they said they should all be available in the national archives' online catalog and a couple of days. if that is something your adjusted for whatever, it should be available in short order. i look forward to our discussion. >> good morning. i am the national coordinator for the national park service 19th amendment centennial commemoration. i work at of main interior and washington, d.c. before i start with what we are doing i want to thank the other federal agencies, particularly the library of congress and the national archives for digitizing all those amazing primary documents and making them available because we could not do what we do without using what you do. thank you so much for doing that. so, the national park service and people at the park service think about these amazing natural landscapes like the rocky mountains, which we are so close to. for a huge stewards number of important cultural and historical sites. there are also a lot of those in the national parks. storytellers we tell the story of this week in 419 national park units. we have a number of affiliated areas. o

. >> good afternoon for the national archives manager for the lecture series. on behalf of the archivist of the united states i would like to welcome you all to the theater located in the national archives building in washington dc and also a special shout out to our friends at c-span who are joining us today. before we hear from philip about his book would like to tell you about two upcoming programs taking place. august 16th at noon to tell us about a forgotten founding father george mason who gave us the bill of rights and on tuesday september 10th at noon blumenthal will talk about his recently released volume of his biography of abraham lincoln 1856 through 1863. to find out more please visit our website. also printed materials in the lobby about upcoming events as well as sign-up sheets you can receive the electronic version. philip joined the cia in 1985 specializing in south asia and then the middle east after the september 11 attacks and see a member of a small diplomatic team hoping to piece together a government in afghanistan. meant to become deputy

. >> good afternoon and the services manager for the national archives museum and the producer for the new lecture series. on behalf of the united states welcome to the theater located at the national archives building washington dc and i like to give a special shout out to our friends on c-span who are joining us today. before we hear from philip about his book black site i will tell you about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater we will hear about the forgotten founding father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. on tuesday september 10th sidney blumenthal will tell about his recently released volume number three of his biography of abraham lincoln 1856 through 1863 to find more out about these programs please visit our website you will also find printed materials with upcoming events as well ass sign-up sheets to have the electronic version of the monthly calendar. joining the cia in 1985 as a special agent after september 11 he was a cia member of a small diplomatic11 team for afghanistan then he became deputy director for orterrace center a

along with that there were quite a number of files on gertie at the national archives and oss isles, all of which have been declassified and in that you get the reaction of and the oss leadership as they discover that gertie has been captured and their fear he is going toreveal secrets that can compromise operations . they had a deep fear that pappert, he knew even more. he knew about oprah, the fact that and the british had broken german military communications . and so it describes all of that. then in 1947, gertie published a memoir about her time as a prisoner of war. unfortunately it didn't get a whole lot of attention and but for me was a wonderful guy. and then critically within the national archives, one of the most important things or fines for me was two of the gestapo interpreters who were there for the interrogation of gertie in berlin were interrogated and debriefed after the war and gave a detailed account of how gertie was viewed by the germans so that was it a particular perspective that i could never get from 30 are from the oss but i wanted to understand how did the

welcome to the, theater at the national archives. i'm deborah, deputy archivist of the united states. i'm pleased you could join us. whether you are here at the theater or joining us through facebook, youtube, or c-span. tonight's

and then critically, within the national archives one of the most important things are fines for me was -- two of the -- interpreters who were there for the interrogation of gurdy in berlin, and were interrogated and debriefed after war and gave a detailed account of how was viewed by germans so that was a particular perspective that i could never get from the oss but i wanted to understand how did germans look at her and looked at her as a special prisoner that they could exploit because of her wealth, because of her connections, and because of her background. and so those were basically the elements i got some small after kiefl material from germany and a switzerland butting nothing as substantial as if i found here. could you comment briefly on her had post war life as far as her marital status and her children -- >> sure. >> and sadly saidmy died of a heart attack in 1947 as a very young age. i mean, was left heartbroken. sidney was love of her life. she subsequently had a brief five-year unhappy marriage, and ended in divorce and subsequently a single woman who continued to travel

