he joined the farmington hunt and we go foxhunting on the weekends whenever he could. we have many wonderful artifacts from his time. many that has come from uva sources. we have the typewriter he is issued by the university with the university property stamp on the back. we have a jacket he wore, as you can see it is pretty torn up and ready. he like to think it's tricky but it's close for long time. he left the jacket hanging in his office when he went on his last trip to mississippi when he passed away. in the pocket with the pipe and some pipe cleaners. we will put the pipe leaders are display. we thought visitors would enjoy that close connection. the collections are so vast it was difficult to decide how to tell the story of his lifetime. but we decided to do was look at the various personae constructed either by him actively or by the circumstances in which he found himself god is like. structure the episode around those. so there aspects of his personality we tried to cover the personal, professional and lesser-known. for instance i don't think people know that

always had a dream to learn to pox on and you learned to fox at while he was here and joined the farmington hunt and would go foxhunting on the weekends whenever he possibly could. we have a lot of wonderful artifacts of course from his time at uva, many that have come from uva sources. among other things with a typewriter he was issued by university even with the university property step on the back. we have a jacket that he wore. he come as you can see when you look at the jacket is pretty torn up and ratty here he liked to keep his close for a long time. he left his jacket hanging in his office we went on his last trip to oxford, mississippi, when he passed away. in the pocket of the jacket was a pipe and some pipe cleaners and we even put a pipe cleaners on display because we just thought visitors would enjoy that close connection to faulkner. the collections are so vast that it was difficult to decide how to tell the story of his lifetime. so what we decide to do was look at the various persona that were constructed either by faulkner actively or by the circumstances in which he found

before he had submitted a single judicial nominee, our democratic colleagues held a retreat in farmington, pennsylvania. there, according to participants, they determined to change the ground rules -- change the ground rules for how they would handle judicial nominees. as new york times reported democrats decided, quote, there was no obligation to confirm someone just because they are scholarly. end quote. our friend, the democratic leader said at the time that what he and his colleagues were trying to do was to set the stage for yet another escalation in the left's judicial wars. senate democrats soon became the majority in the senate due to then-senator jeff ford -- jeffords party switch, the current democratic leader used his position on the judiciary committee to hold a hearing on whether ideology should matter in the confirmation process. now, mr. president, it won't surprise you that the conclusion he and his colleagues reached was that it should so they killed in committee, either through inaction or via committee vote, qualified nominees who did not fit their ideology. i know beca

administration, and what it says is that 42 of the senate 50 democrats attended a private retreat in farmington pennsylvania where the principal topic was forging a unified party strategy to combat the white house on judicial nominees.re mr. lewis goes on to quote one of the people there that said they said it was important for the senate to change the ground rules by which judicial nominees were confirmed. as a result of that meeting, which was led by laurence tribe at harvard law school, katzenstein at university called and marcia greenberger, codirector of the nation national women's law center, senator schumer, the present democratically and others cooked up a new procedural hurdle for president george w. bush isembe judicial nominees.r wh and we remember what happened after that. it became almost routine for democratic colleagues to filibuster president bush's nominees. ultimately, there came a meeting of a group called the gang of 14 where there was a deal worked out that some of president bush's judicial nominees werehe confirmed and others were returned and not confirmed. there was a de

before he had submitted a single judicial nominee our democratic colleagues held a retreat in farmington pennsylvania. they are, according to participants they determined to change the ground rules for how they would handle judicial nominees.democrat as "the news york times" reported democrats apparently decided quote there was no obligation to confirm someone just because they are scholarly end quote. our friend the democratic leaded said what he and his colleagues were trying to do was set the stage, set the stage for yet another escalation in the last judicial war.enate senate democrats soon became the majority in the senate due to then the party switch. to help implement the appeared of from their retreat to change the ground rules the democraticy leader used his position on the judiciary committee to hold a hearing on whether ideology should matter in the confirmation process. now mr. president it will surprise you that the conclusion he and his colleagues waged a ii should so they killed in committee either through action or by committee vote qualified judicial nominees that did no

before he had submitted a single judicial nominee, our democratic colleagues held a retreat in farmington, pennsylvania. there, according to participants, they determined to change the ground rules -- change the ground rules for how they would handle judicial nominees. as new york times reported democrats decided, quote, there was no obligation to confirm someone just because they are scholarly. end quote. our friend, the democratic leader said at the time that what he and his colleagues were trying to do was to set the stage for yet another escalation in the left's judicial wars. senate democrats soon became the majority in the senate due to then-senator jeff ford -- jeffords party switch, the current democratic leader used his position on the judiciary committee to hold a hearing on whether ideology should matter in the confirmation process. now, mr. president, it won't surprise you that the conclusion he and his colleagues reached was that it should so they killed in committee, either through inaction or via committee vote, qualified nominees who did not fit their ideology. i know beca

and what it says is that 42 of the senate's 50 democrats attended a private retreat in farmington, pennsylvania, where the principal topic was forging a unified party strategy to combat the white house on judicial nominees. mr. lewis goes on to quote one of the people there that said they said it was important for the senate to change the ground rules by which judicial nominees were confirmed, and they did. as a result of that meeting, which was led by laurence tribe at harvard law school, caste sunstein at the university of chicago and marcia greenberger, codirector of the national women's law center, senator schumer, the present democratic leader, and others cooked up a new procedural hurdle for judge -- or senator -- president george w. bush's judicial nominees, and we remember what happened after that. it became almost routine for our democratic colleagues to filibuster president bush's nominees. ultimately, there came a -- a meeting of a group called the gang of 14 where there was a deal worked out that some of president bush's judicial nominees were confirmed and others were returned and

he is watching us from farmington, michigan. caller: i want to tell a story about the lost battalion. they were cut off from the other troops. the did not have telegraph or telephone lines. all they had was a pigeon. this pigeon, they put their note on the leg of the pigeon. it circled and flew off, got back to the lines. and it told them to stop firing on them. and our troops were saved by this pigeon, you will find it in the smithsonian institute. that is my story. host: thank you for that story. another example of old and new technologies blending together. we will take another call. paul, welcome to the program. caller: good morning. thank you for the world war i memorial. it is appreciated. i wanted to ask you about the harlem hell fighters. and there was a west point grad, who was african american, he 89.duated in 18 could you tell us about that? host: we will talk more in depth. could you give us a little bit of a snapshot of the african americans? did they participate? guest: indeed. there is a segment where we will disc

i'm calling from farmington,my. i want to tell a story i believe it was called the lost battalion they were cut off from the other troops. all they had was a pigeon. this pigeon was -- they put the note on the leg of the pigeon and it wasn't around and it circled and it flew off and got back to the lines and it told them to stop firing on them and it saved -- our troops were saved by this pigeon that's name is share ra me and you'll find it now in the smithsonian institute. and that's my story. >> great. thank you very much for that story. another example of the old and new technologies blending together in this war. >> indeed. >> we'll take another call. paul is in new york city and you're on for matte matt naylor. >> caller: hello. i'd like to schfs good morning matthew and good morning thank you for the world war i memorial, it's appreciated. but i want to ask you about the harlem hell fighters. could you give ace little history about that and there was a west point grad who was african american he graduated in 1