Needs to be made and america and americans decide not just whats happening in this country we are the strongest and most powerful free society on earth. When you make that judgment, youre deciding not only the future of our nation in a very profound respect youre providing the future. Deciding the future of the world. We need to move on. Its time for america to find new leadership. Please join me in this cause to move most confidently and with a sense of assurance and command to build the blessed future of our nation. President reagan. Heres my thanks to the panelists and moderator and to the people of kansas city for their harm hospitality and greeting. I think the American People tonight have much to be grateful for. An economic recovery that has become expansion. Freedom and most of all, we are at peace. I am grateful for the chance to reaffirm my commitment to reduce Nuclear Weapons and one day to he eliminate them entirely. The question before you comes down to this. Do you want t
In just the last ten minutes Colombian Police confirm five people survived. The charter plane was carrying members of the Brazilian Soccer Team which was on its way to compete in a tournament. In all, 81 people were onboard. Well follow the story and have much more in the next half hour. New this morning Philadelphia Police are looking for five men who tried to abduct another man and then shot him. The victim was found on south robinson street near elmwood avenue in southWest Philadelphia around 11 00 last night. Police say at least 16 bullets were fired. Some hit parked cars in the area. The victim is expected to survive. It is 4 31. Philadelphia police want to know who shot and killed a teenager. The 14yearold was hit three times in the chest while standing on a street in mayis fair. Matt, what do we know about the investigation so far . Reporter the boy was just a couple weeks away from his 15th birthday. Police are trying to figure out who murdered him. Take a look. This was the sc
8 00 p. M. Eastern with c span contender series. Thatll be followed by the democratic nomination acceptance speech and later road to the white house, rewind of the 1968 president ial campaign p. Coming up next, Brian Ellen Drake of conservation of environmental. The kansas city hosted this for an hour long event. Well, good evening and welcome to the kansas city of public library, i am henry fortunado. I want to thank you for participating in my Ongoing Campaign to provide speaking opportunities for all of my buds from graduate school. All the guys i went to graduate school with at the university of kansas. Tonight entrance of that category is Brian Allen Drake and up and coming environmental study historian. Now hes a lecture history teacher of the university of georgia. Let me introduce the top of his talk by an opening line that another one of our graduate students use every fall on the first day of the under graduate history classes that he taught. One hundred years from now, he wo
Mrs. Young is a historian and independent scholar who previously taught at princeton university. [applause]. Scenic good evening and thanks for coming out tonight. I thank you for that introduction, which does a nice job of setting up my talk for today. This project began as a dissertation when i was at columbia. I went to graduate school to be a 19th century southern history historian, so i was a bit surprised to find myself writing about a barely recent historical moment. As i was in graduate school during the george w. Bush years a lot of historians were asking questions about how to explain the bush presidency. In particular, the promise of religious social conservativism and there was kind of a first wave of historiography coming out about the religious right and it tended to make this argument that religious conservatives became a unified political constituency in the 1970s and 80s, basically around these questions of abortion and issues of equal rights in the 70s and so this was
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