this 44 that obama's former twitter handle now he's probably not at risk because the national archives is watching out for that account and his internet account but there are plenty of other people not as prominent as the former president of the us who could get caught up into that the 2nd thing is private users so just your ordinary twitter user who may be passed away the family wants that twitter account to keep existing but unlike facebook twitter does not have a policy of archiving these accounts and now this into the wanted to delete them any signs that maybe jack of to it or might reconsider this potential policy twitter has been pretty clear that they're going through this but there have been some attempts to kind of anticipate this and archive accounts so one prominent archive as he calls himself an internet archive is jason scott he has started an initiative where you can go onto his website and you can log in you can you can put an account of a deceased deceased person on there and he says you archive it as long as he can maintain the capacity there but this is just one effor

the 19th amendment. this national archives event is one of a series associated with their ex-hibt, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. >> good evening, welcome to the theater at the national archives. i'm deborah, deputy archivist of the united states. i'm pleased you could join us. whether you are here at the theater or joining us through facebook, youtube, or c-span. tonight's discussion of women suffragists and the men who supported them as part of a series of events related to our current special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. our partners are here tonight and we thank them r

welcome to the, theater at the national archives. i'm deborah, deputy archivist of the united states. i'm pleased you could join us. whether you are here at the theater or joining us through facebook, youtube, or c-span. tonight's discussion of women men whosts and the supported them as part of a series of events related to our current special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. partners are here tonight and we thank them for their support. our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for voting rights. women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. it was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. opened,htfully hers guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. that was won by members of the men's league for women's suffrage. not to theests, this role that men played came as a surprise. tonight we will take a look at theirffragists and contributions to the voting right struggle. it's

senators, senator ron johnson of wisconsin and senator chuck grassley of iowa now sending this to the national archivesemanding documents from the national archives about ukraine meddling in the 2016 election. quote, "we write to request records of white house meetings that took place in 2016 between and among obama administration officials, ukrainian government representatives and democratic national committee officials." they're demanding documents here about the dnc reportedly working with ukrainian government officials to undermine the trump campaign. the dnc working to get dirt on trump from the ukrainians. i mean, this is the disinformation campaign that russia has been running globally and in the united states to try to create and promote this false narrative that it was really ukraine that meddled in our election. here they are advancing it for official requests to try to prove this thing. and it's one thing to see the president's campaign and conservative media including house republicans promoting that russian disinformation campaign, right, which is cooked up by russia and designed to hurt t

. >> reporter: the national archives has collected more than a thousand voices in an oral history told by war time veterans, from world war ii to the present. >> you learn to be selfless you learn to look to want to protect the person to your right and left, there's no me it's just us. >> reporter: a succession of great generations. we see them as ten feet high, superheroes. but they're also unapologetically human. >> i wasn't scared until we landed and then i look around that's when i got scared. >> reporter: mortal but resilient and with an appreciation for the meaning of freedom forged in unimaginable adversity. >> we walked across the bridge and there was a marine standing there. i threw my arms around him. i kissed him he said, welcome home, son. >> reporter: they serve and adapt to the shifting tides of political policy and public sentiment. patriots every one and what we owe them cannot be told in just one day. our salute to duty, their service and sacrifice. >>> that's "nightly news" for this friday. i'm lester holt. from all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good ♪

