Would like to welcome you to the special panel echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues. Its quite wonderful to be here with everyone since he has been with us for years and years at the university of south carolina. For the next 75 minutes we will share with you secret white house tips we will look to explore the dynamics there and but also to relate them to contemporary development to see what kind of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself just a word about the recordings. We were established in 1998. Our goal there were the only institution is to analyze and transcribed the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1943 1973 thats from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon we do it outside as well because so much of our work these days but we publish our work through the university of the virginia press. It is electronic imprint the president s r
The Pepperdine School of Public Policy hosted the event. [crowd conversations] ok. We are going to get started. Good evening. I am pete peterson, dean of the pepperdines graduate school of Public Policy. It is a pleasure to welcome you to our calabasas campus for tonights discussion with dr. Gene kopelson on the relationship of ike and reagan. Those of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became known and praised for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. President reagan, first as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. One
Reagan. That may be some of you who are reagan aficionados may not have known was influential in reagans overall political career and a relationship that influenced many of the views he became so widely known and praise for throughout the 1980s. Some of you probably do know president reagan had a longstanding and deep relationship with Pepperdine University. In fact president reagan, first , as governor, but then as president , made over half a dozen trips to our malibu campus and also to Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for events in support of Pepperdine University. I know our speaker tonight is going to be talking about some of those in the beginning of his lecture this evening. But one of those that jumps out at me, a few weeks ago, we had our annual Pepperdine Associates dinner in Beverly Hills at the beverly wilshire. This was on february 9 of 2020. In her remarks in talking about the future of pepperdine under our new president , our chancellor, sarah jackson, remarked tha
Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president Lyndon Johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. He was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing president ial elections. Richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first Vice President in history to lose a president ial campaign. He then made Hubert Humphrey the second 1968. As the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i democrat o
Residential primaries. Also kyle kondik, the managing editor of sabatos crystal ball will talk to us about the developments in the 2020 president ial race. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal on the super tuesday. Biden gaining joe the endorsements of Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and beto orourke. Bernie sanders is looking today and get dashed again delegates from those participating today and hoping to do well in california. This as President Trump held a rally in North Carolina where he not only talked about the november election but the administrations action on testing and developing a vaccine against coronavirus. You can make comments on either super tuesday or the u. S. Coronavirus response on three lines. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. If you want to text us, you can do so at 2027488003. Wj can tweet us at cspan and follow along on facebook and facebook. Com cspan. When it comes to our coverage for t