we are doing that together, hillsdale college and martin gilbert.e is 72 or 73. 72, i think. >> you also have the archives of william f. buckley jr. grex know, we do not. they went to princeton. we have his articles and all of his published essays are online at the hillsdale college website. we did that work with him. >> how fast is that? >> thousands. it is very big. it is searchable. you can find anything you want. it just so happens i knew him for a long time and admire him very much. late in his life i actually went after him to get his papers, because i thought someone should put them on line where you could find them and read them. he is of a pda -- he was a very interesting man. he said how about these articles? i said i would take what i could get. i like the articles. they are good. >> we like to make connections here. go back to claremount institute. what is that and who finds it? rex is a think tank in southern california. it was started by a bunch of graduate students. it still goes. we had the idea, we were studying at an exciting time

partly because martin gilbert helped me, suggested it to me. churchill was desperately afraid of war. he took part in the last british cavalry charge. it was a glorious triumph, fighting arabs and muslims. the british had a grievance against him because the ruler of khartoum had killed the british hero. kitchener went down there to avenge that, and they want one massive victory. that had almost no casualties. churchill took part in that. in recounting this battle, which he was in the course of launching a political career -- he had every reason on earth to celebrate this overwhelming victory. he writes of it as a tragedy. when the dervishes come over the hill and the british -- there is a beautiful paragraph in a chapter of his book. it is a commentary on what war has become. it says, little did they know the impending tragedy. then he describes metal whistling into flesh and the screams of the dying on one side, and back on the british side, the manufacturing process. so if war becomes dangerous, and if it is made dangerous by technological ad

when martin gilbert comes to teach a course, he is a distinguished fellow and he has a salary for that. he wants to focus on getting the churchill biography finished, so we have deployed some of his salary away from paying him to teach to paying his expenses for publishing the churchill biography. people make money when they speak, and we pay them sometimes. for the kids, not usually very much. >> we are about out of time. what is your biggest concern about your future at the school? >> the college is a very old thing in a very competitive market, with 2000 competitors. most of them are not financed the way we are and most of them do not do what we do anymore. the trends are away from us. how can we possibly survive? the answer is, so far, so good, and it is in the hands of god. >> dr. larry arnn, president of hillsdale college in hillsdale, michigan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> for a dvd copy of this program, called the number shown. for a free transcript, or to give us your comments about this pro

that the inquiry will be chaired by sir john and included maraniss, sir lawrence freedman and martin gilbert. all are will become privy councilors. mr. speaker, the committee will start work as soon as possible after the end of july and given the complexity of issues it will address i am advised it will take a year. as i have made clear, the primary objective of the committee will be to identify and not set out to apportion blame are considered issues of civil or criminal liability. finally mr. speaker i am sure the whole house will join with me in paying tribute to the courage and dedication of everyone of our armed forces and also our civilian personnel who have served our country with such distinction in iraq over six years and will continue to do so in afghanistan and on a peacekeeping missions around the world. mr. speaker at its peak a force of 46,000 servant course of duty in support of operations in iraq and in total as i have said 120,000 men and women serve over the time of the entire conflict. 179 britons died, 222 were seriously or very seriously injured and we remember them all

we're now joined by jenny beth martin, the national coordinator for the two-party patriots. tony perkins on deck. [applause] >> thank you. barbara gilbert of florida volunteered as a local coordinator for one of the 850-plus tea parties that were held on april 15. like 1.2 other million taxpayers on the treats on tax day, she is concerned about the out-of-control government spending and taxing. barbara is unique. she has been diagnosed with what can be a terminal illness. she knows intimately that her time on this earth is limited, and she's made a commitment to herself, her family, her two grandsons, her community, and her country, to use whatever time she has left to serve her country. our country. america. tea party patriots with the help of people like barbara gilbert around the country are mobilizing grass roots activists who are the heart and soul of the tea party movement. we are going to be doing several things to defeat nationalized health care to promote fiscally responsible government spending. and what we're doing is taking the expertise from panelists like you guys and we're putting it on the ground with our troops, putting