i eventually made the holland jump. my fought in the bulge and crossed the rhine near cologne. helped liberate a nazi concentration camp and ended up on the elbe river. the cascariest part bawas when got over the continent and that plane started to sway back and forth and up and down and all the noise and we could hear the flack hitting the skin of the plane. all we wanted to do is get the hell out of that plane. when that green light came on and they said go out the door we were running to get out that door. and when i hit the silk, it was dark, of course, and early morning hours and i saw all them tracers. i thought every german in the german army was shooting at me. fortunately, i got through it all and i landed in the middle of a hedge row and cut myself out of that. and my first piece of combat was an mg-42 going off and ran into two other guys and took that out with grenades and eventually wound up at la fiere. host: have you ever been back to normandy for any of the d-day ceremonies? caller: no -- starting to cry a little bit here. host: that is is all right. caller: no,

by the time of the invasion, half a million germans waited for the allies along the coast between holland and northern france. at dawn, on june 6, the allies came. the best chance for victory had been for the british world air corps to take out the guns on the cliffs while air borne divisions parachuted behind enemy lines. but all did not go according to plan. paratroopers landed miles from their marks, while the fog and clouds prevented allied planes from destroying the guns on the cliffs. so when the ships landed here on omaha, the an unimagined he will awaited the men. many never made it out of the boats. and yet, despite all of this, one by one, the allied forces made their way to shore. here, and at utah and juneo. golden sword. they were americans, british and canadian. soon, the paratroopers found each other and fought their way back. the rangers scaled the cliffs. and by the end of the day, which we stand was free once more. the sheer improbability of this victory is part of what makes d-day so memorable. it also rises from the clarity of purpose with which the war was waged. we l

when i wanted to write a book about daily life in holland, about the culture being the richest and mightiest place in the world for brief generations. this is a kind of culture that is absolutely engorged on images, on tiles, engraved glasses, wall paper, stamped leather. you cannot do it without understanding the purchase and power of images of all kind, not just high art images. and then as the years went by and i mentioned that of course i very happily and greatly taught at hear varmint i came to think that on the one hand art history can't be taught without understanding the rest of the world that produced it. i'm not somebody that believes you simply dissolve picasso or manet so they become a kind of stock exchange but it is important to understand the kind of soil bet from which produced these -- soil bed which produceed the work and the language. equally, it is impossible to do history, especially history of the 20th and 21st century but i don't know any history since the printed image or any history since bibles began to be illuminated without sees images as important as text. images

it seemed to me that when i wanted to write this book about what daily life was like in holland, the strange thing of this tiny, tiny culture being the richest in the most mighty place in the world for a couple of generations. i thought how pretentious to do it. this is the kind of cultural that's absolutely engorged on images, on piles, on engraved glasses, on wallpaper. you cannot do it without actually understanding the purchase and power of images of all kind, not just high art images. and then as the years went down and i mentioned that, i am very happily and gratefully toured in harvard. i came to think on the one hand, art history couldn't really be taught or consumed altogether without understanding the rest of the world that china produced a. i'm not somebody who believes you simply, picasso, rembrandt, leonardo altogether. they are what they are, but it is very important to understand the kind of humanist as it were, the kind of soil bed from which produced this particular work in that particular language. equally, it is impossible to history, especially history of the 20th

. >> i am from holland, michigan. >> when you bring a group of students to washington, what would you like them to pay attention to? >> my favorite thing we have done so far is simulation with a federal judge. i would definitely want them to be a part of something like that. i want them to be able to get close to the capital and to be in the power center. this museum is wonderful. to have them see real people, real events, live. >> give us an accurate depiction of what a history teacher actually does during the summer recess. i am guessing you do not just kicked back and drink iced drinks all summer. >> know, although, we have a little of that in washington. [laughter] i know i speak for many of my colleagues -- least research. we are updating constantly. we look for the real story behind the things that are in the textbooks, what do we do to liven things up? what is current? how could we tie this in and show that history is relevant to what is happening today? our job changes every day the news changes. we are constantly updating. >> the computer and all the information that is out t

on may 27, fifth circuit chief judge edith holland jones denied judge kent's request.the impeachment task force held an evidentiary hearing where both victims of judge kent's testified as witnesses. in addition to the two witnesses, allen baron, the lead tosk force attorney testified. as part of his statement, he identified and introduced in the record a number of documents. university of pittsburgh professor arthur hellman provided expert testimony that concluded that judge kent's conduct in making false statements as well as abusing his power as a federal judge to sexually assault women employees constituted independent grounds to justify his impeachment and removal from office. the task force afforded judge kent and his counsel unlimited opportunity to participate exactively in the hearing. however, both judge kent and his counsel declined our invitation. after this objective and definitive review of the facts, the weight of the evidence against judge kent was substantial enough that it became quite obvious he should not remain a federal judge. articles one and two

