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he he knows that the congressman was always attending events for smithsonian to raise that money. so congress was. stutzman did you hear about these qualities of leadership and these personal qualities made congressman lewis affect lives in the way he wanted be effective? what are some of the lessons that you take away or that you think, other members of congress should take away from his life and legacy? he really did leave such a great example of working with anyone and everyone that wanted to look to find a way towards peace and prosperity and, you know, i actually grew up in a mennonite home. and so mennonites often get involved in politics and kind of withdrew. but that was one of the things throughout my life that i learned from john lewis and that, you know, maybe it's not you know, we're not on war, but we're focusing on peace and how do we get to that? and that's communication and reaching across the aisle and reaching to the to folks of all sorts of different backgrounds that says, hey, we be friends. we can actually show love towards one another and that we can find way

this comes as two new pandas made their debut at the smithsonian national zoo in washington, d.c. crowds flocked to see the white and black bears. it feels great to see these pandas again. it's so cool. and i just miss them so much. i like that hat. right now, only four u.s. zoos have welcomed pandas with long term loan agreements with china smithsonian, atlanta, memphis and the san diego zoo. if only china could go. you get a panda and you get a panda, you get a panda. all right, so let's talk about a throwback for you this morning. this one's a real throwback thursday story for you. yeah it's a debate. this morning in fact marks a decade since a fashion statement really divided the nation. ten years ago, this dress really had people on the internet talking, typing, weighing in. the debate was, is the dress black and blue or white and gold? buzzfeed turned it into a poll that really highlighted the differing opinions. and this morning, the website's community manager, who first found the photo and posted it on the website, is opening up about how it all happened. i turned to my c

. >> reporter: steve velazquez is a curator at the smithsonian's national museum of american historygton, d.c. so the shopping cart is born in the 1930s. does it catch on quickly? >> it does. he hired actors to pretend shop to fill the carts, to walk around, and then people started using these carts, and that's when it really took off. >> reporter: shopping carts have grown over the decades as marketing supersized and refrigerators kept food fresher longer. is it really necessary to reinvent the wheel? >> what's happened is that online has transformed customer expectations. >> reporter: the good old shopping court, once i guess what i'm looking for from you is, i mean, i know how the fire affected me, and there's always a constant fear that who's to say something like that won't happen again? that's fair. we committed to underground, 10,000 miles of electric line. you look back at where we were 10 years ago and we are in a completely different place today, and it's because of how we need to care for our communities and our customers. i hope that's true. [joe] that's my commitment. [a

spends too much on the smithsonian. and national parks. ok. so if we're borrowing $6 billion a day, the smithsonian costs $1 billion a year, you've covered what, four hours? maybe you don't want museums. maybe create entrance fierce do something else. don't act like you just balanced the budget by doing something like that. let's do another one. cutting congressional salaries would solve the deficit. we're probably overpaid for the quality of our work. but if you borrow $6 billion a day, and you do that, you basically if you got rid of congressional salaries, i think it's 20 minutes for an entire year. so taken a year year -- an entire year of borrowing and you've covered 0 minutes. stop saying crazy stuff. you know. these are serious problems. maybe we need serious people to start actually thinking about these things. so let's take a look at another one. the government spends billions on unused federal office buildings. absolutely. we need to clean this up. and it would be about, oh, let's see, six hours. maybe seven hours. of borrowing. clos

discovered that there was a trove of archives at the university of southern and another trove at the smithsonian institution that the explorers had kept, especially explorer george allen hancock, who was an oil an oil mogul. his family. the library at tar pits out in laos angeles, hancock park, is named after his family, and he was the most important that would come the galapagos during this time period. and had files and files on these people, including all the letters that they had sent him. so once i got a sense of, oh, i have this voice, this voice. i have this point of view. and this point view. it just all started to come together. and i could see also reports their scientists had made of their. so you got a bunch of different perspectives, you know, that you make the narrative come together. oh, any other questions. yes. right. so which of the three exiled groups did you find the most sympathetic or entertaining. yeah, shocking to write about? and conversely, which one of the three groups did you find the least you know, they all they also surprise me at different times for, different rea

he is the former associate editor of air and space smithsonian magazine, a writing contributor to national geographic magazine and texas monthly, and a former senior editor at, popular mechanics. this is joe's book. and like i mentioned, we have some additional downstairs. but i'm going to hand it over to joe at this point. thank you so much for coming. thank you. thank you, everyone, for showing up for to talk about the old west and my new book for against the west. i was trying to get psyched up for the appearance, actually, and i was reading some of the reader reviews and one of them sort of caught caught my eye and said, i know this book is nonfiction, but these characters really -- me off and give me three stars and. i thought i didn't mean to -- anybody off. i didn't mean to anger people. i was just surprised at some of the antics that. my subjects were up to just as much as i think readers are. so with that caveat, the book is set in the latter part of the 19th century. so this in the united states. so this is a time when there's you know aggressive expansion america is going to bec

