the morse papers are at yale.ut the fact that is it is coming to the national gallery is thrilling. it deserves much more attention than it has been getting for a long time. it has been in storage for years. >> who owns it? >> the terra foundation. >> he used to have a museum? >> yes. when he finished he thought he may get enough money to more than compensate him for his work in it. he thought he might get $3,000 or $4,000. it was a considerable amount of money then. he could not sell it. someone from cooper's home town bought it for $2,000. sold for over it $2 million, the greatest amount of money ever paid for a painting by an american. it is no longer that way. it is a very important painting. >> in your back you have acknowledgements. you acknowledge a lot of people, including a man named mike hill. >> yes. >> an interesting thing i read was that he unlocked the magic of the eli washburn diary? >> yes. >> where is the diary and where was it found? >> mike has worked with me for 25 years as a research assistant

morse and morse's painting of the gallery of the louvre during the horrific cholera epidemic and what they went through and the friendship that developed as a part of the consequence. >> we have a lot of print history around elihu washburne but i wanted to ask you about the french republics and how many republics there were in your seven years you wrote about. >> i don't understand your question. >> there have been five french republics. i wrote down the dates. >> i think there were two. second and third. >> one between -- the first one is between 1792 and 1804 and the second one, the empire -- you get lost. >> yes. >> in the story. and the second republic was 1848-1852. the third one was 1870 all the way to 1940. >> yes, the three. >> and what happened in france in the 1800's, what was the overall story, what went on in that country? >> well, you went from a king, he was a so-called citizen king, louis philippe who got power by a coup d'etat and then he was thrown out by an uprising and escaped with his wife and their lives and lived out the rest of his life in europe -- in england.

god what a slap to show the russian federation our government i'll concede you shouldn't all morse they. do anything against as itself radical islam isn't thought of arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in the green since all the widespread fronting for their own methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings. the question. is whether the radicals ideology and methods are ones of desperation or growing confidence of. the latest updates and good information about russia's fight against terrorists on our website to. such operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic we speak to the president dug a star and online know one of the regions facing ongoing militant attacks and find that r.t. dot com also this. is a multi-billion dollar satellites that crashed into the pacific ocean and crashed the career of russia's top play sport the both have a look at how that story developed we've trysting take it as well it is online tonight our team dot com plus. want to take part in this it's a competition picks of names fo

more a ball to slam to show russian federation government i'll concede you should all morse of a zero do anything against as itself were to call islam isn't thought to have arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one thousand nine hundred eighty six all the widespread pointing. that's of small extreme scoops bombings and shootings have proliferated to question your street australia where the radicals ideology and misfits the ones of desperation or growing confidence of actually we have the latest updates and background information about russia's fight against terrorists on our website. or the such operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in the republic to speak to the president of pakistan or one of the regions are facing ongoing militant attacks and also online for you at r.t. dot com. this web page aims to prove that money can indeed buy you love but at what price. and when the big apple needs some extra cash it turns out thinking on smokers and the desperate. the decision to hand the national art award to a controversia

to speak more abroad to slap to show the russian federation our government our constitution all morse they. do not do anything against islam has itself radical islam isn't thought to have arrived in the region until the second chechen campaign started in one thousand nine hundred since then although widespread fighting has gone down the methods of small extremist groups bombings and shootings have proliferated the question nervously are saying now is where the radicals ideology and methods the wants of desperation or growing confidence on the art of acting. or you can always find the latest updates of background information on russia's battle against terror on our web site. of the search operations will continue until we have eliminated the terrorist underground in a republic you spoke with the president of dagestan one of the regions facing our growing militant attacks also for you would argue that the multi-billion dollar satellite crashed into the pacific ocean and also crashed the career of russia's top space boss have a look at how that story happened to us take a look at our car

. >> reporter: and professor morse says he believes they are close to getting the plant under control. >> reporter: sophisticated tests of bay area produce including spinach, strawberries, kale and urugula shows isotopes peaked two weeks ago. even at its most contaminated you would have to eat more than a thousand pounds of spinach in order to get the additional radiation you would get from a single cross country airline flight. >> none of these things in cause of actual risk to health ever got out of control in california and now they are practically immeasurable. >> reporter: reporting that low level contamination was a step in transparency if the public is to support nuclear power. tonight we look at some concerns bay area residents think is the biggest nuclear concern. john fowler, ktvu news. >>> the california high speed rail authority heard a proposal. leaders want to modify existing tracks. they say it would save millions of dollars. but opponents says that true but it would slow down the trains to the point where they would no longer be high speed trains. >>> julie haener is i

