Recordings program. Quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Kent was with us for years and years, spent time at the university of south carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well l in, to explore dynamics there but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program. We were established in 1998, and the only we are institution of this kind doing transcribenalyze and the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 so franklin, roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the miller center. Well,it offsite as because so much work these days is browserbased. But we publish work through the university of Virginia Press and its electronic imprint. The president ial recordings digital init
I am marc selverstone. Associate professor in president ial studies at the university of virginias Miller Center, and as chair of the centers president ial recordings program, id like to welcome you to a special panel, echoing the echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues on the recordings program. Its quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Something of a reunion. Kent was with us for years and years, now spending time at the university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program. We were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the
Check out all of the cspan products. Go to cspanstore. Org. Check out all of the cspan products. Host we are back with peter canellos, editoratlarge with politico and we talk about his story, are americans falling out of love with their landmarks . Good morning. Guest good morning. Host why did you decide to write this article . Guest i was shocked when i heard about the very persistent since the colonials got their first taste of history there. Visitors ship is about half of what it was in the late 80s. You look at somebody someplace like gettysburg, an amazing sight, americas greatest clash, the High Water Mark of the confederacy and turning born of the civil war point of the civil war. It is down about a quarter of what it was in the 1970s. These are surprising statistics. When a collie photographer bought it to our attention, we decided to do a photo essay and to also kind of meditate on what it is that has decreased our interest in these Historic Sites. With, from back talking to
Some of our most iconic sites so youre looking atcolonial williamsburg, i traveled there as a child, you traveled there. A lot ofamericans got their first taste of American History there. This airship is about half what it was in the late 80s. You look at gettysburg, iconic sites, amazing site. Americas greatest, High Water Mark of the confederacy, turning point of the civil war. Its down about a quarter of what it was in the 1970s. These are very surprising statistics and when a colleague brought them to our attention, we decided to do a photo essay to also kind of meditate on what it is that has decreased our interest in these Historic Sites. And what i came back with from talking to people and from looking at some of the numbers is that the sort of cold war era american story that tale of great events and visiting the scenes where the homes and the meeting places of great figures in American History, people have lost interest in it. Its no longer relevant and credible to people in t
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