when you put together a list of unique american assets, unique american assets going into the future, things that are going to provide for the future of the united states. you talk about an innovative economy, the size of the economy. its energy future. it's demographic future, all unique american assets and really do promise a bright future for the united states. you should also put in that list alliances. no other nation in the world has the set of global alliances that the united states does. no other nation in the world, and this is built on bipartisan works since world war ii, has a series of countries that it can go to around the world and work with these countries. alliances, i will tell you, from experience, are wholly different qualitative set than coalition to the willing. alliances are valued highly by each of the members. you have habits of cooperation. you have shared threat assessments. you have operational capabilities that you practice and work on and can call on in a moment's notice. the libya operation was good example off that on nato. from the outset of this admini

>> it has become very uniquely american. it didn't used to be. for example, no country in europe today recognizes birthright citizenship, although many did until fairly recently and they're restricting it precisely because they she themselves are going over immigration from africa, from middle east, from asia. and so hfr-but it's a good point that the notion of birthright citizenship suggests some aspiration what have it means to be an american. this is not a country that defines membership in the nation through any particular religion. there are plenty of countries where religion is linked directly to citizenship. it doesn't link it to language. it doesn't link to some notion of being part of a population it that has a historic root like in germany, that people of german ancestry can use move to germany and immediately become part of the an population. but the noble principle is anybody can be an american. if you come and accept the basic principles of the society, you're equally entitled to be an american with anybody else. >> the issue of birt

is an immigrant country, it is a uniquely american idea. >> for has become uniquely american. and they themselves are undergoing a great deal of social strain. this is not a country that defines membership through they are part of that population. here no. the principal not always lived up to, but a noble principal is anybody can be an american. doesn't matter who you are and what your background is. if you come and accept the basic principals of the society, you are equally entitled to be an american. >> the issue of birth right citizenship is tested recently. what's the controversy and is this the first time since the passage of the 14th that the concept of birth right citizenship has been? >> let me say and linda knows a lot about the current controversies. it is not the first time at all. that was over children of the chinese immigrants. no one to be naturalized. if you were chinese, you couldn't become naturalized. what did that mean about the children of people born here? the courts ruled that it applies to them also. even if the parents could never be citizens, the chil

americans can learn from this occurrence. and the word "earthquake" strikes me as a uniquely unique american word. but we've learned so much from the japanese scientists and engineers in terms of understanding seismic and earthquake events and how to protect facilities like nuclear plants from these type of occurrences, earthquake. the word "tsunami" is japanese, distinctly japanese. and i have no doubt that with less than ten years, we'll be learning from the japanese how to adequately protect our nuclear plants in terms of flood protection and tsunami protection. no doubt about it. >> japan and the united states are very similar. we're both advanced countries, technologically so as well as our population. we're an educated population. we talked about public education. and i would say we're different in the sense that the united states is much more diverse geographically, and we face a much broader variety of threats, whether it be earthquakes on the west coast or hurricanes on the east and the gulf or tornadoes in the midwest. it makes it more challenging in the united states because it's almost

. >>> up next here this evening, a huge honor for a group of truly unique americans. >>> the medal of freedom is the highest civilian honor the u.s. can bestow. and today at the white house, president obama paid tribute to a new group of recipients, including bob dylan, toni morrison and legendary basketball coach pat summitt. here now a sampling from the day, once a year when america chooses to honor its very best. >> this is a packed house, which is a testament to how cool this group is. first american to orbit the earth. john glenn became a hero in every sense of the word. >> god speed, john glenn. >> but he didn't stop there serving his country. as a senator, he found new ways to make a difference. and on his second trip into space at age 77, he defied the odds once again. toni morrison's pros brings us in a kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt. she believes that language arcs toward the place where meaning might lie. the rest of us are lucky to be following along for the ride. as the first woman to serve as america's top diplomat, madeleine's courag

