welcome to the library of congress. i'm john cole, i'm the director of the center for the book in the reading promotion arm of the library of congress. we were created in 1977 by librarian of congress daniel borsten to help the library of congress stimulate public interest in books and reading and literacy. we operate primarily through a couple of national networks. there are state centers for the book in most of the states, and they work with us to promote books and reading in their respective states, and in particular to promote writers and writing. we also have national reading promotion partners, many nonprofit groups and government organizations, that we also work with to promote books and reading. we are a major component in the national book festival, and i hope many of you know about the national book festival and have attended in the past. i can tell you that this year's festival will be on the national mall from september 22nd to 23rd. we're delighted to be able to have expanded the national book festival in th

his papers, also, were given to the library of congress. the last of our presidents in the jeffersonian tradition to give their library and papers to the library of congress. now our presidents have presidential libraries and museums operated by the national archives, or national park service unit. wilson house is a private nonprofit organization. we're operated by the national trust for historic preservation. mrs. wilson gave the house to the national trust in 1955, and lived here until her death in 1961. we opened as a museum in 1963. mrs. wilson called this a small home for the needs of a gentleman. you see his very comfortable chair, along with one of his walking sticks would sit there close to the fire in the winter months. edith sat in this very comfortable rocker here. wilson would greet his guests, who would be seated at either one of the chairs here in the room, or across the way on the very comfortable sofa. friends from his administration, cabinet members were frequent visitors to wilson here on s street. lloyd george, the prime m

the photograph that we used on the library of congress web site, it didn't bring much money. it is cracked down the middle in two places. which reminded me of the nation cracked in two. he's a 16-year-old boy cradling a rifle musket and the flag in the background of the painted back drop. where it cracked, the red that was painted on the stripes of the flag, you can see it leeching. who did the nation turn to save itself? these young boys. just very powerful photograph. you can blow up that photograph to a real high resolution and get a close look at his face. it is incredible. >> when the family asked to have the photographs at the library of congress and have the photographs laid out as a beautiful patchwork quilt and that quilt has come to be very special to me in that it tells what the stone monuments to the civil war and the history books can't convey. it is that opportunity to look directly in the faces of the people who fought or were close relatives to people directly engaged in the war. on the surface, it might look as if each of the pictures is similar. but not only

even get to the trial the same thing as happened to whistleblowers like morris davis at the library of congress who lost his job thomas drake at the national security agency who lost his job and me perch posing some of the state department shortcomings in iraq i'm in the position now of very soon losing my job the government needs to learn that it's responsible for the people of the america that i grew up in said that the government is responsible to its people and shouldn't be afraid of sharing what it does with the people who support it i think there's a big difference here between. tattle tailing and bringing to light wrongdoings that are harming people whether it's people in iraq as you've done or people in the u.s. you mentioned morris davis and i want to talk a little bit more about him because we actually have a chance to interview him here on r t he is of course the former lead prosecutor for the mill of military tribunals out guantanamo bay and i want to just play a little bit about what he said and then talk about it and my policy had been we were not going to use any evidence obtaine

he's up for the library of congress. another guy of there a real wizard and the staff, ronald reagan's staff wanted that guy so i am assuming next to ronald reagan i said i really love the guy. i in his diary a lot, i tell you. i said i think you want to think of this guy billington. he said yeah? why would that be? i said he hates commies. [laughter] and i said not only that, he knows russian fluently. he can tell just exactly when those sons of bitches are saying and he said really? three days later -- [laughter] still the library of congress. [applause] great story. john dingell, where is that rascal back there? he and i -- [inaudible] i know, but i can't stop. [laughter] week used to meet on the conference committees, and he would say look, we are going to get this done. and i said who are you going to nibble before the ten days is over and he named a guy. he said why don't you do something with the staff of that committee and the senate? i said i can't. they are tougher than i am. then we got together and beat them t

[roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. >> hello.ng the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area food. we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come together beautifully. >> many to cut out all this talk, and let's go shop. yeah. ♪ >> what makes your dish unique? >> i like it spicy and smoky. i

[roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. , the voice of the san francisco giants and his radio personality -- kiss radio personality, ranelle brooks moon. >> thank you so much. thank you, everybody. thank you so much. happy valentine's day, and good afternoon, san francisco. [applause] i am so honored and thrilled to be part of today's celebration. we're going to have a great time as we salute a living legend today. it was 50 years ago, high atop noob -- nob hill in the venetian hotel that tony bennett sang a song for the first time, a song that would become a worldwide and the mind forever with our city. i'm talking about, of course, "i left my heart in san francisco." and what better way to celebrate valentine's day then with a tribute to the most famous love song ever dedicated to our home town by our city's most beloved troubadour, mr. tony bennett? [applause] and now, everyone, please join the san francisco symphony and our chief of protocol, charlotte schulz, here on stage in welcoming our host, mayor edwin m. lee and first lady anita le

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pioneer and how brilliant this man was, in 1935 he gave a speech that we recently found at the library of congress where he laid out the entire desegregation cases. that's 1935. this was not a man to be trifled with. i mention thatta background because of the context of the court system that president eisenhower did so much to change. charles hamilton houston went before the supreme court in 1938 and offered a case called gaines versus missouri to get a gentleman admitted into missouri law school. rather justice mcreynolds turned his chair around. if you think about that sort of behavior from a federal judge on the highest court of our land and then you uks that pose that with the quality of the people that eisenhower put on the bench, it's remarkable to me, and i think that it bears noting that these are not one-off flukes and there was a consistency in his appointments and if there was one thing in closing that i picked up from reading most of the ambrose books, it is that general eisenhower and president eisenhower sought out people of tremendous moral fiber and courage. he surrounded himself w

[roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. >> sanrio famous for the designs for hello kitty. i thought i would try to make it as cute as possible. that way people might want to read the stories. then people might be open to learn about the deities and the culture. ♪ they reached out to make about five or six years ago because of the book published. they appreciated that my work was clearly driven from my research and investigation. after i contributed my artwork, the museum was really beside themselves. they really took to it. the museum reached out to me to see if i would be interested in my own space inside the museum. i tell them that would be a dream come true. it is the classical, beautiful indian mythology through the lens of modern design and illustration and storytelling. they're all of these great sketch as i did for the maharajah exhibition. i get a lot of feedback on my artwork and books. they complement. they say how original the work is. i am the first person to say that this is so derived from all of this great artwork and storytelli

he's up for, he's up for library of congress. there's another guy up there, a real wizard, and the staff, reagan's staff wanted that guy. so i'm sitting next to ron reagan, and i said, ron, i really love the guy. i'm in his diary a lot, i'll tell ya. i said, i think you want to think of this guy, billington. he said, yeah? yeah, al, why would that be? i said, he hates commies. [laughter] and i said, not only that, he knows russian fluently. he can tell just exactly when those sons of bitches, what they're saying, and he knows what they're -- he said, really? [laughter] three days later -- [laughter] still our librarian of the library of congress. [applause] great story. john dingell, where's that rascal back there? he and i -- >> [inaudible] >> i know, but i can't stop. [laughter] but dingell and i used to meet on conference committees, and he'd say, look, we're going to get this done. and i said, who are you going to diddle before the ten days is over? he said, he named a guy. he said why don't you do something with the staff of

official copy of the speech, the one written by his secretaries in the papers of washington in the library of congress is written in the hand of his secretary, jonathan trumble, a fine hand but it's a normal size hand. friday night i think washington did an all night ever. after the speech was written by him and by secretaries, he sat down and recopied the speech in large letters in his own hand, so he could read it. kind of an early version of a teleprompter. but now as he read joseph jones letter, he began to stumble over the words. he reached in his pocket and brought out his glasses. the officers were stunned, they had never seen the commander in chief with glasses. two weeks before, two weeks before washington had received these glasses from david rittenhouse in philadelphia. as soon as he received the glasses, he had written back to rittenhouse, something that may be familiar. he was having a little trouble adjusting to glasses, wasn't quite comfortable with them. but now, for the first time in public, in order to read jones letter, he took his glasses out and as he did, he looked out at the off

[roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. ... >> i am the chiefinspector. we are here at the base of telegraph hill to talk about a subject of great interest for the people of san francisco which is rockslide, slope stability, which caused a dramatic front-page news. i am here with two knowledgeable and wonderful guests. i am here with a geotechnical engineer and a geologist. we are here to talk about rockslide, rockfalls, and related issues. what is the difference between a geologist and a geotechnical engineer? >> and engineering geologist deals with identifying site characteristics, mapping, the ground's surface, collecting all of this data. the engineer can come up with medications and designs. >> the structural engineer might be working on a building if there is a building involved. what is your role? >> i am interested in the physical properties of the earth and how the earth will behave: subject to different load changes. when you are building a building, you are applying a load and you are wondering if the earth will be able to supply that

[roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. >> good evening, ladies gentlemen. i am the secretary to the police commission. on behalf of the commission, i would like to welcome everyone to the san francisco police department's 2011 medal of valor ceremony. please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america into the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. mayor lee was scheduled to attend but was not able to make it. he sent his congratulations to our medal of valor recipients. we're joined by the police commissioners and the commission president, vice-president, commissioners. also on the stage this evening we have the chief of police gregory surh. we have the deputy chief of special operations and the deputy chief of the operations bureau. we have the deputy chief from the airport bureau. we have commander in the operations bureau, the commander from the sfmta, the commander in chief of staff, and the com

life in the cramped regimented boarding house where this very building stands, the library of congress does not suit her and soon mary returns home. >> dear mary, in this troublesome world we are never quite satisfied. when you were here i thought you hindered me some in terms of business, but now business has grown extremely tasteless to me. i hate to stay in this old room by myself. you are entirely free from headache, that is good. i am afraid you will get -- all the boarding house or rather all of whom you are in good terms sendary love to you, the others say nothing. >> my dear husband, i feel weary and tired enough to know that -- our little eddy has recovered from his spell of sickness. it is growing late and these summer eves are short. i suspect my long scrawl. >> my dear wife, you wish to return to this side of the mountains. will you be a good girl in all things i consent? then come along as soon as possible. i will be impatient to see you. i want to see you and our dear, dear boy so much. >> but the reunion is short-lived, lincoln completes his term and returns to -- rimpbi

. >> you can explore the entire collection at the library of congress prints and photographs online catalog. log on to loc.gov/pictures. >> here on american history tv on c-span 3, we will take you back to the library of virginia and their day long look at the person of the year 1862. on your screen is david blight of yale university. he has chosen frederick douglass as his nominee. he is taking questions here on american history tv. >> jackson's interest. douglass got interested in the racial sciences of the years because they were such scientific clouds hanging over his people. he read everything he could find in the field that was then called ethnology. he wrote a brilliant, actually lecture that he gave at a college in 1856. essentially taking to pieces the arguments, the biological arguments of the racial sciences. the races were born with different capacities and different shapes and sizes of heads and abilities. some born to labor. et cetera. he spent his life, at times, i think, disgusted and even bored with the constant reference to race. as you may know, when he his wife anna died

he went to dartmouth and went to the library of congress, spent considerable time in abilene. he lives in los angeles and never came to the nixon lean raer. that's the lock and the short of it. it's an ingrained nature among a certain subset of very, very influential people that looked at nixon from the beginning of his vice presidency and for that matter dwight eisenhower was a twit in the books written about him in the late 50s and early 60s and sometimes even now, but it, for whatever reason nobody really passionately looked at the papers of either dwight eisenhower and richard nixon, if you want to give another plug. then the major berries and there's the yeah lfr mae done p/e if yoi twosh peruse it in

some of them, the huge ones that immediately come to mind, the library of congress or pennsylvania, which has an enormous army history collection, but also smaller libraries, state historical associations, the alabama department of archives and history, the vermont historical society, jackson county historical society in independence, missouri. and again, the point was i really didn't want to read more about u.s. grant. i wanted to read about the grunt, and i wanted the soldiers to say, i look at the flag and i think of my farm. or i think of my wife or my mother. and they just -- they didn't cooperate. they wouldn't do what i wanted them to do and i was really frustrated with them for that reason. >> host: were few finding a similar theme in. >> guest: two things. i knew the union and confederate differences. i was less interested in those than -- and i found very little of the east-west difference that i was looking for. there were americaners who thought people from the east were prissy, and you can hear that conversation today on the metro. that was not that surprising. they weren't t

