Any favors by trying to dress up politicians as if we are not real human beings that have made major mistakes and had major problems in our lives. Saturday evening at 7 00, a Panel Discussion on National Review founder william f. Buckley jr. s run for new york city mayor in 1965. And at 11 00 p. M. , Winston Groom discusses his latest book, the generals patton, mcarthur, marshall and the winning of world war ii. One of the first questions im usually asked when i do a tv or radio show is why did you choose these three men from the Second World War . And the answer is that they embodied, i believe, super characteristics of courage, character and patriotism. On sunday night at 8 00, author david petrusia looks back at a turning point in World History in 1932, the rise of hitler and fdr. And at 11 15 p. M. Eastern, alyssa katz discusses her book, the influence machine the u. S. Chamber of commerce and the corporate capture of american life. Theres a reason that i chose the chamber of comme
Later, congress and the 1965 heart seller immigration and nationality act. Next on American History tv, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell gives a lecture on the rivalry between two kentucky politicians who served as governors and the senate. Senator mcconnell argues that the competition between Happy Chandler and Earle Clements led to the election of Thruston Morton. Well, thank you very much, robert. Its a real pleasure to be here today at transylvania. Want to thank president kerry and transylvania for hosting me here today. Happy to be veterans day here as well. I also want to acknowledge my good friend ben chandler. He and his family of course are descendants of one of the people im going to be talking about today. Kentucky has been extremely well served with ben as the executive director of the Kentucky Humanities Council and i want to thank him for sharing some of the anecdotes im going to use today. Finally, i want to thank chris mosher, all of whom have contributed in one
Has a new book, irancontra, which is based on an extraordinary amounts of research and documents and diaries and interviews with individuals with a truly a mountain of material and documents the tunnel think anyone else has ever systematically and seriously looked at a lesser prosecutor. In the end user butchers would not look as well as they should have permitted the picture that emerges out of changes are damaged artery in. I think it changes in a somewhat disturbing point too often the president and his aides to a correction first and worried whether it was proper later. Proper and legal later. At the heart of the scandal were to secret intelligence operations which is what the intelligence wants to focus on the spirit to one in Central America and one in the run. Shes to intelligence operations were never properly notified to the congress of the United States. Theyre for almost by definition they were in the door from the start, particularly the operations in nicaragua. The irancon
And subsequent financial reforms. Im donald ritchie, the senate historian, and we are in the Senate Caucus room in the Russell Senate Office Building. Before cspan started covering the senate, this was the most famous room in the capitol complex th, becausee this is where major hearings had been televised coming back newsreels covered it in the 1920s and 1930s, but television came along in 1940. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, the kefauver crime investigation, the mccarthy hearings and the watergate hearings. So this was the most televised room until the Senate Chamber was open to television. I bring people in here from time to time. You can hear the echoes. Point of order, mr. Chairman. You can hear the gavel. Of the chairman. My point of order. [gavel bangs] counsel advised the chair that the senator is engaging in a statement im getting sick of getting interrupted in the middle of a sentence. Mr. Chairman, do i have the floor or do i not . Oh, be quiet
Sam j. Of the book ervin, last of the founding fathers. He will be guiding the ship through the waters of watergate. In the center, we have former state attorney general and no street or to most people here, nous edmisten and stranger to most people here, Rufus Edmisten. [applause] closest to me, i hope no stranger to people around here or maybe not, he is a judge. Judge sam ervin iv. [applause] all right. Thank you, guys. I will let them take it away. Good afternoon. It has been 40 years and a few hours since Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency. [laughter] [applause] wow. [laughter] for those of us of a certain age, we remember the trauma of watergate and perhaps for decades later, we are ready to put the scandal in a greater historical context. Whothose of you younger dont remember of watergate, perhaps youre wondering why every scandal since 1974 has to end with the word gate. Example, new jersey bridge gate. This anniversary of watergate has created the usual controversies i