i had been at the peace corps. even lyndon johnson who had been in many of those meetings with president kennedy, what did he know about them? and suddenly decisions were being made about issues for which there was very little time to collect the evidence. you know lyndon johnson kept saying to me, in all those years, "a man is no better, a man's judgement is no better than his information." and i really believed that, and that has guided me in my journalism career the last 44 years. my opinion isn't worth a pig's ass if you don't mind my saying so, unless i can back it up with evidence. - you said in a couple of places, in some of the books that you have written more than a dozen books. and the thousands of hours of television that you produced. i found three references to the word atonement. where you talked about a personal need to atone. when you said to william sloane coffin in one of the very last conversations you had with reverend coffin. you were saying you were glad that you had grown old enough to begin

there is the peace corps, the movement for civil rights, the america, a time when was closest to nuclear war than it ever has been. a appreciation for the challenges of how we met them, people sometimes go away wondering what if? i would history have been different if he continued to serve as president. oregonians are proud of their pioneer heritage here at the oregon historical society, this is a exhibit that

you go away knowing about the peace corps. about civil rights. the space race. the cold war. a time when america came as close to nuclear war as it ever has. it's an appreciation for the challenges that kennedy matt and -- faced and how he met those challenges. what if he had not gone to dallas? how would history have been different if kennedy had continued to serve? toour staff traveled portland oregon to learn about its rich history. learn more about portland and other stops on our tour at www.c-span.org. you are watching american history tv, all week every weekend on c-span3. >> this year's the 30th anniversary of president ronald reagan's visit to berlin where he raised -- gave his teratoma down the wall speech. next, former u.s. ambassador to germany recall the president's speech and trip. the international center for journalist posted this event. it is an hour and a half. >> good evening, everybody. please find your seats. good evening. thanks for setting up this wonderful event. mr. robinson, members of the board, alumni in attendance, students, and ladies and gentleme

there is the peace corps, the movement for civil rights, the america, a time when was closest to nuclear war than it ever has been. a appreciation for the challenges of how we met them, people sometimes go away wondering what if? i would history have been different if he continued to serve as president. oregonians are proud of their pioneer heritage here at the oregon historical society, this is a exhibit that highlights pioneer legislation that has been passed to the state. beenegonians have always proud to be pioneers. when the first pioneers moved here it seems to be part of our and to to be innovative try things that have never been tried before. to push the envelope. with the legislature time and time again, especially in the 20th century. example oft legislative innovation was in 1902 when the legislature created the referendum that a leadthe public to play role in writing laws and recallings as well as elected officials. here in oregon our ballots are often very lengthy because we are voting on a series of policy,s and ideas for one of the most important ones that was passed back

it was almost like a peace corps situation. they said, you are going to liberia. there and i was in charge of running adult literacy programs. i came to the city probably because i wanted to get pizza. i did not like the food. now i like the food too much. i would come to the city and meet kids like agnes and abigail, and we became friends. i am like a big kid myself, so i would hang out with these children. we would draw donkeys in the sand. i asked these kids, if you could have anything in the entire world, what would it be? these kids said the same thing, we just want to go to school. one kid turns to 30, and they kept coming. i was using myspace to tell the stories. people from my town were sending me money and i was paying school fees. the new york city tax attorney said, you need to make this an organization. i remember thinking, i don't have a masters degree, i'm not a celebrity, i can't do it. i got the best advice of my life . my friends said, get over yourself. it's not about you. and so i am in the organization. i play that over and over again. i get up

you go away knowing about the peace corps. about civil rights. the space race. the cold war. a time when america came as close to nuclear war as it ever has. that's just an appreciation for the challenges that kennedy faced and how he met those challenges. people sometimes go away wondering, what if? what if he had not gone to dallas? how would history have been different if kennedy had continued to serve as president? are cities tour staff recently traveled to portland, oregon to learn about its rich history. learn more about portland and other stops on our tour at c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. " --onight on "q&a years later, they said would win a 49 statement landslide. then all can apart. servedmnist pat buchanan as a speechwriter and senior advisor to president nixon and discusses his book "mixes white house ward -- nixon's white house wars." >> i wrote him a memo saying that i think you ought to keep the dean tapes, the conversations with dean. i do not think that would be that damaging to us. keep the

