Thanks to all of you for helping us put this program together from terre haute, indiana, the eugene v. Debs home and museum. Tomorrow night on American History tv in primetime, republican president ial candidate Charles Evans hughes. A look at his 1916 campaign against Woodrow Wilson. Foreign policy is a Campaign Issue in that election, and his latest tenure of supreme justice of the Supreme Court. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time part of American History tv in primetime on cspan3. On saturday, cspans issue spotlight looks at police and Race Relations. Well show president obama at the me roirl service for five Police Officers shot and killed in dallas. When the bullets started flying, the men and women of the dallas police, they did not flinch, and they did not react recklessly. And South Carolina republican senator tim scott giving a speech on the senate floor about his own interactions with police. But the vast majority of the time, i was pulled over for nothing more than driving a n
Times for popular Public Affairs and history programs. Stay up to date on all the election coverage. Cspans radio app means you always have cspan op the go. Next on history book shelf, author james chace talks about his book. 1912 wilson. Roosevelt, taft and debs the election that changed the country. Professor chace describes the personalities and relationships between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard taft and eugene debs. Welcome to viewers on cspans book tv. Today were here to discuss james chaces new book, 1912 wilson. Roosevelt, taft and debs the election that changed the country. It has just been published by simon and schuster. Woodrow Wilson Center is the official memorial to our 28th president. Created in 1968 by an act of congress within the smithsonian institution. Because Woodrow Wilson headed Princeton University before becoming president the center memorializes his legacy as a bridge between the worlds of academia and public policy. It fulfills this miss
It was at a student political meeting in ohio in 1962, the summer between my sophomore and junior years of a college, and we were writing notes back and forth to each other during some very important session or whatever students do, and he had something sort of typically 19yearold boy pompous, and i wrote back, im the youngest of five. I have an insane family. Host who are they . Guest my family is a wonderful family. My father and mother were some of the most dedicated public servantses in the history of the country, and my father, hail boggs, elected before i was born. 26 years old. My mother was 24. They had a baby girl, the day of his elects, and eight days later a baby boy, and they came here, and i think about it now, you know, in my old age, and think about these kids coming to washington. In this day and age theyd still be on their Parents Health insurance, and there they were, the member of congress and his wife. Of course they werent kids in that era. They were fully grownup
Book i am the youngest child of the family. Guest i said that to him when we were first meeting each other it was that wasnt a student political meeting in ohio in 1962. We were writing notes back and forth to each other and he had something a sort of typical 19yearold boy and i wrote back. My family has a wonderful family. My father and mother are some of the most dedicated Public Servants in the history of the country. My father was elected in congress in 1940 before i was born there yet he was 26yearsold. My mother was 24. They had a baby girl and eight days later a baby boy. They came here and i think about it now in my old age and think about these kids coming to washington in this day and age age they would still be on their Parents Health insurance and there they were the members of congress and his wife so of course they were not scared to leave cocaine. But here it was the world war ii washington. And it was very similar to the period of washington that i write about in my his
Page. Hispanic from politics and prose bookstore in dc mark and timothy xm and the tall choice relationship between the first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her first cousin alice who was Theodore Roosevelts daughter. The report is that the two women born eight months and 20 blocks apart in new york city were social and political opposites who publicly debated the issues of the day. First thank you all of you for being here this evening. We are delighted to be here in a very big thank you to the crew at politics and prose for making us feel so welcome. I want to give a big thank you to the publisher. In answering the most common question that weekend which is who was Alice Roosevelt and i realize in this crowd a lot of you were her neighbors. Nonetheless, what i am going to do is try to set a little bit of the context for the reading is going to do in a few minutes. Make sure they cover up some of these details. What we do you will see behind me a family tree. Its a simplified version of t