You are immediately drawn, as a young person, i think, to want to write something new, to revise history, not to make it untrue, but to Say Something that people havent said before about the elections, about president ial scholarship, about history in general. That you want to reinterpret what was an orthodox view. Thats what i did with my first really bad book, that was published in 1985. It was as henry said, a well, it was my dissertation, i didnt even revise it too much. I was really in a hurry to get it in print. It was on the president ial election of 1952, entitled the crusade. What i wanted to do was to Say Something different about the election than had been said before. So what i did was, i tackled the myths of the president ial election. And what i centered on was the myth of the draft. You all know what it is. Dwight eisenhower was drafted. He didnt want to run. And he was drafted by a group that was fronted by the citizens for eisenhower, that was organized by tom dewey wh
Join American History tv on saturday, november 7th, for tours and live interviews from the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Well explore the road to berlin and the African American story, and well take your questions for historians joining us throughout the day. World war ii, 70 years later live from the National World War Ii Museum saturday, november 7th, on cspan3. Thursday night, American History tv in primetime will feature archival films featured on our program real america. Youll see seeds of destiny, a 1946 academyaward winning short film about the refugee crisis in europe at the end of world war ii. A 1963 film about the king and queen of afghanistans visit to the u. S. , and a 1975 film about the Energy Crisis looking at efficiency and alternative fuels. Tune in thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next on American History tv, historian john robert green chronicles the 1952 president ial election between Dwight Eisenhower and adley stevenson. He examines the myth tha
7th, on cspan3. Thursday night, American History tv in primetime will feature archival films featured on our program real america. Youll see seeds of destiny, a 1946 academyaward winning short film about the refugee crisis in europe at the end of world war ii. A 1963 film about the king and queen of afghanistans visit to the u. S. , and a 1975 film about the Energy Crisis looking at efficiency and alternative fuels. Tune in thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next on American History tv, historian john robert green chronicles the 1952 president ial election between Dwight Eisenhower and adley stevenson. He examines the myth that they ran for president against their own wishes. Mr. Green also talks about the introduction of political tv ads and how they changed president ial campaigns. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. Its a little over an hour. [ applause ] so, good evening, welcome to the Kansas City Public Library. Im henry fortuneado, former director of public affairs
You who served in world war ii who are with us here this evening, and i have to tell youa that i have some sense of what it was like to have a ut his relationship with your supreme o commander. After we put his body on the train that went from washington out to abilene, kansas, and mary and anne can tell each tell their own story on this, the thing i remember most is that we stopped in every little town along the way and at about 2 00 in the morning, because, you ju know, we couldnt sleep at all. I looked out the window and just as we were passing there was a sole, solitary figure standing next to the train as the train went past. Saluting. And i never forgot that. G the i never forgot during the day, even in the most barren of country sides, they were thee were just crowds on both sides of the tracks, and people were holding up signs saying we like ike, and ill never forget thatl that and there was a political cartoon, too, and this one ill take with me. But it was soldiers on the bea
Welcome to austin on American History tv with help from our Time Warner Cable partners will stop in the next hour, we will explore the capital city of texas. Austin is often referred to as the live music capital of the world because of the number of music venues within the city. It has a population of just under one million. Coming up, take a behindthescenes tour of the president ial suite at the Lyndon Johnson president ial library and museum. It closed to visitors, the sweet looks just as it did when the former president roamed its halls. The remarkable thing about this space is that its a living, breathing artifact. It hasnt changed at all since president johnson died in january of 1973. Later, visit the texas state capitol, the only state capital that can boast it is taller than the United States capitol in washington. The capital has a commanding presence here in austin. It has this beautiful renaissance revival style with this sunset red granite. Its easy to see it from almost ve