that phrase is, "this nation, under god."t set the standard of our concept of man. and a creature under god is the ability to determine right and the obligation to act on that right. from that belief in man as a responsible being flow the beliefs in his other call qualifications which we accept without bothering to think about them. the vague conviction which we call the american way. his ability, indeed his right to explore the truth in all things. his ability to govern himself. and his ability to hand his own economic problems. [ auctioneer calling ] >> the opposing point of view in this conflict rests on a fundamentally different vision of man. as a creature, not of god, but of the state. in this system, the value of individual man diminishes sharply. and the state is all-important. the state will run his life for him. his political life. his business life. his social life. what we oppose fundamentally is the aggressive nature of the communist state. its unceasing effort to expand wherever it can, to grow bigger, to take o

-- johnson have a national security adviser? >> guest: he had two. the first one he had was named george bundy. he inherited bundy, and bundy served him until ma of 19 -- march of 1966, so almost as long as he served kennedy. initially, johnson first of all was desperate to keep the kennedy people. he wanted it for legitimacy, he wanted it for continuity, and he needed them. he didn't have the background, he didn't have the staff people who had that sort of substantive expertise. at the same time, he resented them because he felt that they looked down on him whether true or not. and so sometimes things are self-fulfilling. if you think that and the relationship evolves, maybe eventually bundy did look down a little bit on johnson. anyway, early on he needed bundy very much. he even invited george bundy's mother to the white house when she was in town so as to help persuade bundy to stay on. but he then, but they came apart. bundy pushed very hard for expanding our involvement in vietnam which most of us feel was probably his mos

citizens who are members of an independent nation. >> a sovereign nation -- the citizenship of their tribe? >> i think is the u.s. passport. a dual citizenship thing. they -- talk about u.s. transport. . travel internationally wouldn't work. they can say go to the t s a and say i love member of the cherokee nation. you have to have a u.s. passport. [inaudible] >> it is a conceit, not legal entity. no indian nation making and deal with the government of germany, it has become an internal understanding and way of operation in the united states to one of the fact that it is on reservations, better news is we are still an independent sovereign nation because we were here first and we are a sovereign nation. kind of a standoff but that is what we have made of it. >> i wonder if you have a philanthropic call, for so many different groups. in the case, you seem to have important meaning. understand how to use that. >> i wanted to broaden the meeting not to the point of confusion but what patriotism is. not something we decided affects protestants on july 4th. it means a love of your people

till all success, martin luther king on the national mall, to all success the national museum of african-americanss be nobleness and every gain divine. shalom. peace be unto you. god bless america. >> please welcome the founding director of this museum, lonnie bunch. >> what a grand and glorious day, and they said it was going to snow. [ laughter ] president and mrs. obama, members of congress, smithsonian regents, the presidential commission, the museum's council, distinguished guests and dear friends, i am honored and humbled to welcome you to this ground breaking ceremony for the newest museum of the smithsonian institution, the national museum of african-american history and culture. i just love to say that. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> your presence today is a clear reminder of the unflagging support and leadership that you have provided this endeavor. we are at this moment. we have come this far not by faith alone but because of your belief in the importance of this museum. while there are too many donors and supporters to name, i want you to know just how much the smithsonian appreciates t

and the difficulty is that many of these national systems are developed to suit national requirements, and not necessarily alliance requirements. so the communication from one system to the other can be difficult. i had a canadian system. i was aware of u.s. systems. the british systems and the like. and then you have nato systems, but even the nato system need to mature even further. we need to go beyond this. the technology in terms of link, in terms of exchange of information, data link, and transfer of information is a place where we need to continue. but it's a difficult part because on one side you have -- you're facing national interests and national requirements and on the other side are alliance requirements. and therein lies the difficult part. where do we find that balance between those two -- those two end of the spectrum, to find the place where we can work. i think it starts at the policy level, where we agree -- i don't know if the military structures, we all agree we need to talk to each other. we can probably all find out some way but there has to be a policy architec

