Print things and publish things. It is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3. Every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lecture s in history is always available as podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. This week on q a, president ial historian Richard Norton smith discusses his book, an uncommon man, the triumph of Herbert Hoover. Richard smith, why kdid you call your book you wrote 35 years ago, uncommon man . Its taken from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. You remember Vice President henry wallace, who was the second of fdrs Vice President s, gave a famous speech in 1942, maybe 43, about the common man. And wallace, from the left of center, perspective, was projecting in effect the goals and am birgss of the generation that was fighting world war ii. It wasnt enough to simply beat the nadzis, but to create at home, a true democracy. A place where the common m
Prof. Gutin welcome everyone. This is for the people who are here for the first time tonight the making of the president s 2020, better known as a political circus of the century. Im going to be talking about two different, and yet related topics. The first has to do with the factors that are considered when we look at president ial effectiveness. The second part id like to look at, a few of the more recent president ial elections. So, were going to start with this. And im coming on the work of Professor Robert dallek, a wellknown president ial historian. Dallek writes, the 20th century saw an impressive expansion of president ial powers, due to the vision and leadership skills of nine men who served in the office Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano roosevelt, harry s. Truman, dwight d. Eisenhower, john f. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines johnson, richard nixon, and ronald reagan. Now, professor dalleks analysis only looks at the 20th century. Im going to throw in some of the pre
Captioning performed by vitac its a spy story, its a humanitarian story, its a political and diplomatic story. Hoover was not very diplomatic by nature. The interesting thing is lou said later on that he was never the same after belgium. What he saw particularly the children. Remember, he was an orphan. All his life, there was something about hoover, he was not naturally gifted in social interaction. But with children, there was a different person. And belgium stamped him, for better or worse. The other remarkable thing again, building on what we said earlier, it was all voluntary. He appealed to the American People. He said, again, the American People, if you tell them what you need, they will give you their shirt off their backs. And there is a you go to west branch, the records are there. It is its a remarkable story there was one group, i think there was a kansas club of new york, who were going to build a clubhouse. And instead of building the clubhouse, they gave hoover the 500,0
Recent president ial elections. So, were going to start with this. And im coming on the work of Professor Robert dallek, wellknown president ial historian. Centuryeites, th 20th saw an impressive expansion of president ial powers, due to the leadership skills of nine men who served in the office Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, frank lynn delano roosevelt, harry s truman, dwight d eisenhower, john f. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines johnson, richard nixon, and ronald reagan. Analysisessor dalles only looks at the 20th century. Im going to throw in some of the president s from the 21st century as we go along. So, if we can go to the first talks professor dallek about these six points. The first one, he says, his vision. The second is crisp im going to go and talk about this. The second is charisma. The third is pragmatism. Flight. Ve onto the next the fourth is consensusbuilding, followed by trust and credibility, luck, and then im going to throw in, which is on the last slide, something im go
Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a