And he did do some heroic things after his boat was cut in half. But he also stumbled in getting the boat kind of to begin with. But the movie sort of overlooks that and just talks about his heroism in rescuing the crew afterwards. And that movie helps kennedy become president. And kennedy, in fact, complains when the movie is shown on tv and is shown along with commercials, sometimes for antiperspirant and other body products or pharmaceutical products, not actual pharmaceutical products, because they could be either hasnt, but, you know, houseware products. And he complains to newton minow, who is the head of the fcc, and the guy who famously coined the phrase the vast wasteland about that. His great movie is showed on tv with all these, i guess, unimpressive ads. But those movies do present idealized versions of president s. Now, its also interesting that in the president s i mentioned, fdr or kennedy, clinton, none of those i mentioned are republicans. So hollywood rarely presents
Well, weve made it to the end. This is our last panel of the day. I think its been a terrific symposium. Im sure everybody here will agree and i thought it was very fitting. We are going to be hearing from dr. Tevi troy today and if there are last panel, this is his book and you see it up on on the screens as well. And we really thought that dr. Troy would be excellent for our final panel of the day because if youre not familiar with his book, it is an overview of everything weve been talking about today, about the intersection of Popular Culture, the white house and the presidency. So its going to be a terrific synopsis. If youve been wondering about it, to get a big picture of everything, weve kind of dove into some of the details with television and movies. Were going to take a little bit of a step back because in terrys book, he gives a great historic overview of the history of Popular Culture and the white house and the presidency. So ill tell you a little bit about our guest toda
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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome Bernadette Atuahene to this program. The full scholar professor. She joins on tax of foreclosures. For those who are unfamiliar of how serious this problem is between 2011 and 2015. One and four dough tretroit own subject to property tax foreclosures. Many of those foreclosures are unconstitutional. Professor atuahene, i am glad to have you on this program. Let me jump right in, why unconstitution unconstitutional . Other state constitutions to the extent they mention property tax assessment at all, saying things like property tax must be fair or equitable or uniformed and up to the courts to determine legality. Michigan and five eother state that is have an actual ratio in the state constitutions. Thats what we did. We found that between 2009 and 2015, each of those seven years, anywhere between 55 and 85 of property in detroit is a violation of the constitution. Not only that, we broke the data
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