The next president of the United States. Mr. Chairman, my fellow republicans [ cheers and applause ] before i proceed, with the thoughts i should like to address briefly with you, many i i congratulate the convention on the selection for the nominee for vice president. A man who has shown qualities in many ways but as a ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade for freedom of america and freedom in the world. I know something of the responsibility of leading a crusade. I have lead one. [ cheers and applause ] i pick up this task, therefore, in the spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its burdens and precisely the importance. I accept your sons. I will lead this crusade. Our aims, the aims of this republican crusade are clear to sweep from office an administration which has fastened on every one of us the arrogance and corruption in high place places that any burden from the anxieties, which are the bitter proof of
Now that youve made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all of my heart and soul. With your help, i have no doubt that we will win. Help me to do the job of conflict and of campaign. We will justify our glorious task and the loyalty of millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honesty. We will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have. That was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson, excepting the democratic nominationation in 1952 . He is the last candidate to be drafted. He is the last candidate to require one more balanced at the convention. He did not want the nomination is the short answer. There was a vacuum in the democrght. Live from libertyville, we will work our way it over to the barn on the family farm. We are currently in the study. Next to it is a barn. This is a working farm at some point. We will work our way over there where there is a new display one of them was felt right here i
Convention, my fellow citizens, i accept your nomination and your program. [applause] now that youve made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all of my heart and soul. With your help, i have no doubt that we will win. Help me to do the job of conflict and of campaign. We will justify our glorious task and the loyalty of millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honesty. We will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have. That was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson, excepting the democratic nominationation in 1952 . He is the last candidate to be drafted. He is the last candidate to require one more balanced at the convention. He did not want the nomination is the short answer. There was a vacuum in the democrght. Live from libertyville, we will work our way it over to the barn on the family farm. We are currently in the study. Next to it is a barn. This is a working farm at some point. We will
Prosperity. And the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth. And it is a political construction. The 1950s, in fact, it was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anti communism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and often anticommunists took away civil liberties. These are all areas of political pressure in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week. I like ike, as a political construct, shifted attention away from those divisions and it created a sense of consensus. In many ways, again, this is a political construction. At the root of it was an innovative and transformative Marketing Campaign that transformed a military h
Focuses on international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century. In particular the era of the world wars and the cold war. And in addition to the age of eisenhower, dr. Hitchcock is the author of the bitter road to freedom, a new history of the liberation of europe which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a winner of the george lewis spear prize and was also a Financial Times best seller in the united kingdom. Following dr. Hitchcocks remarks, ann compton who you all know will join dr. Hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th president of the United States. Ann is a pioneer of journalism in america. She was the first woman to cover the white house for Network Television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. Her longevity and her impact are inparalleled. Anns career at abc news span seven president s of the United States, ten president ial campaigns. She anchored from the white house, from capitol hill, and president ial travel that took he