shogun, national archives. thank you so much for this incredible. let tell you all about this amazing nation that we serve. when the daughter of immigrants with very humble beginnings could stand before you on the steps of our national archives to celebrate. our 248th independence day. my father came here from germany with my grandparents when he was just four years old in search for a better life. he joined the united states army and met mother, one of the hardest working people i know while serving in korea. the both of them me life principles like treating your neighbor well and to put in the work. in fact, i had to put in some work to even get $5 when i was growing up. how many of y'all had that same experience experience because of those principles? i got to see their daughter go on and serve in the united states. force your air force, america closing. that's. closing out career as the 19th chief master sergeant in the force. caring for and advocate for the over 689,000 total force airmen for more than four more than three decades. as a u.s., it

secondly the national archives national archiveshas a wonderfuy knowledgeable staff. the presidential every staff is very knowledgeable. i cannot tell you how many researchers that came to that research room and said show me everything the president johnson did on education. and i said let me tell you about the structure. original records, presidential papers are set out by the office for the person who generated them. it relates back to them. you really need to depend on the archivist get familiar with the file. i am really looking for expert you are wise to find x learn as much as you can about the papers also talk to the staff. they will give you very good advice. continue to do your research. and finally i would say don't just limit yourself to the contextual file. the picture can be worth 5000 words. nixon, johnson, kennedy are just amazing precedents. we feel like a fly on the wall when you listen to it. so that is my advice. >> thank you. and for you what is one research tip you'd give to someone who is just starting research? >> something i set a little earlie

she is former director of the presidential materials division at the national archives and records administration. she worked with related to president nixon and she was appointed by former archivist the united states, don wilson. be a senior archival panel which decided on 2500 documents that contested by the former president in the late 1980s, early 1990s, from opening in of whether or not they were personal records. she also supervised the review of nixon tapes that had been proposed for opening but were contested. she's a member. she is the founding member and the president of the first lady's association research education, where she's also the coauthor with diana carlin and anita b mcbride of two books, which are u.s. first ladies speaking history and living legacy. and remember the first lady's america's history making women. she also co-edited modern first ladies. their document legacy. so now we can go ahead and, get started as each of you has spent time either researching with us or working with records as an archivist. so before start discussing your research in more detail, if you cou

the former director of the presidential material division at the national archives and records administration she worked with materials related tn president nixon and was appointed by the former statesst of the united don wilson to be a senior archival panel which decided on 2500 documents that had been contested by the former president in the late 1980s and 1990s from opening in terms of whether or not they were personal records. she also supervised the review of the nixon tapes that had been proposed for opening that were contested. she is the founding member and the presidentdy of the first ladies association for research education. also the co-author with diana and anita mcbride ofri two books which are u.s. first ladies speaking history and leaving legacie' and members of the first ladies america's history makingsh women. each of you has spent time either researching with us or working with records of archivists. so before we start discussing the research in more detail if you could please let us know what inspired you or started you on your path with primary source documents. so i thoug

while studying his own family tree in the reading room of the national archive. according to the found birth certificates, the boy konstantin was born on september 3, 1889 on belarusian soil, in the telekhany of the pinsk district of the minsk province. but why did konstantin rokosovsky himself hide the place and date of his birth? experts have different versions of this, but be that as it may, we can now confidently say that one of the marshals of victory was born. on belarusian soil had belarusian roots. in 1914, he entered the russian imperial army as a volunteer hunter, as they were also called, since 1914 he served on the fronts of the first world war, and he managed to master weapons quite quickly, that is, a saber, a pike, learned to shoot and was a very brave commander, and often went on reconnaissance, so we can note that the initial period of his life begins to be associated with the army. since 1918, after the revolution, konstantin rakosovsky served in the red army, graduated from the military academy in 1936 and became one of the first commanders of

