that was oliver wendell holmes jr.. what says senator john mccain of how war transformed your life and how the experiences in vietnam shaped your life thereafter including as a united states senator since 1987? >> could i say a couple words about oliver wendell holmes? there was the regiment they called the harvard regiment and graduates of harvard but also some german speaking immigrants were all put in this regiment together and they fought in some of the bloodiest encounters of the civil war. casualty rates were very high. he was wounded in the neck. you can imagine what that would have been like and he was missing on the battlefield. his father who was a famous author in those days, oliver wendell holmes sr. walked the battlefield searching for his son. and believed that he was dead and caught up with him later on. remarkable story. and he continued to fight in these battles. they took incredibly high casualties. we look back at all the conflicts the united states has been involved in and the bloodiest of all was ou

that is oliver wendell holmes jr.. what says senator john mccain but how were transformed your life and how the experiences in vietnam shaped your life thereafter including as united states senator since 1987. >> could i say a couple of words about oliver wendell holmes? there was the regiment from what they called the harvard regiment and graduates of harvard but also some german-speaking immigrants were all put in this regiment together and they fought in some of the bloodiest encounters of the civil war. the casualty rates were very high. he was wounded in the neck. you can imagine what that would have been like. he was missing on the battlefield and his father who was a famous author in those days oliver wendell holmes senior walked the battlefield searching for his son and believed that he was dead. he caught up with him later on and it's a remarkable story. he continued to fight in these battles and it took incredibly high casualties. you know my friends and we look back at all that combats that the united states

that is oliver wendell holmes, jr.. and then including the united states senator. >> can i say a couple words about oliver wendell holmes? the regiment with a graduate of harvard also had german-speaking immigrants were put in the regiment together they fought in some of the bloodiest encounters of the civil war. casualty rates were very high. he was wounded in the neck. i can imagine what that would have been like but his bother who was the famous author walk to the battlefields searching for his son believing he was dead and caught up later it was a remarkable story but they to incredibly high casualties but then to look at the conflicts united states has been involved in. it is remarkable when it is necessary to figure out what kind of nation it will be so he was a remarkable man. with the realities of four but he never forgot to in gave the speech and would bring his lunch to work in the ammunition box to remind him what he and his comrades had undergone. it is hard to define exactly the first of all, is the obvious.

oliver wendell holmes's majority opinion, he writes the case is the mask count for the jury and judge by areas of public passion and failed to correct the wrong. if true as alleged they make the fourth trial absolutely boil, their homes and the great mustache to the side. this brings me to the final part of my talk with the remaining five minute that i have a. why the supreme court decision hosted so much significance for the naacp and the development of the american political and legal system as i have alleged to. this could be a war story about the story about the naacp and more verse is dempsey that not many people know about but i also think the affects of this case have long ranging implications. the answer can be found in the creation of the naacp mitigation strategy to fight for civil rights and the rest of the 20th century and more importantly the modern google procedure revolution where the supreme court expanded its power in criminal law and redefined what constituted a fair trial. it is important to understand the structure and expertise of the naacp that allowed it to play

end of that sympathized to cover list of caused to be too unpopular for them to touch and oliver wendell holmes talked about the life of the law hasn't been logic. it's an experience. he understood the cases because he had been in one of them and often have defended them. when they kept him out of the restaurants and hotels and the law school they graduated at the university and he university and he also had argued more cases before the court in the fellow justices had. he was the only sitting justice to defend the convict had been sentenced to death and knew the meaning of the justice to have begun as a defense lawyer one had been lynched before the train arrived when the suspect was to be tried. he was accused of liberal activism and if so he leaves behind a quick guilty of the conservative activism in the important decisions in the same week that marshall announced the court seemed discontent to let a day pass. they allow the warrantless searches of passengers into censorship of adults and a mission of impact statements to fire up the emotions of the journeys of these countries considering t

