lee is a man who waste -- waged war against the united states government. who led an army against the united states government. that army is believed to have killed more u.s. soldiers than any other single enemy army in the history of this country. and yet here this house is a national memorial to honor him, dedicated by congress in 1925. it really represents the way the itstry developed in earliest years, how it divided, and then how the nation somehow was able to come back together after that war. this home is a memorial to honor e not for what he did during the war but what he did afterwards. when he was promoting reunion and reconciliation, the healing of the country. telling southerners it was their duty to restore peace and harmony to the nation and also to once again obey and respect the authority of the national government. that government across the river here that the southern states had just waged a terrible war against. robert e. lee was telling them that is now their legitimate government again and it was their duty to respect that. lee became an important voi

by 1865, sherman and grants-- spoiler alert, they were at the very top of the united states army command. they rose from obscurity to national in international fame this -- i've a bit of bonus material. i think this graphically illustrates the trajectory of their career. this is fremont and more: in 1861 and this is sherman and grant in 1865. you know the old adage, behind every great man there's a great woman. but, how exactly does that work and what about the not so great men of history and the women behind them. even now, it seems to me more than mere coincidence that when i found these two matching sets of generals i found two sets of wives who shared some important characteristics also. today i will only be able to talk about a few of those shared characteristics. early on i realized none of the wives lived in one place during the war. also that some of them had traveled widely even in the south. a long time math i decided to map their travels and began with rough calculations on my computer with mapquest. i then wisely as you could see hardy professional photographer, scott miller

and make a couple of points about the status of the united states army. and thinking of the way of how the army grappled with lessons and 1865.tween 1861 after 1865, what is the status of the united states army, what are their past, what are they doing. the photograph should be familiar to some of you. that, of course, is george custer, right, and the way that the u.s. army is utilized in fighting indians in the western frontier is something that we'll explore during the course of our questioning. the u.s. army fights over 1,000 engagements with indians on the western frontier, none of which we would call conventional by any stretch of the imagination. after the engagement with the indians, we turned to spain with the spanish american war and then finally getting up to the philippine insurrection and then world war i come 1917. at the same time that the u.s. army is fighting counterinsurgency west and then also dealing with spain, the u.s. military is going through a period of professionalization and this is the time that army officers in particular start

their personal care are in the hands of the united states army, the country's most experienced organizationtate park corps camp is set up according to a carefully organized plan. by superintendent employed the national park service is in charge. skilled workmen from the vicinity of each camp can talk -- conduct all work. . enrollees serve as helpers. enrollee requires is supplied, clothing, comfortable barracks, good food. doctors are in regular attendance. this unique and fundamentally places high value on manpower and is in the hands of some of the countries most important individuals. man who conceived and put into action, president roosevelt. ♪ >> american history tv airs on c-span3 every weekend, telling the american story through events, interviews and visits to historic locations. are in prime time to introduce you to programs you can see every weekend on c-span3. our features include "lectures in history," visits to college classrooms, "american artifacts," which looks at museums and archives, "reel america," and the civil war, where you hear from the people who shaped the civil war

the personal care is in the hands of the united states army. the country's most experienced organization for a task of such magnitude. each state park corps camp is set up according to a carefully organized plan. skilled workmen from the vicinity of each camp conduct all work that requires supervision and enrollees searching as elders. the base pay is $30 per month, $25 of which is mailed directly to his declared dependents. everything the enrollee requires is supplied. clothing, comfortable barracks, good food, doctors are in regular attendance. direction of this unique and fundamentally sound program to preserve and develop a nation's resources by means of a plan that places high value on manpower is in the hands of some of the country's most important individuals and agencies. headed by president roosevelt, the man who conceived it and put it into action. ♪ ♪ >> each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums, says and historic sites around the country. next, we visit fort mchenry national monument and historic shrine in bal

their personal care are in the hands of the united states army, the country's most experienced organizationeach state park corps camp is set up according to a carefully organized plan. the superintendent employed by the state park division of the national park service, is in charge of the work. skilled equipment requires supervision. the enrollees serving as helpers. the basic fee for enrollees is $30 per month. $25 of which is mailed directly to his declared defendants. everything the enrollee requires is supplied to him. clothing, comfortable barracks, good food. doctors are in regular attendance. direction of this unique and fundamentally sound program to preserve and develop the nations resulted of a plan that places i value on manpower and is in the hands of some of the country's most important individuals. headed by president roosevelt, the man who conceived it and put t into action. >> coming up this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3. the abraham lincoln presidential library foundation published a book of musings by public figures by ordinary americans responding to lincoln'

