'm tom hudson. good night everyone, and good night to you too, susie. >> susie: good night tom. i'm susie gharib. good night everyone. we hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

know the story, the governor of virginia sent 21-year-old major george washington to fort duquesne, a french port that sat on the site of present-day pittsburgh before this dealer started playing football there. washington ordered the french to leave. the french refused and the following spring washington returned with troops and attacked. the story but washington fired the first shot in what became the world's first true world war. his attack on the french and the western pennsylvania wilderness grew into a global conflict that would last seven years and involve england, france, austria, prussia, russia and a dozen other nations fighting for control of colonies in north america, africa, asia and the seas in between. the seven years war change the map of the world, shifting national borders in europe, in africa, in india and elsewhere. it leveled thousands of towns and villages in europe, killed or maimed more than a million soldiers and civilians and tank up did a dozen nations including england and france. now remember it started in britain's north american colonies and the british

. >> students came from george washington, and it was wonderful to have them on a panel. people from the school board, those who have been painting for years, some conservative errors from the getty. to have them tell us about the works of their school was important. it represents african-american artists to during the 20's and 30's used an incredible body of work. it is one of the most incredible works of art in the city, bar none. it is a huge mural of incredible works. >> the san francisco civic arts collection has been in existence since the turn of the century. it consists of everything from monument to golden gate park to market street, other works in the collection, from the wpa era, the quite tower, the works from the george washington high school. we have the contemporary education, where they depict some of the vocational arts that were taught at george washington high school. what is interesting is the artist's and corp. of some of the -- incorporation of some of the architectural elements. they used the speaker from the p a system as part of the design. on the

george washington. hollywood high school. they have english, latin and greek. this is a middle school in long beach. it wasn't centralized authority. they chose the architects. the main constraint is there had to be an engineer on site. there there is berkeley. and piedmont avenue in oakland. this is in nevada city. these schools, like so many of the new deal are beautifully built. this is the school you just saw. teaching, they employed tens of thousands of teachers and librariance. new nutritionist. starving children don't learn well. they give them lunches. this is an art class in san francisco hospital. art class for crippled children. the photographers that i find of san francisco indicate that schools were integrated at the lowest level. you could mitigate the racial problem from the bottom up. there was also adult education too. this 1 learned one learned to read as many did. many of the community colleges were a result of the new deal. sacramento. i gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in san francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has

apprentice with mayor lee, but you can -- >> i am patrice thompson, an english teacher from george washington high school, good evening, superintendent garcia and board members korea i am here to talk about the situation at george washington. many people, from hunters point to around another area, they would like to attend school there, and we have lost students do something i do not understand, especially when students were to come here. with fewer students, we're not able to provide what students need to not only get into the u.c. system, at haute the state system, we are getting rid of those classes. whether anyone likes it or not, i also the mother of a 12th grader, and i have had 90 seniors, and what i've seen is that regular programming, haute gta, as a teacup of a rigorous and diversity of programs and the arts and english classes, one third, really a fourth year of mass, the best thing is for students to have the most rigorous program, and we are not able to provide that unless we have at least 200 students return to us, so i am asking that at least 200 students get returned to us and

ibm and 11th grader at george washington high school, -- i am an 11th grader. there were opportunities of the school as well as the band program. taking what was interesting to me. by cutting classes, not only are you and the state of california lessening the value of mine and my fellow classmates education, you're also eliminating from them key components which should be part of every child's education. every student, particularly here in san francisco, one of the most open-minded and educated cities in the world, should have the opportunity to play an instrument and speak a language. although times are hard, especially in california, it is your responsibility to keep the cuts away from our courtroom. this is so we can continue bill level of of finance we have been accustomed to. >> good evening. i am a teacher. .i am pro note of them. those were my two students. my daughter. working to keep the cut away from the classroom, f/a-18. [applause] -- thank you. >> i teach choir of the presidium middle school in washington high school. i know there are a lot of peop

