Trace the arc of our nations history. From 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow, i will use the word hate. Back is a little daunting. Trace the art. Im to do the historian thing and speak generally. I guess it would save your looking an american in politics, from the beginning straight through, we could even go past the civil war, youre talking about paradoxes and conflict and prop. The period that i tend to focus on is the early part of the arc, and its the improvisational nature of the the really fascinates more than anything else. The nation was founded in a world of monarchy. The United States was a republic. What the means was was not clear at the moment and people knew the they were trying to do something the wasnt act. Were not going to be creating monetary and the president isnt going to be a king but beyond the there was open ground. Theres a lot of improv in those early decades about with the nation is and how it functions, the tone of the government, how th
In conflict a and improv. Hee time i tend to focus on is the early part of that arc and thats the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else. The United States was a republic. People knew that they were trying to do something that wasnt that. Beyond that there was a lot of open ground. There is a lot of improv in those early decades about what the nation isns the nations. How is this new nation going to get any degree of respect and equally they are concerned. On every level. There is a broad kind of ideological level in which that is true. I who is going to on the land and house that land. What kind of a rights will some people have. A lot of the questions that we are happily with now they go back to the beginning of the republic and beyond. Living in a moment that thehe moment that im looking at now. And they go all the way back. We werent a monarchy. And americans have a very strong sense or elite right. They thought they were creating a more de
Social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good wednesday morning to you. You can start calling now. We will begin by taking you back to mondays final press briefing with President Trump at the g7 summit of World Leaders. The final question the president took was on the issue of Climate Change. [video clip] there was a significant talk at the summit about Climate Change. I know in the past you offered skepticism. What do you think the world should be doing and do you harbor that skepticism . Has feel the United States tremendous wealth. Feet. Alth is under its i have made that wealth come alive. Exporting we are the Number One Energy producer in the world and soon it will be by far with a couple of pipelines that have not been able to get approved for many years. Could be the largest site in the world for oil and gas. Ronald reagan was not able to do it. They have been trying to do it since before ronald reagan. We are the Number One Energy pr
Tv, back story host brian tran brian balogh and Nathan Connolly give a behindthe scenes look at their weekly podcast. They were joined by a former staff member and a regular guest. This is part of a twoday Purdue University Conference Call remaking american political history. Welcome to the 10 45 panel called Something Like behind the scenes, back story maybe. Just so you know, youre not in the wrong place. I am brian balogh. I have been a cohost for back story for over 10 years now. I am going to introduce the panel and then we are each going to say a few words about our quite different roles. Nathan and i have the same role. He is trying to steal the 20th century for me and is doing a pretty good job of it. Will have relatively different roles in back story. We are going to talk about that a little bit. And then we wanted to open it up to your questions. This is not what it looks like behind the scenes at back story. In fact, we are rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to
Jeff who worked for president clinton was supposed to be here, but he had a conflict that kept him in in d. C. We will try to tell as many of his stories as we remember. [laughter] kyle we have some questions for these two, and then we will take any questions you have. If theres anything we hope you take away from this session, being a president ial speechwriter is exactly like you think it would be on the west wing. [laughter] kyle im just kidding, it is much more like veep. [laughter] i will start with questions about the relationship between ideas and speeding. Sometimes what starts as an idea and incident in a speech, sometimes the process starts before you have the idea. I am curious, how does an idea become a speech . Sarada in a weird way, speechwriters are not coming up with the ideas, there are much smarter people in the building developing those ideas. But in a way i think the ideas, they dont get crystallized until they are litigated on the page. A lot of speechwriting is a