i, i was privileged to be the the president and chairman of the national archives foundation and and one day i was taking a potential donor up into the stacks. the archives building on pennsylvania avenue. and one of the archivists pulled out a book, glassing pages that had these handwritten telegrams in them. and i said it at that point in time. wow. those are mr. lincoln's t. and the idea for let's pursue this that story was born at that point in time. but most them are at the national archives. so sir, thank you for a great enjoy. thank you, sir. learning morse code cw, as you call it, did not come easy for me as i learned. but it took me a while because i probably have started before i was, in fact, writes another feature of. computers an idea how big this telegraph corps i mean how many people that knew how to send and receive. and do you have idea how fast they were sending and receiving? yeah, i can't answer. don't know the that the speed is. you know at one point in time i actually sat and tried to calculate how many bits per second were being transmitted so we can compare it

both documents are available today at the national archives.hose of archibald cox the first pretzel special prosecutor and his top assistant james thornburg are now available at the harvard law library. they have declined to return them to the archives where they should be but you can see them at harvard. at each of these four instances in the four caches of documents i was the first to have access. treasure trove of new information. incredible by the prosecutors they were so eager to nail nixon. there is no supervision from the department of justice. they got carried away. what's just astonishing to meet not that they got carried away with the remembers bragging about it. the third development was the complaint of ms. turney attorney misconduct. this is delicious. it's not in the book. this is delicious. the disbarment department of justice established after watergate special affairs unit whose only job report on allegations of misconduct for the department of justice attorneys. they have incrediblet power. this is to make sure they did not ov

the national archives isn't exactly known for busting down doors. , cbs would've already have made a primetime drama about it. they would call it something like "chicago archives" or "csi nerd patrol." [ light laughter ] i mean it might be a show already, i don't know, because your tv doesn't get cbs unless you can prove you're 60. [ laughter ] the documents reportedly included some of the government's most closely guarded secrets, including details about u.s. nuclear weapons, spy satellites, and the u.s. military. that's right. he knew where the spy satellites were. there was even a picture of one. [ laughter ] already getting our money's worth. [ light laughter ] after 20 months, a court finally approved a search warrant for mar-a-lago. after nearly 30 months, he was indicted, and the case is assigned to a trump-appointed judge named aileen cannon who has done everything in her power to delay the case, until today, when she sped things up by throwing it out entirely. ♪ >> we're going to start with breaking news coming in as the classified documents

i mean, the national archives. you know, brooke with the library and museum.joel, always just wonderful to work with. it's a joy to get to know a new partner and an american and flair, of course, i revealed lunch is just one of the favorite partners ever. so much fun to work with you all. we really appreciate you were wonderful. well, and that's tribute. this is the last thing i wanted to say, you know, to put on kind of a day like this takes lot of great staff. and i want to thank the library and museum for all they did to make such a success. i also to thank the foundation staff. rachel siglo deserves a standing ovation, which. will go. ellen did it so i'm already on my feet now. i you said on the stand. that's right. thanks so. very. eileen said it to so and i just want say at the very end here i think we ought to do something like this again right? yes. let's get get one very much. i mean, you set it up. it's i would say it's been a pleasure. i would say go for research, educate, find out, find out all of these wonderful stories about this and credibly str

they're available now to the public at the national archives. now let's dig a little bit deeper into the scandal because it gets pretty complex, but i suggest to you there are three things you can take to the bank, there are three undeniable truths about watergate. there really was a break-in. there really was a coverup. president nixon really did resign and everything else is up for grabs. everything else you've been told is subject to question in light of what i've uncovered. so let's talk about the break-in. five burglars were caught redhanded on june 17th, 1972 in the watergate offices of the democrat national committee. there was a thorough investigation. but it wasn't necessary for prosecutors to establish who had known of the break-in plans in order to convict the burglars. the career prosecutors decided to purse the easy convictions first and then see if facing long jail terms loosened their tongues. this approach really frustrated the self-appointed trial judge, chief judge, he wanted to use the trial in his private search for the truth