(laughter) >> stephen: and george washington's idea of being president. of course obama still refuses to release bin laden's death pictures. why, did they not get a good photo? he couldn't have been blinking. everyone wants to see it. even npr. >> they must be pretty bad if you can't show them on radio. (laughter) >> stephen: now personally, i am torn about bin laden. on the one hand-- (laughter) on the one hand i have waited years to see this guy dead. but seeing him dead would make me feel safer. and that ter fews me. because if al qaeda is gone, i'm afraid we'll let our guard down and then al qaeda will attack. so i say we need a strong al qaeda so we stay vigilant and destroy al qaeda. (laughter) >> stephen: and you know who i blame? al qaeda. (laughter) >> stephen: just listen who they want to replace bin laden with. >> this is the man who many consider likely to get the job al zawahiri but also known as a pretty divisive figure within al qaeda. >> we are told that zoo what wir-- al zoo qa heri is not that popular in the organization. >> he is not ch

he takes it to modern in and takes it to george washington and washington was not a college guy. webster was a yale man. madison was a princeton man. john adams was a harvard man. washington is very impressed by webster. he said that is interesting idea. he is a great delegator so he says i will give it to mr. madison if possible. he gives it to madison and webster's pamphlet becomes instrumental in drafting the constitution. in 1787 webster is at the constitutional convention. these forest gump moments are moving into mover and shaker moment. in 1787 at the constitutional convention as soon as washington arrived the first thing he does is knock on webster's dorr. he is not a delegate. he is there as a journalist, so-called convention men realize his talent and right after the convention they ask him to draft a pamphlet in support of the constitution. he does that and historians have compared that pamphlet to the federalist papers and it may have been more influential because it was circulated through the entire country and was ready, was published after the convention and the fe

i'm a senior at george washington high school. our school is very fortunate to have like such a great music program and we want lincoln to have the same opportunity as we do. the students in our band get the opportunity to play at solo ensemble and all city. we get to learn from college professors and professional musicians. and the japanese embassy heard of our band and asked us to play music to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ship from japan to come to the united states. we also play in small groups at the cliff house hotel lobbies and restaurants sometimes and we get donations from people and we were able to raise $20,000 for our marching band uniforms and we are able to put the marching band for the first time in over 30 years from public school. thank you. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, board. i'm the instrumental music director at george washington high school. i'm here actually on a different capacity. i'm here representing aim and in the very large shoes of dan ryan whose name i know you all kn

why torture is incompatible with american principles we just have to go there first president george washington was your war told us as much that we're sure it's not it's because the despite whether or not it works or states' rights is not compatible with earth right. now i'm just wondering of course it's always hard to look back and try to you know to try to say that things could have been different but you yourself you know you are an interrogator you say that torture is not the best way to get information out of people this is the same report coming from so many interrogators out there so do you think that we could have gotten to bin ladin not almost ten years later but much earlier had we not been waterboarding collegiate muhammad hundred eighty three times. without a doubt it think we would have done much earlier we had reports of torture for several reasons one is it's not just the interrogation it was certainly knew. everything about the way he did by the name of the courier what he did if you refused to acknowledge the courier that he knew him or that he would ask you and we're being to

is wrong as something of a country though is that like you said even from our founding with george washington that we do not torture and now the entire conversation is based around does it work or not. and that's a tragedy because there's other things that we don't use that certainly work example chemical weapons u.s. infantry could certainly save lives by using a weapon that's one hundred percent practical but they don't do it because it works it doesn't work it's because it's immoral and out of over process or think about what are our principles same thing with frank first there's a difference i have that we could compare but we are using based on efficacy our argument based on her earlier. matthew i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight and you know i think it's really important to hear it from this source or someone who has been there that this is not a tactic that we should rely on thanks very much. and still to come tonight i'll tell our talk show host after he questions why no country music stars have released songs about killing osama bin laden i've been to night school t

