Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati
Of congress about the books they are reading. Joining is now on book tv tom cole a republican from oklahoma, congressman wiebe asked you this question before, youve always had a large reading list, what is on your current reading list. I just finished the splendid and the vile by eric larson, wonderful account of him and his family, there in the worst year of the war right after becomes Prime Minister in 1940, the day of the german invasion in the countries in france and basically what it was like to stand alone against not see germany until june of 41 the russians are in the war and obviously by december 41, the United States is in the war, youve seen the book, its a wonderful read about a guy that i consider the greatest person of the 20th century and the supreme ordeal of long and brilliant career, ive also been reading, i just picked up the greatest story of the name of jean edward smith, great biographer, i read his biographies a grant in eisenhower, by far the best eisenhower bio
Listen live on the cspan radio app. Election night on cspan, your place for anunfiltered view of politics. Good evening to the students in our audience and our viewers, welcome to coaldale college, im, vicepresident of the college. The college of course is based in coaldale michigan and we are near the colleges washingtondc campus. Also the puppy school of government. The nations capital. You can find out more about our programs at dc. Hillsdale. Edu. But where in the library with Michael Antone who is a college lesser Research Fellow here and were going to be discussing his new book the face, america at the point of no return welcome my area glad youre here. You might know michael from his previous work, he wrote my election, under certain time, he was working the private sector at the time. He wrote under a pseudonym until he was outed and then you went to work for the Trump Administration in the national securitycouncil. That worked, they saw the election 2016 as an x essential ques
About mr. Ford. Governor carter again contradicts himself. I think so he confused the issue. Let me correct one other comment. The panamanian question is one confused by mr. Ford. Again, governor carter is inaccurate. Election 1976, the candidates and the campaign. This is richard in washington. With me in our studios today are professor Howard Penniman of Georgetown University and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. We have talked of a of many different aspects of this 1976 american president ial bicentennial year, starting with the primaries back in the winter and going straight through the conventions and the rest. This afternoon we want to talk about the nature of the campaign, what the campaign is, what it tries to do, how the party organizes it. Let me turn first, if i may, to professor penniman and ask him that simplest question, why . Well, why . The answer is a good many things. Among other things, i have to get out and get the Party Organizations at the state and l
Thank you for watching wherever you are and really thrilled with engagement level weve had with all of you. Well be doing a lot of fun stuff, and pretty compelling conversations in the fall. I would say would probably not be doing any inperson events since 2021 which is a bit of a bummer obama but we want to be safe and smart with what we are doing. We will keep bringing you guys interesting conversations with authors, so we have everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a fall so stay tuned. You can follow all our defense on magic city books. Com. I will go through the whole list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in the book that seems like it was written for the moment were living in, although books are written quite a bit before the published in print it and Eve