. >> samuel morse, thomas edison, henry adams -- sunday night, part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans who made the "greater journey" to 19th century paris at 8:00 on c- span. >> this morning, josh rogin talks about the middle east, obama is meeting with

indeed at the very moment john chapman lay dying in william morse cabin in fort worth digging the foundation for his famous celebrated -- but for all his intellectual independence thoreau never hit cut the lifeline. he was within easy walking distance within the worldview that is now. even as he was rhapsodizing life in the woods thoreau was caring laundry home to his mother. not chapman. from his early 20s on and make it before he had no tether last. in an article from the december 1979 american heritage magazine edward hoagland suggested chapman had left a diary behind. he might be compared to john james audubon or george catton and the great indian portraitist. i like that. certainly diary would not have been relentless can treat of the industrial revolution. chapman lived his critique the nature levin gave himself over to vibrated through his entire being like walt wittman. years ago i spent a long night with the washington d.c. emergency psychiatric response team, heroic men and women attending to the certifiably insane who have been answered lush -- institutionalized. most of those the

. >> samuel morse, chance and a more cooper, henry adams, sunday night on q &a, two weeks with david mccullough. >> president obama laid out his vision for the u.s. role in the middle east and said he supports the emerging democracies across the region. he urged israel and the palestinians to negotiate a final peace agreement. we will hear brief comments from secretary of state hillary clinton. the president's remarks are about 50 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> i thank the many young foreign service and civil servants who are here today. mr. president, from your first days in office, you have charged us with implementing a bold new approach for america's foreign policy, a new blueprint for how we advance our values, project our leadership, and strengthen our partnerships. we have seen that in a changing world, america's leadership is more essential than ever but that we often must lead in new and innovative ways. so, mr. president, these foreign service officers and these civil servants is, the men and women of the state de

morse hadn't invented his telegraph yet and he decided on his own to recognize the new government of france, not waiting for the government in washington to tell him that's what he should do. a very brave decision to say the least and a very important decision which was enormously welcomed news and applauded not just in paris by the new government but in washington as well. >> how did they communicate in those days when they were over in paris, i know things changed from the 1930's to -- >> by letter. >> how long did that take? >> a month at best. >> and was there a telegraph near the end of the 1800's? >> atlantic cable was laid and they could communicate directly. >> what did that change? >> oh, it changed everything. instant information. the frank oppression war, for example, the people in cincinnati or here in washington were reading reports from the front two or three days after the report was written. and if there was a delay, it was just getting the message to the nearest telegraph center where it could be put on the atlantic cable and sent here. >> did any of these people die

there was a black preacher who was above us somewhere and we communicated with him by morse code. he had tried to to prevent the mississippi police officer beating up one of his parishioners and had been in 15 -- in jail for 15 years and had never gone to trial. so i guess these were the powerful experiences for me, the personal experiences, saying that black christie with tears in his eyes and forcing him to beat -- and i need to beat because it they did not beat them hard they said we will lock your up for the next number of years. those are get the things they with me in a very powerful way and come back as we sit here. >> bob, you mentioned earlier conversations you had in parchment and singing as well. could you expound on that for a moment? >> one of the things that kept us sane was that we could not see each other but we could hear each other so we organized some lectures and people would talk about the thing they knew the best. we would sometimes sing. now, singing, when i worked on the pennsylvania railroad for a year before it went into the army, and singing does in fact

. >> samuel morse, james been more cooper,. beatrice doh, henry adams -- sunday night, part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans who made the " greater journey" to 19th century paris. >> on monday, former white house chief of staff for rahm emanuel was sworn in as mayor of chicago. in his inaugural address, he talked about his plan on importing the chicago school system. -- zero in improving -- on improving the school system. this is just under 30 minutes. >> the hon. timothy c. evans will now administer the oath of office to rahm emanuel as yor of the city of chicago. >> raise your hand and repeat after me. i, rahm emanuel, solely swear to support the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of illinois and that i will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of mayor of the city of chicago according to the best of my ability. congratulations. [cheers and applause] [unintelligible] >> honored guests, mr. vice- president, dr. biden, mayor daley, members of the city council, oth

frank morse was reported in some of you will know how he felt. my sense is he was reported that felt the weight of untold and reported stories on his beat which was agriculture. so, we got together with harvest public media and his vision kind of brought them together to get this grant from cpb into a tiger by the untold stories that were making up the fabric of our region and putting them out there to the world. that's exactly one of our reporters and/or multimedia editor described it in my newsroom yesterday. the fabric of the stories that are in our region. one of those reporters actually tackled a story from missouri's bhutto but if you look at the map of missouri, this is a good day to talk about missouri, we have a poodle kind of like italy. -- a poodle kind of like italy. jessica was given the lecture and the time and equipment and the money to go down to the bhutto and talk about african-american farmers that filled a country church in that region and told their stories about how they were waiting for reclamation's as a result of years of