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it was in a branch of the national archives i wonder if they have the personnel file. so i asked is it difficult to get personnel files. or privacy issues. as the archive while organized. well organized. who are you interested in. i was kind of interested in guist also. so i copied his file. would you like to have it. the personnel files can be very dull i've seen my personnel file at american university there is a lot of stuff about paperwork. i was not betting the farm. it turned out to be a very large file and a very interesting file first of all because they head with -- written some autobiographical things in it and secondly, because he had been investigated by the state department. so they look for people in the past and some of them have good things to say and some of them didn't. that is all the better for the historian. that was the first really big break it was at that point that i said i know might actually be able to do a book and a sense of him as a person. i will give you a bare bones version of what appears with detail. he was born in cleveland to parent

there's also the issue of public profiles for example barack obama when he left office you also left a twitter account that he doesn't tweet from anymore luckily this is been archived by the national archives but some public persona some public figures aren't so lucky to have somebody looking out for their defunct twitter accounts and that could just be thrown into the way it's been so i said to him push back against this there's been at least one initiative to archive the tweets of deceased people so there's a guy named jason scott he calls himself an internet archivist and he started a project called twittering dead so he has a website where you can register users who are inactive deceased relatives friends or whatever and you can have their tweets archived this is just a drop in the bucket really you have to opt into that but he's one of a number of people who are seeing twitter and social media as this resource as this public record even unesco recognizes that digital to heritage is the same thing as heritage as human heritage in a way and so i think we're just starting to see the beginning of this debate and i mean thank you thank you. footballing legends young man has been n

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seriously nobody's come to my house before to buy the magna carta maybe you have a seat at the national archives but then i started to get calls. [laughter] but i realize i was asked to buy other rare copies like the emancipation proclamation and the declaration of independence and i realized if you put them on display the human brain is not yet so evil if you look at it at a computer slide you might go to the next slide but if you visit the realnd magna carta you are compelled to spend some time preparing for it to learn more about it or afterward you might be compelled to learn more so i thought maybe it a good idea if on display to do this because people would learn more about history and similarly whatt happened the earthquake affected the washington monument i asked them how much it cost to fix it they said to take a long time toid get the money i said all put up the money don't worry about the bureaucrats and said we will get it fixed in congress will put up half the money so congress did and we fixed it and now we've had some problems but the same thing with historic monuments. or the lin

there's also the issue of public profiles for example barack obama when he left office you also left a twitter account that he doesn't tweet from anymore luckily this is been archived by the national archives but some public persona some public figures aren't so lucky to have somebody looking out for their defunct twitter accounts and that could just be thrown into the way it's been. pushed back against this there's been at least one initiative to archive the tweets of the seized people so there's a guy named jason scott he calls himself an internet archivist and he started a project called twittering dead so he has a website where you can register users who are in active deceased relatives friends or whatever and you can have their tweets archived this is just a drop in the bucket really hit you have to opt into that but he's one of a number of people who are seeing twitter and social media as this resource as this public record even unesco recognizes that the digital terra to age is the same thing as heritage as human heritage in a way and so i think we're just starting to see the beginning of this debate and i'm in a safe thank you thank you. for many children these days time s

some of you may have seen at the national archives and then i started getting calls. i realized there were other copies and i realized if you put them on display the human brain isn't yet so evolved if you have a computer slide with a copy of the magna carta or you might just go to the next slide but if you go and visit their real magna carta you are probably going to be prepared to spend some time preparing by learning more about it for after you see it you might want to learn more about it so by having the documents on display i thought it would be a good idea to do this because people might learn more about the history and similarly what happened was the earthquake we had affected the washington monument and ahead of park services i asked how much it would cost to fix it and he said he would take a long time to get the money from congress. i said i will put up the money don't worry about it. then later he called me back and said congress would like to put up half the money and i said okay fine so congress did and we fixed it and it's of course now open. the same thi

about two blocks from the national archives. close to capital one arena. she is right there and what is now known as the penn quarter neighborhood. those are the elements we are going to look at. the role of clara barton during the civil war and the history of the building in which she lived. the connection between barton in the space she lived is going to lead to the space being saved from destruction in the 1990's. i am lucky to be working in this space in downtown washington, a restored 19th-century boardinghouse. if it were not for the connections of clara barton, it is likely that structure would no longer exist. i will get into that story in just a bit. what i want to do first is go through a bit of the life of clara barton, the angel of the battlefield. we are going to look at her life from the beginning up to her time at the missing soldiers office in washington, d.c. the first 45 years of her life. if you are familiar with clara barton, you are most familiar with her work with the american red cross, which comes several decades after the civil war.