it has just been up holland the last eight or nine years in our country house everyone -- how everyone is rushing to make a buck and the customer is bottom on the line for receiving attention. particularly incensed when i read that major airlines slide through other countries and have mechanics that are inexperienced working on the plains. and how of repair schedules are not maintained with any honesty, i guess is the word i really wanted to say. i think everyone is rushing to make the bulk and the poor customer is out here in limbo because even when they tried to pass laws so that the airplane's would not inconvenience the passengers by being on the tarmac for six to seven hours, all of those things, they are talked about and two weeks later they are forgotten. i think they really need someone to really tighten up on things and particularly the regional airlines. i would be deathly afraid to fly on those, especially when you hear about the pilots that they allow to fly, men that had failed tests, i think we really need some very serious overhaul in the entire airline industry. " scud

host: you touched on this from there, but how you create bubblemania -- going back to troops in holland, credit cards, stock market? guest: you will not stop them completely, that is when markets are. but what the government can do is not helped create them. frequently we see government actions -- and we talked about that with respect to the federal reserve -- it is a very powerful instrument. imagine setting the interest rate for the entire economy, it is potentially very systemic. the first idea is, do no harm. and then figure out if you can create more transparency, describe what the government is doing, more transparency from the fed. it reduces the probability of bubbles. and more important, it prevents them from spilling over to the entire economy. a tulip bubble will not be a major problem if it stays to the tulip market. the task for the government is not to make it so big that it hurts the entire economy. host: something you lecture at stanford. adrian concerns -- adrian joins us from san diego. caller: good morning, how were you? actually i just had more of a comment for the u

anita, partner of holland and knight and cochair of the firm's local aviation team and a guest of our speaker. skipping over the podium, angela keen, bloomberg news and chair of the speakers committee. skipping our speaker for just a moment your john bullard president of the group and a member of the national press club board of governors. he is also the speakers committee member who organized this event. thank you very much, john. paul charles the director of communications for virgin atlantic and a guest of our speaker. joe of aviation week. casper, senior press officer for the european union's delegation. and finally my rent, former ap bureau chief in london and the secretary of the national press club. ask anyone in this room who served richard branson is and he will be defined many different ways. a flamboyant rish on to partner with a seemingly insatiable appetite for starting new businesses. a magnet for controversy such as his region stant as a glasco train cleaning worker in a tv ad for his virgin train or $8 billion philanthropist attempting to save mother earth. no matter,

ben holland from maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hollen -- -- mr. van hollen: this act delivers on the change that poth because ma has called for in our energy policy. it will strengthen our national security by slashing our dependence on foreign oil by as much a two million barrels a day by 2030, which is as much as we export from the persian gulf today. we'll use those moneys of billions of dollars -- these hundreds of billions of dollars instead right here on homegrown clean energy. we'll create millions of jobs, high-skilled, well-paying jobs that will focus on renewable energy and energy efficiency and do all that without adding a single penny to our national debt. mr. speaker, i especially want to thank mr. rangel, mr. waxman, mr. markey, mr. dingell, mr. inds lee, mr. gordon and their staff for the collaborative effort that went into the final provisions establishing a clean energy deployment administration. as a result of this effort, america is beginning to have an inget, well capitalized bank charged with the exclusive adm

anita mosner, partner at holland and knight and co-chair of the firm's global aviation team and a guess of our speaker. skipping over the podium, angela keen, bloomberg news and chair of the committee. skipping our speaker for just a minute, sean bullard, president of -- member of the national president club's bored of governors. he also organized this event. thank you very much, sean. paul charles, director of communications for virgin atlantic and a guess of our speaker. joe joe anselmo of aviation week. caspar -- for the european union delegation and finally myron belking former ap bureau chief in london and secretary of the national press club. ask anyone in this room who sir richard branson is and he will be defined different ways: a flamboyant en43 pren newer with an appetite for starting new buses, a magnet for controversy, such as his recent stint as a glass xo cleaning worker in a tv ad for his virgin trains. or a billion dollar philanthropist attempting to save mother earth. no matter, he is a gift for making people pause and take notice. his high profile adventures cloud deve

so, they started toasting him and they made him swill wine, brandy and a cocktail called hollands made from dutch gin distilled from rebarley and flavored with juniper berries and rather than beating or whipping him, for violating his clothes, he assembled -- the party goers decided to haze him college style and they smoked a peace pipe in his honor, until he got sick. so the next day, instead of waking up with lashes on his back he woke up with a really bad hangovers. now, during the 2-and-a-half years that kosciuszko was in west point, he kept again arguing that it is great we have the fort here, guarding the chain, but we have these other spots, these hills, where we need to put forts and readouts and the americans were not convinced. and so, this is west point today, actually a statue of kosciuszko at west point. he climbed up to this vantage point, which is -- readout number 4 and said from up here you need canons up hear at all times, because you can see the plain from here and unless we have canons here, we'll have a repeat of fort ticonderoga where we'll be sitting ducks and th