with the sacrifice of their son, a captain in the united states army, means to those who loved him and cherish his memory. with his wife by his side last week, mr. khan delivered a powerful speech on the final night of the democratic convention in philadelphia. this is what he said directly that night to the republican presidential nominee. >> let me ask you, have you even read the united states constitution? i will gladly lend you my copy. you have sacrificed nothing and no one. >> trump later called khan's son a hero but questioned khan's right to speak out against him saying mr. khan who has never met me has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim i have never read the constitution which is false, that's trump speaking, and say many other inaccurate things. trump also questioned ghazala's silence during that convention address. here he is again. >> his wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. she probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say, you tell me, but plenty of people have written that. >> ghazala khan ans

. >>> donald trump seems to be trying to move on from his public feud with the father of a united states army captain. killed in iraq. the fallout five days after the fallout may be showing up in the latest polls. >>> donald trump is doing his best to move the conversation away from his controversy with the con family. that's his family was killed in iraq and he is doing it by using some of the harshest rhetoric that we have heard. >> this is politics and it's at its lowest. >> just when you thought it couldn't get any more heated. they called him the devil inside that bernie sanders would be going up in flames with her for endorsing her right after their fierce primary battle. >> she made the deal -- he made the deal with the devil. >> the democratic nominees for president typically don't visit states like this during the general election campaign unless you are getting endorsed by the state's favorite son yesterday the billionaire endorsement was biting into trump on his business record and his refusal to release returns. buffett says i'm under audit. >> i would be delighted to meet him any

she's the first woman actively serving in the united states army reserve to win the title, deshauna barber( cheers and applause ) and for everyone at home, join our conversation right now on twitter @nightly show, using the hashtag #tonightly. okay. yesterday, trump basically suggested the assassination of hillary clinton. please take a look. >> hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the second amendment. if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although, the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don't know. >> larry: that guy said oh, ( bleep ). i'm trying real hard on this. i'm trying real hard. is there any possibility that he meant something else? >> if he's saying these things and we're giving him the benefit of the doubt. it seems like he's crowd sourcing-- "if you want to do it, whatever. if you want to kill her, whatever." >> the reality is, he has a lot of supporters, and i'm sure there's a couple out there, that a couple of screws are loose. so you never know if they're going to take it literally. i hope they don't because you're basically talking ab

so this room really became the command post for the entire army of the united states under the secretary of war while lincoln was dying in the back bedroom. stanton was one of lincoln's favorites. he had an iron will. lincoln called him his mars, god of war. even though they didn't get along well the election, stanton once humiliated lincoln at a trial they staffed together, lincoln knew he was his right hand. he once said stanton really was the rocky shore upon which the waves of rebellion crash and are broken. and they were very close. stanton was devastated but he threw himself into the work. so here tonight he was imperious. fearsome. barking commands, sending orders all over the country to hunt for john wilkes booth. on trains, on boats. the orders went out everywhere. catch the assassin, find him. and so the manhunt, which took 12 days, began in this room before lincoln even died. once word got out to official washington that lincoln was here, this really became the magnetic center of attraction for all important people in washington. over 100 people made pilgrimages here during th

ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the inaugural playing for the march performed by the united states army followed by the departure of the official party, please remain in place until the official party departs the room. [music] [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's ceremony, there will be a reception along with the corridor. [music] >> this weekend our road to the white house takes us to the green party party in houston. see the acceptance speech by the green party's nominees for president and vice president, watch commercial-free coverage on c-span, listen on your desk top and mobile device using the c-span radio app. stay up to date on all the election coverage, c-span's radio app means you always have c-span on the

