Her husband, the senator, as he winds up and does his thing. And its such a brilliant scene. I mean, its brilliant just in terms of the writing and in terms of whats happening in the plot, but so brilliant in the way its shot because even though shes in the room with him while he is causing this scene, shes physically in the same space as him, you can see the way its shot, that shes not actually looking at him in person. Shes paying attention to the screen, which you can also see in her field of vision. On the screen, she can see what he looks like on camera, on leave television, as he pulls off this stunt in a congressional hearing room with the secretary of defense. It is such a great scene. And yes, the guy you will sort of recognize halfway into it, is in fact frank sinotary, and hes amazing in this movie. This has been my Favorite Movie since i was a teenager for a reason. Just watch this. Mr. Secretary, i have a question, sir. Who are you, sir . I am United States senator john ic
Foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering and they are, oh my gosh, im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events has been absolutely unwavering and they have been so dedicated bringing author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe. Seen an incredible uptick in her audience of people from all over and it is just absolutely wonderful to see the response. Thank you to everyone here tonight and everyone who comes and to all the sponsors who made sure these events keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring john and mary to the screen and step away myself. Larry tye. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us. Larry, thanks for coming all the way to massachusetts to be here with us. [laughter] larry is on cape cod as we speak. You have about 100 people or close to 100 people with us and some more may join us as we go along and as was explained upfro
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Something that i have, lets say, um, there are a lot of secular jews who identify as jewish, and its almost like when youre a catholic protest, an Irish Catholic or irish protestant, its almost like that, its more kind of ethnic, which i know gets into a weird kind of uh area, but jews um, some jews are are jewish because theyre religious, im not that, but theres a whole like jewish tradition of kind of. Radical leftism, theres even this term, tikunalam, which is hebrew for repair the world, um, and that i think speaks to kind of why you do have this tradition of um, progressives among some jews, but you also obviously have conservative jews, both politically conservative and religiously conservative, but someone like bernie sanders, for instance, i dont think he he, hes jewish, right, but i dont think he celebrates, i dont think he does shabat every friday, i dont know. If he identifies, but whats interesting is like it, it it kind of didnt for hitler and for and for the rest of the w
By the archives of kansas city. Holt good evening, and thank you for arranging this, and especially kimberly, thank you for all the work youve done on this. Since he showed up, mark, who is retired from the central plains. Ill him a special thank you i oh him a special thank you. I have done a lot of research at the national archives, and the archivists always seem to know what i was interested in or had suggestions for what i ought to be interested in. Mark, when i was working on cold war kids said you know theres this collection you might be interested in. Yes, i was, very much, and it became a chapter in the book, so thank you. Now, for tonights discussion, what do school Lunch Programs, the indian adoption project polio shots, and books comic books have in common . Youre going, oh, theres a quiz . Your first guest would be they all have something to do with the postwar years, but they are also examples of the uptick and an unprecedented uptick in the federal intervention in childre