of sites. they used primary sources like manuscript collects like libraries and archives including the main branch and the regional branches like the papers that were formerly in the library of congress and special collect, depositories at colleges and universities. i would like to focus on julie nixon eisenhower's 1986 work called "pat nixon, sty" bi mother. she had unique access to diaries and correspondents not available to her biographers and access to her parents which gave her a special place as a biographer. outstanding coverage of her parents' courtship and in 1945, she detailed the story of how whitner banker herman perry contacted the nixons while in baltimore and that september 1945 that asked if richard was interesting in running against the incumbent representative. julie verified her parents' savings which was 10,000 all went into the congressional race. they planned to use the money for a house. it was in war bonds. i would like to talk about one biography by roger morris, which presents a problem for a lot of scholars and students. morris was an ivy league educated journalist and historian. he resigned in protest from the national security council april 1970 after the

went to the library of congress. spent considerable time in abilene. he lives in los angeles and never came to the nixon library. that's -- that's the long and the short of it. it's an ingrained nature among a certain subset of very, very influential people that looked at nixon from the beginning of his vice presidency. and for that matter, dwight eisenhower was a twit in the original books written about him in the late '50s and early '60s and sometimes even now. but for whatever reason, nobody really passionately looked at the papers of either dwight eisenhower and richard nixon. and to give another plug, if you're interested, one line and in the major libraries, there are the private papers of the presidency of dwight eisenhower as well as his early years. it's only 21 volumes. so if you wish to peruse it in a half an hour, it should be no problem. but vaney and galambose did this brilliantly. and those manuscripts that were put into book form are terribly, terribly underutilized. >> another question up here? >> yeah, my name is jeff kimball, and i ha

we also went further afield and there's no shortage of just fantastic civil war imagery, the library of congress. we were almost, i think, you know, struck by -- we have these great pieces of journalism. we should say back in the 1850s and 1860s there was no art or images. the juxtaposition of some of these pieces with the images that we were able to find. and i've got a page here open to the mark twain. mark twain is sitting with one of the african-american gentleman he was friends with. some of the photos of the destruction of the war after. it really rings it home in avis ral way. >> we have five minutes left so i want to move to a couple other articles. there are two pieces by ralph waldo emerson largely dealing with emancipation. how influential were his writings and speeches on abraham lincoln dealing with >> he registers at a contemporary type. the op ed columnist. the first piece was calling for an emancipation proclamation. it is the demand of civilizat n civilization. all else is intrigue. he had been crusading on this question for a long time. really you can see him -- you feel him wr

the research for that was done mostly in the library of congress or johns hopkins library, not in alabama itself. woodward encouraged me to expand that into a dissertation. this was a time when -- it was a fairly exciting time when not only students at woodward but others were looking at the possibility of revising the dunning interpretation of reconstruction. many of the studies of reconstruction in individual southern states had been done by the students of william archibald dunning back in the early part of the 20th century at columbia university. woodward would have been very happy for me to undertake a study of alabama during reconstruction. i began outlining what i might do with that. but at the same time two other things were going on. one was, of course, the sit-ins in greensboro, north carolina starting in 1960. the spillover in baltimore, which was a border state city at the time. the schools had been integrated under the leadership of david fisher's father, who was the superintendent of the baltimore school system, but many other facilities in baltimore and other parts of maryl

library of congress had special repositories at colleges and universities. i'd like to focus on julie nixon eisenhower's work "pat nixon" the untold biography of her mother. she had access to materials not available to other beingiograpb. she provided outstanding coverage of her parents' courtship and then in 1945 she detailed the story of how whittier banker herman perry contacted the nixons while they were in baltimore and that's september, 1945, and asked if richard was interested in running against the incumbent representative. and julie verified that her parents' savings, $10,000 went into-th presidential race. i'd like to talk about another biographer, morris who was an ivy league educated historian. he resigned in protest from the national security council after the cambodian incursion. he showed a strong underlying bias against nixon. at the same time he was actually a very methodical researcher, so you have to kind of weigh -- kind of proceed with caution these types of coverage. just to focus on the law firm days when nixon was working as a lawyer

[roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. >> is this working? all right. let me start by thanking everyone for coming out today. as everyone knows, there are several city agencies, several community groups, and i will get to the city family and leadership who is out here today. every chinese new year, all the departments all get together, and we all work very hard in making sure that the chinatown area is clean, free from graffiti. that the merchants are allocated -- educated about our ordinances. this year, we're going to do something special and a little bit different. we have been working with the merchants association, the chinese chamber of commerce and many associations here to come up with a great idea to make walking much easier but also to make buying merchandise and enjoying chinatown much easier. hopefully also allowing the bus to run smoothly while these activities are going on. without further delay, i would like to introduce our mayor, who is no stranger to chinatown and who is really spearheading this idea. thank you. [applause] m

there are 45 archives to read some of them are the huge ones that immediately come to mind, the library of congress or carlisle in pennsylvania which had an enormous army history collection. but also small libraries, state historical associations, but it would of the archives and history, the vermont historical society, jackson county historical society and in independent misery. again the point was i really didn't want to read more about u.s. grant, i wanted to read about the back of the line so that's where i looked for him and what i really wanted was for the soldiers to say i look at the flag and i think of my wife or my mother and they just wouldn't cooperate and to put wanted them to do and i was first treated with them. >> were you finding a similar theme among the union and confederate soldiers? >> i knew the union and confederate because i was less interested in those although i was interested in those than in the regional differences east west and that sort of thing and i found very little of the east west difference that i was looking for. there were midwesterners the thought that they w

he works at the library of congress. had written an article, saying, arguing that because they believed in conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere, that they accounted for the actions of the british government in terms of a conspiracy on the part of the ministers, that they were probably suffering from some kind of mental aberration because by most scholars, by the 20th century believed that people who believe in conspiracies are apt to be delusional. and that's how he started that article. he later repudiated it in another article. but that was the opening because it gave me an opportunity to deal with this problem of why did conspiratorial interpretations of history, of events, flourish in the 18th century. and my argument is that it had to do with the enlightenment. people wanted to hold people morally responsible for what happened. and there is something to the idea of conspiracy because if there's nobody planning what's happening, how do you make moral judgments? that is a very serious problem that they faced. by the 1

basically preserving them for both the national archives and the library of congress. ent itself had some unique challenges. as you can see, the document comes out at you, so it's almost a three-dimensional image coming at you. that floating document created a lot of design and manufacturing problems to us that we were able to overcome. the design of the encasement, i don't know if it'll withstand a nuclear blast, but there are a lot of inherent things not haven any encasement found around. we've made this to be able to take a lot of the expected environmental issues that could occur, even something as simple as changes in barometric pressure can have a large impact when you're trying to seal something and prevent oxygen deg regags through the seals. another issue that we had was -- you'll see this when this is on display -- is with the lighting to make an absorbing background so you can't see something. typically when we're sheening purr f surfaces, we try to make them as polished, as reflective as possible and typical. in this we had to change our way of thinking, bas

only for the research that went into this story but also to highlighting a little bit of the library of congress history and our own story. part of the american story. we are not done yet. we have a question and answer period. i did not mention deliberately that this discussion is going to continue on facebook. where you can learn about your own remarks to the ongoing discussion we are about to start. i would like to ask those who have questions for beth to come to the microphone and i also will be able to assure you that we have until 1:00 until the signing starts. let's start with one round of applause are excellent speaker today. [applause] >> will someone take the first step? i will ask the first question and i expect others to follow. i have an easy question. what was it like to be on the john stewart show? what preparation did you do mentally before you took that first step? >> the publicist at my publishers landed this i didn't know if until one evening when i got my house in virginia after being here in washington picking up my son who was a college student at american university bringin

