Can argue every year should be. This is incredibly special for all of us in america, especially at the smithsonian. We are bound together in celebrating the american womens History Initiative throughout the Smithsonian History Museum and online, and all of the activities, and here at the American History museum, we are particularly grateful to have three exhibitions opening. Spurring really from this one. This is democracy in america, the great leap of faith that opened a few years ago. Im in the gallery that takes us through the long and arduous and continuing effort to expand democracy to enfranchise more and more americans. As you might know, early on, only white men with property were able to vote. Throughout the 19th century, the long battle expanding that suffrage to slaves, previous slaves, and women, culminating finally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th amendment. Not guaranteeing women the right to vote, but barring the federal government and states against voters beca
Good evening america its an honor to speak to you tonight from the hallowed of the hallowed grounds of fort mchenry the site of the very battle that inspired the words of our National Anthem those words have inspired this land of heroes in every generation since it was on this site 206 years ago when our young republic heroically withstood a ferocious naval bombardment from the most powerful empire on earth they came to crush our revolution to divide our nation and to end the american experiment the heroes who held this for took their stand for life Liberty Freedom and the American Flag and those ideals have defined our nation but they were hardly ever mention at last weeks Democratic National convention. Instead democrats spent 4 days attacking America Joe Biden said that we were living through a season of darkness but as President Trump said where joe biden sees american darkness we see american greatness thank you and. In these challenging times our country needs a president who bel
35 years later during the impeachment trials of president trump, adam schiff asked, where is howard baker . Where the people willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty . Senator baker spoke to delegates. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. Does anyone here think Ronald Reagan ought to be reelected as president of the United States . [applause] i have come to the right place. The democrats have come to a different conclusion. Voting for Walter Mondale. Booing] tremblingmerica is and despairing. While, i thought they were talking about themselves. [laughter] [applause] that is why america will reelect Ronald Reagan and a lot more wills why americans 1984 ct Ronald Reagan in [applause] americas choice this year is not just between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale. Between a team that has proven it can succeed. And a team that has proven it can. The Walter Mondale team gave us inflation. A punching bag for a Foreign Policy. The misery. Friends, misery has become a very i
Sure to join the conversation with your calls, texts, and tweets. Announcer as the Republican National Convention Gets Underway tonight, we will hear from prominent speakers from past conventions. Senator howard baker from 1984. Then pat buchanan in 1992. , retired general colin powell in 1996. And former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2012. Howard baker had already been Senate Majority leader for three years when he addressed the 1984 Republican Convention. He became 18 years, known as the great negotiator, including passage of the Clean Air Act and the clean water act. Senator baker was vice chair of the committee that investigated whitewater, president nixon, and members of his administration. 35 years later during the impeachment trials of president trump, intelligence chair adam schiff asked, where is howard baker . Where the people willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty . Senator baker spoke to delegates in dallas. Sen. Baker thank you very much. Late is a
Sherrod, the whole liberty team. Its been fantastic. We had a great production. I just want to say another word of special thanks to. If you havent done the math on this that is it. We have tom coffin coming up momentarily but we had an issue because the latest date for the great leader in politics, soap will be here momentarily. I just want to key up a little bit on the steve bannon has always said action, action and e have four speeches coming out, attorney general barr, secretary pompeo, steve bannon has outlined all those folks but i want to get his perspective on its remarkable to me cnn isnt covering china and you know more about the Media Business than anyone. Why is that . Spinnaker goes against their narrative and the Mainstream Media is one of the central aspects of the decline of the entire judeochristian United States. Theyve done a terrible job. This story has been in peoples faces for so long and let me give you an aspect of it. On the third week of january, 2017 there we