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well, and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night, longtime indiana republican senator richard lugar lost to primary challenger richard mourdock. look back at his career including work in the '90s with senator sam nunn on a nuclear disarmament program in the former soviet union. all online, archived and searchable at the c-span video library. >>> defense secretary leon panetta and the chair of the joint chief of staffs martin dempsey will be briefing reporters at the pentagon today. scheduled for 2:00 p.m. eastern. live right here on c-span3. you'll hear it on c-span radio. and a little later in the day here on c-span3, a conversation on u.s./russia relations. president obama is hosting a g-8 summit at camp david next week and russia's newly sworn in president vladimir putin is skipping that saying he's busy forming his new cabinet. sending his prime minister, medvedev. the center for strategic and international studies starts live here on c-span3 at 5:00 p.m. eastern. >>> prince harry of wales

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well, and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night, long-time indiana republican senator richard lugar lost to primary challenger richard murdoch. look back at senator lugar's six-time career on the senate floor and in hearings, including his work in the '90s with senator sam nunn on a nuclear disarmament program in the former soviet union. all online, archived and searchable at the c-span video library. >>> a house financial services subcommittee chaired by representative ron paul held a a hearing this week on the future of the federal reserve. members looked at several bills. representative paul's proposal to abolish the fed and measures introduced by financial services ranking member representative barney frank and joint economic committee vice-chairman kevin brady. this is a little less than two and a half hours. >> this hearing will come to order. without objection, all members' opening statements will be made a part of the record. the chair notes that some members may have additional quest

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well, and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night, long-time indiana republican center lost to richard mourdock. look back at his term career on the senate floor and in hearings, including his work in the '90s with snar sam nunn, all on line, archived and searchable at the c span video library. >> here's a live look at the room where we'll bring you a conversation on u.s.-russia relations. we're expecting that will get under way soon now. president obama is hosting a g-8 summit next week. the russianian president is skipping the immediating and he's sending the prime minister in his place. that is at the center for strategic and international studies in washington, d.c. and we'll be bringing you life coverage of that any minute no:. while we're waiting for this event to get under way. house speaker had a -- he talked about gas prices and president's boims announcement yet that he supports same sex marriage. >> good morning. just last week the american people received another depressing jobs rep

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experience is alive and well. and our political system can work, is. >> tuesday night richard lugar lost to primary challenger richard murdoch. a look back at his six-term career on the senate floor. including his work in the '90s with senator sam nunn in the nuclear disarmament in the former soviet union. all online and searchable at the c-span video library. >>> last night president obama held a $15 million fund-raiser at the southern california home of george clooney. this afternoon at 3:10 eastern, the president makes remarks about his plan to make it easier for homeowners to refinance. you can see it live on c-span 2 at 3:10 eastern. tomorrow mitt romney delivers the commencement address in virginia. the school was founded by televangelist jerry fallwell, and he will be introduced by r jerry fallwell jr. that's live on saturday. 10:20 eastern. he's the author of the book called "end the fed." he's introduced legislation for a one-year transition period to close the federal reserve. after that all the feds' li

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night, long-time indiana republican senator richard luger lost to primary challenger richard murdock. look back at senator luger's time in the senate. all online, archived and searchable at the cbs span video library. in a few moments "new york times" columnist paul krugman on the economy. in 45 minutes the state opening of british parliament. after that the future of the federal reserve. >> i had my ambition to walk where john smith and pocohanas walked. this makes a rectangular space. pocahontas marries john ralph, so i guarantee you, i'm standing a little deeper than she was, but this is from pocahontas was standing when she got married. >> since it's 1994 rediscovery of the colony has yielded more than -- and then join in the conversation with william kelso answering your question. part of american history tv this weekend on cspan 3. >>> now "new york times" columnist paul krugman from his new book on the economy. from washington journal, this is

