Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. I come here tonight to the Al Smith Dinner knowing im the underdog in the final weeks. If you know where to look, there are signs of hope. Even in the most unexpected places, even in this room full of proud manhattan democrats, i cant i cant shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me. [ applause ] im delighted to see you here tonight, hilary. [ laughter ] i was thrilled to get this invitation and i feel at home here because its often been said that i share the politics of alford e. Smith and the ears of alford e. Newman. Its an honor to be here with al smith. I never knew your great grandfather. From everything that senator mccain has told me [ laughter ] the two of them had a great time together before prohibition. Of course im delighted, but not surprised, by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. I felt all along that when this matter was
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Dont touch your face. Goodnight, everybody [ cheers and applause announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers chat and music from keith urban. From mo willems and the story time allstars, actress and comedian, Rachel Dratch featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. We hope youre all doing well tonight and lets get to the news President Trump said in an interview yesterday that a Coronavirus Vaccine would be available, quote, within a matter of weeks. Yeah, but how many weeks is this like one of those deals when parents talk about their babies now how old is caden hes 59 weeks. Thats right, President Trump said in an interview yesterday that a Coronavirus Vaccine would be available, quote, within a matter of weeks. Trump loves to talk about everything in weeks. The vaccine is coming in weeks his Healthcare Plan is coming in weeks. Pretty soon his rally crowds will be chanting 208 more weeks im just kidding abo