[cheers] he his that he is working his way through the crowd. A pathway of sorts. [applause] this is a well stagemanaged convention. Covering through the delegates. [applause] [applause] now walking up the steps. [applause] [applause] [indiscernible] [applause] [applause] [indiscernible] that is his mother, 77 years old. His daughter. [indiscernible] [applause] how sweet it is. His mother, standing, watching her son. [applause] even when a candidate becomes president [indiscernible] [applause] my name is jimmy carter and i am running for president. [applause] it has been a long time. Since i have said those words the first time. Here after seeing our great country to accept your nomination. [applause] i accept it in the words of john of kennedy, with full and grateful heart, and with only one obligation to devote every upper of body, mind devote every effort of body mind and spirit to lead our party to victory in our nation back to greatness. [applause] it is a pleasure to be here with
Cspan3 continues next with the presidency focusing on the legacy of john f. Kennedy. The Smithsonian American Art Museum hosted this 90 minute event. Good evening. Did you know that john f. Kennedy was the most photographed leader of his day . This may not surprise you since he used photography strategically to share his values and his vision for america. It was also the golden age of photography in america and that is why this subject is of interest to us at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and hopefully you. Here at the museum we focus on telling the stories of the American Experience from folk art to photography as well as painting and sculpture and crafts and media arts. Our exhibition, american visionary, john f. Kennedys life and times, which you can view on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy president ial library in this centennial year. I am stephanie stevish, the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ladies. This is about 90 minutes. Mrs. Reagan so, all of you, thank you for your support and to the kids for just saying no. Thank you. [screaming] [cheering] mrs. Reagan my hope is that the women of the future will feel truly free to follow whatever paths their talents and their Natures Point to. I think they thought that the white house was so glamorous and your role was so what you did was so glamorous, your life was so glamorous, and all they saw were the parties and the meeting people and, you know and ive got to tell you, i never worked harder in my life. Ms. Swain nancy reagan served as longtime political partner, fiercest protector, and ultimately as the caretaker for president Ronald Reagan. An involved first lady, she was active in key staff decisions and policymaking and in campaigning. She made drug use her signature white house issue with her just say no campaign. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series first ladies influence and image. Tonight, were going to tell you th
Large drawing. At that point, there was no art director to say what the scale of the drawing should be. And that art director never showed up for years and years and years. Let me ask you about some of the drawings in the book. You have a new book called american president s. And on the cover is Lyndon Johnson showing a scar. Could you tell us about that drawing . Well, i was very moved and very upset by, as were the editors of the new york review of books who they asked to write books who they may have appointed articles reviewing books and so on, with the same point of view as mine, which was very much thinking that the war in vietnam was a dirty war and that our identification with it was just full of lies and full of terrible things, to read the numbers of American Kids that were lost in that, a number. Well never know the degree of talent that went down in that war. And with that kind of loading and the pistol in the pistol, i would be able to come through and express a certain po
we have time for one last question. someone else is going to have to pick that person because i don t know how to do that. okay. i was curious about how is it that dialects have your words then as you were saying proper languages. what do you mean? i mean, wouldn t there be this same number roughly, or is that just, sort of, a general rule cumene? to human languages spoken by its smaller groups would have a small vocabulary than bite then like english? as opposed. i think what you are referring to is let s say english as 170,000 words. you are not supposed to say what that number is. is it sashimi an english word? i don t know. it is. if you look at the oxford english dictionary and go one, two, three, it is 170,000 word of words. it is true that if you look at one of these isolated indigenous languages, they do not have 170,000. how many is hard to say because you are not one of them not one of those people, the person who compiled the war this was was so