Mr. Vice president , governor, congressman thomas, senator wily and congressman miller, mr. Webb, mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen, i appreciate your president having immediate he m made me an honorary visiting professor and i assure you my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here and particularly delighted to be here on this occasion. We meet at a college noted for knowledge in a city noted for progress in a state noted for strength. And we stand in need of all three. We meet in an hour of change and challenge and a decade of hope and fear. In an age of both knowledge and ignorance. To greatest our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds. Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this nations own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite
One didnt. If you havent watched it, its a will kane recommendation. Its great to be here in studio f. Right, dave . Studio f. Out of studio h, into studio f. Good to see you. Good to see you. I get the studios mixed up in the fox building. Theres so many of them. Were so lucky. We get to come in when its dark out and we bring the light. [ laughter ] so great to see you both. I was liking studio h. I like that one as well. So big show today and great to see you guys bright and early. Theres a lot to get to today. Several big stories, starting with President Trump. He says hes me medicationfreed a feeling great in the first on camera interview since being diagnosed with covid19. With the next debate now canceled, the president is preparing for a white house event today. Rich edson is live in washington with more on the president s schedule. Reporter this will be his first inperson event since he tested positive for covid19. The president in his first on camera interview says hes feeling
About today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. And also im trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that weve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the pres
Clinton an overtly political first lady who successfully ran for the United States senate served as secretary of state and then campaigned for the presidency herself. American history tvs first lady series is also available as a podcast. You can find it whereveokay, sog about today is picking up where we left off on thursday with the end of the cold war. And also im trying to make sure that we stitch different themes that weve had through the quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and
Quarter and through both quarters together. The program is titled america to 2025. So something about the future is important and as ive been thinking about the last part of the 20th century the 1990s i think makes sense to really dig into in terms of how people thought about the future in culture in popular cultural as well as in politics. So the themes and overviews that i want to talk about in terms of this do a little bit of looking back looking forward and then theyre kind of going to be two halves of the lecture links to kind of politics and links to pop culture. So i want to talk about the end of the cold war and especially how it manifested and how americans thought about politics. Then i want to talk about pop culture and think about the the way the 90s thought about the future and thought about the present even in terms of like everything is great or everything is terrible. The future will be wonderful or the future is going to be awful. Um adding here that as with all of my