Record for bringing in diverse and intellectually challenging and informed speakers. Tonights is no exception, and if you havent heard bill brands before, i think youll be delighted. If you have comments, in the past as i know many of you have, youre in for another treat. Please join me in welcoming my colleague, glees whitney, to introduce our speaker. [ applause ] well, thank you very much, elaine, for that warm introduction. We really treasure our partnership with the ford. Its always a treat. We will continue to bring you excellent programs that stimulate the mind and the heart for Public Service and love of our history. Happy washingtons birthday to our cspan audience and also to the audience here at the fort. Its really neat to be here recognizing washingtons birthday. This is one of the reasons we wanted bill to be here on this special day. Its always a pleasure to host bill brands. Weve had him back to west michigan so many times, ive lost count. But its been enough that he sho
Administration, it is already manufacturing tens of millions of doses of six vaccines. And by the end of the year there will be tens of millions of doses of these vaccines already manufactured, ready to distribute. First, of course, to the priority individuals, those who are most vulnerable, Health Care Workers and others. Then according to the administration, they expect to be able to produce 300 million to 700 million doses of vaccines by march or april of next year. That is unprecedented. When i was a kid, we were terrified by polio. I had classmates who were in an iron lung and parents who were worried their children might be just as well. It took ten years to get a polio vaccine and polio is now eradicated. Most of the vaccines that our children take before they go to school, like mumps, measles, chicken pox, you have to take these vaccines, all 50 states and the district of columbia before you go to school. Most of them took ten years to develop. If the optimism of the administra
Impressed with my control of this convention in that my choice for Vice President was challenged by only 39 other nominees. [laughter] [applause] and i can tell you that eleanor i think we learned from watching the republicans four theirago as they selected Vice President ial nominee that it pays to take a little more time. [applause] and i can tell you that eleanor is very grateful that the oregon delegation at least kept her in the race with martha mitchell. [applause] so i congratulate you on your patience and i pay my respects to those two superb presiding officers of this convention, larry obrien and Yvonne Braithwaite burke. [applause] so tonight i accept your nomination with a full and grateful heart. [applause] this afternoon i crossed the wide missouri to recommend a running mate of wide vision and deep compassion, senator tom eagleton. [applause] im proud to have him at my side, and im proud to have been introduced a moment ago by one of the most eloquent and courageous voice
Im jamie colby, and today, im driving through southern california, where so much of the groundbreaking work for nasas Moon Missions was done. Im going to los angeles to meet a woman who embraced the lifelong passion of her soul mate a love for all things outer space. My name is shelly cigel. And when my husband passed away, he left me with an incredible collection and a special gift from beyond the grave. Well, this is just a few Little Things that i took out. These nasa artifacts belonged to shellys husband, rick cigel, samples of a lifelong collection that includes everything from engine parts to autographs. And this is actually the flag that they had signed, and that was from apollo 12. Are these control panels . Look at this can i touch this . Absolutely. Please. Okay. Here we go. Can you imagine . Regulator bleed valve open. Check. M. O. M. Open. Check. Looks like it says mom to me. Mom. This is the button that tells mom were about to lift off. But i heard you have a monkey chair.
President harry truman like to refer to his wife as the boss. Family was their number one priority. Destroyed many of her letters and spend a good part of her white house years home in missouri. Truman served as true first lady on her own terms. Cspans continuing series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, story the 33rd president of the United States, this truman. Here to tell us more about her, we are pleased to welcome back to our set the white house historian, his latest book called the imperial season. And the history professor and author of a biography of harry truman called the coming of the cold war. Thank you for being here. Where we left off last week was the death of Franklin Roosevelt. April 12th 1945. The call comes into harry truman. Where is he . He gets the message that he is needed. He is having a drink with his cronies as he often was known to do. A lot of politics was accomplished by relaxing and having somewhat more cordial atmosphere. He received a phone cal