i have seen it in the peace corp.eachers corp. >> to a graduation class of capital pages -- >> for the world that you enter very much needs your help today. our nation is called upon to maintain the blessings but to improve the world for all people and to prove it for generations yet to come. >>. >> in your lifetime you'll have to completely rebuild this country. you'll have to clean up and have to tear out the slum. you'll to rebuild the cities. >> he was not to only national figure making an appearance was a johnson favorite, dr. billy graham. the well known we van yellist reminded the group as they took inspiration he in turn needed their strength. billy graham asked everyone to pray that god would give the president strength and wisdom at this hour. on june 14th the middle east was the focal point of white house deliberations. a soviet resolution had been ejected by the united nations security council. the delegation due to arrive would be head bid noneless than the soviet premier president johnson made a short ha

peace corps. >>> abc 7 mornings. >> it is 4:42. a medical expert now believes east bay teenager is alive and not brain dead as other doctors has determined. she remains on a ventilator at a facility in new jersey. she suffered extensive brain damage suffering com pla occasions to remove her tonsils in 2013 when she was just 13. they recorded 49 videos from march of 4 until april of last year. a uca neurologist say they see her responding to simple kmapds like moving her hands and feet. they want a federal court to declare her legally uefa alive. >>> a nanny caught on camera assault a boy has been sentenced to a year in jail. the parents gave police a video from their home surveillance system '. it showed her hit, slap, dragging and forcing the boy's head into a bed as part of a plea deal, perez is barred from working as a caretaker either with children or with the elderly tlnchts have been more coyote sights in sunnyvale and some pets are becoming their pray. it was reported on tremble court and tang ger rine way. we explain the wa

i have seen it in the peace corps and the visitor and the teachers corps. >> to a graduation class of for the world that you enter very much needs your help today. our nation is called upon not just to maintain the blessings that we now enjoy but to multiply those blessings, to improve the world for all people and to prove it for generations yet to come. ♪ >> in your lifetime, the days ahead of you, you're going to have to completely rebuild this country. you're going to have to clean up the ghettos. you're going to have to tear out the slums! you're going to have to rebuild the cities and the factories. >> lyndon johnson was not the only national figure stumping for youth on the south lawn that afternoon. making an impromptu appearance was a johnson favorite, dr. billy graham. the well-known evangelist reminded the group that as they took inspiration from the president, he in turn needed their strength. billy graham asked everyone, whatever their religious background, to pray that god would give the president strength and wisdom at this hour in the history of the world. on june the 1

peace corps. >>> at the live desk, we're tracking the vice president's four-day european tour. vice president mike pence is in estonia this morning where he pledged america's commitment to protecting nato allies against attacks. this includes the baltic states, which have anxiously watched a growing russian military presence in that region. the vice president met with leaders of estonia, latvia, and lithuania. he tweeted just within the last 30 minutes, thanking estonia for hosting, saying he's now off to the former soviet republic of georgia. >> an electric company in north carolina says it could be weeking before repairs on completed to power lines in the outer banks. they have been told to leave the islands off cape hatteras, spoiling long planned vacations. on thursday, a construction company severed all three cables that power the island. business ownerserize now out thousands of dollars. >> every day we're not open, that's $5,000 in sales we're missing. and of course, when i get back in the restaurant, it will also be a problem. >> north carolina's governor has called a s

