Streets of lima following the swearing in of a new peruvian president. Calls for ceasefire in ethiopias to grey region where hundreds of died and thousands are fleeing to sudan. Under the program we begin in the u. S. Where the president elect joe biden has called Donald Trumps refusal to concede the president ial election an embarrassment but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january and thats despite the trumpet ministration reportedly refusing to assist the president elects Transition Team and blocking them from accessing vital resources i just think its embarrassing. Quite frankly. The only thing. How can we save this tax i think it will not. Help the president s legacy i think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders verse 4 that they are hopeful that United States Democratic Institutions are viewed once again as strong and endure and but i think at the end of the day. You know its all going to come to fruition in january 20th all correspondent live
Their president ial campaigns. Your book that came out catholicism and American Freedom chl what was the premise behind it . What did you learn . I wanted to look at how american idea of freedom intersected with catholic global tradition. What i learned moment of conflict and overlap. Conflicts over slavery. Not many catholics were abolitionists, for example, but lots of overlap to rempl the economy. Ideas in the 50s about americanization and intention over issues around sexuality, divorce, a lot of the kind of cultural issues of the last 30 years. More than 90 years ago al smith ran for president , first catholic on the ticket. Why was that significant, and who was al smith . So al smith was an immigrant kid from new york city, irish descent, irish and german, never got beyond the eighth grade. By 1920, he runs in 1928 against herbert hoover. Catholics are a percentage of the population, 20, 25 . They had faced considerable discrimination in the 19th century, even 1920s with ku klux k
The university of notre dame about how al smith and john kennedy dealt with the issue in their president ial campaigns. John mcgreevy from the university of notre dame, your book which came out a few years ago, whats the premise behind it . What did you learn . I wanted to look at how american ideas of freedom intersected with the catholic global tradition and what i learned is there were moments of conflict and moments of overlap. In the 19th century there was conflict over slavery. But lots of overlap in efforts to reform the economy. There was overlap in the 50s on ideas about americanization and mention over issues around sexuality, divorce, a lot of the kind of cultural issues of the last 30 years. More than 90 years ago, al smith ran for president. First catholic on the ticket. Why was that significant and who was al smith . Al smith was an immigrant kid from new york city. Irish and german. Never got beyond the eighth grade. By the 1920s, catholics are a significant percentage o
Now, on American History tv, look at challenges faced by catholic politicians. We will hear from a professor of notre dame about how our smith and john kennedy dealt with the issue in their president ial campaigns. Your book came out what is the premise behind . What did you learn . I wanted to look at how american ideas of freedom intersected with the catholic global tradition what i learned is there were moments of conflict and overlap. In the 19th century there was conflict over slavery. There is lots of overlap in the economy. There was overlap in the 50s on ideas about americanization. There were issues around sexuality, divorce, a lot of the cultural issues of the last 30 years. More than 90 years ago, al smith ran for president. First catholic on the ticket. Why was that significant . Al smith was an immigrant kid from new york city. He was irish. He never got beyond eighth grade. By the 1920s, he runs in 1928, catholics are pretty significant percent of the population. They fac
A cease fire having been agreed just a few days ago. Good morning welcome this is r. T. International. Started france where president emanuel has announced new rules to be applied to paris and other major cities in response to covert 19 a nighttime curfew will be in force from this coming weekend for a minimum of 4 weeks. We have made a decision to impose a curfew it will be in force in the paris region and other french cities new nationwide state of health of urgency has been declared in france as president back on outline new stricter measures to try and defeat covert 19 hes announced a curfew that will take place not just here in paris but in 8 other of the worst affected cities across france that will come into force on saturday and will be from 9 pm in the evening until 6 am in the morning and it will be strictly enforced with the 1st time that you are caught outside without a good reason with a fine of 135 euros but that will go up to 1500 euros for repeat offenders when southers