i was wondering what you thought about the relation of the uniquely american concept of judicial review on the concept and especially today we have citizens united recently, we have the health care challenge coming up. >> right. >> how you think that kind of strand has intertwined since marlboro versus madison in the revolutionary period? >> it develops very slowly and against much opposition. the development of the courts i would say along with the creation of the constitution was one of the principal accomplishments of the federalists, the federalists of the 1790s if you will rather than the federalists of the 1780s. it's a curve on democracy. there's no way you can justify nine individuals deciding issues and say, well, that's democratic. you have to face the fact it is a way of curbing and softening the text of democracy. often for good causes, you know, minority rights, individual liberties and so on, but in no way is it a democratic institution. now, there were people who began arguing that they are a kind of representative of the people, and people said, well, if that's true, the

coming into the spectrum that excited to see you know someone talking about freedom which is a uniquely american idea it's something that americans value and they're really excited going forward you know they want to see change in this country they want to see change in the right way and we've got this president mention got us to go at this point you know towards less freedom or toward more freedom and i think the way to go is toward more freedom obviously sure but i mean there aren't that many candidates you have to admit that emulate ron paul's full package i mean the nonintervention isn't curbing back all of this insane spending and the liberty platform the civil liberties liberty platform and even his son rand doesn't really go forward on i mean he's a civil liberties activist but he doesn't really narrow his father in the nonintervention ism and foreign policy arena i mean are there candidates out there right now small or big that are kind of telling this whole platform that you guys are supporting. i have yet you're right to cast doubt on the currents of current scene right now as it stand

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well. and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night, long-time indiana republican senator richard luger lost to primary challenger richard murdoch. look back at senator lugers 's, six-term career, including his work in the '90s. all online, archived and searchable at the c-span video library. >>> as you just heard, indiana state treasurer richard murdoch defeated 36-year incumbent richard luger in the state's republican primary election. we spoke with mr. murdoch earlier today on "washington journal" for about 35 minutes. >> well, now, joining us from indianapolis on "the washington journal" is richard murdoch, who knocked off 36-year senator richard luger in the indiana gop primary on tuesday. mr. murdoch, thank you for being with us. if we could, let's start with what we were talking with our audience about a little earlier this morning. and that was president obama's statement endorsing gay marriage yesterday. want to get your reaction to that. >> well, i was surprised that h

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night, long-time indiana republican senator richard lugar lost to primary challenger richard mourdock. look back at senator lugar's six-term career on the senate floor and in hearings including his work in the 'niefrnts with senator sam nunn on a nuclear disarmament program in the former soviet union, all online, archived and searchable at the c-span video library. >>> up next on c-span 3, political analyst karl rove and joe trippi discuss the communication strategies of the obama and romney presidential campaigns. after that former fed chairman paul volcker testifies about federal financial regulations. >> i thought it was important to write a book that took people's movement seriously. so the movements that elected obama. how did they build over time? obama didn't come out of nowhere. 2003, 2004 what was happening? also the tea party movement, which seemed to come out of nowhere. what's its orange snin how did it work? occupy wall street. i thought

this uniquely american day, memorial day, was born over 140 years ago of america's civil war. our most costly and terrible war. a war that tore at the heart and fabric of our republic. the next war to tiff void america produced this simple and elegant memorial that watches over us today. it reflects the images of the future, as it records the names of the past. memorials are built for the living and are to instruct our destiny, as they honor and remember those who fell in the service of our country. memorials further instruct us of the powerful responsibility of our nation's stewards to make policy worthy of the sacrifices of those who serve and die. war is not an abstraction. it is brutal. it is always accompanied by the haunting portends of dangerous unintended consequences. uncontrollables and unpredictables. even though this is so, america's men and women have always found higher purpose to their lives in service to their country. i often think about those quiet heroes my brother tom and i served with in vietnam in 1968. and i'm very proud my brother, tom, is here today si

he was a uniquely american care terror. it was a product of this country at that time, a time when there is a lot of play and no one to really understand what he was up to and hold him to account for it. he was eighth of may man who was smart and savvy, a clever opportunist and he would probably have been very successful if he had been in pain. cute so i tried every thing and failed at everything. he tried, evangelism, even a free love commune in 1870 and failed even a actress of women in a commune nickname can charles get out. [laughter] but he survived on sheer rapacity here he traveled and never bought a ticket. he took great pride in this report in house to boardinghouse, slipping out when the rent is due and even when he occasionally worked as a bill or he would keep whatever he managed to collect. after the republican candidate chen he became obsessed with garfield and after the election he began to stock the president. he went to the white house nearly every day. at one point he even walked into the president office