we were the wealthiest nation because we were the freest nation. not the richest nation anymore. but they got away off base because entitlement sounds like a good word. we are entitled to the right to our life and our liberties. but we are not entitled to someone else's money. in goblins have become what people demand or one or insist on. they become entitlements, and literally, i imagine more than that to% of the people in this country thinks that entitlement is a right. we get our lives and our liberty from our creator. we did it in a national way. we do not get it from the government, but we have a right to our lives and our liberty, we ought to back a right to keep the fruits of our labor. which, of course, means there would be no income tax, if you could live with that. a lot of people will challenge me, of course, because i want to start off the first year with a token $1 trillion. [cheers and applause] and basic, quite frequently, the questions are quite clear, because when the nest egg on the keynesian economics, what would happen if the government quit spending $1 trilli

for we are a diver's nation. and there are, perhaps, as many concepts of what america is as there are people among us. but although we look at america through different eyes, there are many insights into the essence of our moving and growing nation that we share. >> i'm john wayne. is there any better or equal hope in the world, lincoln asked, than the ultimate justice of the people. we americans believe there is not. the stonework of our national life is made of this belief. we believe in many things, but this belief that man is a responsible being bears out our own unique stamp as a nation. as a people, we are active and often noisy. we are industrious. oftentimes to the babblement of ourselves and our friends. we relax as hard as we work. we are proud. we are sentimental. beauty is of no concern to us. for some of us, it's pursued as a deadly, serious past time. the rest of us simply enjoy the results. some of our national spirit shows up in the monuments we erect. the large ones and the small ones. it rings t

threats to national security.her topics of discussi included security threats in iraq and afghanistan as well as cyber security threats to the u.s. carl levin of michigan chairs this senate armed services committee hearing, it's about two hours and 50 minutes. >>> good morning, everybody. we start by welcoming our witnesses for today's hearing on current and longer term threats and challenges around the world. we're glad to have the director of national intelligence, james clamper and dia director general ron burgess as our witnesses. we thank you both for your long and continued service to our nation on behalf of our troops to whom we all owe so much. this committee has a special responsibility to the men and women of our armed forces, to be vigilant, decisions to use our military force and the planning for operations depends so heavily on intelligence. last year there are clear signs of progress in afghanistan, afghan security forces are in the lead in providing security in kabul, including during the gathering of over 2,000 afghan lead leaders. the afghan army and police are in cha

s new nationalism. why a democrat, a member of a party which customarily recurs to the other roosevelt, especially in hard times, should have in this instance embraced the republican roosevelt will no doubt be explored today among many other issues in this discussion we're about to hear. and we have a terrific panel for that discussion composed of prominent political analysts who know a great deal about both the progressive era as well as contemporary politics. i'll introduce first my co-moderator for the day, e.j. dionne, "washington post" columnist who will make later some introductory remarks. then comment on the presentations after they've been made. then we'll hear from a couple of university of virginia professors. sid milkis, author of a wonderful book on progressive politics entitled "theodore roosevelt, progressive party and the transformation of american democracy." and jim ceaser, professor of politics at uva. next we'll hear from john halpin, senior fellow at the center for american progress

national defense. i want to be clear, very clear, these are extraordinarily challenging times, globally and fiscally. our strategy in this budget reflect very hard decisions, impact communities, industry and people. we know that. we know it well. and i promise you we'll do everything we can to minimize these effects. but in the end, to make a properly balanced army that can stay ahead of our competitors and support our greatest asset, our soldiers, we must restructure, we must reprioritize. we have begun this evident, aff with your continued leadership and help, we will succeed. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, mr. secretary. general odierno. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and ranking members of the committee. it's an honor to be in front of you today and i want to thank you for the incredible support you've continued to give our soldiers as we fought in wars and afghanistan and around the world. we couldn't have done it without your support, your guidance and your partnership that we've h

these as the rights of all nations and insists on such a divine right of the nation and the right to live freely to have dignity to justice and also to make progress and prosper into welfare, and of course obtaining this right must be accompanied within sight and hard work. on the address in the nation and you should all be vigilant to be the freedom and democracy cannot be obtained to the departments and qualifiers by the makers. cannot bring freedom to both nations if they are spending a dollar they expect hundreds of dollars. they want to plunder hundreds of dollars prior to any event in the country they should in fact plunder the mind of the resources and the oil resources should note the massacres will bring about nothing but animosity and hatred in the person who falls down that will lead to hatred. the regional governments must be aware that the enemy is after creating winthrop want to save the regime and they are after creating the government and the nation, and also among the different religious schools of thought f. they want to eliminate others and those people as well. wh