to go work in, in the peace corps. so, king lost a strong advocate. which was really unfortunate. shriver of that family who was also a strong civil rights advocate. and was head of the civil rights division. during the campaign. and, the two of them, the two guys really helped sort of lay the ground work in a way. they were also so fervent about civil rights. they were marginalized in the white house. as kennedy was not ready to, not ready to deal with civil rights just yet. they were sort of, thought of, as pushing too hard. >> uh-huh. >> one of the more disappointing points for me -- realities about jfk was that day that he sat in the white house, watching the march on washington on television. really kept a hand off approach on this until after it was over. he saw well it had gone. then he sends out an invitation to all the negro leaders to come to the white house. we see the photos of king and everybody in the white house hanging out with the president. that was after jfk had sat this thing out. didn't say anything. do anything. wouldn't be a part of it. invites to the white

she volunteered for the peace corps at 26 and served in uganda. while there tragically she was hit from behind by a drunk driver, breaking both of her legs. her life changed forever. when she returned home to america, she faced an uphill battle to get treatment and endless bureaucracy. after three months, the peace corps stopped covering her and sent her to face the bureaucracy of the department of labor. instead of serving as a resource, the peace corps postservice unit was no help at all. when she reached out asking for mental health services, they ignored her. she's undergone four surgeries and endless hours of agony. america's angels abroad deserve better. my legislation will ensure that peace corps volunteers have medical care in foreign countries and in america when they return home. and i want to welcome jennifer to the house chamber today. congress appreciates her service as a peace corps volunteer, and we must provide help for wonderful people like her. and that's just the way it is. i'll yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman

. >> president trump pulling out the the peace corps changed in regards to what you did in the film. >> we also anticipated we would have to wait and see that -- what the new administration would be like. but the director's bonnie comen and shank wisely decided yes there needed parts of the movie at the end to make it clear what had happened. and where we are right now. >> all right. i reason from a interviewing former vice-president al gore at the museum for inconvenient sequel truth to power and now it's up to the space museum so westbound one of the greatest directors of all times but i thought maybe dunnkirk. >> do you mind sdmaining how to works out. one day, one week, one hour and how you divided them like you did. >> we divided to land, sea and air. really immerseive. by cross cutting time lines that run as different speeds we build up bigger picture so people whoa don't know the story have -- it let's the guys that's one day and then spit far dog fighting in guys above the beach and that's an hour flying time they had over the beach. >> those are interviews i'll have more tom

can have a shot and workers who retrained starting a new trier -- career at my age, kids in the peace corps apartheid -- of apartheid, expand the boundaries of human freedom, i think of dreamers who suppress their fears to keep working and striving and the only country they have ever called home. and every american who stands up for immigrants because they know their parents or grandparents are great-grandparents were and they knowo, america is an idea that only grows stronger with each new person who adopts our common creed. [applause] obama: i think of every young activist who enters in ourustices embedded royal justice system now with violence or despaired that the protest and analysis and constructive recommendations for change, i think of the powerless who crossed a bridge in selma and discovered they had power. those who gathered at stonewall and discovered they had a voice. washingtonarched in believed without an army or great wealth they could change the fabric of the greatest power on earth and kept on until they stretched the lofty ideals of our founding who encircle everyone. , i

administration she was appointed regional director of the federal agency that supervised this to and the peace corps, and other volunteer programs. she has worked for foundations, of the pentagon, the university of california, and has written a great deal for the magazine "the american prospect." most of what she has been doing betrayal,""patriotic what we are going to be talking about this evening. it is a subject of enormous importance, even though it is about rings that happened 50 or 60 years ago, i think you will see that there is an act go in echo in that book for things going on today. i would like to begin at the point in your life when you got involved with this story. you were a student at the university of colorado, in the early 1960's. attended au conference of the national student association. what was that? nsa was a membership school, organization of 300 universities and colleges in the united states. it claimed to speak for all american students. conferencesannual called congresses that minute political parties, attended by delegates from the member schools. delegate, i went as a wif

