Nelson Rockefeller Family, the influence on the Republican Party over the years, and his time as governor of new york state. Aboutalso talks rockefeller outside of politics, his marriage to Happy Rockefeller, and the murky circumstances of his death. Richard norton smith, after 14 years of work on your book, what would you tell somebody who does not know about Nelson Rockefeller, who he is, what he did. . Significant, indeed historically significant, figure in a number of fields. Gave him the i name of rockefeller republicanism, that i would describe as existing views of tens of millions of americans who may not be aware of the phrase. Nutshell, a combination of policies that are fiscally responsible and socially liberal. Had ad himself that he republican head and a democratic heart. Aceto nead esposito, who was one of rockefellers allies, he said that he was too liberal for the conservatives and to conservative for the democrats. Middleoftheroad politics, that is a worldview that we c
Into the civil war in support of the confederacy. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. It is great to be back at the Lincoln Library. I did some of the research, spent many happy days down the hall scrolling through newspaper microfilm wheels and letters across the hall. It is doing research at the Lincoln Library which is a great and terrible thing. It is great because the people are absolutely amazing to more people like eileen you is an expert in Foreign Policy in her own right, people like dr. James cornelius, the curator of the lincoln connection who is a living, breathing, encyclopedia of all things lincoln. Those are the good things. The terrible thing is when you are here to research youre surrounded by the 15,000 books about Abraham Lincoln that have already been written. And so i think it is a stark reminder that anybody who comes here and asks you to put another book on that shelf really has some explaining to do right at the beginning. That is what i wanted to st
Crosss visit to the president ial libraries. Good morning, everyone. My name is bob clark and 9 executive director of the president ial library and museum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Eleventh Annual roosevelt reading festival. Fdr established the first president ial library in hyde park. He envisioned it becoming the premier Research Center for the study of the roosevelt era, very consistently one of the busiest Research Rooms in the president ial library system. One of the reasons we love this day so much is we get to see the fruit of the labors of all the people who use our Research Room throughout the year. It is our pleasure to have you here. Let me go over those formats of the day and a couple housekeeping matters. The first is would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so the presentation isnt interrupted today . Thank you. The housekeeping matter, the staff here today will be happy to give you one of these library buttons and that wi
Nullification issues. Grid ands. Electric its former building, and a guest from the Pew Research Center in our america by the numbers serious. Series. Tomorrowon journal, and everyday day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. To the whitete house 2016 coverage with senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota. She will receive the beacon award for Hillary Clinton tomorrow at the annual wingding in clear lake, iowa. Live coverage of that event at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. Season two of first ladies, influence and image, begins monday, september 9 with a look at the life of Edith Roosevelt. All this month, encore presentations of season one. Each weeknight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern, from programs of every first lady from Martha Washington to ida mckinley. Tonight, Mary Todd Lincoln. [captioning performed bynational captioning institute] [captions Copyright Nationalcable satellite corp. 2013] born in 1818 in lexington, kentucky, mary todd grew up and lived to see her husband issued the emancipation proclamation 4
This week filing a lawsuit against the president for his use of executive orders. Have relations between the white house and Congressional Republicans reached a new low . That is our question. Our phone lines are open at 202 5853880, our line for democrats. For 5853881, our line republicans, and if you are independent, 202 5853882. Join us on social media, send us an email, journal cspan. Org or send us a tweet cspanwj. Good sunday morning. Above the fold in the new york times, the news from afghanistan secretary of state john kerry brokering a deal to audit the afghan votes. This comes 12 hours of often tense negotiations, the secretary of state announcing yesterday that afghanistan would audit all 8 million votes. Host we will have more with shane harris on the situation in afghanistan. Also the latest calming raids by hamas and israel and the israeli army indicating it is prepared to send boots on the ground as early as today or tomorrow. Lets been with another headline this morning