Conservation in culpeper, virginia, preserves and provides access to the librarys vast collection of films, television, radio broadcast home and found recordings. American history tv visited the campus to learn about the earliest Public Affairs films, including u. S. President s the , spanishamerican war, world war i, and the first ever political ad created in 1912 by the democratic party. My name my nigh is mike mashon head of the , moving image section of the library of congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. Today we are at the packard campus in culpeper, virginia, a facility that opened in the summer of 2007 dedicated to preserving our audiovisual heritage. In the late 1880s, edison started thinking about doing for the eye what the phonograph did for the ear. So began a whole series of experiments with Motion Picture film. Most of that work was done by his engineer, a guy named dickson,ennedy sometimes an unjustly forgotten figure in history. It was dic
Download the iphone or android app for program and Schedule Information and pod cast of past programs. How is that for a lit ration. Now its my pleasure to intro introduce our speaker, columnist, and writer. Jonathan alter. A writer and a contributor to the bloomberg. Author of the new book well talk about the center holds obama and his enemies. As i hes an analyst and contributing correspondent. Youve seen him on nbc and msnbc. He worked for almost thirty years writing more than fifty cover story. Me wrote for the New York Times, the wall street, vanity fair, and the new republican. Hes the author of other books fkd he is a, in my judgment, probably one of the preimminent experts in this country on president obama. We are pleased and honored to have him here tonight to speak about his new book. Our thanks to Jonathan Alter for joining us. [applause] the floor is yours for twenty five to thirty five minutes. Great. Thank you very much, joe. Thank you to everybody for coming. This feels
Of bounds. One more item for those urging him to stay on message and today in daytona beach, florida, he did for about half an hour and he pivoted litigating some key moments in it. She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions and you know, you can see there was blood coming out of her eyes and blood coming out of her wherever. Heres what he said. Heres how he explained it today. Hillarys commercials, theyre so false. Theyre so false like shes got the one with blood coming out of her eyes. And i meant her nose or her ears or her mouth but these people are perverted and they think it was another location. Unbelievable, and you know the truth . I cut it short because i was talking about either taxes or economic development. So i said or whatever. You notice he used the word whatever to change the subject when. In fact you heard him say wherever and all of the rest. Trump revisited this moment which was also shown in that attack ad. Right after a couple of good
House, paul ryan. Moments later, reading off of the same notes that he just made that endorsement from, trump also backed republican senators john mccain and kelly ayotte, both in tough fights to hang on that their seats. Both have found themselves at odds with their president ial candidate. The question now, will this temporary unity, if you will, last. The first test comes tonight. In a few hours, donald trump is supposed to be holding a rally in New Hampshire. It ends a tumultuous week, who is behind clinton in that state by 15 points. The latest nationwide polling shows also a 15 point decline or trailing of clinton for trump. Lets talk about what this all means as we edge closer and closer to november, less than 100 days to go. With me now, two beautiful and brilliant women, thank you for being with me, ladies. Scottie nell hughes, and hilary rosen. Who is a democratic supporter. Where do we begin on the week that was, scottie . I bet youre glad the week is over. So when you talk
Republican Party, one of the two major political parties, alongside the Democratic Party, in the United States. Also known as the Grand Old Party, or GOP, the Republican Party is the largest conservative political party in the U.S. Learn more about the history of the party in this article.