. >> the national archives does have an exhibit on ratification of the 19th amendment that is very good. i know they put a lot of resources into that. i'm not going to ask you a resource question, because that's the big question. you can do anything if you have enough time and resources. i appreciate what you are doing with the resources that you half, and thank you so much for being here. >> senator udall? >> thank you for the recognition and welcome again. i'm going to focus and follow up on the question on the latino museum. letting us have played an important role in the history of our nation for over 500 years. in my home state of new mexico it is celebrated, to recognize the important contributions of latinos and latinos in our country. self identified hispanics and latino's make up one fifth of our population and represent the largest ethnic group in the united states. that is why i have cosponsored senators when the nets this bill to establish the smithsonian american latino museum. i also supported another bill that would provide an additional 1.5 million for these center. if t

. >> the national archive does have an exhibit on ratification of the 19th amendment and another put resources into that. i will not ask you the resource question because i know that's a big question, you could do anything if you have enough time, money and resources. so i appreciate what your doing with the resources you have and thank you so much for being here today. >> thank you for the recognition and welcome again. i'm going to focus on follow-up on senator cortez masto question on the latino museum and they have played an important role in the history of our nation for over 500 years in my home state of new mexico, that history in the ongoing influence is celebrated and it's time for the national institution to recognize and lift up the important contributions made by latinos and latinas in our country, our heritage and our history and our cultural path. self identified hispanics and latinos make up one fifth of our population and represent the largest ethnic group in the united states, that's why i cosponsored senator menendez bill to establish the smithsonian american latino

narrative reports or technical reports or after action reports and all those had been preserved in the national archiveslaces. so while you're talking to a veteran of world war ii is wonderfully interesting as i talked to my father and my uncles, lots of times their memories have been skewed by the passing errors or if you can get the after action report of the battle of Ãbin austria it's much more accurate. you can talk to two gis literally 10 feet apart during a firefight and their descriptions of it sound like they were in different countries. because they are focused out that way. having these world war ii records is incredibly helpful when you write world war ii history. the problem is, now, and i learned this is a journalist in iraq and various other places a lot of the records are digital. frag orders were issued to units by cell phone or by encrypted tactical radio. but there reserved anywhere. more portly, for Ãbespecially from the invention of writing up until about 10 years ago, soldiers always wrote home. they got letters from home. so you have those letters and a lot of it is just, i can't

he is, as was mentioned, the deputy director of research, the national security archive. he's currently u.s. relation project, which studies controversially events through multinational and multiarchival corporation. he was public policy scholar at the wilson center, and he's the author of iran-contra, reagan scandal, and unchecked abuse of presidential power. he's a senior fellow and director of the brookings intelligence project and the senior fellow at the center of policy here served under the last four presidents to shape u.s. policies and middle east, and additionally he has advised nato and foreign government on similar issues. he has a number of books, so i and i can choose to mention one. and he's the author of kings and presidents saudi arabia and the u.s. since f.d.r. i was so intrigued by the title i read, it's fantastic. i recommend it. finally susan maloney, the susan maloney, i always refer to her as, because she's the top expert on iran. i think not only in this town, but in the country, and i have watched her career from day one, so therefore, i think i ca