>> i think i might recommend oliver wendell holmes, jr.came from a boston family, joined the harvard regimen which was a mixture of harvard -- ivy-league, harvard graduates and german-speaking americans. he learned the lessons of war. he was changed by the war, but yet he went on to serve as a justice of the united states supreme court. one little anecdote, every day at work, he had a tin ammunition box that he would bring his lunch to work with because it always reminded him of the conflict and, of course, it was the bloodiest, most fracture societal conflict we had ever been through and it defined america. >> in january, you will be chairman of the armed services committee and you will have a different kind of platform. we see playing out even today the u.s. strategy on i.s.i.s. another beheading of an american aid working. what, as the chairman of the committee and with this new platform, would you do that will be different than what's being done right now? >> we are facing challenges unprecedented in my lifetime. we need to have ideas

service .onument anywhere in manhattan the other point, it is often , thatbut totally false oliver wendell holmes said to ful ln, "get down you dam fool." that did not happen. >> it's interesting how they can raise a monument. you see a whole community or moment enshrined. i'm trying to think of the most amazing things. in dublin, the monuments to the nonexistent womb. bloom. you can fall all over dublin, and this is where bloom spent this part of the day. this is to the work of james joyce ulysses. there are monuments of this fictitious character. it is something that has interested me for a long time. you see some communities do this. they raise monuments to fictitious people. to dart a monument canyo to -- in the united states we have our own take on this. the monument to mary richards, mary tyler moore in minneapolis-st. paul. and the monument to rocky. [laughter] they took it down? a shame. [laughter] yes, sir? >> the story of someone who combines this with james joyce, he said yes. [laughter] >> we have entered the postmodern. >> this is more of an anecdote. my great-grandfather was at ceda

as a matter of fact, oliver wendell holmes particularly said that the story that didn't always agree with justice story said that he had done more than any other english-speaking man of the century, in his century to make it illuminates it easy to understand. he also served as a professor of law at harvard university. he was almost single-handedly brought back to the university mall center into being in the year before he arrived to add only one student. he expanded the student body was part of his contribution of law. some interesting to note why you want the supreme court he continued the pattern that the early justices always followed to the circuit and for the appellate courts and occasionally the trial court in the northeastern part of the united states while at the same time continuing to teach at harvard and also to do his duties on the supreme court of the united states. so, he had a very busy schedule that he followed and carried out in a very distinguished and dedicated manner. we will note in the justice's experience in his broad activities related to the justice system. t

people too powerless and causes too and popular for politicians to touch the she embodied what oliver wendell holmesking about when he said the life of the law has not been -- it has been experienced. he understood the hard luck cases because he had been one of them and often had defended them. marshall brought to the court his experience as one who had suffered as second-class citizen at a time when his skin color can out of most restaurants, hotels and the maryland law school he wanted to attend. graduated at the top of his class in washington's mostly black howard university and argued more cases before the supreme court than his fellow justices had 32 of which won 29. he was the we sitting justice, who was friend, convict sentenced to death. in new the meaning of rough justice. being the only justice to have found a defense lawyer, one of his clients had been lynched against marshall's train arrived in texas town where the suspect was to be tried. he was accused of liberal activism. if so he leaves behind a court guilty of conservative activism, reversing several court decisions the same week ma

president, the famous poet oliver wendell holmes said -- quote -- "put not your trust in money, but putyour trust" -- i'm sorry. let's try that one again. "put not your trust in money but put your money in trust." that's what he said. and since 2005, the united states senate has put its money, pressures taxpayer dollars, in the trusted hands of a man named chris doby. the financial clerk of the senate and he's proven himself to be equal to the task, and that is an understatement. through budget cuts, sequestration and even a government shutdown, senators and staffs knew that chris doby and his team would make it work no matter what it took. just one story i'll share with you. in the midst of the government shutdown, senate employees had no assurance much when their next paycheck would come. staffers with families, mortgages, student loan payments all hoped the shutdown would not be their personal financial disaster. missing a check or two can be very difficult for most everyone. after 16 days congress passed legislation funding the government and the shutdown came to an end. that was oc

