Difficult task, helping the people of the city. What can we do to help you . There is a detective in new york, mr. Mayor, who i think is one of the best detectives in the United States. I would like to have him head my squad of detectives. The beginning, do we face, hopeless job, clearing out gangsters and racketeers. For the last time, are you going to keep out of our territory or not . Im not. I dont need any protection. Handpickeddeweys staff began singling out single records and getting them to talk. After long months of hard , patient, dangerous work, do we had collected enough evidence to move in on the racketeers. Out of the 73 indictments he secured, duly convicted all but up, brackets begin breaking and the gang overlords went off to jail. On the strength of this. Record, he was nominated for district attorney. Candidatee tammany and continued his crime smashing record and was on the roles of the governors in albany. Though it was in new york that dewey rose to fame, he is the product of a small town in the midwest, having born in a general store in michigan in 1902. He was the only child of George Martin dewey, leader and the publisher of the local newspaper. Residents like to point to the school where young tom got his education before going on to get his degree at the university of michigan. In a nearby church which the dewey family attended quickly, tom was a member of the choir. Neighborhood where he grew up, his mother lives today, and like all mothers is proud of her son and his achievements. You must be proud of tom. I think everyone is happy that his success. He was always a worker. When he worked, he worked hard. When he played come he played hard. I do know he has the best interests of our country at heart. Today he is governor of the most populous state in the union, tom dewey cherishes the moment he can relax on his farm in new york and live the simple family life so Many Americans know and love. At home in the outofdoors from his own early boyhood tom dewey likes to take whatever time he can from his busy public life to spend with his two boys. Announcer while not posing as a working farm himself, he has a wide knowledge of agriculture, understands farm problems, and enjoys discussing them with his neighbors. Poultry and dairy farming are Major Enterprises in new york state, and as governor, he has taken action to give constant aid to farmers. Since,the war and governor deweys Food Commission has helped farmers increase production and fight Food Shortages which are at the root of high prices. As governor of new york, dewey has won his place among american political leaders by his record of Good Government during the past six years. For the great state of new york with its population of 14 million, with its diversified arias ranging from sparsely settled rural districts to the number one metropolitan center, its almost a nation in itself. The job of governing it is second only to that of the president of the United States. By running the state was such economy and efficiency, he returned to new york. , the people of new york returned him to albany for a second term by the largest majority in the state history. To a large degree, his ministry to success has been due to his ability to surround himself with capable advisers and to rely on teamwork and full giveandtake in solving the states problems. I think we generally agreed on what the facts are and what the program ought to be. What i propose is this. The governor of the empire state has also shown that he can work successfully with the legislative body. During his six years in the state capital, this teamwork has produced many sound and forwardlooking laws. For veterans, a Constructive Program has been worked out providing convalescent centers, personal health, and housing for more than 60,000 persons. Tom dewey has earned the respect of both labor and management and has helped establish a climate for industrial relations that has brought new york one of the lowest strike records of any industrial state. At cornell university, a state school of labor and industrial relations has been established, the first such school in the country. In the field of public health, governor dewey and the legislature have set up a vigorous modern program, including a strikingly successful effort to stamp out tuberculosis. To help overcome juvenile delinquency new york state youth , the commission established by governor dewey has worked with local communities and financing hundreds of projects such as swimming pools and recreation centers. During the past six years, tom dewey has been in frequent consultation with National Leaders ofmany leaders in many areas of endeavor. From his Close Relationships with governor statesman, he keeps a touch of events throughout the United States. He has paid particular attention to foreign affairs. At a conference as far back as 1943, he was first to advocate that the United States should move in concert with other nations to prevent another world war. By his foresight in backing aid to europe and china and the use of the Recovery Program to create a federation of western europe, he has won the admiration of statesmen such as arthur h vandenburg. You know, governor dewey was one of the first important political figures to advocate and embrace the sound doctrine of strong bipartisan action in foreign affairs. Governor dewey greatly assisted in setting this republican pattern at Mackinac Island five years ago. And since then, he has consistently demonstrated his thoroughly competent grasp of all of our major foreign problems. Tom dewey has earned the admiration of men and women in all walks of life. His nomination at the Republican Convention in philadelphia last climax in a dramatic the career of one of the outstanding public figures of the postwar period. [applause] announcer the story of, each tom dewey is a story of an american, a man with no privileges who by hard work climbed stepbystep to fame and political greatness. It is a story of which americans may be proud. For it is typical of the opportunity that america affords. Announcer you can watch archival films on Public Affairs in their entirety on our weekly series, saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, here on American History tv. Announcer this weekend on American History tv, an author examines the psychological impact of world war i aerial nervous condition brought on by flying. Here is a preview. Finally, aviation psychiatry, this is an interesting subject, the notion of combat psychiatry during the first world war, often called shell shock, which was an inadequate term to describe what was happening to these people who came from largely rural environments, used to a quiet lifestyle, suddenly in shock on this western front where you have a faces, mechanized enemy destroying every thing around you, and how does the average psyche come to grips with that . Shell shock, the doctors notion of, the military psychiatry evolve symbiotically with the war. After the war, notions of any was of mental problems largely viewed as cowardice, and this continued during the first world war. In england, of 3000 cases, some were executed for it. After the war the sacrificial executions, the doctor said many of these guys were not to blame. They should not have been treated this way. That is getting ahead of ourselves. This is the title of my book. I wasnt really happy with it, but the publisher thought it was a good idea. It describes any nervous condition brought on by flying. Combate book is about is fatigue and how killing people is never a good thing. You are a human being with a conscience, killing people is a game changer, and we see this in the writings of all these pilots. More about then psychological impact on world war i pilot sunday had to click p. M. Eastern. Sunday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Explore our nations past year on American History tv. Q a,ncer sunday night on hear from james banner, editor of the book on president ial misconduct, and one of this terrains who worked on a report commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 on the impeachment inquiry into president richard nixon. Thought ther utility of report like this in turned to his friend, member of the faculty, and ask him to be the commander in chief of a project preparing such report, as wasas unprecedented said in the introduction to the original volume. Hissked three people to be field generals, and they identified and recruited 12 historians to run through sketches of that many presidencies, and i was chosen to be one. We had eight weeks to do it. Fax, email, so it was done by telephone and mail, and we managed to do it in eight woodward professor submitted it to john doerr. That is a last we heard of it. Six weeks later, the president resign. Announcer what sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q an a. Announcer American History products are now available at the new store, cspan store. Org to see what is new for American History tv, and check out all of the cspan products. Sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on s, paul tuff reports on the cost of an education paul tough reports on the cost of education. We are still debating about whether a 12 grade education is enough. It is not enough, and all of the signs from the economy labor market is that it is not enough, but now, unlike our predecessors who were able to respond that basic economic signs by saying, less educator young people, we are fighting about it, turning it into questions of identity and politics and partisanship, was clearly there is a sign are young people need our support, need our help, need more education, more credentials, more skills in order to survive in the current economy. Announcer watched sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on book tv, on cspan two. Next, we examine the various reasons for the outbreak of the civil war and show artifacts from that time that represent some of the causes. He is the editor of the book from the civil war and the transformation of american citizenship. This 45 minute talk was part of the American Civil War museums annual symposium at the library of virginia and cohosted by the university of Virginia Center for civil war history. Good afternoon and welcome back to the 2019 American Civil War museum symposium. Day withve had quite a amazing speakers thus far, and you are on tap for not one, but two more. Next up, i would like to introduce dr. Paul quigley. As one would hope, in a state that figured so prominently in the civil war, virginia is blessed with a large and deep
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