. >> the national archives has an exhibit on the ratification of the 19th amendment that is very good and they put a lot of resources into that. i'm not going to ask you'll the resource question because theft the big question. you can do anything if you have enough time, money and resources so i appreciate what you're doing with the resources you have and thanks so much for being here today. >> senator udall. >> thank you, i chairman blunt for the recognition and welcome again. i'm going to focus and follow up a little bit on senator cortez masto's question on the latino museum. latinos have made an important role in the history of our nation for over 500 years niksch my home state of new mexico that history and ongoing influence is celebrated. it is time for our national institutions to also recognize and lift up the important contributions made by latinos and latinas in our country. our heritage, our history, our culture tapestry. self-identified hispanics and latinos make up nearly a fifth of our population and represent the largest ethnic group in the united states. cosponsored th

the national archives does have an exhibit on the ratification of the 19th amendment that's very good, and i know they've put a lot of resources into that. i'm not going to ask you the resource question. i know that's the big question. you can do anything if you have enough full-time, money, and resources. so i appreciate what you're doing with the resources you have. thank you for being here today. >> thank you. thank you for the recognition, and welcome, again. i'm going to focus and follow up a little bit on senator cortez-mastos question in the a latino museum question. they've played an important role in over 500 years. in new mexico that history and ongoing influence is celebrated. it is time for our national institutions to also recognize and lift up the important contributions made by latinos and latinas in our country. our heritage, history, cultural tapestry. self-identified hispanics make up one first of our population and represent the largest ethnic group in the united states. that's why i've co-sponsored senator menendez's bill to establish the smithsonian latino museum.

considered those or were claiming they were presidential records and that they have to go to the national archives which is legitimate claim. i'm surprised he just didn't setup his own account immediately afterwards. but speaking of twitter, max, i retweeted a article that max did today on 64 excuses for not having impeachment that'll make you cry and laugh. and they're all -- and i'm one who does hope that bolton will appear. >> thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. >>> more from my exclusive interview with former vice president joe biden. is he the fighter democrats have looking for in 2020? what he says about that next. >>> joe biden wears his heart on his sleeve often talking movingly about suffering personal loss and his empathy for others going through the same things. but he tells me he thinks the president is incapable of empathy. here's more of my interview with joe biden. >> one area where that you have no issue and that's grief and empathy. and the current president does not have that. why do you think that is? why do you have it, and why doesn't he? >> look, i don't think he's capable

another thing was a lot of freedom of information acts, as you would know, from the work at national security archive, and so what happened with that, with the good work of archivists at the national archive, after nine years, over a thousand interrogation case files, and these are the interrogation case files of u.s. counter-intelligence corps, interrogating u.s. p.o.w.s, returning from north korean and chinese p.o.w. camps, about their experiences of interrogation. so it is a bit of a roomful of mirrors. but i decided that, okay, if i really go through this, and if i can see certain kinds of patterns, or things that are somewhat surprising, because there's a lot at stake for these u.s. p.o.w.s coming back, they know that if they say anything that sounds like at all that they had quote-unquote been sympathetic, or had really learned something, let's say, from north korean and chinese instructors at the camps, that they could be marked for the rest of their lives. however, many startling things came to the for. and so that's what i was really looking at. >> thank you. let's open it up. who would like

in this letter to the national archive, ron johnson said if your text messages between peter strzok andmes comey suggest there are emails between hillary clinton and president obama that went through her private, unsecured personal server. the letter reads in part, "i write to request email communications between former secretary of state hillary clinton and president obama. the january 2018 i requested the department president obama when she was located in the territory of a sophisticated adversary." that's code for a country like russia that has a targeted and sophisticated hacking capabilit capability. one week before comey's public statement declaring no regional prosecutor would charge clinton. strzok writes, "jim, i have the potus hrc emails director comey requested at the end of the briefing yesterday. i hesitate to leave them. please let me know a convenient time to drop them off." according to two former intelligence officials, president obama's high-security blackberry used a special process known as white listing that only allowed it to take calls and messages from preapprove

. >> is the fact that people ask me what does the national archives do? what does an archivist you? and then there is a confusion around the role of each of these institutions and i have learned a lot about the declaration of independence, the right. >> next university of kentucky history professor on president andrew johnson. part of a symposium hosted by the u.s. capital historical society commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 14th amendment's ratification. >> we will end with mark summers from the university