[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> early results are coming and for today's republican caucuses. ap reports that mitt romney looks headed for a second straight victory. we will hear from mitt romney and newt gingrich both an las vegas with their reactions to tonight's results starting at 10:40 p.m. eastern time. >> this past week, house and senate lawmakers continued negotiations to extend the payroll tax cut. they will continue their meeting on tuesday. the cuts expire at the end of the month, and all sides agree it should be extended. >> i do not hear a fundamental disagreement in the philosophy that if people get this, that enhances the ability for them to get a job down the road. i do not hear a disagreement with that. i hear an excuse as to why not to do it, but the fundamental philosophy of trying to rearm people with a fundamental education, so that when they go into the workforce, they have an additional tool. >> off to link a social program designed for 70-plus years to provide financi

a nation.ing better than honoring all our ancestors by remembering that reverse history of america. as with any endeavor of this sort, it has not been without challenges in difficult moments. the support has come from unexpected quarters. a man shined shoes in a texas airport to said to me, while he is unsure exactly what would be in a museum, he hopes it would be in his word open-" -- "the only place where his grandchildren learn about his life." the woman who cleans the museum reminded me that she is tired and able to retire, but she wants to continue to work so she can claim at the museum. -- clean the museum. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not think the entire smithsonian family for helping this museum make a way out of no way. the leadership -- i want to nod to patty for all our support. -- her support. [applause] i want to awknowledge the gift of the national museum of african-american history and culture. [applause] while i may stand in front of you, they do the work to make all t

president, did you hear the little thing about the national championship?s year is alabama. last year it was auburn. it never stops. >> it never stops. >> you see what i have to put up with now? it's hard to be a razorback fan, but we're working on it. that's right. what most people don't fully realize that government is a team sport. we're all thankful to have our tireless and passionate vice president running all over the country and all over the world to accomplish our country's most important work, vice president joe biden. the next person i want to introduce is my wife, jill prior, the best person in the world. you've already met jackie evancho. she's going to sing one more song in a few minutes. i think after that she has to leave here and go study for a spelling test. sitting next to her is her mother, the proudest mom in the room. this is lisa evancho. thank you both for being here. shortly we're going to hear a greeting from our counterparts who lead the house prayer breakfast group. they make those of us at the head table feel extra safe because o

on the national mall.ional museum of african-american history ask culture, until all success be nobleness and every game divine. shalom, peace be unto you. god bless america. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome stanley thurston and the signature choir. >> music from the church has touched hearts and stirred songs for generations. it has soothed in times of trouble and inspired it to the noble things. today the heritage signature choral will perform a liturgical work "my soul is anchored in the lord". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stirring indeed. yes. creating the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture is a grand endeavor, and a grand endeavores in estates a courage to dream big. his efforts have brought us this moment and his guidance will take us to the day when the national museum of african-american history and culture opens its doors on this spot. please welcome the founding director of this museum lonnie bunch. [

kathryn condon, the executive director of the national cemetery -- army national cemetery program and the superintendent of arlington cemetery. as i look at the issues that still must, need to be addressed, these two appear to rise above all the rest. first, what is the corrective action and funding that will be required to resolve the nearly 14,000 critical deficiencies cited in the arlington grave accountability effort? and, send, should the department of veterans affairs assume responsibility for arlington it national cemetery and the cemetery at the soldiers home here in the district of columbia? before i introduce our witnesses, let me recognize in turn representative susan davis, the ranking member of the military personnel committee, and chairman rob whitman of the oversight investigation subcommittee and mr. jim cooper, the ranking member of the oversight investigation subcommittee for any opening remarks they might wish to make. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the hearing today. general vangiel, i wanted to welcome you. inds you recently took over from general mccoy

in that longer speech he said, righteousness exhaltith the nation. this invocation of proverb in the king james version of the bible reveals how progressivism at its founding was infused with the social gospel. a relij yosty that for better or worse obama and cop tentemporar progressives usually avoid. let me go back to a point that goes back to the beginning of my remarks. perhaps was born here the hollowing out of progressivism was the logical outcome of its fate -- the creed that human rights must take precedence over property rights was to rest on the shoulders of the steward of the public welfare. that is a real beguiling phrase that i still struggle to understand. matt suggested that this commitment to a presidency centered, executive centered democracy, showed a commitment to expertise. i'm not so sure of that. knowing that such a modern executive presupposed, as crowley put it, administrative gran dizment, a kind of statism americans had not shunned and feared, t.r. insisted paradoxically the new state had to be connected vitally to public op

