You can talk about things that went wrong, but you could communicate love for the idea of a service. The extraordinary variety of people went there. We have people with great physical disabilities who are president for longer than anybody else but cannot stand on their own. We have people who are just [inaudible] [inaudible] history disappear and my thought is the word history is mostly made up of the word story plus a hello. We are to be telling our children interesting stories. Host and ken will be with us to take our calls. Well put the numbers up on the screen. They moved up to almost parity with lincoln. Lincoln took care of the greatest crisis. The depression and the Second World War. He is very interesting. You can win a trivia contest. He won three National Elections in a row. But as is the peculiarities of the american democracy is the electrical vote that matters. As they found in 1876 and Grover Cleveland found out when he won the popular vote he won the popular vote again.
And the answer was . Up on the website if youre. Very interesting. Thank you. On that note, im afraid i have to draw this to a close. Please join us right now for a reception. Please note that copies of the book are available outside. Defenseless under the night. Please come back to hear Niall Ferguson of Stanford University talk about his recent biography, henry kissinger. Thank you to her audience and participants. Thank you to matthew dallek. [applause] [inaudible conversations] essay mentioned earlier that she thinks that it confronted americas ugly story of slavery and how brutal it was in the heroism of slaves. Theres going to be a better dad the end kind of thing. An initiative is a family story. The seven generations himself and that caused americans to poor red envelop the libraries that people looking for their own genealogy. So there is an example of the whole country watching a book in the two major effects came from it. [inaudible conversations] okay, everybody. Sit down.
Century. When what happened at the other end of pennsylvania avenue on capitol hill metal mattered much more than the executive is doing. And the powers werent associated with the culture personality. Now we live in a media culture. Theres something manageable about the singularly of the presidency and Congress Seems willing to go along with this they have moved everything to the other end of pennsylvania. Before we get started here we were talking about the gettysburg address. What were you saying. In the age of media even with wonderful glorious cspan whether we know how important it was. It would be very clear that only you would cover it and chances are that the main networks in the cable might say that there was a dedication of a cemetery but i can imagine the cynicism of somebody standing up in front insane while he was talking they try to distract attention from the disastrous military campaign out west. We would never hear it. But then with the tsunami of all of the information
Francisco, the first thing that they show is the bridge. History, thank you very much for coming here. [applause] harvey good evening, everybody and thank you very much for coming. I would like to thank george for hearing the program. And think the Commonwealth Club for having me. To tell you, i plan several things about the bridge. First of all, i wrote this particular Book Building the Golden Gate Bridge a workers oral history, and to give you some a struggle background about the bridge, and finally to read some selected passages from the book. I may labor historian who ventured into oral history in the 1980s. When i was working on a project for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union on the west coast. Famous union. Forterviewed some veterans the labor archives. At San Francisco state university. Aredirector there, these veterans let helps build the Golden Gate Bridge in 1930 between 1933 and 1937 when the bridge was built. They were interviewed for the 50th anniversary of t
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