especially when we hear the here he is in the united states army. he was deployed to iraq, actually and in december of 2005 he was wounded. he'll tell us more about the injury. the recovery process was a tough one. we have pictures here shortly after the injury. he lost an arm and i believe injuries were very, very extensive, but he came back in a huge, huge way. he's performing on dancing with the stars. come in a little closer. that is right, noah going from losing an arm and a leg to performing dances on the stars. his story is in a new book liveing with no excuses. >> thank you. >> noah, we feel guilty, when i look at you and see the book, we feel guilty about complaining about our lives. what is the message here? >> well, a lot of people heard the story and i lost an arm and leg and went through the struggles and on the cover of men's health and dancing with the stars and i wanted to fill in the gaps with the depression. i go into the details in the book. embarrassing it was pt just one moment getting better. a lot of failed attempts and i shar

honor of today's grand opening in gerald and betty ford, please welcome back to the stage the united states armyus. [applause] -- army corpsious. [applause] [u.s. army chorus] ♪ ♪ o trinity of love and power our brethren shield danger's hour and tempest fire and foe them wheresoe'er they go theeevermore shall rise to praisemns of from land and sea ♪ [applause] ♪ america his grace on the oh beautiful spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountain majesties fruited plain america! america! god shed his grace on thee on thee crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea shed his grace his grace on thee ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stage doug devos, trustee of the gerald r. ford funnization. -- foundation. [applause] doug: good morning, everybody. again, thank you for coming and being here. know, i was in third grade when i first met congressman ford at that time. he was there to cut the ribbon the opening of the new amway headquarters. meeting mygrader, congressman was not the highest on my priority list, i have to admit. priority list my was having the chance

grand opening celebration and gerald and betty ford, please welcome back to the stage, the united states armyapplause] ♪ [those in peril on the sea] >> ♪ protect them whersoe'er they go thus evermore shall rise to thee glad hymns of praise from land and sea ♪ [applause] >> ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee o beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountains' majesty above the fruited plain america america god shed his grace on thee on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea god shed his grace god shed his grace on thee ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage dog devos, trustee of the gerald r ford presidential foundation. [applause] doug: good morning everybody, thank you for being here. i was in third grade when i first met congressman ford at that time. he was there to cut the ribbon of the opening of the new amway headquarters. as a third grader, this was not the highest priority on my list. it was skipping school that day. sorry teachers, hate to say it that way, but what happened a little over a year a

his long and distinguished public service career has spanned united states army, united states house of representatives, the office of management, president clinton chief of staff, director of central intelligence and the 23rd secretary of defense. our moderator is a staff writer at the new yorker. the author of seven books of nonfiction and a two-time winner of the pulitzer prize for he has been a reporter, foreign correspondent, senior editor managing editor and the dean of columbia orissa graduate school of journalism. please join me in welcoming our panelists and a moderator. [applause] >> thank you all for being here. looking for to this discussion. no one appears congenitally shy so i'm hoping all of you can ignore me and ask each other questions. have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lively subjects. let's start with the basics and then towards the end of the conversation i want to move into the world we are in now, the digital age, age of social media which creates a whole new set of questions. jill, let me start with you. editorial decision-making, for our colleagues in

his long and distinguished public service career has spanned united states army, united states house of representatives, the office of management, president clinton chief of staff, director of central intelligence and the 23rd secretary of defense. our moderator is a staff writer at the new yorker. the author of seven books of nonfiction and a two-time winner of the pulitzer prize for he has been a reporter, foreign correspondent, senior editor managing editor and the dean of columbia orissa graduate school of journalism. please join me in welcoming our panelists and a moderator. [applause] >> thank you all for being here. looking for to this discussion. no one appears congenitally shy so i'm hoping all of you can ignore me and ask each other questions. have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lively subjects. let's start with the basics and then towards the end of the conversation i want to move into the world we are in now, the digital age, age of social media which creates a whole new set of questions. jill, let me start with you. editorial decision-making, for our colleagues in

his long and distinguished public service career has spanned the united states army, the united states house of representatives, the office of management and budget, president clinton's chief of staff, director of central intelligence, and the 23rd secretary of defense. steve coll is a staff writer at "the new yorker," the author of seven books of nonfiction and a two-time winner of the pullet surprise. -- pulitzer prize. he is been a senior editor, managing editor, and is currently the dean of columbia university graduate school of journalism. please join me, ladies and gentlemen, in welcoming our panelists and our moderator. [applause] , everyone, for being here. really looking forward to this discussion. no one up. congenitally shy -- up here is congenitally shy. talk over your moderator. ask each other questions. we have a lot of ground to cover subject. of lively let's start with the basics. i think toward the end of the conversation, i want to know who to the world we are in now in the digital age, the age of social media, which creates a news that of western looking ahead. it is