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> senate democratic leader harry reid said last week he may recommend president obama make more recess appointments. at 1:30 eastern, c-span2 will have live coverage as legal experts discuss the president's actions. republican leaders say congress was meeting every three days and not in an official recess. presidential candidates are back on the campaign trail after the president's day weekend. we will have coverage art santorum in at arizona. our coverage begins at 2:00 eastern. tonight, a look at u.s. power in the 21st century. saxby chambliss and bob corker joined white house advisers at the world economic forum. >> it is our cause to dispel -- in a delusion that it a world of conflict will somehow resolve itself into a world of harmony. if we just do not rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression, and this is hogwash. >> as candidates campaign for president this year, we look back at 14 men then ran for the office and lost. code to our website, c-span.org /the

either the united nations would make somalia into a colony and spend decades engaging in nation-building or united nations forces would withdraw and somalia revert to its prior anarchy. since america and the united nations were unwilling to govern somalia for 30 years, it followed that the job of feeding the hungry and helping the sick must be left to civilian aid agencies and private charities. conclusion, military intervention without an attainable purpose creates as many problems as it solves. this was further demonstrated in the former yugoslavia where early action to arm the victims of aggression so that they could defend themselves would have been far more effective than the united nations half-hearted multilateral intervention. a neutral peacekeeping operation lightly armed in an area where there was no peace to keep. so maybe to consolidate the gains from aggression. eventually, the united nations peacekeepers became hostages used by the aggressor to determine more effective action against him. all in all, a sorry and tragic episode. ended by the croatian army. nato air power and

united nations. we don't happen to be in that category. it matters to us what the united nations does elsewhere because, again, where people are ridden with malaria, they will never buy our goods. >> well, mrs. roosevelt, do you think the united nations, as an instrument of world political opinion and operation, has lost ground in, say, the last five or six years in this country? >> i think, like everyone else, that we started out expecting that the united nations would solve every difficulty just by being the united nations. we didn't realize that the united nations is all the nations gathered in one place but all the troubles remained, just as they were before. therefore, we had to work to make the united nations work, and we didn't want to work, and we didn't expect to have to do this work. and now we know we have to, which is healthy, i think. >> that brings up another point, mrs. roosevelt. secretary of state dulles has just made an important speech before the american bar association in boston,

really is my new hometown and the nation ready for this conversation? the evidence is contradictory, confusing. on the one hand, public commemoration and acknowledgment of the role of african-americans in the war is visible in a way that was unimaginable 50 years before. national parks had been working for decades, the movie "glory" dramatized the story about the 200,000 african-americans who fought for the union. on the other hand, a recent poll shows that more than half of americans think the civil war was fought over states' rights. and the younger people are the more they are to think that, which is sobering for us who have written history books and taught classes because no historian has argued for a very long time that was the case, and yet this myth that david referred to is doing our thinking for us. the assumption that i'm skeptical of the virtue of the north so therefore it must have been a quest for states' rights for the south. you're still seeing fourth grade textbooks in virginia coming forward saying there were many black confederates bec

by all nations of the world.d a member of the council today claims to have a better -- be in a better position to judge how to support the stability and these arab nations themselves. the resolution does not propose imposing change on syria from outside. the call from the syrian people to be allowed to make their choices for themselves. it does not call for military action and could not be used to authorize it and the secretary-general has the plan of the arab league specifically does not include any outside intervention. it is not a job there resolution but it showed in our view notice the measures will be considered by this council. there is not an immediate end to the violence as the plan continues to be ignored. the warning is important. but too long to see her in government has promised and continued the violent. at any time over the last 10 months they could have stopped the bloodshed and they could've introduced bold and lasting reform and meet the aspirations of syria for greater political freedom. the fa

