[applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Fourth Annual conference and gala presented by the william s. Ugly program at yale. Attributed to winston churchill. He. He said, if you are not a liberal when youre 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by the time you are 35, you have no brain. [laughter] a radical in the 1930s, became a leader. Later on he rejected marxism and moved to the right producing in 1941 the work for which he was best known, the managerial revolution published in 1941. 1941. He also became a red regular contributor to the conservative publication National Review. In 1933 along with sidney hook he had to organize the American Workers fund, supported its merger with the communist league of america to the United States Workers Party. In 1935 the allied with the wing of that party and defended offended no one less than leon trotsky himself. Writing for the partisan review, he was also an important influence on writers, such as Dw
Day before and after school he and coronado would sit on the steps of a school and coronado says johnson would pronouns, i would repeat, johnson would spell and i would repeat. I think Lyndon Johnson cared about civilrights. The second part of your question, how did he get kennedy it takes a lot of pages in this book to talk about all the things he does but the thing he does on the instant, this bill appears to be totally dead. He says didnt someone file a discharge petition . Discharge petition had been filed this bill was in a committee that was never going to let it out. Wasnt even the senate. Still in the House Rules Committee which was shared by judge howard w. Smith and would even give a date. The bill was going nowhere. Johnson remembers someone filed a discharge petition to take away from that committee. That was a discharge petition ever never passed. Violation of house rules and no president had ever gotten behind one before. Johnson calls the representative who introduces it
Endowments of colleges and universities with wealth over a billion dollars. Is there a logic for colleges and universities having their endowment taxed in one way or another. In other words, what business is of it government to decide how schools devote their resources. The schools want to reduce the endowment, they can do it. Theyre not really forced to there are some arguments they are. I believe those are what is the government doing in mucking around in this . Our answer is that the government certainly has at least a very plausible basis for mucking around in this because the subsidizes for the tax system are such that they are really much encouraging this. First of all, donations to these organizations are tax deductible, second of all, the revenue generated is not taxed. At all. Its not taxed theres no taxation at all. So it further subbization of this relative to the private sector. We think that its perfective sense only raise the question. We dont think think its a good answe
Once the governor issues upardon, thats it. And for those who dont know who Roger Humphrey is, please read the book. Captured the drama of the story, and it is a stunning story, lee smith was part of it. Frank sullivan had his hand up. This much detail as you have in your book, you had to encounter factual what was theigst conflict you had that you had to resolve . Whether it was toms neck tie or [laughter] thats true. And the answer was, it was toms neck tie. But we respect him. I say that in because because i was struck by how much Common Ground there was in the shared memories of these people. 30 years later. It was astounding that how the things happened in the afternoon in the hotel room, that call that chapter the title of the chapter is, the dance. How did that go . And thats a bill coke, i was very patient how all that worked and but there was an extraordinary level of agreement this many years later and, thought that was profound. Question . Im curious, [inaudible] did either
Good morning. I am the Education Specialist at the roosevelt president ial library and museum and on behalf of the fdr president ial Library Museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on cspan to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. Franklin roosevelts plan for the library to become a premier Research Institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the librarys Research Room is one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect a wide variety of Research Done here. Let me go over the format for the festivals concurrent sessions. At the top of each hour session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a 10 minute question and answer period of. Than the authors go to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have them sign them. At the top of the next hour the process repeats itself again. Todays attendees can visit the Exciting Program exhibit in the president ial Library Museum free of charge. As