admiral jeremiah denton who actually in north vietnamese propaganda was blanking the word torture in morse code to get the word out that pows were being tortured. he also says that water boarding is not torture. it is not beyond dispute. it is not an issue that everyone agrees except for the few people on this panel willing to stand up for. as to senator mccain, you mentioned that he said it was not the first place that we learned about the koran -- the courier. he cited in his speech of foreign and talents report that the first meeting -- mentioned in description of him as an important how can a member of government detainee held in another country. we did not render him to that country for the purpose of interrogation. this is been held up as proof that we did not learn this from cia detainees. i want to talk to a number of senior cia officials. none of them had officially heard of this report. they did not know what he was talking about. and then we dug deeper and it turned out that the report senator mccain is referring to a foreign intelligence report collected in the early 2000's and

she normally wear morse form-fitted clothing.in-law, the father of nicolas sarkozy, told a german newspaper that they were expecting. it hasn't been confirmed officially. >> just reading between the baby bump lines. >> that's exactly right. see we'll wait. she is 43 years old. >> you interviewed her just last year, didn't you? >> just last year, yes. she is probably waiting for it to be further along before confirming she is pregnant. so we'll wait for the official confirmation. >> this is what we do to americans, american celebrities, and it's what we're doing to the french first lady. >> and by the way, the the elections in france are next year. so if indeed there is a presidential baby or two on the way, they will be tiny little bundles of joy by the time the nicolas sarkozy runs for office again. >> how about that. thank you. hala gorani, thank you. >>> and now this. >> give me a date and i'll answer. >> i'm giving you a date. >> no, sir, you are badgering me. you're trying to get me upset, sir. >> tensions rung high in the c

. >> samuel morse,. beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, sunday night on q&a, part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans to make a greater germany, to 19th century paris. at 8:00 on c-span. >> next, treasury secretary geithner talks about the need to reduce the federal debt in order to spur long-term economic growth. his remarks at the harvard club in new york were sponsored by the center on the press and public policy part of harvard university. [applause] policy. >> good afternoon. i'm alex jones, johns center on the press, politics, and public paucity. -- a public policy. i welcome you to this special event. it is special not only because we have the secretary with us, but it is a memorial. he endowed the center as a memorial to his daughter. a superb journalist who died of cancer before her time. walter wanted her life to be honored by something as a meaningful and dynamic as the life she had lived. i am proud to say that the center will celebrate its 25th anniversary this yea

as a member of congress, that is what i would work toward, looking at what issues matter morse the people of this district and going to washington and advocating on their behalf. >> i think what you're hearing is a defining difference between myself and my opponent. i believe that our federal government would make a promise to our people, particularly our seniors, that when they get to a certain age that they will have guaranteed health coverage through medicare instead of saying leave it to the private sector. that is exactly why we had to start medicare in the first place. our seniors were left to the private sector. there were the largest of the people in poverty in this country. our country family said, you know what? we are good people. we don't do this to our seniors. do nothing bishopric that contract. i think we have to have a role for educating our kids. i do not want to leave that for the private sector. i want government to have a role in making sure their kids have a premium education. i have not heard a word about law enforcement, have important that is to protect our interes

. >> samuel morse, james fenmore cooper, john singer sergeant, henry adams. sunday night on "q&a" part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the guys who -- on the americans who made the greater journey to 19th century paris. at 8:00 on c-span. >> now available, c-span's congressional directory, a complete guide to the first session of the 112th congress. contact nsks including twilter information, district maps and committee assignments. order online at c-span.org/shop. with nasa's space shuttle program ending in july after the final shuttle mission, former international space station commander frank culberson testified before a senate commerce subcommittee today on the future of nasa and human space flight. captain culberson's last mission was in 2001 when he went to the international space station aboard shuttle endoe -- endeavour. the hearing was chaired by florida democratic senator bill nelson, also a former astronaut. this is just under two hours. >> good morning. just a few weeks ago we celebrated the 50th anniversary of human space flight an the

