President of the United States. [applause] election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Your host is political analyst Richard Scammon. Richard this is Richard Scammon in washington. With me are professor howard honeyman of Howard University Howard Penniman of Yorktown University and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. But perhaps before we do either of the detailed discussions on these conventions, we want to spend at least a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of an American National president ial nominating convention. One observer has said these conventions are real ideological struggles told as circuses. We know the main purpose is to nominate a candidate for president. But Howard Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the process of an American Convention . Howard the National Convention is the time of the nom
About that he outlived the bas tarta which allowed him to have the last word in. Cheap quotes, some of kind of hoovers understanding of what happened. The first where he said that a foolish individual only hurts themselves. Whereas a foolish government hurts both the wise and the foolish. And the other is blessed are the children for they shall inherit the national debt. Tom, you do a fantastic debt at the hoover president ial library in west branch, iowa, and you do a fantastic job preserving and protecting that legacy and those records. President ial libraries, we may have president s and different politic political philosophies but support each other and thank you for joining us today, tom. Thank you, palm. Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3 explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Weeknights this month we feature American History tv programs as
Jacqueline kennedy i think it is good in a world where theres quite enough to divide people, that we should cherish the language and emotion that unite us all. Jacqueline kennedy end video clip Jacqueline Kennedys 1,000 days as first lady were defined by images political spouse, young mother, fashion icon, advocate for the arts. As television came of age, it was ultimately the tragic images of president kennedys assassination and funeral that cemented Jacqueline Kennedy in the public consciousness. Good evening and welcome to cspans series first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of the wife of the 35th president of the United States, named Jacqueline Bouvier kennedy. And we have two guests at the table for the next two hours to tell you more about her life story. Michael beschloss, president ial historian, author of many books on the presidency, and has a special focus over the years on the cold war era and the Kennedy Administration. Thanks for being here. P
I think it is good in a world where theres quite enough to divide people that we should cherish the language and the emotion that unite us all. Jacqueline kennedys 1,000 day as first lady were defined by images, political spouse, young mother, fashion icon, advocate for the arts. As television came of age, it was ultimately the tragic images of president kennedys assassination and funeral that cemented Jacqueline Kennedy in the public consciousness. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of the wife of the 35th president of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier kennedy. We will tell you more about her life story. President ial historian and author of many books on the presidency and has a special focus on the cold war era and the Kennedy Administration. Barbara kennedy is a political scientist and wrote part of the jack Jacqueline Kennedy biography. I want to get into more details about the white house years about the assassination
Where theres quite enough to divide people that we should cherish the language and emotion that unite us all. Jacqueline kennedys 1 is,000 days as first lady, political spouse, young mother, fashion icon, advocate for the arts. As television came of age it was ultimately the tragic images of president kennedys assassination and funeral that cemented Jacqueline Kennedy in the public consciousness. Good evening, welcome to cspans series, first ladies. Tonight, jacqueline buvier kennedy. Michael beschloss, historian. Has a special focus over the years on the cold war era and Kennedy Administration. Thanks for being here. Pleasure. Barbara perry is a uva political scientist. As part of the modern first ladies series at the university of kansas. Great to be here. I want to start on the program before we get into more details about her white house years with the assassination and imagery of the assassination, since anyone alive at that age certainly has the images seared in their mind and su