Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And on top of his research skills, h
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Shine for the rest of your life tamron we are back now at megan phelpsroper whose family started the Westboro Baptist church, known as a hate group that is protested samesex marriagewhich included a protesting at funerals for fallen soldiers. So you are telling audiences at home and hear how you are now on twitter, 2009, you are running into people who are challenging what you have been told your entire life and some of it is starting to click to you. Exactly. The fineness internal inconsistency. Westboro ideology is a very closed system so any arguments that would cause you to doubt the primary things we believe which was that the bible was the literal and infallible word of god and westboro has the only true interpretation of it and anything else was wrong. And egg argument that came from the outside of it we couldnt hear it. We had all these bible verses to dismiss those things but the fact that it was an internal can inconsistency that was a thread that began to unravel the rest of
Most of our money. Explore our nations past on American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3. Next we hear from founder and president of project veritas. James okeefe. Talking about how he started his organization that specializes in hidden camera investigations. This is 30 minutes. [ applause ] thank you very much. Its great to be here. And i never thought id be standing here ten years ago. And im going to tell you a story thats pretty unbelievable. As you can see, project veritas, be brave, do something is our motto. We believe in citizen empowerment. We believe in equipping citizen was hidden cameras blowing the whistle on government institutions. As you can see ten years ago i met a young woman on facebook. Sent me a message out of no where. And she said have you ever thought about doing some of your undercover work into acorn. I didnt know what that was. I had to youtube it and videos of them busting down doors of foreclosed homes. The young woman, never met her before. Sent me a s