. >> katie: senate homeland security chair ron johnson asking the national archives for any emails thatween former president obama and hillary clinton. republicans have long argued clinton's use of a private server as secretary of state could have exposed her communications to foreign adversaries. the "i right to request a no green occasions between former secretary of state under clinton and president obama. general 2018 i requested the department of justice produce emails secretary clinton sent to president obama while she was located in the territory of a sophisticated adversary." johnson adds that the doj says it was not in a position to produce those emails. his new request sites communication from former fbi agent peter strzok to james comey's chief of staff, which johnson says indicates multiple emails exist between obama and clinton. andy, k they can't think andy, they can't get these emails from the permit of justice or the deferment of state, either. why is this still relevant to couple years later? >> andy: when this came up at the time, recollection is there somewhere betwee

as christian mentioned he was deputy director at the national security archive. he is currently -- he directs the u.s.-iran project which is a controversial and historicalers vents and the archival coop raising. he was a public policy scholar at the wilson center and the author of iran-contra reagan scandal and the unchecked abuse of presidential power. bruce is a director at the brookings intelligence project and the senior fellow at the center of mideast policy. he has served under the last four presidents to shape u.s. policies in asia and the middle east and additionally, he has advised nato and foreign government on similar issues. he has a number of books. so i picked and choose what to mention one, and he's the author of kings and presidents, saudi arabia and the u.s. since fdr. i i was so intrigued by the title. i read the book, it's fantastic. i recommend it. >> finally, susan maloney, the susan maloney, i always refer to her because she's the top expert on iran. i think not only in this -- but in the country, really, and i have watched her career from da

if you go and see the original magna carta at which i bought and put on display at the national archivesu can go there. you can read about the magna carta and its significance. but now you can go there. the same of historic buildings. when the washington monument had earthquake damage, i said i will put up the money because it might take too long to get it done. monticello needed work. what pillar did work. the iwo jima memorial, the lincoln memorial p i said let me fix these up. i will pay for it. maybe more americans will visit. if they visit maybe they will learn more about our history. that will not solve all of our problems. i decided also to help members of congress learn about american history and we talked about it earlier. i started five years ago to educate members of congress more about american history. once a month i have a program i bring a great american historian and i interview them in front of members of congress we to play get 200 members. i asked them to sit with people from the opposite party because they often do not do that. and often people with the opposite house

the documents were out, right? i figured i just needed to sort of go and find them. then i realized while i was at this amazing archive called the national security archive here in washington. while i was doing research there, i realized shortly after that we weren't done declassifying materials, so new declassifications came in 2015 and 2016. among those, as i mentioned in my talk, were the cia documents that basically concluded that pinochet not only covered up the crime but also ordered the hit. up to that point this had only been sort of a -- somebody that -- something that everybody knew was true but nobody had any evidence, right, that pinochet ordered it. the kpcia said we are concludin this so it has essentially become a finding of the letelier assassination. i found great documents at the institute of policy studies. not in d.c. but their archive in wisconsin of all places. s wisconsin historical society has all the archives of not only letelier who worked there but his colleagues and his widow. so once he was killed, she essentially took over his job. did a lot of human rights work. there were several sort of psychological foll

it's wonderful to be here, especially at the national archives, since they have opened this really lovely exhibit on women and the vote. it's called rightfully hers, american women and the vote. i myself have toured the kpiebt twice. i encourage everybody to come and see it too. she mentioned, i'm the coy chair of the women's vote sen term initiative and former executive director of the league of women voters of the united states. the league is one of the co-founders of the women's vote sen term initiative. and that group which in shorthand is wbci was formed as an information sharing collaborative of the many organizations and scholars who are working in this area. we want to celebrate the anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment which will be 2020. and in doing that woe want to shed light on the powerful but little known stories behind that very long and hard struggle to win the vote. the league itself was founded in 1920 by carie chatman cat who was the head of the largest suffrage organization, the national american women's suffrage organization. and the league under her guida