temperatures peaking inland on friday buy still warm through the peace corps mid-90s for saturday and closer you are to the water, the cooler the temperatures and not much of a change. the low 70s around the bay and the shoreline. the usually night and early- morning low clouds with temperatures in the low 60s extending into next week, inland subsides back into average by wednesday. but between now and then, for a change, a little bit of a warming trend. so nice weekend on tap and mr. martin, that's your headlines. >> thank you. >>> still to come, a mother's heartbreak becomes her mission to save lives. why this bay area woman wants everyone to know how her son died. >> and coming up on nightbeat at 10:00, we're talking about the growing tensions between the u.s. and north korea. are you worried about the country's latest missile test? tweet me at #veronicadlcruz. experienced some form of hazing by the time they reach college. bay mother who >>> according to national statistics almost half of young people have experienced some form of hazing by the time they reach college. an east bay

kids in the peace corps working to build bridges of understanding and other natures -- nations.banishing the scourge of apartheid, span the boundaries of human freedom. who suppresseamers their fears to keep working and striving in the only country they have ever called home. who stands upican for immigrants because they know that their parents or grandparents or great-grandparents were immigrants, too, and they know that america is an idea that only grows stronger with each person who adopts our common creed. applause] pres. obama: i think of every young -- you answers the our criminalll in justice system not with violence, not with despair, but with these full process and analysis and constructive recommendations for change. i think of the powerless across the bridge in selma and discover they had power. those who gathered at stonewall and discovered they had a voice. those emerged on washington because they believed that they, without an army, without great wealth, could somehow change the very fabric of the greatest power on earth. stretchedn until they the lofty ideals of o

i have a cousin who sent eight years in honduras in the peace corps and he was struggling to try to get them to raise 10 bushels of corn per acre and we were raising 100 bushels at home at the time. i said why don't you bring some seed corn down there, some nitrogen fertilizer, what's the capability of the soil? 100 bushels of soil in a 100 bushel climate. can you not bring them into the modern world? his answer was, no, my biggest task is to keep them from having to eat their seed corn. well, we moved along a lot faster in our society today, we've done genetic engineer, g.m.o. products, we've gone from there 10 bushel an acher to 300 bushel, we're on the way to 300 bushel corn, we can feed seven billion people on the planet an we'll be prepared to feed nine billion people on the planet as well. technology has always moved us forward, always put us in a place where the standard of living for the world was improved, whether it was medicine, where not only our standard of live bug our quality of life and length of life has been improved dramatically over the last couple of generations, me

on saturday in this room a special peace corps day. on sunday, we have an astronaut here is part of our tribute to nasa. on sunday we are having bands and music the navy to honor president kennedy's service in the navy and at 3:00 p.m., exactly 100 years to demand that president kennedy was born, will have to f-18s flying overhead to honor president kennedy. and then we will be eating the cake. we need help doing this. the cake will serve 1000 people, designed by the same company that did take further engagement many years ago. i hope you'll join us for some of those activities. but tonight we have a literally standing room only. we also have an overflow in her other auditorium. we are also thrilled we are streaming this and they are watching parties in places including the john f. kennedy museum and others in c-span are here. we appreciate all of you here are those participating online. we have many to many distinguished guests and i'm not going to list them. i do want to highlight that the risk of forgetting some. we appreciate their

harv has been dedicated to public service as a young age serving as a teacher in the peace corps and working at several united way chapters across the nation. in 1991 he took on the great task of leading the miami chapter where he worked to broaden the organization's advocacy and philanthropic efforts. throughout his tenure, harv has spearheaded many campaigns including a national event to the u.s. holocaust memorial and museum of which i am proudly a councilmember. he's now ready for a new chapter in his life. he will be stepping down from his the u.s. holocaust memorial and museum of which i am c.e.o. position but he will oftinue to advance the goals this of this noble organization. mr. speaker, on behalf of our community and the many individuals who have been positively impacted by his contributions, i want to say you are to mi amigo, an inspiration to us all. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revi

