Tu president was going to be totally indicted. When the tapes were revealed, that was the way they removed mr. Nixon from office voluntarily. He saw his own words convicted him. What was your role during the watergate situation . Guest my job was what i describe as the chief operating officer. I was there to serve as the righthand man. To see things that work well and the train kept running. I would coordinate who the witnesses would be, how they were handled, and it was a big job to run a committee with competing personalities, a lot of competing staff, and it was my job to see that things worked well. I was not that old, i was 31 years old which nobody should have a job like that 31 years old. I said that when i was elected general attorney, nobody should have a job like that at 32 years old. It sort of worked out. Was an experienced person on capitol hill. I had been there almost 10 years because i began with senator urban senator senator ervin in 1964. I knew the procedures and wha
All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Historians who edited or wrote essays for the book reinterpreting seven histories talk about new avenues for understanding the history of the south. Topics discussed include native americans, the civil war, slavery, the environment, and the Great Depression. This panel was part of the 2019 Southern Historical Association Annual conference. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us on this panel about southern history. I am lori glover and work at st. Louis university my cochair is Craig Thompson from North Carolina state university. Decades since two the publication of interpreting southern history. Survey of theark scholarship that historians produced since 1965. The publication date of writing southern history. It marked a critical moment in southern historiography. The 1965 volume has surveyed the scholarly landscape. In 1987, the authors in interpreting history raised difficult questions about the direction of the discipline including challen
Jackson as a frontiersman is too simplistic. He believes that jacksons upgrading upbringing in the south is more in line with an elite southern gentleman. This 50 Minute Program was hosted by the library of congress. Professor cheathem thank you. My name is jeff flanery, i would like to welcome you to the library of congress. The menu for the the Manuscript Library is related to American History and culture. Among our collection of personal papers of 23 u. S. President s and numerous other wellknown americans including such notables as Walt Whitman Orville and wilbur wright, carl sagan, and civil rights icon rosa parks. 170 years after his death Andrew Jackson still dominates the. Between the onslaught of the slavery crisis that overran midcentury america. One could mark the expansion of democracy, trace the development of modern political parties, and witness a wave of political partisanship that would not look unfamiliar to modern already and says. Modern audiences. The librarys manu
Joining us now on booktv to preview some of the books coming up from Yale University press, john donatich, lets talk about stronghold. A professor at the university of maryland in baltimore, and this is about exactly whats been happening with the Republican Party sort of majority in the house of representatives as the congress. And its a really interesting place theyve gotten themselves into, the gop, in the sense of different constituencies sort of tearing at the boundaries of their ideology. And it used to be, i always used to think to myself individually that the right was much better at asserting a kind of uniform opinion as a sort of unanimity. I think thats falling apart now, and the pressure of that will actually come to bear on their ideology of the gop and the way it runs its politics and campaign for the following couple of years. Of very interesting book, very timely. Host and thats kind of what the democrats faced 20, 30 years ago. Guest exactly right. Its almost as if that
Frightened. The holocaust frightens people. Why is that . What is different . What is special, what is unique about the holocaust . Today i will offer you an answer to that question. I will talk for five minutes about my book, what is new about this book and why you may find it useful and i will take 15 minutes to summarize the central argument of my book which is my explanation, my answer to the question why did the holocaust happened in the last 12 minutes of my remarks i will return to the question in what sense may we consider the holocaust to be unique, to be in a category by itself not only among episodes of genocide but among all historical occurrences as in fact i think it is. As the title of my book implies, it is an attempt to explain why the holocaust happened. Up until now, we have gotten only partially insisted this question. The closest to books in print to an answer have been the histories of the holocaust, the narrative accounts and these suffer from the defect with reg