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we'll need c-span and national newspapers and conferences and communities across the nation to reckon with their own place in the dramas of slavery and war and emancipation in their consequences. now, while no american community is free from implication in those dramas, though many would like to think they are, some places are more implicated than others. my city, of richmond, virginia, would seem to be at the center of that. no matter what else may ever happen in that place, it will always be the former capital of the confederacy, one of the former centers of the domestic slave trade. it will always be at least a former shrine of the lost cause. just as the united states will always be a nation at whose foundation the constitution made a bargain over slavery and whose courts for a century after emancipation obligated segregation. if the nation is to be reconciled it would need places like richmond, new york, boston, charleston, montgomery, to take responsibility for their own legacies. now, richmond has already stepped up in some heartening ways. though the wrongs of centuries cannot

the new national park collection.ng in the air wick. >>> its fireworks started early at the daytona 5 hunch lap number two, jimmy johnson gets nudged by elliot sadler and sets off a multicar accident w40 laps to go, juan pablo montoya loses control during a caution and slams into a safety truck that holds jet kerosene. no one was seriously injured. in the end, matt kenseth would take the checkered flag for his seconds daytona win. >>> to college basketball now, georgetown versus notre dame. senior night at verizon center and two seniors had a pretty nice game. georgetown crushed notre dame 59-41. >>> at the nfl combine, people are still buzzing about robert griffith iii's blazing time. 4.41 seconds. he is next scheduled to work out on march 21st. monday, he was arced about his thoughts on playing for the washington redskins. >> i was able to go to d.c. for the prayer breakfast and the first thing i heard getting offer the plane was that they were excited and wanted me to be there with him. it would be great to be in t

the "unfinished nation," "the end of reform" are two other of his works. the book we're focusing on today and though he didn't ask me to, i'm happy to hold up a hard-bound copy which is still available is the publisher "henry luce and his american century." please join me in welcomiing aln brinkley. >> thank you, marty. the title of this session, historians, journalists and the challenges of getting it right is very apt for a talk about henry luce because getting it right was not always something that henry luce did. first of all, i want to thank roger for organizing this session. i'm very grateful for all these men joining this conversation. i'm asked to speak about henry luce. we shouldn't think about this as just a conversation about luce though i do think he's a useful model for learning how journalism can shape history and vice very see. henry lue vce was one of the most powerful and influential journalists of the mid 20th century, the co-founder of "time" magazine in 1923, the creator of fortune magazine in 1930, life magazine in 1936 and quite in co

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organization, when you look at us nationally, our percentage of nationally board certified teachers is among the top 2% in the country. so we have tremendous amount of pride in the fact that we have national board certified interests. >> ok. with this good news, let's move on to the next one of the item d, students, delegates report. >> so, joyce isn't here today. so i will just be doing the report by myself. earlier today a few members of the s.a.c. went to a free meeting for youth -- or s.f. youth campaign. it was a rally, along with other partners of the free meeting for use collision, to let them know how much we love muni and need it to become free. these partners included power use commission, ccdc, jaynestown, soma, soma action network and a cowl of others. so this is a continuation of our campaign to get free muni for all youth living in s.f. we are doing -- on the s.a.c.'s part, we're continuing with the social media campaign, which you can visit at free muni for youth.tumbler.com. we're hoping to get the sfmta to vote on the issue in march. secondly, at our last s.a.c. mee

this was so like the developing state of the nation itself. soldier and nation together found that their fears and doubts were not so strong as their faith in the cause of a unified country. the soldier in blue kept that faith and fought for it with ste steadfastness and courage, and a grateful people in the midst of war forged a medal to honor their courage. in the swarming fury of this war of american against american, the medal of war was born. the end we know, because we live in the unity that this tragic war preserved. and in national shrines like t gettysburg, we honored the men of both sides who gave what they believed to be right. ♪ >> here are the names. the last of the men in blue are gone. but the union they preserved remains. and honors for all time, the men who made it possible. and right over here is a roll call of names from the years which followed the civil war, the time when the nation grew, expanding westward, the west. charged with the task of making the frontier safe was the regular army. out west that meant the cavalry. t

