Sitently, the park is the of a memorial for colonel john pershing. The commission introduced legislation to congress, which passed in the house but is still awaiting action in the senate. This event from the National Press club is about 40 minutes 45 minute. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Press club. Edwin pleased to have found and to discuss the world war i memorial. My name is tony gallo. I am with the National Press club. Memorial eisenhower controversy now. That has been going on for years and we have no idea when the eisenhower memorial is being billed good we have several other the more of but not a world war i memorial. So there is much excitement about this project. To stick few words about our speaker. Thend fountain is in International Law Firm Jones Day game he is the grandson of not one but two world war i veterans. I cofounded the World War Memorial foundation. This led to the advocacy of a National World war i memorial on july 2013, he was nominated to the
Increasingly. They are getting a hammerlock on the information that we as a society rely on to govern ourselves. The adoption of smartphones is faster in minority communities than in suburban communities. And that is fantastic news for america. Youre seeing the developing world adopt such technologies very rapidly. News, allowing people to have the benefit of new information. You will change their political expectations, their economic expectations, all in a positive way. Monday night on the communicators on cspan2. Are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information our programs and to keep up with the latest history news. At 5 p. M. Eastern on American History tv, Brian Alan Drake look said berry galled water Barry Goldwaters commitment to conservation. He was a president ial candidate 50 years ago. History tv. Ican all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. A each week, reel americ ring to archival films. Senator ago, ar
This class is just over 50 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Were going to start part two of talking about the attack, if you will, certainly an assault, on the liberal welfare state that gained momentum in the 1970s and comes to fruition with the election of Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. We will take a look at this part two because we have to talk about both parts. The rise, as we have been talking the last couple of lectures, the rise of the Great Society measures, the height of the liberal welfare state in america, and the beginning of a tax against that liberal welfare state. A couple of questions. Three questions i want you to think about. What is happening in society that will provoke changes in the way americans view themselves and view, in this particular context of the 1970s and 1980s, the wrong direction that america is headed . They are critical of what is happening to their lives and to the direction American Society is going. And this question, of course, also speaks t
Thetudied under incomparable donald. About i tell you any more brian, let me introduce the topic of his talk by adapting an opening line of another one of our fellow graduate students used every fall on the first day of the undergraduate history classes the he taught. Now, he would say, all of you will be dead. If how is that for a wake up at 8 00 in the morning . Unless you have published something utterly extraordinary or perpetuated a harmless evil, the odds are nobody will remember you. He would go on to say that even if you do get into that rarefied zone where your name lives on, odds are it will be as a caricature. You will be remembered but possibly for the wrong thing. That brings us to Barry Goldwater. , the then senator from arizona accepted the republican nomination for president in san francisco. Only two things about that moment are remembered. First is a phrase from his speech which goes like this. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Second, the fact that he w