The Lincoln Forum hosted this one hour 15 minutes talk. Good evening and welcome. It is my pleasure to introduce our friend, my friend, William C Jack davis as our keynote speaker this evening. Jack is an author of over 50 books. Richard mcmurray gives as well as he gets. Mutual the surface is affection that is fairly well hidden. [laughter] he is a loyal member of our Lincoln Forum and a loyal friend and we are glad to have him. The dispute over the use of the confederate battle flag that still simmers, if not rages. Lengthy and telling essay for the july 11 wall where heurnal discussed the controversy over the use of the confederate battle flag as a symbol which must not be understood misunderstood or whitewashed. Davis believes americans cannot afford to forget the confederacy as it teaches lessons about americans themselves, how they react crisis in the matters beyond just slavery and theifice that constitute bedrock of our national being p. The important lesson from this is jack d
Back to yesterdays halftime show at super bowl 50 . Take a look at your screen. This is why we pay is so much to live here. Think of all those people getting on airplanes, leaving our beautiful bay area region. Soak it in. Its ours to keep. Welcome back to mornings on 2 the 9 after a week on the road in super bowl city. There is no place like home. Good to be back, right . Nice tune, by the way. I like that. I notice you didnt play coldplay . I was saying beyonce all the way. I think it reaffirmed, i love bruno mars. It did it for me. You were at the game . Bruno mars was fantastic. Beyonce was great. Coldplay was coldplay. I know it wasnt the best. I do have to admit though that gaga was phenomenal. Yeah. I said i was disappointed. I knew i was wrong on saturday because the way she spoke about how much of an honor it was going to be to sing the anthem and for her to deliver what she did, it put a tear in my eye. She has a great singing voice. When she wants to, she can belt it out. An
The roll will pit the shuttle toward an imaginary target in space. The 1981 nasa documentary, Space Shuttle a remarkable flying machine on the voyage of columbia. Sunday morning on road to the white house rewind, the 196 Campaign Film for candidate Richard Nixon. I have decided that i will test my ability to win and my ability to cope with the issues in the fires of the primary. And not just in the smokefilled room of miami. At 1 00, a panel of authors on their books chronicling mix can American Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1970s. This coalition of labor unions, mexican American Civil Rights leaders and religious authorities came together to protest the exploitation of the program and, in fact, accelerated Congress Decision to terminate it the next year in 1964. I think this was a moment of blossoming for the chicano movement. For the complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. On lectures in history, Dickinson College professor David Oconnell examines president ial legacies and what fa
Room 314. At 8 50 p. M. , the National Association of scholars report on reading lists for Incoming College freshman. At 10 20 p. M. , a panel for the tucson book festival on education. The need for horses on the farm began to decline radically in the 1930s. It was not until the 1930s that they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor. And starting in the 1930s, the 1940s, you had an almost complete replacement of horses as the work animals on farms. I do believe in one of my books on horses i read that in the decade after world war ii we had Something Like a horse holocaust, that the horses were no longer needed, and we didnt get rid of them in a very pretty way. Sunday night on q a Robert Gordon discusses his book the rise and fall of american growth, which looks at the growth of the American Standard of living between 1870 and 1970 and questions its future. One thing that often interests people is the impact of superstorm sanidy on the eas coast in 2012.
And had much stronger views about what should be done than and he thought that taft was just a little too much of a status quo guy. Yeah. Yes . Sometimes people think of the word pivotal as synonymous for the phrase turning point. Uhhuh. I was a little surprised you didnt mention that starting in 1932, democrats had a plurality or a majority in seven of the next nine president ial campaigns. Yeah. Starting in 1968, republicans had a plurality or a majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. Uhhuh. And starting in 1992 democrats again had plurality or majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. But thats not my question. My question really is, my question really is, is there something about substantial third Party Candidacies that exemplify pivotal election and should we expect this coming election will be pivotal only if there is a substantial thirdparty candidacy and probably not otherwise . Thats a thats a super question. I that is that is i hadnt thought