75 minutes, a kind of meeting of two cultures. One culture is represented by the people on this stage, who are scholars associate the with the Miller Center here at the university of virginia and whose studie of the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words in the written word. The other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant, so please, greet pat oliphant with a [ applause ] but even nmore so by the work o pat oliphant which youll see displayed on this screen. The culture that he represents is not sort of broad gauged and long range by highly specific, daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, the washington star for several years. And along the way pat ol fant became the first to work independently of any newspaper. Thats how popular his work was, and it was syndic
And simplicity. It emphasizes the ideas of the 1950s as this era of prosperity where america was a world leader in the American People were happy in suburban homes. I like ike. So simple. It conveys that happiness. This idea however is a myth and its a political construction. The 1950s was a time rut with racial discrimination, conflict, political and social pressures to a confirmed to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies, and mandated heterosexuality in the law. There was a time when anti communism targeted the literal liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anti communists took away civil liberties. These are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week. I like ike is a political construct shifted attention away from those divisions and created a sense of consensus. Again this is a political construction and at the root of that was an innovative and transformative
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