the civil rights law introduced by former iowa senator tom harkin. he talks about the impacts of the laws impacting people with disabilities including supreme court cases. he talked about the eugenics movement of the late 19th and 20th centuries that led to the sterilization of thousands americans with disabilities. the byrd center for congressional history and education hosted this 90 minute event. >> welcome to the byrd center for congressional history and education. my name is jay wyatt, i am the director. i want to thank you for joining us today as we celebrate constitution day with the 14th annual moses memorial lecture on the u.s. constitution. before we get started, i want to gently remind everybody to police silence your cell phones. thank you. it is very exciting to see a packed house today, with so many special guests. first and foremost, i want to thank this year's constitution day speaker, senator tom harkin and his wife ruth for taking time out to be with us. i want to recognize and thank the shepherd university president and the provost

the civil rights law introduced by former iowa senator tom harkin.cts of the laws impacting people with disabilities including supreme court cases. he talked about the eugenics movement of the late 19th and 20th centuries that led to the sterilization of thousands americans with disabilities. the byrd center for congressional history and education hosted this 90 minute event. >> welcome to the byrd center for congressional history and education. my name is jay wyatt, i am the director. i want to thank you for joining us today as we celebrate constitution day with the 14th annual moses memorial lecture on the u.s. constitution. before we get started, i want to

tom harkin. [applause] sen. harkin: that was very nice. thank you. thank you very much. jay, thank you very much for the kind and generous introduction. again, i want to recognize a longtime friend, fellow worker , and all of the efforts over the last 20 years, i guess, or so of making sure we had enough funding and support for medical biomedical research in america, especially to the national institute of health. that is the president of shepherd university, mary hendrix. [applause] [applause] sen. harkin: who also graced the state of iowa at the university of iowa too. again, we worked together on so many issues in regard to medical biomedical research in the past. i thank you again for having me here. jay, of course, you are director. ray smock is a former director who was here at the beginning, at the dawn of all of this. jodi, back here, archivist. i want to thank the president of drake university. the harkin institute is that drake university in des moines. the director of the harkin institute is here. our archivist hope is here. i always pay homage to archivists.

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and ohio senator tom harkin explores the history of laws that impact americans with disabilities, as well as several key supreme court cases. in 1979, olmsted was a georgia case. two women had been put in an institution and they argued that they did not want to be there. they should be free to live on their own, how the community. and this made its way all to the supreme court. the supreme court sided with them, and said yes. , the leastution restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. on american00 artifacts, we travel to france to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, including a visit to the argonne forest for the story of the lost battalion. >> there are 554 men who are cut off from the main body of the division. they are from two different regiments, the 307th and the 308th infantry, and they are mixed companies. their major is an attorney from wall street. the germans are surrounding them from the hills here and firing them. his men take cover near what they call the charlottesville mel. -- meanwhile, the

with conventional wisdom so everybody wants to stay out of the race of bill clinton steps forward tom harkin wilder, jerry brown who hasn't even been in american politics for a decade and here he is running for president again and the economy is getting worse and h w bush goes from 91 percent by the end of the year is down at 50 going south from there. democrat say this could be winnable with a real candidate so now cuomo after giving a speech in san francisco he stole everybody's dream candidate there were delegates crying after that this was valentines to the great society in this idea that this is what we are missing. now cuomo is our great communicator. we don't have to compromise. government is the problem. so he does not get in one of the last phone calls he places that morning. he was wracked with the decision with the pressure he did not personally seem to want to run he looked at a former aide whose pinion he respected at a different level and tim russert was a cuomo aid in what he respected about russert going from his staff to dc at that point as the bureau chief and when he calle

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of a giant statue of an owl and effigy a statue called the creation of care. 4:30 p.m., senator tom harkinthor of the americans with disabilities act explores laws that impacted americans with disabilities as well as several key supreme court cases. >> one good decision in 1999 called allstate, it was a georgia case, it was two women institution in an and they had argued that they did not want to be there, that they should be free to live on their own out in the community, and this made its way all the way to the supreme court and the supreme court sided with him and ,aid, yeah, the constitution the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. artifacts,n american we traveled to france to visit key battlefields and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the and of world war i, including a visit to the argonne forest for the story of the lost battalion. from4 men who were cut off the main body of the division from two different regiments, 308th7th and a -- the infantry and they are mixed companies, they are led by an attorne