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and this group of people were brand-new recruits into the united states army my idea was why not had enlistment in the place where they united states army was born in rhonda love to and been a being a seasonal at the time i thought was i will be won't be here long as she really didn't like it whether we are permanent or seasonal we are all park rangers. organize it. they come down from the group meant station and it was a close a station. there is a group of about 50 and the night prior i get a call from the special events coordinator we have an issue i need you to write a five to seven minute speech and give it tomorrow. being the good park ranger and soldier i am i said okay. i e-mailed into our special events coroner and that was it i shared --dash i shut up the next morning and we have our event. but when i was introduced in i'm sitting up there towards the end i ad-libbed a couple of things that were in the speech and i know just from the look on her face was like where's he going with this. there must've been three or 400 people there probably about half of the group were vetera

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this group of people were brand-new recruits into the united states army. r oath of enlistment in the place for the united states army was born. rhonda loved it. being the season of the time, -- being a seasonal at the time, i thought she would not like it, that that is the type of boss rhonda is. we get this group, we organize it, we come down from the recruitment station in harrisburg. they brought a group of about 50. prior, i get a call from our special events coordinator. they say you need to write up a seven minute speech. being the good park ranger and soldier im, i did it -- i am, i did it. i e-mailed it to the special events coordinator and that was it. when i was introduced, and standing up there, toward the end, i added a couple of things in the speech and i recover the look on rhonda's face was like where is he going with this. .here must have been 400 people about half of the group were veterans. i'm getting my talk, i removed my hat. i did not want to talk to them as ranger wayne, i wanted to talk as staff sergeant rogers. end, i threw in and t

. >> in 2003 i was a staff sergeant in the united states army.as a trained interrogator, but i had never actually conducted a real live interrogation. the war's going on for three months, and i get orders that i'm going to go join this task force i'd never heard of. >> to do? >> i didn't know. but i packed my bags, and they flew me to tikrit. and i am picked up by these soldiers with beards. soldiers don't have beards. >> we didn't know eric, hadn't worked with him previously, didn't train with him. he didn't really know what was going on on targets. i mean, initially, it was a bumpy road. >> jeff was not happy to see me. jeff wasn't happy to see anybody. jeff was not a trained interrogator. jeff's a soldier. jeff had a mission. he had prisoners he wanted to get interrogated. so he and i drove to this u.s. army prison. there were hundreds of prisoners. brought the first prisoner down. we sat him down. and jeff looks at me and he goes, so how are we going to do this? i was a new interrogator. i did not have a plan. but jeff and i looked at each ot

. >>> donald trump seems to be trying to move on from his public feud with the father of a united states army captain who was killed in iraq. it's kristin fisher reports the fallout five days after the father's emotional convention speech may be showing up in the newest polls. we will get to that report. i know you have the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. donald trump is really doing his best to move the conversation away from his controversy with that family. and he is doing it by using some of the most heated rhetoric. >> that is politics at its lowest. >> just when you thought that the name-calling couldn't get any more heated. yesterday he called his democratic rival the devil and said that bernie sanders would be going up in flames with her for endorsing her. >> he made a deal with the devil. she is the deal/she has the devil. >> they typically don't visit red states during the general election campaign. unless, you're getting endorsed by one of the favorite sons, warren buffett. they turned into one of clinton's fiercest attacks dogs by biting into trump on his busines

secretary pineta's long and service shed public career has spanned the united states army, the united states ouse of representatives, the office of management and budget, president clinton's chief of staff, director of central intelligence, and the 23rd defense.y of steve, our moderator sa staff writer at the new yorker, the of seven books of non-fiction and a two-time prize. of the pulitzer he has been a reporter, forn correspondent, senior editor, managing editor, and is the dean of columbia university graduate school of journalism. please join me, ladies and welcoming our panelists and our moderator. [applause] steve: thank you. thanks everyone for being here. to this oking forward discussion. no one up here is congenitally so i'm hoping to invite all of you to talk over your moderator, ignore your moderator, ask each other questions, we've got a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lively subjects. i think let's start with the basics and i think maybe toward the end of the conversation, i move into the world we're in now, the digital age of creates a a which whole new set of questi