we believed it was worth it for the national security. i really think this is at that level and i feel like we are fu vulnerable. you answered where we are with the screening. you heard from a lot of the members from the committee that we really are interested in seeing you get a higher percentage of scanning. let's talk about not if something happens, but let's talk about when something happens. it was touched on terms of recovering. i know i will introduce legislation that talks about all of our ports in the country having a recovery plan because i think that would make our ports less attractive to an attack if we knew they could get up and running. in the port caucus, we will talk about a recovery plan for all of our ports. what would you suggest that we look at in terms of what would be important for our major ports to get back up in business after a major disruption? >> thank you, congresswoman for your thoughts on this subject. we take this seriously. we appreciate your seriousness about it as well. on the recovery side, it is notin

national r.t. damascus syria well the coalition of states meeting in june of zero now is reportedly going to recognize the syrian national council as legitimate representative of syrian seeking peaceful democratic change the opposition groups based outside the country political analyst professor abraham aleutian told us it's being used as a tool to stir up civil war. you can call it the meeting for the friends of the united states or the enemies of syria but you cannot call it a meeting for the friends of syria this meeting is supposed to enhance the legitimacy of the syrian national council and that the same time legitimize the action from outside the bondy's of the un security council especially after the veto that was pressed by russia and china so i think this is a free for an intervention which need not be their act it might be a military as it does now in the sense of lending support to the armed gangs and the streets of syria as opposed to german govern consultant christophe horse still he t

and national defense. start with goals, move to strategy, and allow that rigorous process to inform the budget we create. the administration's approach thus far has been too defined by short term domestic political consideration. the administration has not led. for the sake of our national security, congress should. thank you, mr. chairman, i look forward to the testimony of our witnesses. >> thank you, senator mccain, secretary panetta. >> thank you, mr. chairman, senator mccain, members of the committee. i ask my statement be made part of the record, and i'd like to summarize key points. >> it is part of the record, and the balance i did not give will be made part of the record. >> members of the committee, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the president's budget request for fiscal year 2013. let me begin as always by thanking you for the support that you provide to service members and military families. these brave men and women along with the department's civilian professiona

the national museum of african-american history andca to me, copper son or scarlet seed, jungle track, strong, bronze men. women from whose loins i sprang when the birds of eden sang. one or three centuries removed from the land your father loved. spicy groves and cinnamon trees. what is africa to me? i too sing america. i'm the darker brother. when company would come they would send me to the kitchen. but that's all right. i'd fast go to the kitchen, i'd eat and grow fast. tomorrow, i'd be at the table. company would come, and they i . and no one could ever send me to again. yes, remember, i too sing america my country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee i sing. this may be the land of thems' the land where my mothers and fathers died so let freedom ring. ring -- [ applause ] -- yes, let freedom ring. ring for the ring for the pro arriving on a nightmare. dream where man no other man will scorn. will love will bless the earth and peace has passed the dawn. dream where all were walk in freedom's way. and dream of a world where

ambassador to the united nations. russia has almost written to veto the resolution of the 10 months and after 5500 people dead. where does this leave the united nations? >> well, where does it leave the whole process? i think it gives mr. bashar hope that he can out with the international community. with the group i think is trying to accomplish is to gain international support for its plan, which i think is a sensible plan, but as long as russia holds out, it gives mr. bashar the feeling he has got some breathing room, and he will not be under the kind of concerted pressure from the international bond community that the regime deserves. bamut is legitimacy of united nations at stake here? >> i did not think it is the united nations that is at stake. i think it is the regime of bashar al assad is at stake. i think what the international community is trying to accomplish is a way to make it a political transition to resolve this question with a minimal reference to the use of force. nobody is talking about nato forces

i believe it is essential to have a national purpose. it is essential to maintain the pry nearing spirit that made this country great. it's the spirit that got us through this past century. it got us through world wars. it allowed us to move into a leadership role and it was a compassionate leadership role throughout the world. it is a nation that allowed us to step up to the challenge of the cold war and win it. it's a challenge that took the country to the moon. it took us into space. it made us the preeminent force in space. in the process of doing this, we rekindled the pioneering spirit of a generation of people that grew up in the depression and came to adulthood in the '60s and carried space from the '60s through to the early '90s. i would like to find some way to sufficiently challenge a new generation of people to get them out of the "i" mode, into the "we" mode. to make them do something rather than be something. i'd like to give young people the same dream we had. i would like to find our nation unified, the world unified in t

