. host: what led to that decision. guest: well, it was during the johnson administration in the late 1960s. it was part of the telecommunications task force. it had concluded that the telecommunications industry could be competitive. and they have made recommendations mainly to the federal communications commission on how to make that happen. then when nixon administration came along, the staff in the antitrust division, after watching for a couple of years, decided to pursue antitrust rather than sec regulation as the means to introduce the competition. my role that i was on both the telecommunications task force and i was one of the outside economists advising the department of justice when the case was being shaped. host: professor houseman? guest: i didn t come in until 1982 and thereafter when the antitrust division decided to review, about three years later, there was a report that was done. i was an advisor to the government on the reports. i was involved there
would meet the authors of dallas in 1963 step two. steve s a curator at texas state university. he s the author several other books including the literary outlaws. those on a professor of journalism at the university of texas at austin. i ve read a couple recent interviews. when you are in and pr can you describe in the early 60s dallas could become the most singular city on planet earth. i was wondering if you could start by explaining what he meant by that. sure. i think i m a little biased to speak in such broad terms as he wrote a book about dallas called a substitute. in the years prior to the assassination, it seemed like there is no other place like that cd, certainly in america. but we had better wear a handful of people who lived above the cloud and who are forming a confederacy really is anti-kennedy fervor. another french. they are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people who leave their loved president kennedy or the minimum respected his off
from expressing my ideas. [applause] betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment. she and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with breast cancer. for much of her family s public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. welcome to first ladies influence and image. tonight we ll tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. here to tell her story is richard norton smith. you know him, he s one of our academic advisors for the whole project. he s helped launch a number of presidential libraries among them the gerald r. ford library in michigan. you developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. sure. i try to be as objective as possible. but i was very fortunate to become a good friends of both of the fords. we want to start tonight where we left off which is in august of 1974 when the fords learned they wer
beautification her signature issue as first lady. she was a natural campaigner successful businesswoman and a savvy political partner to her husband are 36th president lyndon baines johnson. good evening and welcome to c-span s first lady s implements an image. tonight we will tell you the story of claudia taylor johnson unto everyone is lady bird. the wife of our 36th president. here to tell her story archie. guest: the you roberts political commentator for abc news and npr and the author of two books about women s political history founding mothers and thanks for being here. betty is the first lady s expert. she is the author of numerous books including first ladies from washington to michelle obama and working on a new biography of lady bird johnson. ladies i want to start with the beginning where we were 50 years ago this week. this is an administration birthed a national tragedy. what were the immediate challenges for the brand-new first couple on the first terrible
affected the outcome of the war. mr. stoker is a strategy and policy professor at the naval war college in monterrey, california. the bryant park corporation, oxford university press and the new york historical society co-hosted this 55-minute event. thank you so much, paul. good evening, everyone. as paul mentioned, i m alex kassl, manager of public programs at the new york historical society, and it s a pleasure to see so many familiar faces in the audience tonight and a great pleasure to introduce tonight s speaker and to once again partner with bryant park corporation and oxford university press on this terrific lecture series. we ve had a great run this summer. next week is our final week in the series and at the historic society, we just announced the fall-winter series, and that s on the website now, brochures to come early september, so something exciting to look forward to. tonight s program will last about an hour and will be followed by a book-signing by our feat