united states army. i care very much about politics. i love my country.ars of my life. i'm proud of it. i want to see this country go the right direction. the production jobs in this country are going south and have shut their doors and moved overseas where they can get cheap labor. the only one i would vote for this year would be hillary clinton. >> i'm headed to kansas city, missouri. i'm pretty excited. going to be making more money. i really enjoy life. life is good. new mexico. that's where i'm from. i'll be there in november. i'll make a special trip, a home time for that. there is no way hillary is getting my vote. trump? he may have some things crazy to him but who doesn't and at least he loves america and he knows how to run a business. >> i took three months to travel to latin and south america. i went to mexico, guatemala, costa rica, peru, ecuador, and colombia. i found that when i told people i was from the united states one of the first questions i would get is about the election. so a lot of times when people ask me where i was from, i woul

it had to be held at all costs by the united states army. lee knew that. and so he expected when he left here two days after resigning that his family was likely to lose their home. his wife had hopes that they would be able to return here once the war was over. but by the end of that first summer, when most americans became more and more aware of the fact that this war was not going to be short, it was going to be terrible, it was going to be long, it was going to be bloody, the lees became more and more resigned to the fact that they would never live in their home again. and they never did. >> you are hearing the story of lee family whoy were the of course pantccupants of this house. lost it during the civil war. thanks for being with us on american history tv. our special guests for this two-hour live program from arlington house overlooking washington, d.c. are bob stanton, former director of the national park service. spent his life in conservation of american history. even though he is retired, you are still involved in all this. >> i'm working on it

united states constitution? i will -- i will gladly lend you my copy. you have sacrificed nothing. and no one! >> joining me now, khizr khan, father of united states army captain humayun khan who was killed during 2004 iraq war. thanks so much. >> hi, chris. >> i don't want to play or introduce into the record the various smears that are being directed at you, because they are baseless. but i would like you to respond to the fact that there's now some small group of people allied with the trump campaign trying to prosecute a case against you for divided loyalties or whatever. how do you feel about that? >> well, i am as patriotic as anyone in this country. we stand with the united states. this is our home. we are responsible for its security, for its protection, to beautify it, to make it better, to make it safer. it's our obligation, it's our duty to do that. and i'll be more than glad to specifically answer if there are any questions that are being raised about my loyalty or about any hidden agenda. there's no such thing. it's amazing that some of these dog-whistle terms are being used without consulting me, or without asking where do i stand on thos

west moore, founder ceo of bridge edu a former captain of the united states army, road scholar and bestthor. he's not won a noble prize yet and hallie jackson steps off the road for us this morning where she's been covering the presidential campaign nonstop for a year and a half, rarely stopping for clean clothes. >> that's true. that's upsetting. >> both things are true, rude and true. thanks for being here, welcome. kelly ann with the obvious cav yacht this is when we came out of the election and internal polling that may be painting a different picture but we got polls that shows hillary clinton up by nine points nationally and if you look inside the state by state swing twinstates, floridas six, michigan plus seven, pennsylvania plus 11, new hampshire plus 17. how concerned are you with the trump campaign for these numbers. >> we're excited last friday mr. trump seemed to readjust and get back on message realizing this is a competition against hillary clinton and he's taken the case directly to her. when we see internally, we see tighter races, but i would point out there are other

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so this room really became the command post for the entire army of the united states under the secretary of war while lincoln was dying in the back bedroom. stanton was one of lincoln's favorites. he had an iron will. lincoln called him his mars, god of war. even though they didn't get along well before the election, stanton once humiliated lincoln at a trial they staffed together, lincoln knew he was his right hand. he once said stanton really was the rocky shore upon which the waves of rebellion crash and are broken. and they were very close. stanton was devastated, but he threw himself into the work. so here tonight he was imperious. fearsome. barking commands, sending orders all over the country to hunt for john wilkes booth. on trains, on boats. the orders went out everywhere. catch the assassin, find him. and so the manhunt, which took 12 days, began in this room before lincoln even died. once word got out to official washington that lincoln was here, this really became the magnetic center of attraction for all important people in washington. over 100 people made pilgrimages here d