Jewish so i was able to i guess i dont think there is necessarily a bridge that has collapsed. I do think there are some issues and remember sir crown ming a lot of the shutdowns and a lot of libertarians it was less libertarian and more fiscal hawks would say we need to shut down the government because unfortunately the country has grown in the wrong direction we need to do something extreme and then you saw the Business Community get really upset at the hands of republicans somehow you saw the shutdown of government. As you know i was very much in opposition to shutting down the government. I dont think it helps anyone. I dont think it helped the conservative cause at all. I dont think it helped the limited government cost to do that. It is about leadership. I dont think there is any permanent drain of this coalition that makes up the Republican Party but if you go back to even the politics on the democratic side on the left just like the republican side there were different interest
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From 1953 to 1956, there was a white house projectionist who wrote down every movie that the president saw and with one exception, who the president saw it with. The one exception is under kennedy. He saw a movie, we dont know who he saw it with. Its a treasure trove of all of the president s were seeing at a particular time. The theater has been around for a long time and helpful to president s trying to get people along on a vote. So, for example, george w. Bush brought in ted kennedy to see 13 days which was a movie about john f. Kennedys experience of the cuban missile crisis that made john f. Kennedy look good. So bush brought in ted kennedy and ended up working together on the no child left behind law. They were able to get that past the majority. Who was on the record . He would not watch movies with Robert Mitchum in them because he had been arrested for marijuana possession. He would try to sneak movies with mitchum by eisenhower. When mitchum got up on the screen, eisenhower
Much impact. I looked at cultural influences. Now thanks to the internet, there are so many ways to find out what president s have watched, read, tweeted, i put them together to take a look. What was the most interesting finding as you dug into this . Wood row wilson was the only phd. President and phd. I found that appealing. He wasnt that big a reader but he loved theater. He saw 250 plays as president. His favorite genre is vaudeville. He thought a hook across the stage or a pie in the face as much as the next guy. We found out when scott burge was here that he played 1200 rounds of golf. What about the image . Did that create the same kind of image todays golf would do . Interesting is wilson and the theater going, world war i, the Washington Post editorialized in favor of wilson going to theater in wartime. You see the critical of the president playing golf or going to the theater. Wilson was pratzed becau ee eee because it helped to keep that industry alive. You shouldnt overindu
Which was made into a 2013 film directed by lee daniels. He has been a correspondent for the Washington Post and the boston globe where he was a pulitzer finalist and he is currently bodeway visiting distinguished scholar at Miami University in oxford, ohio. Joining will on our digital stage this evening is acclaimed critic peter goralnick author of numerous books including his two volume Elvis Presley biography last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with y