the green book and the route of black travel in america helped pull the exhibit together with the smithsonianveling exhibition service and the d.c. public library service. the exhibit towels the story of the guide and its creators. >> we wanted to show people who were living there best lives in spite of what was happening around them. reporter: it served as a catalog of hotels, restaurants and other businesses would serve lack people when racial segregation was legal. it was published annually until 1960 seven. at the exhibit center, a compass. >> it helps to orient you because it was not just the south that had racism and jack crow orders. reporter: communities that excluded nonwhite residents by law, intimidation or violence after law -- after dark, were especially dangerous. >> for black americans that used it, going in the wrong direction could mean life or death. some towns would have a bell that would bring after 6:00 and it was the queue to get out of town. the consequences of being in a sound downtown were everything from harassment to death to lynchings. for travelers you would not k

candaisy taylor who wrote about black travel in america helped pull the exhibit together with smithsoniantion and the d.c. public library system. the exhibit tells the history of the guide named after its creators vick victor hugo green and his wife alma. >> he wanted to show people who were living their best lives in spite of what was happening around them. >> it served as a catalyst for hotels and other business that is would serve black people when racial segregation was legal. it was publicked until 1967. at the exhibit sensoria compass. >> it helps orient you in the place because it wasn't just the south that had racism. jim crow had no borders. communities that exploded nonwhite residents by law, intimidate or violence after dark were especially dangerous. >> for black americans who used it, going to the wrong direction could mean life or death. >> some sun downtowns had a bell that would ring at 6:00 telling the local laborers that was their cue of being downtown. it was everything from harassment to death to lynching. there were no sun downtown maps. so you wouldn't know where the

. >> ainsley: did you see the white house and the smithsonian. >> carley: did i, amazing. >> brian: neverade it to washington as a child. >> ainsley: go in the summertime because it's so cold. i remember waiting for the washington monument. we waited outside for like an hour. mom and dad put long johns on us. and i was so cold. crying. they are like no, we are waiting. >> steve: it wasn't your summer vacation? >> ainsley: no. we were there in the winter. dad was a basketball coach. they had games there or something. >> steve: great. >> brian: washington had the cap toll stopped for a while ran out of financing and civil war happened rebuilt it ran out of the quarry. >> steve: limestone. >> brian: when you walked through you could see the change on the inside. >> steve: same thing with the washington monument. >> brian: that's what i was saying. >> ainsley: space ice cream? >> steve: freeze dried. >> brian: more on that later i guess. >> steve: it's delicious. >> brian: another day, another possible deal talks to end russia's talks can he get it done? ♪ a sleep number® smart bed is perfect

is a hello, i'm smithsonian, one of patrick fellows, the george washington university. and so my question is about the competition between the countries and aids. you mentioned this as a sort of international factor. and my question would be, how does it work out domestically within countries that benefit from a international aid? so you would have probably countries where ngos receive, aid from different sources. so do they how do they compete? do they compete? do they then reflect different values? russia, defense, traditional values. u.s. had some other kinds of agendas. does it lead to sort of firm and culture wars within countries? how does that play out? that's great. thank you so much for your question, because one of the main differences between china, russia, aid and ministry action and that of the united states is that the united states has traditionally administered aid through non-governmental organizations and rather than other non-state agencies that partner up with the field offices of the usaid state department, whatnot, which again, by extension, if the

earlier this month, the harvard-smithsonian center for astrophysics announced this discovery. found something out there. no. then they retracted it and figured out it was courtesy of elon musk. >> there is a lot of space junk out there. that is true. but you guys, there is actually this asteroid called 2024 r4 that could potentially hit us. it's a 1.2% chance in the year 2032. >> that's pretty high. i mean, i know it's low, but a 1% chance of it actually hitting us. yeah. that means there's a chance. yes. >> decent chance. >> and you you talked to an expert about this, right? i did, at 3:00. what did they say? should we be scared? >> no, he said we don't know enough about it yet. but in april, by april, we should know more about the trajectory so we can be more certain. so maybe we panic then, but not yet. >> okay. okay. yeah. >> all right, so i have a couple of months before i panic. >> kristen will let us know. >> in the meantime, i've already booked kind of a splurge dinner because i was like, well, 20, 32. >> well, maybe i won't need an fogg after all. >> well, yeah. after

it was a one woman two act play about lou henry hoover that actually went over to the smithsonian in d.c. and sandra day o'connor was able see it. lou's growing up was very different from her works growing up as you know he was an orphan and. his life was not so easy she, on the other hand, had a father who was quite devoted to her and didn't mind that she was a girl person because lou henry knew how to shoot she knew how to do archery. she could stand up with the best of them. and she did so many things that no one is really aware of. here's just little tidbit. she was very much in girl scouts, and when met milo, it was like, yes i met a girl scout my whole life. let's let other do that. but she was the one who was responsible originally the girl scouts made their own cookies. and you can imagine after a while that's kind of her big job. so she the one who suggested, let's find a company that can make the cookies and then we can have more. so thank you, lou, for making girl scout cookies much more available now with many different flavors. but i want to go back to the original quest