washington. some are. many are not. the facts are that bush started tarp. but in the last two years, has it gone away? the last two years, everybody was fighting with george bush. in bed with big business? has big business lost its grip in washington? it hasn't. it has tightened it. it has been enfrenched and rewarded. g.e. pays no tax despite record earnings. g.m. is leeching the worker. and should be the poster child of corporate welfare, while it introduces the new green chevy volt. what a sham. the only thing green treasury notes that are going to the unions and the kickbacks now going again to general electric. wall street and the large, large corporate banks are more powerful and more wealthy. as they are the real recipients of the trillions of dollars currently being printed by our treasury. through the action of washington and the fed, the biggest of all corporations, the fed, the only group losing power is the worker. the people are being impoverished. they are losing the value of their homes, 401(k)s, and most of all, the people are being impoverished in voice. boy, does it sound like a marxist dream? the monologue i'm giving? no. it is a libert

noah webster has an idea, he does some things and he takes it to mount vernon and takes it to george washington. washington was on a college guy. john adams was a harvard man. washington was in college. he's very impressed by webster and it's a very interesting idea and he's a great delegator. so he says i'll give it to mr. madison as soon as possible. he gives it to madison in webster's pamphlet becomes instrumental in the drafting constitution. in 1787, webster's at the constitutional convention. they are now evolving into mover and shaker moments. in 1787 he set the constitutional convention. as soon as washington arrives, the first thing he does is not on webster's door. he's not a delicate. if there is a journalist at the convention than realizes talent. right after the convention may ask them to draft a pamphlet in support of the constitution is compared to pamphlet to the federalist papers and may have been circulated throughout the entire country and was ready and published right after the convention is supposed to federalist papers which were mostly in new york. i have a chapter called

george washington university -- the current reading of 59.emperatures at 10 degree difference as you head to the north. hagerstown at 56. 51 in manassas. warmer temperatures it really not that far away, as you travel to the south the carolinas well into the 70's. we will see temperatures in the 70's tomorrow. there will be a cold front off to the west of us. this arrives late tuesday into wednesday as it moves closer to the mid-atlantic. the clouds will stick around. the best chance for showers and embedded thunderstorms will come into being on tuesday night and wednesday. live doppler radar. a few light showers on a interstate270, down towards annapolis and the delmarva peninsula. we will see periods of heavy rain for the next 25 minutes. the next 48 hours clouds increase and we call for temperatures to rebound to 80 degrees. that will happen on tuesday. here is our forecast overnight. mostly cloudy. areas of drizzle. 50-55 degrees. tomorrow 78-75 with late date showers. our extended a look calls for high temperatures, near 80 on tuesday. la

then new york city mayor michael bloomberg gist his address to students at george washington university here in d.c. and then we'll hear from award winning neuro surgeon. he spoke about the importance of his religion and decision making process as a politician. this is 15 minutes. >> it's an honor to be here with you all today. thank you for the honorary degree. it's an honor to be with you. thank you as well and all of you. had i known i was getting an honorary degree i would have skipped law school 13 years ago and just saved lot of money. in any event, i'm grateful for it. thank you so much. i'm honored and privileged to be here today on such an important day for all of you. this is my fourth commencement address. i always get to wear this robe. i brought my kids to one of them. they were wondering why no one in the choir was singing. so they're not here today. so i get invited to these i think because for a lot of different reasons i hope but one is to kind of share any insight or knowledge that i have about how to be successful or what the future should look like. and i think i bri

our gw media institute affiliated with our george washington university school of media and public affairs explores the evolving roles and responsibilities of the media in our society. what better way to engage in that mission than with tonight's program which actually began to take for exactly 50 years ago. in 1961, what a year. on january 20, john f. kennedy sworn in as president and delivers a memorable inaugural address highlighted by the call to service. ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. on may 5th, alan shepard becomes the first american in space. roger maris of the new york yankees ranks of a brute's, a record with ricky mandel behind. on august 4, 1961, 18-year-old anne dunham this birth to her first child and december of obama. pledge your lies to the comprises a warning to leave for to kill a mockingbird and in 1961 the tony award for best actor in a musical was won by richard burton for his portrayal of king arthur in the musical camelot. for many of us in this room, that play and its title song stirred memories of a magical time in