this soldier, this family has a uniquely american story. ii to a family of hungarian refugees. and as the iron curtain deaccepteded they boarded a boat for america and arrived at ellis island, past the statue of liberty. they settled in the steel down of elwood city, pennsylvania. less' father worked hard, pulled his family into the middle class. and when les was a teenager, the family went to the county courthouse together, raised their hands and became proud american citizens. they say that les was one of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet. he lued a good joke, eh loved to bowl. he could have given me some tips. they say he was pretty good looking, too. that's what i hear. he would do anything for anybody. and when george went to college, les looked after their mom. when george went tonight school, les helped care for his three young sons. when les fell in love with rose, who couldn't wait to start a life together, he slipped the ring on her fenger right there in the car while stopped at a red light. and as he headed out for viet

this uniquely american day, memorial day, was born over 140 years ago of america's civil war. our most costly and terrible war. a war that tore at the heart and fabric of our republic. the next war to tiff void america produced this simple and elegant memorial that watches over us today. it reflects the images of the future, as it records the names of the past. memorials are built for the living and are to instruct our destiny, as they honor and remember those who fell in the service of our country. memorials further instruct us of the powerful responsibility of our nation's stewards to make policy worthy of the sacrifices of those who serve and die. war is not an abstraction. it is brutal. it is always accompanied by the haunting portends of dangerous unintended consequences. uncontrollables and unpredictables. even though this is so, america's men and women have always found higher purpose to their lives in service to their country. i often think about those quiet heroes my brother tom and i served with in vietnam in 1968. and i'm very proud my brother, tom, is here today si

an american and uniquely american bet. i want a transaction fee but not on the financial markets. more on the every day transactions that take place in our economy. i think it's the way to go. >> what do you mean? like selling your car? >> i mean not transactions in and out of personal accounts but business to business transactions but not in the financial markets. i'm talking about every day transactions, a small user fee for using the best economy in the world to make transactions. that we have a great court system. we have a great regulatory environment and i think that we have to have a consumption base tax individually. i've designed one that i think is unique and that will be useful in our economy. >> all right. we'll leave it there. we'll be watching for that. you sound like a german finance minister. >> look, 150 countries have consumption or consumption-based taxes and we don't but we're eventually going to get that because -- >> we know what that got europe, right? >> well, we're a consumption-based economy. no wonder we're broke. >> congressman, good to have you on the

this soldier, this family, has a uniquely american story.n in europe after world war ii to a family of hungarian refugees and as the iron curtain descended they boarded a boat and arrived to ellis island past the statue of liberty and settled in elle wood pennsylvania. his father worked hard and pulled his family into the middle class and when leslie was a teenager they went to the county courthouse together and raised their hands and became proud american citizens. they say les was one of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet. he loved a good joke. he loved to bowl. he could have given me some stipulations. rose says he was good looking, too. that's what i hear. he would do anything for anybody. when george went to college, les looked after their mom. when george went to night school, les helped care for his three young sons. when les fell in love with rose who couldn't wait to start a life together, he slipped a ring on her finger right there in his car while stopped at a red light. as he headed out for vietnam, he stopped at a shop

he was a uniquely american character. he was a part of this country at that time, a time when there was a lot of play in the joint, and there was no one to really understand what he was up to and hold him to account for it. he was a self-made madman. he was smart and scrappy, he was a clever opportunist, and he probably would have been very successful if he hadn't been insane. [laughter] he had tried everything, and he had failed at everything. the women in a commune nicknamed him charles get out. [laughter] but he survived on sheer audacity. he traveled all over the country by train and never bought a ticket. he took great pride in moving from boarding house the boarding house, slipping out when the rent was due. and even when he occasionally worked as a bill collect, he would just keep whatever he managed to collect. after the republican convention, goteau became obsessed with the president. he went to the white house nearly every day. at one point he even walked into the president's office while the president was in it