her work is additionally featured on the today show c-span and the smithsonian channel's america's hiddenves in roanoke, virginia, with her husband, who joins us this evening, as well as her two children and her french bulldog. lee will appear this evening in. conversation with bob bostock, an historian and author who has curated more than a dozen special right here at the nixon library, including a special exhibition on the life of pat nixon that opened in 2012 to commemorate 100th anniversary of the first lady's birth. ladies and gentlemen would you please join me in welcoming heath hardage lee and bob bostock. thank you, jim, for that great introduction. it's a great pleasure to be here tonight. and as jim said, we are very fortunate to have with us keith lee, acclaimed and author of the league of many of you may have been when he gave a presentation on that a couple of years ago now, right? yeah. in the league of wives, he tells inspiring story of the efforts of the wives of our p.o.w.s in vietnam to bring their husbands home in the course of writing that book, keith became close frie

and just about ten miles north is, smithsonian, kentucky, where cumberland flows into the ohio. and then just 45 miles south of paducah, where i was sitting in that first floor, where that bank building, where ohio and the mississippi meet. so within 50 miles, the mails, the nexus of three of the great rivers of the southeastern united and the war, all were together. and if leonidas polk could take paducah, the confederacy would have control of two of those rivers and wouldn't take much to come down and get control there in cairo. so i decided move now. i've been under orders generally. don't bring on an engagement. this chafed me greatly because. i do not like sitting and i like to attack, you know, khomeini's the great philosopher, militarist said that time not well used, accrues benefits to the enemy that he did not earn, time not well used, accrues benefits to the enemy that he did not earn. so i wasn't going to i did send a telegram to general fremont and said it was 636 and a half o'clock that time and i said, i'm going to move on paducah tonight to take it tomorrow. if i

she had spent 27 years with the smithsonian, eventually being executive director of the center for education and museum studies. she then came to mt. vernon, where she headed planning and installation of the george washington biograph cycle galleries in the education wing of our museum, which opened in 2006. in 210. in 2010. is that the right year? she retired and began on really a labor of love. think the first full length biography of an pamela cunningham from which she will speak today. ladies man edward everett and the mount vernon. ladies dr. johnny taylor had honor of being part of the first fellowship class at, the washington library, in 2000 1314. he was then a tenured associate professor at the university of central missouri in warrensburg and the author already four books on harry truman, missouri, the town of independence. favorite son. he is a professor in the department of history and at the university of central missouri, where he coordinates the m.a. in history program. he holds a ph.d. in history from the university of missouri at columbia. he has a strong interest in public

at the new york historical society one of my guests runs one of the smithsonian's in washington, d.c.e talked about historical reckoning and i think one of the really interesting points was i would open the question up to people i was talking to and the audience and ask them about attributes but also specific situations, so how much preparation does a president need. should they go through congress? do we want outsiders? what are actual traits? empathy is interesting and often emerged as one of the major attributes people really liked but it is not quite what we think it should be. there's a disconnect between what we think we want in leaders and what we get as leaders, so that is where the fun comes in, because complicity is not a liability -- complexity is not a liability. host: when you say authenticity, what was an example cited to you as an authentic president? guest: i started the tour in january 2024 and this came up quite a bit that one of the things i will back up and say, that the reason i wanted to do this project was not just the 250th. i am sometimes treated like a commen

the nation's capital. 3-year-olds bao li and qing bao, getting a fresh start in fresh snow, the smithsonian, even in the cold winter weather. >> it feels great to see these pandas again. it's so cool and i just miss them so much. >> reporter: in 2023, the national zoo said good-bye to its previous pandas. mei xiang, tien tien, not knowing when or if giant pandas would ever return, but after a $25 million renovation of its own, a new agreement was reached with china to bring the bears back. >> we're ready to have the people here to fall in love with them like we have. >> reporter: only four u.s. zoos have welcomed pandas with long-term loan agreements from china since pan-diplomacy began in 1972, after president richard nixon's historic visit. these days, just four pandas currently live in the u.s., the two in d.c. and another pair in san diego. but no matter where you live, these panda cams are available from both zoos to capture all the cuteness as it happens in realtime. >> so, ryan, when might we see some of these new pandas? >> reporter: right now, willie, zoo atlanta says they do not h

at the new york historical society one of my guests runs one of the smithsonian's in washington, d.c.e talked about historical reckoning and i think one of the really interesting points was i would open the question up to people i was talking to and the audience and ask them about attributes but also specific situations, so how much preparation does a president need. should they go through congress? do we want outsiders? what are actual traits? empathy is interesting and often emerged as one of the major attributes people really liked but it is not quite what we think it should be. there's a disconnect between what we think we want in leaders and what we get as leaders, so that is where the fun comes in, because complicity is not a liability -- complexity is not a liability. host: when you say authenticity, what was an example cited to you as an authentic president? guest: i started the tour in january 2024 and this came up quite a bit that one of the things i will back up and say, that the reason i wanted to do this project was not just the 250th. i am sometimes treated like a commen