Ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens, i accept your nomination and your program. [ cheers and applause ] and now my friends that you have made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all my heart and my soul. [ cheers and applause ] and with your help, i have no doubt that we will win. [ cheers and applause ] help me to do the job in this autumn of conflict and of campaign. Help me to do the job in these years of darkness of doubt and of crisis which stretch beyond the horizon of tonights happy visions. And we will justify our glorious past and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. Thus, we will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have and that was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson, accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. We are joined by historian Richard Norton smith here in Adlai Stevensons old study in liberty
Now. The night that i win the emmy. Being on the Supreme Court was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. David axelrod, welcome. Good to be here, evan. Congratulations on believer. Thank you. This is a wonderful book and deserves to be a bestseller. Thank you so much. I hope youre very happy with the success. I want to talk about i got to talk about rahm emanuel first. Were sitting here, less than 24 hours as we sit here after the first round, it turns out a first round of the primary for mayor in chicago in which your old friend, your old running buddy rahm emanuel did not clear the 50 threshold. Right. And so it has to go to a runoff. We have seen in texas and elsewhere times when the person who was presumed to win got just below 50, but then when the runoff came it was the opposite result. So why shoul
Light is under a cloud cover. Really we think that a lot of this rain may exit before the parade. If you plan on having out, maybe take a light umbrella but that is all youll need. Nothing heavy today. That is good news would consider what we have seen throughout much of the week. High temperatures in the 70s, a little bit of a breeze off the lake, 70 in chicago, 68 oaurora. Light showers across the northern areas, north of kenosha. Be prepared for a light shower today, yesterday right around the time that we were having a parade we were looking at severe thunderstorm so the good news is will not have that today. 77 temperature by 5 00 p. M. , an air conditioner is off for a change. 62 tonight and 78 tomorrow. All the construction, southbound into the tristate at the interchange. The work will go right through october. Reduced down to three lanes in both directions from kedzie to 159. 175 is shut down between grange and 94. New overnight, fiery rollover accident on interstate 94, at ar
Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more publishers will want to send their authors to speak with us, and purchasing books from politics and prose benefits the local economy, supports jobs and the book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in the position to do so, please purchase a book. Mr. Mccutcheon is the coauthor of the 2012 and 2014 editions of National Journals almanac of american politics and was coeditor of Congressional Quarterlys politics in america 2010. Mr. Mark is a former Senior Editor at politico and political
For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. Now on booktv, Edward Mcclelland reports on Americas Industrial midwest, also known as the rust belt. The author examines the regions oncepowerful Manufacturing Centers and how their demise has resulted in the exodus of local populations in search of employment. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you. That was a really good introduction because it segways right into what i wanted to talk about at the beginning which was the fisher body plant in its heyday. It was, i went to high School Across the street from the fisher body plant in lansing, michigan, and it was perfectly integrated into the industrial life of the state. The high school was part of the supply chain. It would provide the workers for industrial labor. And there was a saying that you had a diploma in your hand one week and a ratchet in your hand the next week. People would just walk right across the street two weeks after graduation, and theyd have a job. And when i was going to