. ♪ this weekend on american attory tv on c-span3, sunday 4:30 p.m., former iowa senator tom harkin,uthor of the americans with disabilities act, explores the history of loss that impact americans with disabilities, as well as key court cases. 1989, decision in olmstead, it was a georgia case. it was two women who were put in an institution, and they had argued that they did not want to be there, that they should be free to live on their own out in the community, and it made its way all the way to the supreme court. the supreme court sided with them and said, yes. the constitution, the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally-based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. on american00 artifact, we traveled to france to visit battlefields and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, including a visit to the argonne forest, for a story about the lost battalion. 554 men were cut off from the main body of the division. they were from two regiments, infantry.and 308th they are led by an attorney from wall street. the germans are surrounding t

. >> this weekend, on american c-span3, former iowa senator tom harkin, author of the americans with disabilities act, explore the history of laws that have impacted americans with disabilities, as well as supreme -- supreme court cases. >> one good decision in 1999 was a georgia case. again, it was two women who were put in an institution. they had argued that they did not want to be there. that they should be free to live on their own out in the community. this made its way to the supreme court and the supreme court sided and said yeah, the constitution, the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. >> and at 6:00 we travel to france to visit key battlefields and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, including a visit to the argonne forest. who were cut off from the main body of the division. they were from two different regiments, the 307,000 308 infantry in mixed company. led by major charles whittlesey, an attorney from wall street. the germans are surrounding them from the hills, here

like tom harkin. it is the party of the environment. it is the party of we, not the party of me.t is the party of inclusion, not the party of exclusion. it is the party that believes that someone who is nice to you but not nice to the waiter is not a nice person. [applause] senator booker it is a party : that understands that we care about the people assembled in the hall but we care about the people who will be here after work cleaning up and cleaning the bathroom. that is who we are. we are the party that remembers who this nation is and how we got here. we know the african saying that says if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together. and we democrats, faithful to our history, have to remember, if we are faithful to our history, we have to remember how change is made. change is not made by us sitting there hoping things happen. change is not made by waiting for washington. we democrats know that change never comes from washington. it goes to washington. you all know this, come on now. it was not a bunch of men in washington that sat around one day a

watching american history tv. 3.ly on c-span this weekend on american history tv, former iowa senator tom harkin explores the history of laws that have impacted americans with disabilities and several key supreme court cases. senator harkin introduced the americans with disabilities act approved by congress in 1990. here's a preview. >> we come to the 20th century and in the beginning of the 1900s we have the eugenics movement. how many people of h -- smart crowd. most people have never heard of it. i like to say most americans have heard or read about the darkest chapters of our history ofe slavery and the genocide our native indians. atrocities in war but few have ever learned about the eugenics movement and the harm it brought the thousands of people with disabilities. the person who coined the phrase was a cousin of charles darwin who lived in britain, france don't -- francis dalton. he advocated selected human breeding. charles davenport was a biologist. he started a facility at cold harbor springs on long island and it was called the eugenics recording office at cold harbor springs. its pu

>> sunday at 4:30 p.m., former iowa senator tom harkin, author "the americans with disabilities act" explores the history of laws that impact americans with disabilities as well as several key supreme court cases. >> one good decision in 99, it was a georgia case. again, it was two women who were put in an institution, and they had argued that they didn't want to be there, that they should be free to live on their own, out in the community, and this made its way all the way to the supreme court. and the supreme court sided with them and said yeah, the constitution, the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. >> and at 6:00, on american artifacts, we travel to france to visit key battlefields and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, including a visit to the argon forest for the story of the lost battalion. >> there are 554 men who were cut off from the main body of the division. they're from two different regiments, the 307th and the 308th, infantry, and they are mixed companies. they are

