This is our to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 5 pm. Welcome to the program. We start with breaking news from a conference between the Russian Foreign minister and international journalists. So gayle overall has suggested that russian Opposition Leader ill extend a volley. It was poisoned, allegedly, with the know he choked nerve agent in august may have been targeted outside his home country. Just know when you have every reason to believe that what happened to him in terms of Chemical Warfare agents getting into his body could have happened in germany were on the plane and was she was flown to the Charity Hospital r. T. As more of a national is in the studio with us again for all the details on that, can you explain what the foreign minister meant . Well, i cant say for sure, but i think the key issue is that the russian doctors who initially treated mr violently in the city of told repeatedly said no talks of materials found on owning
He left the Supreme Court. He ran for president. Then he went back to the Supreme Court. When of the finest minds on the courts. Why use . Andrew jackson said that he looks like god and talks like god. Charles evans hughes the republican president ial nominee soon after the national convention. Tonight, we looked at the life and legacy of Charles Evans hughes who was a twoterm governor, secretary of state, and twice a Supreme Court justice. He was perhaps best known as one of the coauthors of the new deal. Were broadcasting live across from the capitol. He inaugurated this building when it first opened in 1935. Let me introduce you to our guests this evening were joining us to talk about the life and legacy of Charles Evans hughes. My first guest is an historian, and bernadette higher Bernadette Tyler is a professor at Cornell Law School. I want you to set the stage for us. 1916, Woodrow Wilson wants to be reelected. Frame what was going on in the country and the president ial campaign
Tweets. A. M. Easternt 8 00 on washington journal and American History tv on cspan3. Hughes is what we claim we want in a president ial candidate and president. The man who did get it a man , named Charles Evans hughes. He had been governor of new york and a Supreme Court justice. He had all but won the election. When Woodrow Wilson went to bed that Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If he had been elected, how American History goes on in several Different Directions on suffrage for women, civil rights, what you do in Foreign Policy. He is the one you could write novels about. You had Charles Evans hughes, who was on the Supreme Court. He left the Supreme Court. He ran for president. Then he went back to the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. A fellow justice called hughes the greatest in a great line of Supreme Court justices. Why hughes . Jackson said that hughes looks like god and talks like god. [laughter] Charles Evans hughes the republican president ial n
A in 1915, a group of women gathered in europe to try and find a way to stop world war one. It was the birth of the oldest womens Peace Organization in the world, the Womens International league for peace and freedom. This is theirtory. The end of the victorian age and the beginning of the 20th century brought about a flood movement for social change. Many people began actively struggling for control over their own lives. Settlement communities, labor unions and Civil Liberties organizations all grew out this tremendous and dynamic period. Women were profoundly in all these movements as well, fighting for their own rights. These feminists became formidable to the male dominated world of the early 1900s. Mildred Scott Olmsted has been a of the Womens International league since 1921. She has held variety of positions in the league include. Executive director of the United States section. I grew up a strong feminist. I grew up in a victorian type as i grew up my first ten years in victori
This is their story. The end of the victorian age and the beginning of the 20th century brought about a flood movement for social change. Many people began actively struggling for control over their own lives. Settlement communities, labor unions and Civil Liberties organizations all grew out this tremendous and dynamic period. Women were profoundly in a well, fighting for their own rights. These feminists became formidable to the male dominated world of 1900s. Mildred Scott Olmsted has been a of the Womens International league held variety of positions in the league include. Executive director of the United Statesec feminist. I grew up in a victorian type family and as i grew up my first ten years in victorian family in which they, my father was the head of a house and you werent supposed to ask you questions if you asked things. It was because, i would say so thers position was too. And i resented it very much. And so i would colleague as believing in suffrage. In 1915, the fight for