meet urgent national needs. in the national defense authorization act of a fiscal year '12 for example, there are provisions allowing the service secretaries to call up, up to 60,000 reservists into active duty for as long as a year outside of times of war and emergency. this allows greater access to reserve comb poent ve component commanders and also allows the secretary of defense to activate reservists up to 120 days upon request from a state governor for a disaster or emergency situation. before this, as many of you know, this was notab possible. it deprived us of access to the great expertise that n such a s. these provisions reflect to awareness of the part of the administration on the hill and just how important the reserve can be to our security across the range of potential situations. whirl the guard and the reserve will be essential components of the future force there remains many questions about the future role. for example, how should reserve component units returning from combat be reset? how shou

there are place that's are simply a national priority. we've got to make them a national priority. it's clear there's a tremendous need for infrastructure investment throughout the country. the american society of civil engineers gave our infrastructure a grade of d. d. as in dumb. we even rank behind barbados and oman. we have fallen one spot from our ranking last year when we came in 23rd. investment has been falling as a share of the economy. according to the congressional budget office, total federal, local and state spending has fallen from 3.1% of gdp in 1961 to 2.4% in 2007. we risk falling behind our chief global competitors. already we see china and europe are investing far more in infrastructure as a share of their economies than we have as a share of ours. china is spending 9% of its gross domestic product on transportation and water infrastructure. europe is spending 5% of gdp. the u.s. is half that amount at 2.4% of gdp. there is, i think, widespread and bipartisan agreement on the need for further infrastructure investment. last july the carnegie endowment completed a

. >> coming up on c-span president obama honors at the recipients of the national medal of arts and national humanities metal. at 8:35, the role of think tanks. later, two former solicitors general participate in a panel discussion on the constitutionality of the insurance mandate in the health care law. >> on news makers, fred upton, chairman of the energy and commerce committee, talked about fiscal issues before congress, the president's budget request the keystone pipeline extension, and the debate over the administration pottery contraception policy. newsmakers, sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> i had a hunch one of them might be addicted to drugs. >> i am going to ask each one a simple question. we will see what their response is. >> i believe nicotine is not addictive. cigarettes and nicotine clearly do not meet the classic definition of addiction. >> we will take that as a no. >> not addictive. "it's not addictive? >> not addictive. >> in the 1970's, they wanted to remove nicotine from cigarettes and replace it with a drug equally addictive. they had all of thes

but the problem is in politics most nations are basically paranoid and most nations are either/or.and many leaders are paranoid, especially in particular in the last 30 years, ronald reagan and george bush, george w. bush, would be with us or against us. you're the evil empire or we're good. it is like either/or. and is a both/and person, not a either/or person. very hard for a both/and person to lead a either/or nation and it is a great difficulty. and i think that is one of his major difficulties, which how do you lead an either --/or nation but you have to recognize that it is either/or. there is lot more in the book. i'm not just going to go through everything in the book but basically those are some of the main ideas in the book. the, the technique of applied psychoanalysis is very old. started with freud. almost as old as clinical psychoanalysis because it is essentially an experience analytically of treating people who you can never get into your consulting room because they're either public figures or they're dead or sometimes even fictitious figures like hamlet had a lot o

the trust for the national mall says this is the first million-dollar gift for restoration. >>> the nationalalso has a new tour bus service just in time for the national cherry blossom festival. the national parks service says the new express bus will start operating march 12. that is one week before the cherry blossom festival actually begins. the express bus will run a loop from the union station to the world war ii and lincoln memorials, then head toward arlington national cemetery, pass the martin luther king memorial, and head toward the smithsonian metro station. the change comes after tour mobiles stopped operating last fall after 42 years. >>> a couple in michigan will have to tear down all or part of their million-dollar mansion because it's built too close to their neighbor's property line. the 9,000 square-foot home has a basketball and tennis court and an elevator. a neighbor filed the lawsuit in 2004 because the mansion sits 80 feet from their home instead of the required 100 feet. the homeowner says the house was build to accommodate the special needs of one of the couple's six

