People make a difference in life when they have ripples. And when i look around this room at the deaspera, the extended family, and i see what everybodys doing, whether its back in rhode island or whether its up in baltimore or whether its all over the country, you know, the ripples are what come from graceful passion, because graceful passion is about inspiring people to then govern and lead with that graceful passion. And i think, as i was listening last week, with the privilege of being 15 feet or so away from the pope, i couldnt help but think of senator kennedy, because i know he was in that chamber as well, and he was talking, as he listened to the message of humility and dialogue that the pope was talking about, that pope could have been talking about ted kennedy, because thats what it was about. So, i hope that young people who maybe go into that filling station of cynicism, may be going and thinking, you know what, this isnt for me i think this oral history project is as impor
You also heard, as i mentioned when i wrote my mem wires, that we saw the impeach earl warren signs and i always wondered who this earl warren was. Later on of course i would figure it out, that it was the chief justice of the United States and he was in trouble in part because of brown. I guess there is no way i could say did you ever think that you would be sitting in the building where earl warren worked. Not only didnt i think of that, i didnt think that i would ever see the building where he worked. Now, as you found out what it meant as you grow older, did you have some idea of what it might mean, what it could mean as opposed to what it may have turned out to mean . You know, my grandfather was an interesting man, he of course, dominated our lives and he felt that as these rights were vindicated that we had an obligation to measure up to use them. I will give you a separate example. When the Savanna Public Library finally desegregated and we were allowed to go to the main librar
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Any favors by trying to dress up politicians as if we are not real human beings that have made major mistakes and had major problems in our lives. Saturday evening at 7 00, a Panel Discussion on National Review founder william f. Buckley jr. s run for new york city mayor in 1965. And at 11 00 p. M. , Winston Groom discusses his latest book, the generals patton, mcarthur, marshall and the winning of world war ii. One of the first questions im usually asked when i do a tv or radio show is why did you choose these three men from the Second World War . And the answer is that they embodied, i believe, super characteristics of courage, character and patriotism. On sunday night at 8 00, author david petrusia looks back at a turning point in World History in 1932, the rise of hitler and fdr. And at 11 15 p. M. Eastern, alyssa katz discusses her book, the influence machine the u. S. Chamber of commerce and the corporate capture of american life. Theres a reason that i chose the chamber of comme
Later, congress and the 1965 heart seller immigration and nationality act. Next on American History tv, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell gives a lecture on the rivalry between two kentucky politicians who served as governors and the senate. Senator mcconnell argues that the competition between Happy Chandler and Earle Clements led to the election of Thruston Morton. Well, thank you very much, robert. Its a real pleasure to be here today at transylvania. Want to thank president kerry and transylvania for hosting me here today. Happy to be veterans day here as well. I also want to acknowledge my good friend ben chandler. He and his family of course are descendants of one of the people im going to be talking about today. Kentucky has been extremely well served with ben as the executive director of the Kentucky Humanities Council and i want to thank him for sharing some of the anecdotes im going to use today. Finally, i want to thank chris mosher, all of whom have contributed in one