unleashing a corps of young volunteers as ambassadors for peace in distant corners of the globe. moon precisely because it was hard, unwilling to consider the possibility that we might not win the space race because he had an unwavering faith in the character of the people that he led: resilient, optimistic, innovative, and courageous. it's worth remembering this, the times in which president kennedy led us, because for many americans i know that this feels like an uncertain and even perilous time. the forces of globalization and technology have upended many of our established assumptions about the economy. it provided a great opportunity and also a great inequality and uncertainty for far too many. our politics remains filled with division and discord, and everywhere we see the risk of falling into the refuge of tribe and clan and anger at those who don't look like us or have the same surnames or pray the way we do. and at such moments, courage is necessary. at such moments, we need courage to stand up to hate not just in others but in ourselves. at such moments, we need the cou

peace process, bernie aronson, who knows some of this work. [applause] director verveer: and to all the members of the diplomatic corps who are with us this morning. i especially want to mention the ambassador from norway. [applause] director verveer: whom you saw in the film. norway played a leading role in facilitating the peace process as a guarantor country, and similarly, the ambassador of chile, which was an accompanying country to the peace process. welcome to both of them. because of the critical roles their countries played especially. [applause] director verveer: and let me just add, later this year, the institute will be releasing a study describing how the women in colombia are influencing the unfolding of the transitional justice process there. now to the awards. the success of the peace accord in columbia, after more than five decades of violence, displacement, and loss of life, is an extraordinary achievement, one that does a great debt to the skillful negotiations and tireless commitments of humberto de la calle. he grew up in a time of conflict that claimed the lives of close to 200,000 people across the country. when he was six

peaceful solution out of it. at least today you have the secretary of defense feel it was necessary to walk down stairs to talk to the press corps say those words. >> you just made some news there. i did not know that. do we know whether he took questions as well or di he go down and just make this statement? >> i'm seeing this from other members of the press corps as i'm sitting here. he made an unannounced visit to the briefing room, the press cave there, and i think -- he usually takes questions but he went on record. it's not out of the ordinary for even the secretary of defense or other officials at the pentagon to make a last-minute surprise or shortly announced visit to the pressroom to clarify something that's happened, usually maybe some background or context, but for him to walk down and off the record, not go on camera, not make a formal, you know, type of appearance that will step on the toes of the president and his imagery and his vision but to come out and say this is not a red line and we're looking toward diplomacy, that's a statement. >> this this video we're showing, the president and first lady after they tou

corps general, john kelly, is about to begin his new role as white house chief of staff. we look at challenges he has ahead. >> venezuelan president holds a controversial vote some say can bring peace to the country or divide it more. >> live from cnn head quarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. our top story, vladimir putin confirmed sunday he has given up on improving relations with the u.s. for the time being. >> the russian leader order et the u.s. to slash its diplomatic staff in russia by plor than half. 755 people to leave their posts by september 1st. he said, pending u.s. sanctions forced him to retaliate. >>. >> translator: we waited a long time for things to perhaps change for the better. we had such hope that the situation would change. but judging by the situation, that will not be soon. >> u.s. announcing the order as regrettable and uncalled for. let's go live to moscow. claire sebastian following this for us at this hour. claire, to have staff slashed by more than half, what does that do to the u.s. admission in russia? >> george, an

corps general, john kelly, is about to begin his new role as white house chief of staff. we look at challenges he has ahead. >> venezuelan president holds a controversial vote some say can bring peacer divide it more. >> live from cnn head quarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.

corp. return to a hostile environment. but gives away our position as a count that i that seeks peace and prosperity. we have an opportunity to turn into concrete operation and secure the safety of future generations. we must acknowledge that the it locks in an advantage for the united states, one would that would be a huge must take. and the first time it came up in you george schulz said could say that a senator might be right to vote depens it when it was put forward. why? because things have changed. what he meant by that, and the detection system maintained by the united states and the world communities works as well. the u.s. support for the commission remains essential. i urge my colleagues to vote no on the wilson amendment. the chair: the gentleman from outh carolina is recognized. mr. wilson: i yield two minutes to the chairman, south carolina. >> this is a an amendment that would help us in a mall but mengful way. the u.s. signed it but the enate vetoed voted begins that in that 1999. the u.s. has abided by to refrain from tests. russia and china have not. they continue to continue nuclear