Electedout the first president. Heres a preview. The most undervalued thing about running for president is knowing why you are writing for like ant, which sounds pretty basic criteria. If you ask Elizabeth Warren in 30 seconds, two minutes, five hours, why she is running for president , she has a clear case and thats consistent with her lifes work and that is a really important facet. Cory booker is building a really strong operation. If theres a chance for a secondtier candidate to move into the first tier, corey has has shown the ability to come out with strong organizations. Certainly, given how late joe biden got into the race, he obviously had strong name id, but they are building strong operations. The key really is, how do you balance the National Needs of a campaign with the fact that so much attention is placed on iowa. The campaigns that can figure that out the best are the ones that will be successful. Is there a state or two that could be a focus . Sure. We obviously had so
4985 strikes involving 4. 6 million workers in 1946, the largest number of strikes the bureau ever recorded in a single year. The main issues were low wages and rising living costs. Next, on reel america, for the record, a 1946 documentary about the strikes from the perspective of organized labor. Humming] look around you, my friend, and see what there is to see. There is the world. Mountains,ers, plains, all there before we arrived on the scene. That is where we come in, you and i, workers. , huge, tiny, the works, books and beans, divers, stoops, and skyscrapers. Watts and kilowatts. Tall, small, soft, hard. The plansh to smash germany and japan drew up for our future. Lots of our folks joined. Old hands from out of retirement and newcomers. Machines are not snobs. They become friends fast. Day in and day out, all around so muchk, we produced of the heavy stuff that even we were surprised. The nation was grateful. E for excellence flags flew everywhere for us. But when it came to liv
At not 00 a. M. Eastern and pacific on cspan. The white house did not release an address from the president. Senator sharad brown of ohio gave the democratic address. He called for gun safety laws. The shootings in el paso, texas and dayton, ohio happened one month ago. Hi, im sherrod brown, United States senator from ohio. I want to wish all American Workers a happy labor day, particularly you who are not able to spend the day with families and friends at picnics and barbecues because you dont have the day off. You work hard to support your families, often for too little pay. That is why we celebrate the dignity of work, and honor all American Workers. ,ongress should be at work too to pass commonsense gun safety laws that we so desperately need in our country. Four weeks ago, less than 14 hours after the tragedy in el paso, my home state of ohio woke up to terrible news that nine people had been killed and 127 injured by another mass shooting, this time in dayton. It was the second m
Has on the and a network, constantly including this evening. [laughter] and he is a historian who has contributed already, while a couple of great books but most recently lincolns last trial. You wonder why i am interested in having him here. [laughter] but he has switched gears and written a book about the man whose home we are in. Fdr. My fifth cousin by blood and my uncle by law. In fact he said it at the very trial that had aprons have written about in this extraordinary book about very little known episode and Theodore Roosevelts life in the twilight of his life. Its an extraordinary legal episode in defense against a charge of bible that was argued here in new york state. So dan, welcome. Soon i think you. Its always an honor to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. The fact a little better though that we are not talking about lincoln. Then i would be in fear. Have no fear. I think its going to be considered new by everybody to who we meet. Start with the obvious. Why th
Begins to develop a social meaning even though we will be looking at addiction in america ive mentioned that one of the things we will focus on is not america but on england and specifically a man named thomas to quincy so today you have an expert and you read a little about him but who can start us off and tell us who was this man. He was an upperclass early 19th century considered himself a classical philosopher and came to use opium for the relief of a toothache in 1804 and, eventually developed it into a recreational enhancement he enjoyed the opera and the dream state from the transit brought on and eventually developed or degenerated into chronic abuse at its height about 12,000 drops a day okay, great. So we have him beginning for medical use and it continues from there but the excerpt youve read about them, what did you think of them did you get impressions. There is a snobbery theres a strong friday had. He seemed pretty well educated. Hes pretty welleducated, any other commen