the great phases of his life, in one way or another worked off of the notion that this was a uniquely american century. his victory over hitler in world war ii which had a nice side effect of setting him up for politics clearly was an expression that this was a special country. and his administration, particularly his handling of cold war politics really suggested eisenhower's strong belief was american values would persevere and there was something special about american values. he would not of use the phrase exceptional was some -- exceptionalism and something to persuade the world to come around our values in the context of the cold war and american values would persevere, outlived soviet communism so that guided his strategy as president. his fear as president was this country would lurch into a conflict and end up as a nuclear conflict and urged him to use nuclear weapons to resolve crisis here or there in the world and his contribution as president was to say no over and over again to the use of american force and american nuclear force. that was because he believed there was something s

reporter: nascar is so uniquely american, calling it red neck is actually a compliment.e nation's number one spectator sport. for five of the last six years, it's been dominated by number 48 >> 48 is long gone. reporter: jimmie johnson. jimmie johnson has won the daytona 500. >> i love being in traffic. i love watching a driver and understanding where they're weak. and trying to find a way by him >> reporter: he got out front last weekend and stayed there. >> jimmie johnson in the lowe's chevrolet are going to victory lane and a million bucks >> reporter: earning a pretty hefty paycheck and a shower of confetti and champagne >> i like to keep the champagne bottles from victory. i don't like champagne >> reporter: you don't like champagne >> well, cheap champagne reporter: he's the only driver in the 64-year history of nascar to win five straight championships. not even greats like richard petty or dale earnhardt have done that. making the 36-year-old one of nascar's most bankable stars. >> as long as he's been winning, jimmie johnson has been racing chevies. with a few e

this uniquely american day, memorial day, was born at more than 140 years ago, after america's civilthe war that tore at the heart and fabric of our republic. it produced a simple and elegant memorial that watches over us today. it reflects the images of the future as it records the names of the past. memorials are built for the living in order to instruct our destiny as they honor and remember those who fell in the service of their country. memorials further instruct us of the powerful responsibility of our nation'a stewart's to make sacrifices. war is not an abstraction, it is brutal. there is always the haunting portents of unintended consequences, and controls and unpredictable. even though this is so, america's men and women have always found higher purpose and service to their country. i often think about the quiet heroes that my brother and i served in vietnam in 1968. i am proud that my brother is sitting here in the front row. i never knew -- thank you. [applause] i never knew nor served with a better soldier or a better man than my brother tom. these quiet heroes who we fou

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well and our political system still can work. we possess the resources and human talent and energy to sustain our status as the economic envy of the world. our culture is a global reference point for progress among modern societies. people from all over the world what to come here to study, to live, and to invest. we still enjoyed unprecedented freedoms that billions of people can only dream about. the task before us is to come together as americans and sustain the american dream at home while protecting their security advancing our leadership abroad. i cherished the confidence that each of you have placed in me and i urge you to join me in a determination to continue to serve our country and our state. god bless each one of you and god bless america. [applause] >> the winner was state treasurer richard mourdock. this is 20 minutes. >> mourdock! [cheers and applause] [applause] [chanting "mourdock!"] >> i have a feeling that you guys are looking to party tonight. [applause] you know, you get ready for a mom

but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well and our politicalstem still can work. >> tuesday night longtime indiana republican senator richard lugar lost his primary challenger richard murdoch. look back at senator lugar six term career on the senate floor and hear it including his work in the '90s with senators sam nunn and the nuclear disarmament program in the former soviet union all on line archived and searchable at the c-span2 be a library. >> you my journey into black panther party started before i became a panther. i think what i would like to do is just to read a little passage from the book and then show you how i happened to walk into the panter office and how that day changed my life. this is chapter 3 in the book. and it's called finding the panther layer. i walked into a panther office in brooklyn on september of 1968. oh wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. i meant to say the best for last but not until the end of the program. is chairman bobby here? chairman bobby seale, founder of the black panther party is in the house.