at least those that survived are maintained at our national archives.secutors were after all technically government employees. i spent a lot of my time ever since reviewing those files. and that's a bit about what i'm going to talk to you tonight. but it's been 50 years. since the scandal and the backstory is rather complex. so we're going to approach this in two ways. i'm going to give you my own one minute summary, and then i'm going to expand a little bit on that. nixon was defeated. but it turns out the prosecutors cheated. they also left a paper trail. and that's what i've been spending in the past few years uncovering. it's simply astonishing. what they committed to writing. and their documents change everything we've been told about watergate. they met secretly with watergate trial judges. they suppressed evidence that was favorable to the defendants. they told outright lies to grand jurors and to congressional committees alike. and none of this was pursued by the press by the so-called investigative reporters. there were clear leads at the time

national archive of the republic of belarus.command of the combat groups berta and iltis, about the fate of the latvian police battalions in the punitive operation winter magic during the period, is kept here. from february 16 to march 25, in it the record of almost every day begins with one phrase: no bandits were found in the combed area, and then a list of destroyed villages: buschanova, borkovo, sukurukova, dobranikov, rubany, salina. the bulk of the population's livestock was taken away by bandits. how many of us have been crying here, how many times have we had such a mountain, which is invisible, i felt that everything was illuminated for the papalishch, all 163 centuries in the region, there were znishchany and aposhnyaga budynka, from the asveyskaga region from 20 thousand and the military population ictva. seisk zone failed, about successes they reported only regarding reprisals against defenseless civilians. the figures on human losses are still being clarified today. the work of the prosecutor general's office contin

the national archives of the republic of belarus, where the diary of the command of the combat groupsberta and iltis is kept, about the fate of the latvian police battalions in the punitive operation winter magic. the period from february 16 to march 25, in it the entry of almost every day begins with one phrase: in the combed area the bandits did not discovered, and then the list of destroyed villages: bushchanovo, borkova, sukhorukova, dobraniki, rubany, salino. the bulk of the population's livestock was taken away by bandits. the boards in the area were destroyed and the last house, from asveysky district from 20 thousand of the given population only 6 thousand came to the papalishchi. at the investigation only three of them were left alive. in the whole area, half of the population was destroyed. operation winter magic did not bring the expected result. on march 31, a decision was made to complete it ahead of schedule, to defeat the partisans rossonsko. ovseyskaya zone failed. successes were reported only in relation to reprisals against peaceful, defenseless residents. the figure

it is not known whether the british national archives are kept, but what is characteristic is that after 71 years, the british regime still did not allow the release of all the documents related to the august 28 coup, documents that could prove the facts. many are revealed by mojtaba ghasemzadeh of the london radio and television news agency. talk about a dark future for the zionist regime, a fate that has been accelerated by many problems in the occupied territories. israel is now effectively isolated internationally and several international organizations are seeking legal and diplomatic punitive measures against it. the nezkochi case in the international court of justice and its recent opinion on the illegality of land occupation. war crimes, violations of human rights, the international status of palestinians, the verdict of the international criminal court to arrest netanyahu, numerous credible accusations about israel has dealt a heavy blow. the case that the american publication foreign affairs says goes back to 10 months of genocide of the zionists in gaza. in another part, faren

. >> we have some went with us here who is an absolute and true friend to the national archives and records administration. as well as to the gerald r ford foundation. how true a friend is garrett graff? well, to put in a small perspective he is such a friend that when garrett writeswr out s check every year to the irs, garrett loves to believe that every single cent comes to the national archives for our usage. [laughter] i am t not sure that is true. in fact it probably goes to the tail book of it at 35. but my friend, it is the thought that counts. ladies and gentlemen, garrett graff. [applause] >> es, joel just stole with some of my opening joke on a speak at a presidential library or museum which is i'm just a huge fan of the presidential libraries and museums across the countryuc i'e been lucky enough i think i have done researchth now at all but three of them. and, they are really a wonderful network across the country and resource for history. i'm very appreciative of the work archivist to across the country. >> thank you so much. you started out with writing a book about robert mue

