Postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. But im sure most of our viewers here today know many of johns books. Hell from the heavens, for crew and country, and tin can titans, which won the Elliott Morrison naval literacy award. It was awarded regarded naval history. So congratulations on that. Many years belated. As i mentioned, john was supposed to come in april, and thankfully we were able to work with our colleagues in the Distance Learning team to bring these programs to you all. This one, specifically, has to do with our theme of the end of the war, specifically the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. We will get right to it so we can try to get as many of the audience questions, asked and answered by john. But im going to start with a handful of my own questions first. John, lets give the audience a brief summary for those of you that have not read the book. Give us a brief summary of dogfight over tokyo, please. John well, dogfight over tokyo expla
An extended question and answer session and parts of the film were later used as campaign ads. From houstons rice Hotel Senator john kennedy is about to address a special meeting of the Greater Houston Ministerial Association to which he has been invited. During this telecast senator kennedy will participate in an informal question and answer period. The telecast of this meeting is sponsored by the Kennedy Johnson Texas Campaign committee, and is being seen throughout texas on a special 22station network. The audience you are seeing is composed of clergyman of the houston area who have been invited by the association. Reverend herbert mesa will introduce the democratic president ial candidate. The meeting is about to be called to order by the president , reverend george reck. May i call this special meeting of the association of ministers of greater houston to order . Let us stand for prayer. God be merciful unto us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us that your way may be
In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, but also because its also really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations processes and taking a relative
Thank you. [ applause ] thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you. I havent even announced yet, you make me think ive been elected. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, you have given me a welcome thats so heartwarming. Its something i will remember always. In addition if i had no such reasons at all to be happy about the form of the greeting and the introductions and all here tonight, i could be grateful because every once in a while, being introduced, i get selfconscious when they begin to introduce me and start mentioning the pictures that ive been in. Now, i dont mean that im ashamed of them, but everyone whos been around hollywood for any length of time has been in some movies that the studios didnt want them good, they wanted them thursday. And ive had my share, but in the old times, you usually could count on the passing years making you forget those pictures. Now you just stay up late enough at night in front of the tv set and it may come back
The first president ial campaign as a during the 1952 contests to between 20 eisenhower and adelaide season. President campaigned has been important ever since. Heres a look. You like now is the time for all good americans like bob. Like, bob. Im so glad were friends again bob. Yes ike, we agree on everything. Lets never separate gate separate gate again bob. Never again ike. Ike, bob. Like, bob. Well i can bob really live happily ever after . Is the white house making up for both of them . Stay tuned for a musical interlude. So joint production of American History on cspan 3 and cspans washington journal. Will be joined by Professor Robert mcmahon, and louis is in a State University daisy petals and mushroom clouds. Take a look these 90 minutes at the history of tv political advertising. Professor mitt thanks for joining us here. Thank you good for being with. You weaves start with 1950. Too so that was the first year that tv was used it is a medium for television ads. Television had