the market to our religion, and americans unique history which kept government that they, they believed to mike treating national unity. >> that's right. all of those factors were important to. americans thought it was natural . the market. in fact, the market, especially the sooner the, the second half of the 19th century, very much a construction of the national government, especially the national ports system. let's take something as simple as sending processed meat across state lines. we are pretty familiar with this from the late 18th-century, corporate hackers. meatpackers operating in chicago that began to process these packages. they wanted to come across state lines. a lot of locals were not so happy about this. and what is -- a number of states argued, this was a healthy. cattle need to be inspected on site in the state. now, state health inspection fear the law extending local and state, it is only when the supreme court decided in the late 18th-century that their interpretation of the interstate commerce clause trump to this law extending state pride if. the supreme court de

when you put together a list of unique american assets going into the future, things that will providefor the future the united states, you talk about an innovative economy, size of the economy, energy, future, demographic future which are unique american assets and promise a bright future for the united states. you should also put on that list alliances. no other nation in the world has a set of global alliances like the united states does. no other nation in the world built on bipartisan work since world war ii has a series of countries that can go around the world can work with these countries. alliances i can tell you from experience are a wholly different qualitative set of relationships and coalitions of the willing. alliances are valued highly by each of the members. you have habits of cooperation, shared threat assessment, operational capabilities you crack some work on it can call in at a moments notice. some of the operation would be a good example. so from the outset, this has been a strategic priority for the united states. strategic to undergird our security through revita

sao ulo is unique among latin american cities.n the early part of 2, when places like rio de janeiro copied traditional european styles of construction, sao paulo was following a distinctly american model of urbanism. imitating the forms of chicago and new york, sao paulo built upward, growing rtically very quickly. bulies a very different here, stretching for miles, is a city of self-built structures in various stages of completion. they line hillsides and rocky streets where some of sao paulo's newest immigrants struggo ild mes om brick and cen where some of sao paulo's alaide and her family came to sao paulo from northeastern brazil. ( alaide speaking portuguese ) translator: from there my father cameirst to work. came i as a maidmy motwas amstrs narrator:alaide mar, they coun't afford even the cheapestenn thcity, so they decided to bui a home thon unclaimed land onn the outskirts of sao paulo. they began building this house when their first daughtewas. 11 years ago, anslator: when she was eightonths old, we movedo this house.

apparatus is that we have seen straddling that cable for the past several weeks >> it is a unique piece of american technology that compresses the entire cable into its final shape. >> this will go on for probably several more days at least and then they will start in august or september to transfer the load. the deck that i'm standing on is made of steel and then there is a plate and they tell me this is the most important part of the bridge right now because this is where the mass of cable will be attached. it will be bolted in right there and it will hold up the bridge and they will start dropping the deck on to the vertical suspension cables and then we will drive on it sometime in 2013 if we are lucky. >> dog treats blamed for making dog so sick they are near death >> why stores are still selling the streets despite years of complaints >> a rare breast cancer that is not easy to detect. the tumor that can disguise itself to look like an infection >> what you see when you take a look at the skyline of san francisco? you see some pretty clear skies but that will differ from tomorrow at this time

this uniquely american day memorial day was born over 140 years ago, america's civil war. a war thatter to at the heart and fab risk our republic. the next war to divide us, it reflects of i images of the fute as it records the names of the past. they honor and remember those who fell in the service of their country. memorials further instruct us of the spofnt our nation's stewards to make it worthy. war is brutal and always accompanied by unintended consequences and uncontrollables and untree detectivable.. but even so, america's men and women always found higher purpose to their lives and service to their country. i think about the heroes my brother tom and i served with in 1968. i'm proud that my brother tom is sitting in the front row. i never knew nor served with a better soldier or better man than my brother tom. these quiet heroes who we slogged through jungles with, fought side by side with and sometimes helplessly watched die, always considered themselves just ordinary people. but they were far from ordinary. they viewed themselves as ordinary because they were hu

