Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
Addition to the pandemic relief and fighting the coronavirus, what else should be a priority. Republicans, one line, democrats, one line, independents and others,. One line you can also send us a text. Include your name and where you are texting from. And onter, cspanwj facebook. We will hear from a couple of members of Congress Later in the program. We will ask them both about the status of a potential pandemic relief bill. We will also show you some of the highlights from last nights cnn interview. First, a piece from page of washington journal using data from johns hopkins. The whole front page, if you go online, you will see the interactive map showing the spread of the virus across the country. The april 17 spring peak, july 25 at summer peak, the low point between the summer and fall of september 19. So far, in the fall, the fall peak to describe, two weeks in november, over 2 million cases. Over 12 million cases. The bottom line is how the surge engulfed. They write today, about
Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, footsteps of he the first woman to serve in that lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs ommittee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, footsteps of he another new yorker, eliot engel. Chair of the ag from tee, david scott georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of leadership of collin peterson. Africanamerican. Historic. Africanamerican. Contested races. Throughout our leadership, half leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. Here are more chairs to be announced, but these are the nes that related to rules and budget related to the steering and policy committees. Two of the speakers announcements that i made. Others will
Nonsense. Negroes dont live in ghettos anymore. Good heavens, look at the housing projects in the city. Theyre not ghettos. Of course they are anyplace where a human being is shut in or shut out because of the color of his skin is a ghetto in the real sense of the word. I know that now. I guess i knew it all along, but didnt think much about it though. But they are ghettos. Well, mr. Candy, its not really up to us, you know. Its up to you alone whether the sale will be made. No, jim, youre wrong there. What i do isnt nearly as important as what you do. Thats what this is all about tonight. Hes right. We cant duck it. Ed candys decision is his own but thats no longer important. Its what we do that counts. This isnt about one man and his house. This is about us as a community. And it has to be fought out in the white communities. And the white people, each in himself. Now its been said the community is engaged. As we move towards this beginning, theres a quickening of pace. You can see i
Some of fdrs initiatives, such as increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. This class took place online and the university of maryland Baltimore County provided the video. Prof. Blake we are going to be talking about the first two chapters of my book manuscript today. Which looks at the role Public Opinion played during the new deal and specifically the constitutional controversy of the new deal. It is worth telling you one thing about why i am not writing this book. Court packing has gotten back in the news, both during the democratic primary season when iowa caucus winner Pete Buttigieg endorsed Court Packing. Now it is back in the news again in the general elections following the passing of justice ginsburg. I am not writing this book because Court Packing is back in the news. I have always been interested in the new deal. It is a constitutionally significant error in our industry. It never received quite as much attention as it deserved on that front. In the new deal schola