Was an era of political revolutions. The reverberations of which are still felt today. Latin america was really defined, the 1960s by the cuban revolution. There was a greater push for independence, sovereignty, autonomy from the United States. It was a region where some of the battles between capitalism and communism, oritarianism, played out with the greatest drama. It was an era of military coups everywhere from Central America down through brazil and argentina. There were movements not just in latin america, but in other parts of the world in the 60s and 70s to bring more Left Progressive government into power and in reaction to that, military dictatorships took hold in much of the Southern Cone and brazil. [narrator] inspired and at times supported by cuba, a half dozen nations saw political revolutions in the 1960s alone. This is a time of communism versus anticommunism and we saw a wave of military dictatorships come in in defense of democracy, but undermining and in fact, movin
At cspan. Org you can watch any time from your convenience. Heres how. Go to our home page, cspan. Org, and click on the Video Library search bar. Here you can type in the name of a speaker, sponsor of a bill, or even event topic. Review the list of results and click on the program youd like to watch, or refine your search with our many search tools. If youre looking for the most current programs, youll want to search the Video Library. Our home page has them ready for your immediate viewing, such as todays washington journal or the events weve covered that day. Cspan. Org is a Public Service of your cable provider. Check it out at cspan. Org. And now the contenders, our 14week series of people who ran for president and lost but nevertheless changed political history. We feature thomas dewey, former prosecutor who ran for president in 1944 and 1948. This program was recorded at the Roosevelt Hotel in new york city. Its about two hours. This is American History tv only on cspan 3. Gover
Me, which is a pretty shrewd observation, but he always liked to surround himself with people who he said whose careers were ahead of them, and the fact that nixon was 39 years old was a way of not only mollifying the taft wing of the party, but in some ways projecting out into the future his vision of the republican party. And he was successful at keeping the taft wing of the party at bay. Well, yeah. First of all, senator taft, unfortunately, died early in the eisenhower presidency. Its a very touching scene where dewey goes to the hospital without telling anyone. He goes in and slips in to visit taft, what must have been a somewhat surreal final meeting in the hospital, and i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall. Do you know anything about that meeting . No. Lets hear from bob next, west new york, new jersey . Caller good evening. What did governor dewey think of governor rockefeller as an inheritor of the dewey mantle of eastern republicanism . Well, ill defer to tom, wh
There was a judge murphy from new york city and edward r. Mur they wanted to play, continue playing at mr. Murrows park. They asked me to caddie but it was getting late in the day. I said, im about eight miles away and i need a ride when were through. Well, one gentleman spoke up and said, oh, dont worry, ill take you. To make a long story longer, when they finished, that man got in his car and left and i was stranded there. Well, governor dewey saw to it that i had a ride back to the village, and ill never forget that. I was very grateful for him. Thats my comment. All right. That was bill in pauling, new york. Mike, staten island, new york. Caller yes. Id like to ask mr. Smith if mr. Dewey had won the 1944 election, what would his policy as far as ending the war have been . 1944, did you say . Caller yes. I think its a fair question, but, i think if you look at the calendar and you see where the armies were in january of 1945, i think at that point the nazi defeat was only a question
Gov. Thomas e. Dewey which is over california on his Campaign Around the nation. Striking at communist elements in government, the gop leader draws big audiences. The next step is portland, oregon with mrs. Dewey by his side. He makes another stirring bid he has at least one ardent supporter. Those are some of the regions finest specimens. We will know soon. In november is just around the corner. President truman continues his swing around the circuit. The chief executive get a president. He writes to the home of his own his old friend cactus aand its a war record warm welcome on route to. He visits the alamo. The historic shrine of texas independence. In austin, a big crowd to greet the president as he continues his campaign for the lone star states 23 electoral votes. On his tour, the president spoke and visited with sam rayburn, former soup former speaker of the house. In fort worth, to try to bring the southern vote back into line. Dewey defeats truman, the famous headline from the