our guide is martha wegner murphy,

on the basis of past actions, a number of other measures seemed doomed, including the wegner act andcurity. it was an election year. early in june, the republicans met in cleveland and nominated alfred landon of kansas and colonel frank knox. later in the same month, the democrats in philadelphia re-nominated roosevelt and garner. during the following campaign, the republicans often spoke of the court as the bulwark of our liberty. roosevelt, for the moment, said little about the court. he spoke mainly about the aims of his program. in november, langdon and knox carried two states. roosevelt and garner carried the rest. once more, roosevelt rode to office on his pledge of a new deal. but could he carry on that new deal program? >> to the best of your ability preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states, so help you god? pres. roosevelt: i, franklin delano roosevelt, do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united state

our guide is martha wegner murphy, who manages the staff that maintains the records. martha: the president, john f. kennedy assassination records collection was created because o f the act of 1992. so, a short history. it's the time of the assassination, there have been numerous investigations, starting with the warren commission and then congressional investigations. and of course the house select committee on assassination. in the early 1990's, there is a movie by oliver stone, and at the end of the movie he made a point of saying all the records are now available. >> mr. chairman, members of the subcommittee, my name is all over stone and i assure you it is with pressure -- pleasure and pride i had been before the subcommittee today to urge the passage of house joint resolution 454, "to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the assassination of john f. kennedy." >> so the purpose of the act was to make sure all the records relatede assassinated were collected, sent to national archives, and opened to the greatest extent possible. there was a

susan eisenhower, author of how i flood and sarah wegner who wrote what remains?y 10:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards", john author of american agents, epidemics and the law from smallpox to covid interviewed by georgetown university law professor and director for the institute of national and global health law. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend. ♪ >> thank you so much for joining us here.

professor wegner is a professor of anthropology at washington university. she received a ba from dartmouth and her phd from harvard. her research focuses on societies, memory, national identity and forensic science. she is the author of -- dna technology in the search. a study of the forensic and commemorative practices developed in response to genocide published by the university of california in 2008. she is the co-author in the aftermath of genocide published in 2014 by cambridge university press. today, she will be speaking on her new book bringing america missing home from the vietnam war published by harvard university press. sarah. >> thank you so much. first of all, my thanks to christian, chris and chris mcdermitt for being here as well as christian mentioned, the people behind the scenes, both peter and rachel for getting the logistics for allowing us to be together. i will say i am getting used to zoom but i sorely miss the opportunity to be together and be in a room and feel energy. whatever the case may be. very grateful that we have so many at

and sarah wegner, who wrote what remains. p.m. eastern0:00 come on after works, the author of american contagion, epidemics of the law, from smallpox to covid-19. he is interviewed by georgetown university law professor lawrence gostin. c-span2 this on weekend. announcer: california governor gavin newsom held a briefing on his state's coronavirus response and vaccine distribution. he was joined by dr. anthony fauci. gov. newsom: doctor, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. i wanted to start right off the top, because of some news of this state. be with us. i wanted to start right off the top because of some news of this state, just an hour or so ago, we were informed that the new variant, the new strain we've identified from the united kingdom, some other parts of the globe, identified in colorado yesterday, has been identified here in the state of california, in southern california. and i know there's been a lot of conversations around the issue of variants, the issue of transmissibility. -- the issue of virulence

and sarah wegner, who wrote what remains. p.m.astern0:00 come on after works, the author of american contagion, epidemics of the law, from smallpox to covid-19. he is interviewed by georgetown university law professor lawrence gostin. c-span2 this on weekend. announcer: california governor gavin newsom held a briefing on his state's coronavirus response and vaccine distribution. he was joined by dr. anthony fauci. gov. newsom: doctor, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. i wanted to start right off the top, b

susan eisenhower, author of how i flood and sarah wegner who wrote what remains?aturday 10:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards", john author of american agents, epidemics and the law from smallpox to covid interviewed by georgetown university law professor and director for the institute of national and global health law. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend. ♪ >> thank you so much for joining us here. we are delighted to bring you this afternoon's conversations. with me today, chris whipple, award winning author, journalist, documenter maker. you see it? cia director, shaping the future. we are going to talk about this book today. welcome, chris, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> this is a wonderful read. when i started, i was like zero no, this would be too much information and won't be able to take it in. in addition to your own knowledge and research, based on over 70 interviews and you are intervening among those, directors of the cia except for the current one, it is -- i'm just going to say out loud, it's not so much about the ca directors

if you've seen the movie glory in the sense of fort wegner and any other battles, you have the same devotion, sometimes even more energy and self-sacrifice in white people did so he really admired that but he also relied on a popular humerus who was riding were on race on the cultural front, impersonated the copperhead, the opponents, the conservative democrats. back then, democrats were mainly conservative on the issue of slavery and race. so he impersonated them. today it is hard for us to read his humor because it's full of the n-word but all he was doing in using this word, miming or impersonating these racist copperheads. people would laugh about this and a lot of people, several people said nasty was just a great force as sherman or grant and defeating labrie because he was so popular. lincoln would carry in his jacket the nasty papers, sketches by nasty and pulled them in and read them and he went said i'll give up my presidency if i could just write like this guy. it shows how deep his hatred of racism was because races -- nasty makes this very disgusting, almost as though saturday n