. >> the samuel morse, james valdemoro cooper, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison on sunday q&a, one of two parts with david mccullough, americans who made the greater journey to 19th century paris. >> earlier today at the white house, president obama and king of dela of jordan met with reporters following -- king of dela of jordan met with .eporters sa the president will release a statement thursday at the u.s. state department. >> it is a great pleasure to welcome once again my good friend king abdallah. the united states and jordan have had a longstanding friendship, an extraordinary relationship with cooperation on a wide range of fronts i have valued his majesty's advice on numerous occasions, and obviously, this meeting was an opportunity for us to share our views on the extraordinary changes that are taking place throughout the middle east, throughout the region. we discussed the situation in libya and are grateful for the support of a wide range of arab countries in our efforts to make sure that humanitarian assistance and humanitarian protection occurs inside of libya. we di

as foreign aid, we have to separate that aid that is primarily military, from that which serves a morsearian purpose. i do not disagree with the sentiment that says force humanitarian issues, we have to look at whether or not we as americans can support those things in a way that does not require us to do that through the federal government. i do not think we can pull back to that point immediately, but it is worth considering. even if we pulled out all foreign aid everywhere, immediately, it would put a tiny dent in what we need to do in order to balance the budget. we do have to address some difficult things like military spending and entitlement spending. you have had the republicans saying i will never consider looking at the military budget. you have had democrats who have said i will never considered any adjustments to entitlement programs. now you are seeing conseand consensus with both parties. host: what do you think about this talk with joe biden -- what do you make of all of those discussions? guest: i am glad they are happening. we need to address these rigorously and aggres

. >> samuel morse, james been more cooper, harriet beecher stowe, thomas edison, henry adams, sunday night on a "q&a," part one of two weeks with david mccullough on the americans amid the greater journeyed to 19th century -- who made the greatest journey to 19th century paris. >> this weekend, cleveland state prof. regina williams on the music of duke ellington. on "american artifacts, clothes for a look at the smithsonian efforts to preserve an exhibit of the jefferson bible. the 50th anniversary celebration of the freedom rides and 13 men and women, black and white, boarded two buses bound for new orleans -- their goal -- to integrate southern bus stops. get the complete we can schedule at c-span.org/history, or press the c-span alert button to get our schedules e-mailed directly to you >> -- directly to you. >> this weekend, authors on the gulf oil spill, wall street, the universe, america's largest slave revolt, india, and the middle east, plus a panel discussion on the book industry. also, the former ambassador to yemen on the u.s. but the counter-terrorism efforts in that coun

. >> semel morse, james that mark cooper, john singer sargent, thomas jones -- thomas edison, we have part one with david mccullough on americans to make a greater journey to 19th century paris. that's at 8:00 on c-span. >> treasury secretary tim geithner called on lawmakers just a to work with the administration on a credible deficit-cutting plan which could be accepted by republicans and democrats. his remarks came during a speech at the harvard club ad -- in new york city. the comments focus on the state of the u.s. economy, the federal budget and how to reduce the national debt. harvard university on the press, politics and public policy has to the discussion. this is one hour. >> good afternoon. i am the director of the johns center on the press, politics, and public paucity. -- a public policy. i welcome you to this special event. it is special not only because we have the secretary with us, but it is a memorial. walter assurance been endowed the center as a memorial to his daughter, a superb journalist who died of cancer before time. walter wanted her life to be honored by some

. >> samuel morse, james and more cooper, harriet beecher stowe, sunday night on q&a, part one of twon the americans who made the greater journey to 19th century paris. at 8:00 on c-span. >> now, afl-cio president discusses the u.s. labor movement agenda and recent activity in states like wisconsin, ohio and indiana. he also talks about the 2012 elections, federal budget issues, and the state of the u.s. economy. from the national press club in washington, this is about one hour. >> good afternoon. we are the leading organization for journalists, working to foster a free press worldwide. for more information to us, visit our web site. to donate to our programs, visit our library. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today's event. contains table a guests of our speaker. if you happen to hear applause, i would remind you that members of the general public are present, so that does not necessarily point to a lack of journalistic conductivity. i would like to also welcome c- span and our beating -- journalistic objectivity. i

there is an admiral who in a north sienese propaganda video was forced to blank the word torture in morse code says water boarding is not torture. it is not an issue that is beyond dispute. it's not an issue that everyone agrees, second, as to senator mccain, you mentioned senator mccain said it's not the first place we learned about the courier. he cited in his floor speech a foreign intelligence report. he said the first mention of him as well as a description of him as an import al qaeda member came from a detainee held and and other country. we did not conduct this interrogation or render him to another country for interrogation. we have held this up as proof that we did not learn this from the cia detainee's. i talked to other cis officials and none of them heard of this report and did not know what he was talking about. then we dug a little deeper and it turned out the report senator mccain is referring to is a foreign intelligence report collected in the early 2000's and had no information of any great value. it mentioned the courier and passing and no one had taken note of it. the