Birth of president dwight david eisenhower, his granddaughters gather for a rare family discussion at Gettysburg College to talk about his military and political career as well as his relevance for 21st century americans. Then on saturday afternoon at 1 00, 60 years ago, rosa parks defied a city ordnance for blacks to leave their seats on a city bus to make room for white passengers. Her stand helped instigate the bus boycott as we hear from the attorney for rosa park and demonstrators. Then at 6 00, William Davis on the littlephoneknown aspects o ulysses s. Grant and robert e. Lee. And a 1965 Progress Report on nasas projects, including the manned Space Program and the mayriner fly by. All weekend and on holidays too, only on cspan 3. Up next on American History tv, a group of authors and historians talk about the legacy of the 1965 hartcellar act which changed immigration policy from a quota system to one that focussed on skills and family relationships with american citizens or resi
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
Nell. Its a terrific book. Thank you. Its a terrific book on an important topic, and, you know, you dont think that realizing about congress is going to keep you up at night because you dont want to put the book down, but i really, i really found it when i said riveting, i really meant it. Thank you. It was a good read. Its absolutely fascinating. Okay. Your book emphasizes what you call the complex and contradictory cast of characters who pulled the bill toward or away from the president s desk. Thats what you said. Would you please say more about that . Yeah, sure. First of all, let me just say thank you very much to green light for having this. As jared mentioned, this is literally my neighborhood bookstore. I live down the street, and were here all the time. In fact, bring our kids to listen to the wonderful sounds of jared some sunday mornings. So its a real pleasure to be here to talk about this book. And, of course, thank you very much, nell. You know, you and i have worked toge
Voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 theyll be the largest segment of the american electorate. Theyre not part of this trend. White millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. The children. Heather mcghee, fernand amandi. Well be right back here on saturday after joy reids bonus hour. Well be here, if my voice makes it. Be sure to tune in for that. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything . Ill go right to your office and steal them. They sell them at my bodega. I think theyre illegal. Thanks for being with us here this friday night, this friday before the election. Its very exciting. Im very excited. When john f. Kennedy beat
midmanhattan with our rca 501 computer. Only onetent of the total vote is in, were going to have what we call projections. Thats estimates on what the final vote will be in a popular and then what the final vote will be in the Electoral College. Heres
Following day, the day after election. But that race was nuts. This is great. Ive got something to show you. This is great. Michael beschloss tipped us off on to this stuff. We went into the archives and found out today. Part of what was nuts about watching the election returns in 1960, was in addition to the drama of the close race and 40 was winning and where and whether or not that was really a concession, do you think that was a concession . In addition to all the native, organic drama of that contest, that night in 1960 was also the night that the tv networks chose to unveil their brandnew mysterious, unknowable computing machines. That was basically the tv side show act that year alongside the election. These gigantic beeping machines that could somehow tell who was going to win. Watch this. In another part of the city, the rca 501 computer is beginning to whirl away digesting these numbers faster than we can even utter them. Im down in wall street in midmanhattan with our rca 50