. >> oliver: and the battlefield recordings are preserved at the library of congress. >> then one wasssigned to cover the marine landings on a fiercely held japanese island of taowa. >> realizing there was great deal of responsibility. >> oliver: as you can see from this riveting film, he stood up in the line of fire as they were hunkering down. >> i think i was too dumb to worry about being shot. >> oliver: captured on film, some of the most intense and brutal combat. footage was so compelling, it was used to make the documents that won the 1944 academy award during world war ii. allied war correspondents operated within the perimeters of censorship rules. >> claiming victims and lots of horror in the war, particularly in the pacific was told. there is no question that all the correspondents, i think war was more accurately reported historically than almost any other events. >> oliver: by 1968, more than a hundred million television sets were available to show the news from the battlefield. it was a living room war. >> the administration was showing how tough america would be. and we

i think they farmed it out of the library of congress. to pick the most likely dialects of some of these remote languages along the track and put it down phonetically so that i would have a little message if i had to make an emergency re-entry and came down in one of those places. and you can imagine the message basically was me friend, take me to your leader, big reward, you know, things like that. [ laughter ] but one of the more interesting things that came out of that was a more serious note. and i think it's a message bigger than that piece of paper i carried with me. many of those languages, the word for stranger and the word for enemy was the same word. yeah. if you don't know somebody, haven't gotten acquainted with them, they're an enemy. they're going to be an enemy. when actually, if you just got to know them a bit, they're a friend. so, stranger and enemy, i think there's a big message there for all of us. we went -- the doctors had some ideas about what we might run into, thought the eyeballs might change shape in weightlessne

the battlefield is spreefshed at the library of congress. 21-year-old oklahoma norm hatch was the combate decided to cover the marine landings. >> no one ever photographed an amphibious landing realizing that i knew that i had a great deal of responsibility. >> as you can see from the riveting film he stood up in a line of fire even as tough marines hunkered down. >> i was too young and dumb to worry about being shot. >> he captured some of the pacific film the most intense brutal combat. his footage was so compelling it was used to make the documentary with the marines won a 1944 academy award. >> during world war ii allied war correspondents operated within the per ram ders of censorship rules. >> there was no claiming victories or losses. a lot of the horror of the war was told but no question all of the correspondents knew what side they were on. >> i think war is more accurately reported historically more than any other events. >>> >> by 1968 by height of the vietnam war more than 100 million were available to show the news of the battlefield. >> it was a liberation of the history o

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. >> it was a tremendous feat and the battlefield recordings of preserved at the library of congress. 21-year-old oklahoma norm hatch was a combat cameraman when was assigned to cover the marine landings on the fiercely held japanese island. >> no one had ever photographed an amphibious landing and realizing that i knew that i had a great deal of responsibility. vie from: as you can vena the the film he stood up in the line of fire even when tough marines were hunkering down. >> i think i was too young and too dumb to worry about being shot. >> he captured on film some of the pacific war's most intense and brutal compact. the foot and was so compelling it was used to make the documentary. it won the 1944 academy award. during world war ii allied war correspondents operated within the parameters of censorship rule. >> in the second world war there are no claiming all victories and no losses. a lot of the horror of the war in the pacific was told. there was no question that all the correspondents knew which side they were on. >> i think probably wars more accurately reported historicall

center the name is african american history month.gov it is a collaborative between smithsonian, library of congressonal archive and others, there are links to various historical collections around the area including the exhibit about slavery at thomas jefferson's estate on display at the american history museum, there is a section marked for teachers to click on. anyone can click on and share that information with young people there are details about events, they include the black history month family day this saturday at the national portrait gallery between 11:30 a.m., to 3:00 p.m. eventually such events will happen at the new museum of history and culture construction is set to start this year completion slated for 2015 built acrthe national museum of natural history. one more thing to tell you about, dc lottery will unvail its 2012 black history postposter called lifting a nation, black women in politics features the lives of truth, mary mccloud, patricia roberts harris the first woman to run for mayor in the district. lots of things going on, on the first day of black history month check out t

download every six hours electronic communications equivalent to the entire contents of the library of congress. they also developed a program called thin thread that enables computers to scan material for key words and collect the billing records and dialed phone numbers of everyone in the country. in violation of communications laws, at&t, verizon, and bell south provide electronic records to the governments. at the height of insanity, and i have to say, east germany, for those of you who saw the film, the lives of others, at the height of the insanity, they were spying out of one out of every seven east german citizens. the united states spies on seven out of every seven. 11, you can no go to jail in the united states for speaking. in late july this year, environmental activist was sentenced to two years in prison for the repeated declaration that environmental protection required civil, non-violent agreement. one wonders if the same judge would have put rosa parks in jail had he been around. 12, this is my favorite that also occurred in july. a small incident, but symbolic of what's happeni