rewarded by their country when they should have been for their service so that each individual, oliver wendell holmes, a brahmin who fought in the civil war, forever changed. we tried to put the context of the war and find one individual who epitomized that conflict in many aspects. and i think we were able to put a personal stamp on many of these conflicts. and hopefully we can appreciate the fact that ordinary americans, from our first young men joined at age 15 in the revolutionary army, literally almo almost starved to death and we had a woman medic who ran right into the fight after an ied. i hope putting to rest this issue of whether women can serve in combat or not. so we tried to describe these people in a way that helped them in the context of the conflict. but also appreciate what really, only in america could you find 13 team like that. >> i had my life basically saved in combat. so you don't have do sell me on that proposition. very interesting profiles of people in here that do wind up representing what it takes to fight in different situations over time. mark salter, his dad is in here.

i doubt that happened, but there are people who said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said. abraham lincoln here standing on the parapet looking up to see where the enemy troops actually were. can watch this and other american artifacts programs any time by visiting our website www.c-span.org/history. pulitzer prize-winning reporter and author james rison on how the u.s. government wastes billions of taxpayer dollars on the war on terror. >> stuart delwin was really the --y u.s. official who became really tried to investigate what happened with all the money the united states sent to iraq. there are different estimates. over $11 billion of the roughly $20 billion in iraqi money that the united states sent back to iraq was unaccounted for, and owen'sewart o when -- $200 billion in cash was stolen after it was thrown from andrews air force base to baghdad apparently by powerful iraqis and was being hidden in a bunker in rural lebanon. 8:00 p.m. eastern "q+a."an's "uni. -- >> monday night on "the communicators," peter teel, cofounder of paypal. >>

i doubt that happened, but there are people that said that is what oliver wendell holmes said. but, abraham lincoln standing here to look to see where the enemy troops actually were. >>> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs anytime by visiting our website, c-span.org/history. >>> this thanksgiving weekend, we continue our four-day book tv and american history tv programming. saturday, at 10:00 eastern on book tvs after words, the history of the birth control pill, then bill nye the science guy. and american history tv on c-span 3, saturday night before 9:00, george washington and benedict around and sunday afternoon at 4:00, between 1914 and 1930 from henry ford's film collection. find the schedule at c-span.org and let us know about the programs you are watching. e-mail us at comments.c-span.org or tweet us. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >>> now, we continue the look at the 1864 presidential election between abeham lincoln and george mcclellan. it was marked by casualties and the end goal of emancipation.

but, there are people that said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said. but abraham lincoln here, standing on the parapet looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs any time by visiting our website c-span.org/history. >>> this thanksgiving weekend we continue our fore-day book tv and american history tv programming. saturday at 10:00 eastern on book tv's after words jonathan eig on the history of the birth control pill. and sunday night bill nye the science guy and why he thinks the teaching of evolution and creation in science class is not only wrong but dangerous. and american history tv on c-span3 saturday night just before 9:00, george washington and benedict arnold. and sunday afternoon at 4:00 on reel america a glimpse of american life from 1914 to 1930 from automaker henry ford's film collection. find our complete television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org or se

one of the -- the story is and i've often wopd wondered whethes is true or not, oliver wendell holmes was said to have said, get down, you fool, meaning get down before you get shot. i doubt that that happened but there are people that said that is what oliver went dadell holm said. but he stood up here to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and otherern many artifacts programs any time by visiting our website, c-span.org/history. >>> you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. we're also featured on holidays and during congressional recesses. saturday at 8:55 p.m. eastern historian henry discusses george washington's relationship with benedict arnold. he looks at how washington's response to arnold's failed plan to deliver west point to the british offers insights about washington's leadership and character. that's at 8:55 p.m. eastern time on saturday here on c-span3. >>> pulitzer prize winner james risen on how the u.s. government wastes billions of taxpayer dollars on the war on terror. >> stewart bowlen was really the only

one of the -- the story is and i've often wopd wondered whethes is true or not, oliver wendell holmes was said to have said, get down, you fool, meaning get down before you get shot. i doubt that that happened but there are people that said that is what oliver went dadell holm said. but he stood up here to