american know-how? >> i think there is something unique about the american worker. >> reporter: they point to education. 17 schools here now funneling in a workforce tailor-made to make the microchips. american brainpower combined with america's high-tech machinery. americans producing far more and far faster than their overseas counterparts, they say. i can see what you really look like here. raymond stone back at work supporting his family after a year laid off. joshua alexander back too. >> we had major traffic jams just because there were so many people trying to get work. >> reporter: so many traffic jams they had to put in brand new traffic circles. but you won't get complaints from a town coming back to life. in fact, so many heard we'd been there, they started sending us videos. >> hi, david. >> reporter: from the town tavern to the grocery store. >> our sales are up 30%. >> reporter: to the salon. all grateful their tiny, american town took on the world and won. >> made in america! >> got to love that town. i brought my white suit back to the studio, zipper still intact. these suits are coveted

this uniquely american day memorial day was born over 140 years ago of america's civil war, our most war. a war that tore at the heart and fabric of our republic. the next war to divide america produced this simple and elegant memorial that watches over us today. it reflects the images of the future as it roords the names of the past. memorials are built for the living and are to instruct our destiny as they honor and remember those who fell in the service of their country. memorials further instruct us of the power of responsibility of our nation's stewards to make policy wor thit of sacrifices of those who serve and died. war is not an abstraction. it is brutal and always a companied by the haunting portends of dangerous unintended consequences. uncontrollable and unpredictable. even though this is so, america's men and women have always found higher purpose in their lives in service to their country. i often think about those quiet heroes that my brother tom and i served with in vietnam in 1968. and i'm very proud that my brother tom is here today sitting in the front row. i never

there was manipulation for the purpose of gaining leverage in the american ideological debate but not really recognizing the unique challenges of african-americans and even the call for subverting the race question to the class question was a problem for eugene who had a very explicit vision of racial equality among black workers and white workers and it basically called for in an imagine na tif way which wasn't true. it was both race and class when it came to african-americans and without recognizing that sensitivity and without listening to the voices of those who pointed it out, it created longstanding friction. the one that was more consistent is that at the union gate, at the workshop floor, african-americans often had a choice either to subject themselves to discrimination among unions or to fall in line with companies who were holding out the carrot of opportunity in the wake of labor strikes. and that problem was -- it was always there and richard wright, an african-american writer, the bosses of the buildings who effectively use their leverage to divide and concur, there was plenty of racism who identifie

you know, that my cosmopolitanism, and the things that you would call cosmopolitan and this is uniquely americancan story. >> and this is the american exceptionalism. >> and that i, barack obama, can exist and be president of the united states and all of my complexity, because america is such a wonderful and exceptional place. that is the barack obama narrative. and so that is the they have successfully done that in 2008 was spin that with a new part of the electorate, and folks who had not been participating and young people, and people of color, and to say, yeah, that is right, i associate myself with the narrative and got into the game. >> and because, is the white house worried about this book when it comes up, and this is a "vanity fair" excerpt can getting me all riled up, but is the white house worried about this or part of the factorial scurry of a election cycle? >> i think they worry about everything, but to go back to the earlier point, one of the characteristics that comes from this cosmopolitan attitude is the ability to see from the perspective of others, and good leaders do that,

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but we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night, senator richard lugar lost to primary challenger richard murdoch. we look back at his six-term career including his work on the nuclear disarmament treaty. it is all archived and searchable at the c-span video library. >> i have my ambitious to walk where they walked. this makes a rectangular space that would be the chancel. pocahontas married smith in this church. i guarantee you i am standing a little deeper where she did, but this is where she stood when she got married. >> since the 1994 discovery, the colony has yielded more than 1 million unique artifacts. take the tour and visit the library. join in the conversation answering your questions live saturday at 2:30 p.m. eastern. >> "washington journal" continues. host: it is time for our america by the numbers segment. we will be looking at the foreign-born population. let me introduce you to our guests. elizabeth grieco is the u.s. census bureau foreign-born population branch chief. welcom