my students have a very different attitude towards davie crockett and the plo than the members of this panel and myself. they are not even sold on the idea. a couple of them were puzzled why we were even discussing the topic of crockett as something important. but the ghost of the greater question. the alamo is at the center of the modern cultural war over american history, the american past. one of the things we do since we come from so many different places around the world and so many different races we try to use our history to get us a commonality as a people. lately we have been fighting over that history and my students see their racial component of the story of the alamo to be one that threatens its position in the pantheon of great historical stories. i sort of wanted to get your thoughts on this. will the alamo survive into the next 50 years? >> i know you said the panel would not agree with your students, but i might. i really think that you have to look at that short component in the whole so-called texas war for independence. that whole episode of history. and i must say a

the most of famous of those is davy crockett.national figure before he arrived at the alamo and famous in san antonio at that time. and of course the titanic figure in our national memory since that time. his death has become his last few moments on earth have overshadowed it and in fact much of his life as i thought perhaps mr. wallis can illuminate that for us. i call on the other two gentlemen because they're both wrong in their opinions on it. donovan is a novelist gets to make everything up. i'm sorry, -- is a novelist gets to make everything up. that's so confusing. >> actually i think crockett should be remembered not so much for the way he died but how he lived. you know when i started in on this crockett book, i went back to my meeting of crockett in the living room in 1954, which forced me that night to not watch disney i've got a secret but to go back in my bedroom in four through the encyclopaedia britannica entry about crockett. and it grew from there but eventually of course i outgrew the 9-year-old story. the main

and, a native-r born texan, that if davy crockett and jim gould alive today, they would have been standing shoulder to shoulder with him on the floor of the senate. [applause] i got to read from shakespeare's -- crispin's day speech. there are some senators who were not there that night who have held their manhoods cheap and as a result. [cheers and applause] i got to read the opening monologue from the great movie, patton. cleaned up a little bit to make it suitable for television. read president ronald reagan's 1964 a time for choosing speech. [cheers and applause] as they say in the beer commercial, it don't get no better than this. a second example is sequestration. sequestration has actually gone into effect. the white house is astonished. all of us remember the president's scare america tour. he went all over the country talking about the dramatic consequences. washington, d.c. is the only place on earth where the phrase draconian 2% cuts can be uttered. [laughter] the president was self parody as he described the consequences of a 2.5% cut. it reminded me of the scene from murrayust

i observed to rand, a native- born texan, that if davy crockett and jim gould alive today, they wouldave been standing shoulder to shoulder with him on the floor of the senate. [applause] i got to read from shakespeare's st. chrispin' -- crispin's day speech. there are some senators who were not there that night who have held their manhoods cheap and as a result. [cheers and applause] i got to read the opening monologue from the great movie, patton. cleaned up a little bit to make it suitable for television. it got to read president ronald reagan's 1964 a time for choosing speech. [cheers and applause] as they say in the beer commercial, it don't get no better than this. a second example is sequestration. sequestration has actually gone into effect. the white house is astonished. all of us remember the president's scare america tour. he went all over the country talking about the dramatic consequences. washington, d.c. is the only place on earth where the phrase draconian 2% cuts can be uttered. [laughter] after a while, the president was self parody as he described the consequences o

>> we kick off another week of our critically acknowledged series with tennessee, the home of davy crockett loy parton and a former senator who became vice president and then did some things that made him very unpopular. of course, i'm talking about andrew johnson. john: welcome back. it's time for w.t.f. america and our w.t.f. america series continues with a whole week of w.t.f. tennessee stories. now tennessee is the home of nashville, so it's a little bit country and a whole lot of w.t.f. as "the new york times" reported today, two nights a year, residents of tennessee can call a hot line and if they get through, they might qualify for something called 10 care. it's like tennessee's version of medicare. it's the kind of everyday health care available to citizens of most nations except this one the united third word state of america. people call all night to try to get health care. that what could be more fun for a person in tennessee who desperately needs arthritis medication than to spend an entire night dialing a phone. this could be aleveed by obamacare, however the republican governo

nearly all of the americans inside died including the frontier legend davy crockett. the core rage just stand mark as symbol of prick sacrifice. -- patriotic sacrifice. won the war 177 years ago today. and now you know the news for this wednesday, march the 6th, 2013. shoot you from the sky dead? here? he says no. hold it. get to tee off at you. give me one damn program he said he had cut. one. big shootout with alan colmes tonight. i say president obama has not put forth any specific budget cuts at all. yet liberal america continues to defend that. we have a follow-up report tonight so buckle up. >> we have very strong laws, stronger than jessica's law. >> you actually don't have strong laws. you are lucky o'reilly wasn't here today, sir. >> bill: what is going on in the state of colorado? it doesn't want to passjessicat kids but it does want to legalize marijuana and impose new restrictions on gun ownership. we'll have a follow-up on that. also tonight, dennis miller on dennis rodman, alan colmes, and the obama administration telling the kids they can't come to the

first-generation american unlike a lot of hispanics in texas, families living here a long time for davy crockettames. sam houston made their way south. [cheers and applause] my friends commences but we as conservatives stand for. were not the people of equal outcomes, quotas of race-based appeals were cradle two the grave nanny state. we are the people who say ever and deserves a shot, the successes only the product of hard work and innovation. we are the ideology that is fine in color and solely grounded in the merit system. we are compassionate without being cynical. government can be a tool to self-improvement and self empowerment, not self entrapment. these ideals are as old as america humble blood flow long after we're gone because they are what make america unique. we will never been to the social and economic of western europe yet it's an interesting place to vacation, but a sorry example of government. who continue to pursue an american vision, personal responsibility and individuality. god bless you and through you, may god continue to bless this great nation we live in. caught at >> th

would suggest if those brave patriots of the alamo were here, that william barrett travis and davy crockett and jim bowie and each of the others who gave their lives for freedom would be standing side by side with you and would be proud to call you brother. mr. president, i'd like to say that i appreciate the remarks of the senator from texas, and if the filibuster goes on long enough, we would like to hear a recitation of will ym bear travis' last words at the alamo. we had to memorize that as a kid and i'm afraid my memory's gone a little dusty but you are younger and may still remember that for us. the issue at hand is really an issue that goes beyond party politics, it goes beyond nominations. it goes beyond, you know, the president's a democrat, i'm a republican. i voted for three of the president's nominations, much to the chagrin and much to the criticism of some on my side. but i've done so because i think the president does get some progressive. that's just my personal viewpoint on choose, political appointees. now, this is a political appointee but i don't consider this debate to