a nation.ing better than honoring all our ancestors by remembering that reverse history of america. as with any endeavor of this sort, it has not been without challenges in difficult moments. the support has come from unexpected quarters. a man shined shoes in a texas airport to said to me, while he is unsure exactly what would be in a museum, he hopes it would be in his word open-" -- "the only place where his grandchildren learn about his life." the woman who cleans the museum reminded me that she is tired and able to retire but she wants to continue to work so she can claim at the museum. -- clean the museum. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not think the entire smithsonian family for helping this museum make a way out of no way. the leadership -- i want to nod to patty for all our support. -- her support. [applause] i want to awknowledge the gift of the national museum of african-american history and culture. [applause] while i may stand in front of you, they do the work to make all th

national leadership issue. i would point out in the aviation context, i'd argue that one of the single best safety advances we made in the last 20 years, which is the terrain avoidance warning system, 20 years ago controlled flight of terrain for both commercial and recreational aircraft was the leading cause of accidents. the leading warning systems that are gps enabled have taken controlled flight into terrain from a leading cause of accidents into something that's way down on the list. another example is as of today, part of the next generation system is operational in the gulf of mexico where we have no radar coverage, and we have thousands of flight operations a day, for example, serving offshore petroleum rigs via helicopter that had no radar coverage before that are now served by adsb so it's important to ensure we understand the value on both sides of equation including the enormous national investment made in gps which has gone far beyond military use, far beyond aviation uses, and for precision farmin

we want you to present and pass a bill to make it our national anthem. happened. it's an interesting story. and there's lots more to it. i mean, there are all sorts of interesting tangents and so forth. but i hope you'll agree with me that, you know, the "star spangled banner" isn't any worse than "my country tis of thee" because "star spangled banner" parodied a light, humorous drinking song. "my country tis of thee" parodied a serious song about a king. does it really matter where it came from? or is it more important that music could play such an expressive role in american history? i so wish it would again. music doesn't today. it did in my lifetime. think of the civil rights movement and woody guthrie and pete seeger, people don't express themselves today by music as they used to and there are a bunch of reasons for that, but that may be another lecture in itself. other questions? sir? >> one more question. i was just wondering, you mentioned that people were getting this out very quickly when a person wrote it. was the very singing of it an act of

in virginia, representing a national trend. a flood of new anti-abortion restrictions in state legislatures across the country and they are being passed. this is a chart of the number of anti-abortion bills enacted by states through 2010. look at what happens in 2011. hello. a record number of anti-abortion bills enacted by the states last year after the republicans had their huge year in 2010 election. 80 new abortion restrictions courtesy of republican state lawmakers. more than double the previous american record of 34. but here's the thing. what happens when you start having steam rolling legislative success like that? i think it tends to make you cocky and sloppy. and so in virginia flushed with their own power, virginia republicans proposed their own version of a forced ultrasound bill, like seven other states have enacted, but in virginia they are very excited about their own power and they overreach. they overreach almost literally. they mandate the forced ultrasound must reach inside your body. the forced vaginal probe

[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> representative ron paul is campaigning in minnesota. non-binding caucuses are being held there today. the state's 40 republican delegates will be decided at district and state conventions in april and may. this is a little more than a half an hour. >> it sounds to me like the cause of liberty is alive and well in minnesota. [cheers] you know, they have a lot of bright lights here. i cannot see you very well, but i do hear you. that is great. [cheers] and somewhere down front, one side or the other, my wife, carol is with me, my wife of 55 years. and we have one of our 18 grandchildren with us, linda, is with us tonight. i want to thank you, everybody, participated in the state elections. thank you very much for the support. and also, mariann certainly deserves our applause for her hard work. [applause] and walter and the tea party movement deserves applause as well. thank you [applause] but most of all, you all deserve the applause because you are interested i

what is the ability of this budget to meet the needs of the national security of the nation, that is what we need your opinions on. the risks and t risks. the i would like to read three quotes from the army's testimony. >>> we have the best men in the army today that we had in peaces time and although we have a number of critical equipment problems yet to solve, i assure you that the troops with the equipment that they have would give a good account of themselves with the equipment they have. they can maintain effectiveness by maintaining a balance between personnel and equipment. we are supporting the budget that will provide only ten dwegzs because we realize the necessity to integrate army requirements with those of the other services within our national budget and we will of course do everything in our power to lessen the risk that such a reduction must by necessity entail. these statements were made in january, 1950. six months later a 500 man sized task force, under carl smith, was rushed eed to korea to bloe advance. you know the rest of the story, they were out numbered ten t