Director of the Republican Party of texas discusses how texas became a republican stronghold over the past halfcentury next on book tv. Booktv. Its about an hour. Good morning. I am Michelle Easton of the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute and i want to welcome you all to the special lunch featuring Wayne Thorburn and his great new book called red state and inside story of the gop came to dominate texas. You may be wondering why he is the president of the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute introducing . It was almost 42 years ago when i came to washington, d. C. From new york after graduating from college and my first job was a Young Americans for freedom and my first boss was Wayne Thorburn. Rob who asked me to do the introduction, ron and i have been friends with wayne and his wife judith for decades and wane by the way was a very good first boss. He joined Young Americans for freedom as a College Student in 1961 and eventually rose to become executive director when i worked for him. A
Will see this map in there. You might want to refer to this. It is probably a little easier to read. I will be making frequent reference to this map as it will help us understand the course of the campaign. As general in chief of all military forces in 1864, u. S. Grant devised accord mated offensive by a number of union army stretching from louisiana all the way to virginia. As you know already, the two most important of these offenses were those of the army of the potomac here in virginia, and that of william t sherman, who commanded what was called the military division of the mississippi. Grants orders to sherman for the campaign, dated april 4, 1864, were pretty straightforward. Grant told sherman to move against the confederate armies of tennessee commanded by general joseph e. Johnston, and to break it up, get into the interior of the enemies country as far as you can and inflict as much damage as you can. At the same time, sherman was supposed to prevent johnson from detaching
It set a u. S. And world olympic record. She is Sharon Stewart of california. This is her third olympic medal. She has beaten out the previous record holder in a cold, of the netherlands. Netherlands. Of the platform diving. Here is the german diver, the heavy favorite. The u. S. Diver noses out the champions by a point and a half. In third place behind the american and german, the soviet flag is raised. Then the action moves to the stadium for the track event. In the stands, the immortal sprinter jesse owens. A heavy favorite, bob hayes. The wind was too risk. The win was disallowed. Slow motion reveals the stride grace,as more power than but he brings home the gold medal. No wins. The stars stripes, another u. S. Goldmedal. The u. S. Sets and olympic mark for the semifinals for the 100 dash. She beats her teammate 200 yards as she flies across. Yes, the American Eagle flies high in tokyo. Each week American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. Y
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Leading up to and after his departure from office on august 9, 1974. He recalls working with nixon on his memoirs. This runs about one hour and 20 minutes. Let me not hold up this great program. Director of the linden pain Johnson Lyndon library, and we who was a gannon white house staffer during the nixon administered. Lets not hold them up. [applause] welcome, everybody. Tonight, we are going to see eene very littles interviews with Richard Nixon conducted by frank gannon. What strikes me about these clips is a Richard Nixon i have never seen before. Talk about nixon some of the things that you will see in these clips, but i have never seen Richard Nixon as relaxed as i have seen him on this. Was often very when it came to the press, as was seen in his interview with frost which was later shown in the play and the movie frost nixon. Is very relaxed and provides insight that is a testament to the relationship. Hat he had with nixon i want to start off by asking you a little bit about