The decades. In the 1970s the country went through a political crisis with watergate, a rising Unemployment Rate and an Energy Crisis fueled by gas shortages. To escape these pressures of reality, we turned to the movies and they gave us plenty to distract. Here on through the decades, were going to spend the hour looking at some of our favorite offerings from hollywood in the 70s. From the uplifting tale of an unlikely boxing hero to the terrifying depiction of a young girl possessed by the devil. But we begin on the dance floor in the year 1977. Like Rebel Without a cause and the graduate, saturday night fever captured a moment in young angst and brought it to the big screen. John travoltas unforgettable dance moves combined with the bee gees soundtrack took disco mainstream along with a wave of platform shoes, wide lapels and neon lights. Its new. It has a little bit of the new disco craze in it,and it has a guy named John Travolta. At the time John Travolta was alread a star on tel
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I think the first half of the 60s, the great black leaders Martin Luther king dr. Max and probably cassius clay. Later became muhammad ali. I wasnt a teenager and we sent boxes in 19601 of the boxes even though knocked out in the first round of the fighting british to get a photograph of himself as the eventual winner of the division the winner of that division at battle and six was to . Cassius clay and quite frankly wouldnt be hard to get your picture he was every place in the olympics. [laughter] i remember reading. And they would exchange pins in the New York Times said the official winner of exchanging pins in the olympics was cassius clay. Foreign athletes to an expanded enormous amount of Energy Running around the Olympic Village and rome meeting everybody and excepting every interview probably was not a good thing to do other than he won the gold medal. But looking at the photograph the unbelievably handsome young man who accomplished all of this at the olympics but has the unu
[inaudible conversations] let me start with a few preliminaries about todays newsmaker. I am david anderson. A longtime member of the club and member of the clubs newsmaker committee. Im an attorney, years ago i was was correspondent for the cincinnati herald. The there may be a lot of folks who are not journalists in here so do re speak the members of the media, who may be here, and asking questions. And many of those may be working journalists and so please understand that theyre here to do a job. Now, after our guest makes his opening remarks youll have chance to ask questions. When you do please identify yourself, name and affiliation. Before we get started, id like to mention some Upcoming Event test club. On march 21st, a panel on the South China Sea dispute. And that will include various security, economic, and legal issues. On the 22nd, the club will also have a newsmaker on millenials, and on march 24th, the club will host john kot ky nin, commissioner of the irs, and that is