Muzzled here. People wanted to do that for years. This phase in the hearing is complete and we now move to several closeddoor sessions and tomorrow morning, there will be a meeting of the judiciary in attee on the next step public panel will be part of it, then ultimately there will be a vote of the full committee i assume next week on this nomination. In my observations are these, we should not be here. We should not be holding the Committee Meeting in the midst of an election. This is the first time this has ever happened in the history of the United States that a Supreme Court nomination has been considered in the midst of an election. It is a desperate attempt by oconnell and President Trump to fill a vacancy at a time when we should be taking our time, assessing the nominee, and doing it in an orderly fashion and as the American People have said, it should be done by the next president. We should not be here. The hearing itself lasted several days has been conducted in a fair mann
Hardy. Tonight, we are in tara hot in the museum. Let me introduce you to one of our guests with us throughout the program tonight. Earnest free bird is a debs biographer. Its been 85 years since debs died. Why would we care about him . He was one of the most important labor leaders and in a crucial time of conflict between labor and capital. He was the central figure in the socialist movement at a time when it was a viable and growing part of the american political culture. Is he interesting as a snapshot in time . Where does he have a Lasting Legacy . Like many Third Party Candidates he and his fellow socialist managed to move the conversation and import directions that have affected the development of american democracy ever since. In that regard, he is of his time, but also having a long impact. Well have time to delve into some of the elections more deeply later on. Of the five bids he made for the white house, are any particularly significant . Two for different reasons. The 1912
Watch American History tv this weekend. Now, a United Auto Workers Campaign Film for president roosevelts 1984 reelection campai campaign. Hey, joe joe yes, sam . Look at todays time table. Only one of these trains can get through to washington. 44 is a single track, you know. Yeah, but sam, arent the American People on board to win the war special . All but a few wreckers. Do you see that switch, joe . Thats for the side track. Im just the guy that can do it. You can if you dont fall asleep at the switch like you did in november of 1942. Dont worry about me. Hell have to knock me out. What happened . Who are you. Not at all, not at all, boy. High production. Youve been over working, you need to relax. Here, relax. Smoke a cigar. Lets talk this over, my boy. According to the papers youre on the wrong track. The win the war special is not going through. All of the workers are on strike. Thats a lie, were out to win the war. Ill tell you. It is perfectly clear for everybody. Sacrifices.
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 e. Deweys Campaign Manager and the confidence they had early on. Take a look. Champagne flows freely. Victory is in the air. The first returns had truman in the lead, but republicans are not worried. And then he brings good news secured we now know that governor do we will carry new york state by 50,000. Dewey represented that. Opposed to that were the conservatives, but westerners, many of them isolationists who rallied around bob rttaft. He had precipitated the split. That never really healed. When republicans took congress,s ca
Fight between president Theodore Roosevelt and financier j. P. Morganover the size of corporations and Government Intervention at the turn of the 20th century. I wanted to sort of ask you to paint a picture of j. P. Morgan. Obviously youre telling a story about roosevelt but a large amount of the book is about j. P. Morgan. For a lot of americans hes one of those, i dont mean this in a demeaning way but hes out of an empty household name area will know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. They dont know a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and why, what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape that your drawing. So when i first started looking into this time period , i think i knew a lot more about roosevelt than i did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. And what i realized is i began researching that this was really morgans world, that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and u