[applause] gave me an m m thank you, i needed that. 2, 3, 4 [laughter] [applause] please welcome to the stage mr. Peter yarrow singersongwriter and political activist and the executive director of the Grammy Museum at l a live joining mr. Country joe mcdonald for our next panel. [applause] well, joe, on behalf of everyone here i want to thank you for exercising your freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Thank you very much. [applause] 50 years. And boy, for those of us who were alive back then and remember that song and remember those days, that was one song that could always get a response going and it did even here. Interesting, huh . Look, every generation has a sound track. Every historical era has a sound track. Every historical moment. Every movement. Music has played a vital part in americas history. Its been there from the revolutionary times and it goes right through our history even today. And almost always the music was creative, expressive, and sometimes controversia
When will they ever learn and very solemnly and prayerfully, for all those who were injured and killed and wounded and maimed. Where have all the soldiers gone. Many not to the graveyards but to lives of great, great despair and difficulty. Where have all the soldiers gonegon gone, with solemnity. Where have all the soldiers gone long time passing where have all the soldiers gone long time ago where have all the soldiers gone gone to graveyards, everyone when will they ever learn when will they ever learn where have all the graveyards gone long time passing let me hear you. Where have all the graveyards gone long time ago. Long time ago where have all the graveyards. Where have all the graveyards gone gone to flowers, every one when will they ever learn when will they ever learn when will we ever learn. And we sing when will we ever learn when will we ever learn and then we sing where have all the flowers gone and the irony and the pain of the endless cycle. When will we ever learn . W
Ladies and gentlemen, please songwriterger Country Joe Mcdonald. [applause] [background chatter] [indiscernible] Country Joe Mcdonald look out yonder in the skies what is that, i pray a bird, a plane, a man in the same it is lbj he is flying high way up in the sky ust like superman i got a little piece of kryptonite back toa bring him land come out linden with your hands held high reach for the sky got you surrounded and you aint got a chance, dennis and you back to texas, make you work on your ranch yeah mmm, yeah yeah superwoman andll super duck it shows him no good i found out why from a russian spy he ate ate nothing but a commie book. Land, have us the brandnew day what is more, i got the fantastic work and spiderman to help him on his way. Ly y, mouth come out ndon with your hands held high got you surrounded and you a got a chance gonna take you back to texas, take you work on your ranch oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah gonna make him an agricultural worker part of his own Property Pro
But believe me the people in Washington Square never went on the other side of sixth avenue. At 8 00 p. M. On the presidency every time i look at washington its unanimous. Unanimously commander in chief, unanimously president of the constitutional convention. Unanimously president of the united states, unanimously appointed as the Lieutenant General and commander in chief of all the armies raised or to be raised for the service in the united states. What a record. George washington scholar peter enreekz explores that even though washington was officially retired he continued to meet with political figures from the thu capitol and was often called upon to craft policy. For the complete American History tv weekend schedule, go to cspan. Org. Thursday a discussion on regulating ecigarettes. The American Enterprise institute looks at the legal, legislative and Public Health implications of the fdas plans to regulate the product. See it live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. President obamas
After world war ii, they would come in and compromise every liberalthinking social Democratic Party and crush them and take over the works. It was a terrible economic idea communism and made into an evil force by a totalitarian nature by what we were experiencing. I was sympathetic with what president ial candidate Ronald Reagan said, but its a lot easier to say than it actually is to do. Im not of the school if we were to ramped up our effort in vietnam we would have won it. The most important thing we underestimated was presuming that communism was monolithic and that vietnam was a pep pet of the soviet union and china. Yugoslavia was a wellknown sort of renegade inside the communist party movement. The suggestion you might characterize it is go big or stay home is a little shorter version of what Ronald Reagan said on that particular occasion. There is a lot of legitimacy, i believe in that statement, but theres lots of qualifiers too which suggests that if you dont if those element