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relatively calmer existence and he wrote a letter, a lengthy letter, lincoln, which is in the national archives and lincoln wrote on the back of it the first one, says, respect fully submitted to the war department. on september 5th that should have gotten secretary of war cameron you know attention that he wanted tohat lincoln wanted him appoint this man a paymaster. but the nextay he'd heard nothing. and so he writes again to lincoln on september six and says, you know, l's get on it. in fact, he wrote three times to secretary cameron who shortly thereafter but not shortly enough was to russia as as minister to russia and maybe his attitude toward lincoln was was one of the reasons. but why secretary cameron was delayed in responding to lincoln and a kentuckian in lincoln's cabinet reached out and brought him into his his cabinet department. and that was postmaster blair, who had to west point, who was a kentuckian and and was postmaster general. he appointed marquand in the fall 1861 to be as special agen the us post office department. now at that time special agents re the police department

we get we go off on these tangents, you know when i went into the national archives. to listen to some tapes the first thing they asked me is would you are you here to listen to the abuse of power tapes? well that that the abuse of power tapes are the sexy ones where you know, he uses some language that's not good and it gets into the watergate step, but it is a tiny fraction of all of the tapes and and we need that we need our historians and the people that are going to explore this to dig in to some of these other aspects of richard nixon and i think that's one thing that my book is going to accomplish. i think it raises enough questions of that they're going to be other things explored. what one of the key ones is? what was the relationship of the cia to the whole watergate matter? i mean bob haldeman identified early on that. we only know a little bit about watergate. it's going to take years for this unfold. this is the 50th anniversary coming up. we're going to learn new stuff at the 60th and the 70th. anniversaries perfect. thank you dwight to your left right h

not known how many documents related to the august 28 coup are kept here, that is, the british national archives but what what is characteristic is that after 71 years, the british regime still did not allow the publication of all the documents related to the august 28 coup. documents that can reveal many facts, mojtaba ghasemzadeh , london radio and television news agency. first, the discount tower is at its peak from august 31st to september 6th , in the chain stores of afiq korosh. we and ingia know a way to make our blood thinner and lower our energy consumption. it is due to energy consumption and the air conditioner is kept at a comfortable temperature. we, with our energy, know very well that it is wrong to use several high-consumption devices at the same time, that too during the peak hours of consumption. 300 automatic cars. and 450 billion tomans in cash prizes. for more information, dial the square star 21/15. be energetic. you are the winner, great tea, great place, great tea , sofia's place, great tea, great place, great tea , great place, sofia's place, run, we have a guest, i am n

not known how many documents related to the august 28 coup are kept here, that is, the british national archives but what is clear is that after 71 years, the british system has not allowed the publication of all the documents related to the august 28 coup, documents that can reveal many facts. revealed by mojtaba ghasemzadeh of the london broadcasting agency at 10:13 and the end of this news segment. in the name of god, i greet you, viewers dear sir, good morning, in the last 24 hours , the hottest place in our country was bostan in khuzestan province with a maximum temperature of 51 degrees and the coolest place in varzeghan in east azarbaijan with a minimum temperature of 8 degrees . among the centers of the provinces, ahvaz is the hottest with a maximum temperature of 50 degrees. ardabil is the coolest center of the province with a minimum temperature of 10 degrees . we expect to see a significant decrease in temperature in the northern parts of the country in the northern part of the country by the middle of the week. however, in the western and southwestern regions of the country, we expec

. >> we have someone with us here who is an absolute and true friend to the national archives and records administration as well as to the gerald r. ford. how true a friend is garrett graff? well, to put it in a kind of small perspective, garrett is such a friend that when garrett right out his check every year to the irs, garrett loves to believe that every single cent comes to the national archives for our usage. i'm not sure -- [applause] i'm not sure that is true, garrett. in fact, it probably goes i could tailhook evan f-35, but my friend, it's the thought that counts. ladies and gentlemen, garrett graff. [applause] it's. yeah. joel just stole what is normally my opening joke when i speak at a presidential library or museum, which is i'm just a huge fan of. the presidential libraries and museums across the country and i've been lucky. i think i've done research now at all. but three of them and it's they're just a wonderful network across the country resource for history. so i'm very appreciative of the work that archivists do across the country. so thank you so much for so you start