>>> and sunday at 4:30 p.m., former senator tom harkin of iowa discusses the impacts of laws that have impacted americans with disabilities. >> one decision in 1999 called olmsted voc. it was a georgia case. again, it was two women who were put in an institution and they had argued that they didn't want to be there, that they should be free to live on their own out in the community, and this made its way all the way to the supreme court. and the supreme court sided with them. they said, yeah, the constitution -- the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. >>> and at 6:00, on american artifacts, we travel to france to visit key battlefields and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, including a visit to the argonne forest for the story of the lost battalion. >> there were 554 men cut off from the body of main division. they are from the 207th and 308th infantry and they're mixed companies. they're led by major charles whittlesee. he's an attorney from wall street. the germans are surrounding

>>> and sunday tom harkin, author of the americans with disabilities act explores the history of lawsthat of impacted americans with disabilities, as well as several key supreme court cases. >> one decision in 1999. it was a georgia case. again, it was two women who were put in an institution and they had argued that they did not want to be there. that they should be free to live on their own, out in the community. and this made its way to the supreme court and the supreme court sided with them. they said, yeah, the constitution, the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. >>> and at 6:00 on american artifacts, we traveled to france to visit key battlefields and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, including a visit to the argonne forest for a visit with the lost battalion. >> they were 454 men cut off from the main body of the division. they are from two different regiments. the 30 seventh and 308. they are in -- the 307th and 308th. the germans are surrounding them from the hills and firing. these me

>> sunday at 4:30 p.m., former iowa senator tom harkin explores the history of laws that have impacted americans with disabilities as well as key supreme court cases. >> one case called olmstead dlc. it was a georgia case. it was two women who were put in an institution and they had argued that they didn't want to be there. that they should be free to live on their own out in the community. this made its way all the way to the supreme court. the supreme court sided would them. said, yeah, the constitution, the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. >> and at 6:00, on american artifacts, we travel to france to visit key battlefields and monulat monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of world war i. >> there are 554 men who are cut off from the main body of the division. they're from two different regiments and they're mixed companies. they're led by a major, an attorney from wall street. the germans are surrounding them from the hills here and firing. his men take cover near what th they call a mill. meanwhile, the re

visit ncicap.org] announcer: this weekend on american history tv, former iowa senator tom harkin explores the history of laws that have impacted americans with disabilities and several key supreme court cases. senator harkin introduced the americans with disabilities act, was approved by congress in 1990. here's a preview. >> we come to the 20th century, and in the beginning of the 1900s we had what is called the eugenics movement. how many people have heard of the eugenics movement? smart crowd. [laughter] well read. most people have never heard of it. i always like to say most americans have heard or read about the darkest chapters of our history, like slavery and the genocide of our native ,ndians, the atrocities in war but few have ever learned about the eugenics movement and the harm it brought to thousands of people with disabilities. the phrasewho coined was a cousin of charles darwin. he lived in britain. his name was francis galtin. he advocated selective human breathing -- breeding. charles davenport was an american biologist. he started a facility on long island and it was call

former iowa senator tom harkiner thou of the americans with disabilities act explores the history ofmpacted americans with disabilities as well as several key supreme court cases. >> one good decision in 1999 called olmstead. it was a georgia case. again, it was two women who were put in a institution. and they had argued that they didn't want to be there, that they should be free to live on their own out in the community, and this made its way all the way to the supreme court. and the supreme court sided with them, said, yeah, the constitution, the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. >> and at 6:00 on american artifacts we travel to france to visit key battlefields and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, including a visit to the argan forest. >> 554 men who were cut off from the main body of the division. they are from two different regimens, the 307th and the 308th infantry, and they are mixed companies. they are led by major charles whittlesy. he is an attorney from wall street.

>> and sunday, former iowa senator tom harkin explores the history of laws that impacted americans with disabilities as well several key supreme court cases. >> one could decision 1999, olmsted, it was two women who were put in an institution and they had argued that the didn't want to be there. that they should be free to live on their own out in the community and this made itself ottawa to supreme court. the supreme court sides with them and said yeah, the constitution, the least restrictive environment is a constitutionally based right of persons with disabilities. imagine that. >> and on american artifacts we travel to france to visit key battlefield and monuments to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i including a visit to the argonne forest for the story of the lost battalion. >> there were 554 men who were cut off from the main body of division. they were from two different regimens, the threat assessment, and the 308th infantry and then mixed companies. they are led by a major, an attorney from wall street. the germans are surrounding them from the hills and firi

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